Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:11:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN") IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE JAVA PLATFORM > > STA

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
o that we could get the advice of our attorney, and perhaps based on his feedback, either raise concerns about it (or not). -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:02:04PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > John Goerzen writes ("Re: Who can make binding legal agreements"): > > The first paragraph of the license linked to by the original > > announcement: > > > > SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:04:18PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:35:41PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > Nobody was suggesting that, and I fail to understand why it is in > > anyone's interests for you to ratchet up the heat on this issue > &g

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
l work closely together, we can avoid legal risks *and* misunderstandings and flames. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#374968: ITP: castpodder -- Multithreaded GUI Podcast Receiver

2006-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: castpodder Version : 5.0 Upstream Author : CastPodder Team * URL : http://www.castpodder.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Multith

Bug#376038: ITP: hpodder -- Tool to scan and download podcasts (podcatcher)

2006-06-29 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hpodder Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://quux.org/devel/hpodder * License : GPL Programming Lang: Haskell De

Re: Bug#374968: ITP: castpodder -- Multithreaded GUI Podcast Receiver

2006-06-30 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:15:03PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > CastPodder is a fork and enhancement of the popular iPodder > > podcast receiver. > > I already packaged and uploaded castpodder. However, it wa

Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-03 Thread John Goerzen
ome TLC anytime soon? For those that have a fibre channel setup where multipath-tools is required, this is probably one of the most critical packages on the system. Thanks, -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#376546: ITP: multipath-tools-initramfs -- Support for booting Debian from a multipath I/O source

2006-07-03 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: multipath-tools-initramfs Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen * URL : N/A * License : GPL Programming Lang: Shell Description : Support for b

Bug#376825: ITP: haskell-newcgi -- Enhanced CGI library for Haskell

2006-07-05 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: haskell-newcgi Version : 2006.6.5 Upstream Author : Bjorn Bringert et al * URL : http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/haskell-cgi/doc/ * License : BSD Progr

Bug#376829: ITP: haskell-bytestring -- Extremely fast Haskell I/O library using packed strings

2006-07-05 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: haskell-bytestring Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Don Stewart * URL : http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: Haskell Descr

Bug#376830: ITP: haxml -- XML framework for Haskell

2006-07-05 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: haxml Version : 1.13.1 Upstream Author : Malcolm Wallace et al * URL : http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/HaXml/ * License : Library LGPL plus relaxation, tools GPL Progr

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-05 Thread John Goerzen
already aware of Debian From Scratch (DFS), which already does this? http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-05 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:41:26PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > > Just checking: are you already aware of Debian From Scratch (DFS), which > > already does this? http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ > > yep. How do you expect your project to be

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-05 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:58:41PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > > How do you expect your project to be different? I'm just interested in > > avoiding duplicate effort if possible. > > wrt/ the package selection/lists, we're heading for a &qu

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-05 Thread John Goerzen
spect you might wait in wane if you expect someone else to do > it. :) I understand. I'm just trying to figure out if there are interested parties out here to pitch in, if the LVM folks have plans for it, etc. I'm brand-new at this and wouldn't be at all surprised if someone else

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread John Goerzen
er (HP MSA1500cs) seems to have added active/active controllers as a recent option. I'm not really sure if multipath-tools supports active/active controllers, though. Do you know? -- John

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread John Goerzen
am planning to integrate Xen and Bacula into the next revision of the DFS image as well. So, it still fits easily on one CD-R, so I don't see what the problem is. I believe I have left off fluff, such as X, from this CD. And very little starts by default. But I'm happy to take change

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-20 Thread John Goerzen
t;cleaning/compressing" feature like > localepurge and so ), and only a minimalistic set of what is needed for > basic forensic. You could probably do that with dfsbuild and a little bit of scrubbing. You probably just would want to do things like rm -r /usr/share/doc /usr/share/man on the g

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread John Goerzen
is area. Or you could look at something such as darcs, that already has ;-) Really, I have been using darcs for package management for some time now, and have found it very nice for that. See http://darcs.complete.org/debian for a list. The distributed development model really shines here -- t

Bug#380173: ITP: deb822 -- Read and manipulate RFC822-like files (e.g. .dsc and .changes)

2006-07-27 Thread John Wright
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: deb822 Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Dann Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://free.linux.hp.com/~jswright/deb822/trunk * License : GPL Programming

