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Programmin
This one time, at band camp, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>Packages Developers
Looks like a normal distribution curve in gnuplot.
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This one time, at band camp, Martin Schulze wrote:
>Flaming with Jamie Zawinski.
Slow news day, Joey?
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This one time, at band camp, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>you should Conflict, Replace, and provide MovieMate. This will ensure a
>smooth transition. You instead (may) want to upload a package called
>moviemate which is a dummy package that depends on MediaMate.
You should do both, with the Con
This one time, at band camp, Colin Walters wrote:
>If someone here knows an alternate email address for Angus, could you
>resend this message there? Thanks.
Done.
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This one time, at band camp, Russell Coker wrote:
>The ideal solution however would be an addition to the DHCP standard for a
>field to specify this information. My solution only works AFTER I have
>figured out the correct data for each network by some other means and
>customised my script.
SR
This one time, at band camp, Bruce Sass wrote:
>Exactly. What if a generalised DFSG-free software installer used a
>separate config file to download, debianize (using dh_make templates),
>then install the resulting package (most of it non-free because such a
>scheme should not be necessary for fre
Hi!
I only just found this ITP; I've been working on a debian/ dir for
icculus.org's quake3 branch for a few weeks.
Also in the pipeline is a quake3-data that doesn't suck as much as
quake2-data...
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Description : NSS module for using
This one time, at band camp, Ian Murdock wrote:
>We have ported Red Hat's Anaconda installer to Debian;
This rocks. I have an extensive PXE+kickstart based server build system at
work and I was considering hacking d-i to read a kickstart configuration
file, this looks like it's saved me the troub
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within
>other arguments against your "linux" package. IIRC you prefered not to
>answer to it but refered to an URL which did not contain the answers.
'linux' is a perfect name for the pa
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>You repeat this again and again and got answers from me and others to
>such an ultimate argument. But did you ask yourself why Herbert does not
>participiate this discussion to help you?
Why does the lack of response from Herbert prove that this pa
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>Robert Millan wrote:
>
>>But someone claimed there are critical problems with System.map in the way
>>my package is upgraded, which is not the case.
>
>If I get a new linux package after doing apt-get ugprade which replaces
>the one for my runnin
This one time, at band camp, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > > * A package which requires a reboot on updates
> >
> > Oh, now I'm suposed to fix that, too? Bitch upstream for a run-time
> > updatable Linux kernel.
>
> ROTFL
>
> That's not the point, I thought that was obvious, sorry. The point
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>#include
>* Jamie Wilkinson [Mon, Nov 10 2003, 06:54:22PM]:
>
>> >The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within
>> >other arguments against your "linux" package. IIRC you prefered not
This one time, at band camp, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>>>You repeat this again and again and got answers from me and others to
>>>such an ultimate argument. But did y
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:43:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>> > > 1) You said before you were concerned about my package occupiing the
>> > > package
>> > > namespace in the ar
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>Robert Millan wrote:
>>On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:33:00PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>> klogd will be unable to look up symbols, and ps and top need it for
>>> wchan to be displayable.
>>
>>I'm so scared. wchan won't be displayable!
>
>What w
This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan wrote:
> Place the package files in /usr/lib, and copy them conditionaly (debconf)
> into /boot. The debconf question would properly explain that if per chooses
> to update it, then the system must be rebooted promptly.
>
>Another option:
>
> Place the
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>
>>I do not expect Robert's package to make any more of an attempt to convince
>>you a reboot is required than any of the other kernel packages.
>
>The current kernel packages include the
This one time, at band camp, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > How do the current kernel packages guarantee this?
> >
> > Why would Robert's package need to behave any differently?
>
> The current kernel packages don't make the old stuff just dissappear,
> so it's less of an issue in that case. In f
This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan wrote:
>> being presented with.
>
>I'd really LOVE to. But this is my discussion. If I don't take part in it,
>who will respond to all these bogus arguments some people enjoy sending in?
>
>Rather, this is you and the other trolls who are wasting my time.
This one time, at band camp, Joseph Carter wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610$ ldd
>libjavaplugin_oji.so
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40044000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4008e000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libd
This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> In a chrooted environment, we can install deboostrap and
> package dependencies through APT.
About 6 months ago I started writing some code in expect to do just this, to
test my quake2-data installer package. I was able to install the package
This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:19:23PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> > In a chrooted environment, we can install deboostrap and
>> > package dependencies through APT
This one time, at band camp, Mark Howard wrote:
>I also vote for removing any other upstream bookmarks (e.g. rpm search,
>slackware searches). Feel free to disagree, with a convincing argument.
I use a Debian workstation, but admin a collection of Debian and Red Hat
machines -- remove the rpm sear
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: chaksem
Version : 1.6a
Upstream Author : Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL :
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* License :
This one time, at band camp, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>He can either:
>1.- get the rules of the latest firewall script that runs from init (if it
>flushes the previous rules)
>2.- get a mixed setup of rules.
>
>¿Shouldn't there be a way for these firewalls to cooperate so as to not
>ge
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:56, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> The FHS is about more than just providing a system that technically
>> allows you to mount different filesystems as needed. There are also
>> aesthetic concerns in the heirarchy (in the broad sen
This one time, at band camp, Blars Blarson wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>I won't debate whether this is true in general, bug it is certainly
>>unnecessary in the case of pump. I have specifically added code to
>>deal with the inability to write to /var/run by
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Apr 07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Duh. Did you miss the part where people were talking about *amending the
> >FHS because the FHS is flawed*?
>Yes: I did not agree with them.
>And looks like I was right, because as I showed
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Apr 07, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > * pam, shadow
> > Allow either /etc/nologin or /run/nologin to prevent non-root logins
>Use a symlink.
>
> > * util-linux
> > Use /run/mtab for mount's statefile
>Use a symlink.
A
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 10:12, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:17, Thomas Hood wrote:
>> > * ppp
>> > * Change /usr/sbin/pppd to:
>> > * Store PID in /run/, not in /var/run/
>> Why? Is the goal to make PPP-mounter /var
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote:
>(Re: /etc/nologin)
>> A dangling symlink should be considered like a missing file.
>
>Yes, that would work. However, having separate /etc/nologin
>and /run/nologin looks like a useful feature, as I mentioned
>earlier.
For clarification, (and this i
This one time, at band camp, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:17, Thomas Hood wrote:
>> The proposed new directory is for files similar to those in /var/run/
>> that are not just variable and unshareable but also local -- i.e., they
>> must be writable independently of network co
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote:
> * base-files
> Add /run/ directory
#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted
> * pam, shadow
> Allow either /etc/nologin or /run/nologin to prevent nonroot login
#191037: Allow both /etc/nologin and /run/nolo
This one time, at band camp, Sam Hartman wrote:
>Until you get general consensus on a specific goal, I'm unlikely to
>accept such changes if they are submitted to me. As a maintainer I
>want to be able to look at some statement and answer the following
>questions:
Hi Sam,
I've just filed the bug
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >/etc has a "static nature". See the note on /etc/mtab under Table
> >3.7.3.1. It is also for configuration files. /etc/adjtime is neither.
>Then propose to change FHS.
Welcome to the discussion.
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This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Apr 07, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >(I forgot to mention) J.W.'s patch does more than what a mere symlink
> >would do. By making programs sensitive both to /run/nologin and
> >/etc/nologin, it becomes possible for the administra
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote:
>Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> That is right! The core of the matter is not whether
>> filesystems need to be mounted over the network or not,
>> but whether the parts of the filesystem you are attempting
>> to write to are on
This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek wrote:
>Shell pseudocode was posted to this thread (a month ago?) that showed
>how the init scripts could handle the requirement that /run be mounted
>early, even if it's not on the root fs. The init scripts already
>include special handling of /proc and
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Sorry to reopen this at such a late date, but I'm way behind on -devel.
>
>"Hi, I'm Karl and I maintain login and passwd."
>
>Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> * pam, shadow
>> Allow either /etc/nologin or /run/nologin to preve
This one time, at band camp, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>... and those who have tried to explain why it's a bad idea or have
>concerns have been brushed off. So I've given up for now trying to
>explain to you folks why I'm not convinced, since I don't have time to
>go pig mud-wrestling, but please don't
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>This one time, at band camp, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>... and those who have tried to explain why it's a bad idea or have
>>concerns have been brushed off. So I've given up for now trying to
>>explain to you
This one time, at band camp, Joey Hess wrote:
>That's neat, but I wish we at least had quake 1 in contrib for woody.