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:02:57AM -0600, Katrina Jackson wrote: > A. Ubuntu seems like it can get hardware support immeadiatly, but that > support never seems to quickly get to Debian. I have been using Ubuntu > since Debian doesn't wok on my laptop. Suspend doesn't work and my wireless > pro

Re: copyright vs. license

2005-01-13 Thread John Hasler
is a good idea to include one and to do so correctly. It's not hard to do. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: copyright vs. license

2005-01-13 Thread John Hasler
strued as an attempt to fraudulently extend the life of the copyright. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread John Hasler
I will take bc if no one else wants it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread John Hasler
Ok, I'll take bc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread John Hasler
ech of applicants, or is guessing what they are part of the process? Is "Are you a team player" one of your standard interview questions? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread John Hasler
has the same attitude towards his AM, which > makes the process slow enough so that this is not needed.) "Team player" is PHB code for someone who will shut up and do what he is told even though he knows it is wrong. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#2039: X server font erosion

1995-12-17 Thread John Larkin
ust using one or 2 xterms. But after running netscape (either locally or from a remote system), characters begin to disappear. Running frame maker produces the same error, but less often. - John Larkin

Bug#2061: xbase-3.1.2-5 fails install on 0.93R6 system

1995-12-22 Thread John Larkin
d any X packages on this > 0.93R6 system; this is a situation that I was not easily able to test. I've just created a brand-new 0.93R6 system. Installing xlib and xbase worked flawlessly. - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2083: machine hangs when ftping large file

1996-01-03 Thread John Larkin
clone with a UMC chip on it. Over unloaded ethernet, I can send at about 1200-1300 k/sec (the theoretical max of ethernet), but only recieve at 500 or so (can't win em all, I guess). I've a P-120, and the card is 16 bit ISA. - John Larkin

Elm Vulnerability

1997-05-15 Thread John Goerzen
dvise people to upgrade to the latest Elm-ME+. Those people running Elm and not Elm-ME+ -- Elm-ME+ fixes a number of other bugs as well, so it wouldn't hurt to upgrade. To the webmaster -- please announce this on the security page. Thanks, John Goerzen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread John Goerzen
this isn't done, I suggest that the default be set to rxvt. After all, we have the terminfo entry for it, it doesn't make any sense not to use it. I suspect that rxvt would behave properly in this case even if it is on a 1-bit (B&W) display. -- John Goerzen | Running Deb

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-19 Thread John Goerzen
but I don't think that's what we want. Just my two cents... -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-20 Thread John Goerzen
"rm -rf *" don't have any business running Unix in the first place. Anybody should know that before typing "rm -rf *" or an equivolent, you THINK FIRST, every time. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-20 Thread John Goerzen
> xfree86 3.2?) And what's is license? Any reason we can't bpackage it > too, at least as an option? > _Mark_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Herd of Kittens > Debian X Maintainer > -- John Goerzen

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
e giving up and going elsewhere (like RedHat). I don't like that. C'mon! Before you take such a drastic step as delaying the release of an operating system, you could at least verify that the bug really exists in the operating system Somebody, just close the bug so Brian will be hap

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
ace, I believe. As such, they aren't really good examples. > John> Which could be a bug in itself since Debian has no rxvt-xmp > John> terminfo entry. > > This is not a problem since ncurses uses the TERM variable and not the > COLORTERM variable. But could be

Kernel 2.0.30 a bad choice for 1.3

1997-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
Since we know of a number of things that have been broken in 2.0.30 (such as IP masquerading being totally hosed), why are we distributing that version with 1.3? It seems like a rather bad idea because it could very well break the setups of a number of people. -- John Goerzen | Running

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 a bad choice for 1.3

1997-05-24 Thread John Goerzen
Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 21 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > Since we know of a number of things that have been broken in 2.0.30 > > > (such as IP masquerading being to

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 a bad choice for 1.3

1997-05-24 Thread John Goerzen
ecessarily apply at the same place or work the same way. If the serious bugs have indeed been fixed, then perhaps such a kernel would be the right one to use. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 a bad choice for 1.3

1997-05-25 Thread John Goerzen
d that there are various other networking bugs as well, no confirmation, though. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-21 Thread John Lapeyre
h>> I'm probably thinking too far ahead right now, though... hamish> hamish>Why would you install the package (which presumably includes hamish>configuration) and then immediately reconfigure it? I often make a mistake during configuration and then want to reconfigur

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-25 Thread John Hasler
uestion in its postinst or start up chronyd without permission? Right now policy seems to me to strongly oppose questions but say nothing about starting daemons. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: scanning my ports

1999-09-25 Thread John Lapeyre
very sorry to have wasted the time of your security team. Maybe you can avoid further waste of time, by accepting my retraction of accusations and realizing that now there is no evidence and no accusation of a security problem, and therefore, no reason to take action on a suspected security pr

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate funct

1999-09-29 Thread John Lines
a convenient place to put a flag which says 'ask me (the user) before enabling any daemons' John Lines

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-01 Thread John Lapeyre
o UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-01 Thread John Goerzen
. Anything beyond that should be asked > for. No, this is silly. When you install a package, it is for use. If you don't intend to use it, why install it? Incidentally, can we do something about the insane CC line please? -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread John Travers
ot difficult to install your own kernel. Any developer and most users should be able to do that. I also have just installed XF864.0 with no problems either, though it was slightly more involved... Cheers, John

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread John Lapeyre
be shipped. But I can't see how you can argue that our only stable product should not be able to run on most new machines. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread John Galt
L PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The Internet must be a medium for it is neither Rare nor Well done! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">John Galt

Re: Becoming a developer

2000-03-15 Thread John Travers
that would be > a last ditch idea. It truly would, QT is FAR superior to GTK!! Cheers, John

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread John Galt
I see complaints about lack of manpower as rhetorical at best, hypocritical at worst. On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:24:29AM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > > > First of all, you

PDQ?

2000-03-21 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, There is apparently a printing system out there that is designed to replace lpr-based ones, called PDQ. I notice this is not yet in Debian. Is anyone planning to package it? Does anyone have any experience with it? If so, how do you like it? Thanks, John

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-23 Thread John Lapeyre
L PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://www.buoy.com/~tps > I have never found that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. > ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my > own.** > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: PPP on Potato

2000-03-25 Thread John Hasler
of a password with the "funny" characters. Pppconfig is supposed to deal with that automatically but it appears that I never fully implemented the feature. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: how about a real unstable?

2000-03-29 Thread John Haggerty
I second this. I can't tell you how many times I have had to get the source to something try to get it to compile and bang my head on the computer for 10 hours trying to get it to work. Having say the newest version of blackbox would be nice as well as some of the newer kernels, the newest Xemacs a

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread John Goerzen
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you don't correct this at once I will be forced to re-evaluate my place > within a project that is nominally devoted to free and open communication > among > its members and the rest of the world. Your complaint against us using the DUL is valid.

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread John Goerzen
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please also note that other daemons conflict with each other well, e.g., > inn & cnews, sendmail & postfix. I am aware of that, and it's a shame, there is no real reason that they cannot coexist.

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread John Goerzen
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Please also note that other daemons conflict with each other well, e.g., > >> inn & cnews, sendmail & postfix. > > John> I am aware of that, a

Re: X with (g|w|x)dm capable of selecting host at login

2000-08-14 Thread John Goerzen
xdm already has this feature, I believe. -- John esoR ocsirF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > A while back there was mention of developing a display manageer that > could select a host to login to. What ever became of this? > > I am setting up a small group of mac

ITP: gopher, gopherd, gopherindex

2000-08-17 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I intend to package up the gopher suite from UMN, together with my patches to it. Note: they have informed me it will be GPL'd shortly.

Re: ITP: gopher, gopherd, gopherindex

2000-08-17 Thread John Goerzen
I'll post such when the change takes place, which should occur in a matter of a few days. Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:30:29PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > I intend to package up the gopher suite from UMN, together wi

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-18 Thread John Goerzen
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manoj> The /bin vs /sbin distinction is purely about avoiding > Manoj> inconvenience and/or confusion for the normal user. The sole Actually, this is incorrect. On platforms predating FHS/FSSTND, /sbin was for statically-linked binaries -- vers

Re: Login temrinated w/signal 13

2000-08-18 Thread John Goerzen
Doom Treasury genetic bomb radar munitions > [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.complete.org Sr. Software Developer, Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.www.progenylinux.com #include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-21 Thread John Goerzen
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> Anyway, I think the current situation is largely fine, although > John> I am still dismayed by the lack of statically-linked binaries > John> in /sbin. > > If I recall corectly, the argument went that

Re: (Beware helix packages) Re: [CrackMonkey] The right to bare legs

2000-08-30 Thread John Goerzen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.complete.org Sr. Software Developer, Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.www.progenylinux.com #include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A sendmail only problem? (Build-Depends and other arch)