>Woody will be the first release of debian in years and years without the
>possbility of quake at all (in main, contrib, or even non-free), I think.
(I'm not yet a d-d, I'm currentl
This one time, at band camp, Erich Schubert wrote:
>Software in contrib needs non-free software to run.
>But the source of quake2 certainly is useful without the commercial game
>data.
This is a silly assertion; the source to *any* program is useful without the
data files.
As others have pointed
This one time, at band camp, Erich Schubert wrote:
>> I wonder how many people in either of these threads have actually downloaded
>> this source and looked at it?
>
>i have. I even got it to compile...
>and i think it'll need quite some work to get useful...
>it has inline asm gcc doesn't like; th
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-28
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: quake2
Version : 3.21
Upstream Author : iD Software (unmaintained)
* URL : ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/q2source-3.21.zip
* License : GPL Version 2
Description :
This one time, at band camp, Pete Ryland wrote:
>So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when
>/tmp was full), quake2-data (shouldn't have filled /tmp in the first place),
>both, or should I have been monitoring /tmp and it's really my own silly
>fault? (100M is surely
This one time, at band camp, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>Ahh it already exists! Cool. Well then it is a bug on the www pages.
>Missing here ...
>http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
It was at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags when I looked today...
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This one time, at band camp, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>Previously Colin Walters wrote:
>> This gets tricky though, because right now the BTS isn't designed to
>> do stuff depending on the submitter at all...
>
>It's simple, just stick a flag in the mail headers.
And that flag is?
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This one time, at band camp, Colin Walters wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 17:44, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
>> It's simple, just stick a flag in the mail headers.
>
>I don't really regard that as a reasonable solution. For example, my
>email client doesn't (as far as I know) allow adding arbitrary h
This one time, at band camp, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
>IMHO the non-free section should be removed.
IMHO you should write less email and fix more bugs.
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Commander Taco
wastes our time with these dumb polls
but we keep r
This one time, at band camp, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>DFSG stand for "Debian Free Software Guidelines". IMHO we ave to create a
>DFDG, "Debian Free Documentation Guidelines".
I wrote this up last night after getting fed up with this thread, then
modified it this morning after reading the thread on
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>I wrote this up last night after getting fed up with this thread, then
>modified it this morning after reading the thread on -legal that was
>referred to. Flame away.
>
>http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdl.html
Of course
This one time, at band camp, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:57:42PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdg.html
>
>Well written. Thanks.
>
>One issue though:
>The license may not require a royalty or
This one time, at band camp, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain clauses
>that can be used, and will be considered non-free.
>
>I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of
>the license are not exercised. Using this lan
This one time, at band camp, Rob Bradford wrote:
>Package: frozen-bubble
>Version: 0.9.2-9
>Severity: critical
>
>Frozen-bubble is holding up the release process as all the developers
>are now hooked and are no longer working on woody, hence the RC status
>as this package is single handedly holding
This one time, at band camp, Lasse Karkkainen wrote:
>Time to throw some gasoline on the flames ... Branden apparently is
>incapable of releasing it. So, I suggest that anyone, with enough
>knowledge and TIME, reading this, would volunteer as XFree package
>maintainer. Branden's comments suggest
This one time, at band camp, David D. W. Downey wrote:
>No apologies needed, we all know it's his evil twin.
*evil* twin? Now I'm scared.
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Marge, this ticket doesn't just give me a seat. It also gives me the
right -
This one time, at band camp, Joseph Carter wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:25:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>> I didn't go anywhere. Nowhere in my platform did I claim I wasn't evil.
>> ;-)
>
> this is the New Overfiend, preacher of Love and Tolerance
Orwellian Love and Tolerance, that i
This one time, at band camp, Branden Robinson wrote:
>Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, Bug #119517 was submitted to the
>Technical Committee for a ruling. No member of the Technical Committe
>has participated in any public discussion of this bug (at least in the
>bug logs or in available messag
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