2000-08-30 Thread John Goerzen
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That still begs the question of the autobuild stuff - does it ignore > the Build-Depends? If so, why... This is really weird. It's not supposed to! Somehow it didn't see yours or something! > > -- > Ri

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

2000-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
Yes, and while you're at it, please close some bugs :-) I gave that package away two years ago when I moved to alpha and I'm still getting bug reports for it. Somebody else can take it if it's being ignored (in fact, please do). -- John Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

2000-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
At the time, it would build only on i386. I don't know if this is still the case or not -- the whole thing is convoluted, I think it forked into three or four separate branches by now. -- John Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously John Goerzen wrote: >

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread John Hasler
e, but now you would like to boot to a console to fix it. b) Your monitor blew up. You've got a replacement on hand, but it won't work (and may even be damaged) with the current X settings. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-05 Thread John Goerzen
I won't fault the libpaperg maintainer for not integrating it yet :-) I'll continue to work on others. The Debconf Ray is next focusing on ispell (fear) -- John "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I started this afternoon submitting bu

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-06 Thread John Goerzen
If you want, I can file it that way but I just sent it to you as you asked. In general, I have been filing them that way. -- John Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously John Goerzen wrote: > > Incidentally, I have debconfized the following: > > >

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-06 Thread John Goerzen
://www.debian.org a trouvé de mieux pour ne rien > Gaby : http://gaby.netpedia.net faire de sa vie. » R. Vaneigem > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --

Re: bug database not updated?

2000-09-06 Thread John Goerzen
It ate a couple of my e-mails closing some bug reports but it seems to be working now. -- John Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Has the bug database been updated recently? I closed a set of bugs > about a week ago but the database doesn't appe

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
ument that I need to read?) > > -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PR

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread John Galt
I thought the netbase breakup was because of a old-BSD/GPL license incompatibility... On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > John Galt wrote: > > The big package breakups have historically been related to licensing > > issues > > Not as far as I can remember. The X br

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread John Galt
You going to send them the bill then? At the bottom off the mailinglist subscription page: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe is the mailinglist policy. Basically, the policy says either pay us $1,000 up front or $1,999 after. Martin (Joey, whatever you prefer...), Remco, Alexander,

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread John Galt
I was kind of feeling sorry about including you as a CC in the last post--partial oversight, partial personal policy (I never quite know how to deal with tertiary CCs: I generally detest people who adulterate a message they're replying to, but I also think that responsibility for replies stops abo

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread John Hasler
Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes: > So my question is: What do you wish for in a package manager? Undo. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread John Hasler
Federico Di Gregorio writes: > or am i missing something? In addition to the things Ben mentioned, dependencies and broken installs. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
DuEling BANjos, I'd presume. Probably some search engine specializing in "sound-alikes" for lousy spellers... On 26 Dec 2000, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Kim" == Kim Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kim> could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos > > This is about

ITP: antlr -- a compiler-compiler (and more) for Java

2000-12-26 Thread John Leuner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist ANTLR can be download from www.antlr.org, you need to enter in some details to download the tarball. ANTLR is: ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread John Leuner
> > Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:06:26 +0100 > > From: Martin Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: dueling banjos- sheet music > > > > Could you please send me the sheet music for Dueling Banjos, > > Regards Martin > > > > Ben > > John Leuner

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
Bzzt! mentioned three times by my recollection in the "dualling banjos" thread. Half the distance to the goal line, loss of down: second down! On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, John Leuner wrote: > I thought it was some metaphor for SMP > > > DuEling BANjos, I'd presume.

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
If it's so important, why is it orphaned? I'm thinking that if the SPARC folx can't be bothered to maintain their bootloader, perhaps the port's utilization of resources needs to be called into question... What's the point in Debian proper showing more support for SPARC than the SPARC community

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-27 Thread John Galt
Isn't there rudimentary ACL implementation in the kernel? An ACL would do the job nicely... On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Peter Eckersley wrote: > > > > > > If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I > > can set permissions: > > > > [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread John Galt
needs to be a wnpp check on a freeze: orphaned packages die during a freeze unless adoped post haste (I can't remember if this means that silo would've died during the potato freeze...). On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:06:30PM -0700, John Galt w

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-31 Thread John Lapeyre
*Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. I know that In case someone wants to pick up a package, I'll note which packages (of mine) I think are likely to have some reasonably sized user base. Some others may be popular too, I just don't know about the

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread John Galt
FYI 28 (aka RFC 1855) is the standard. There is nothing about honoring X headers at all. In fact, the only thing the RFC says to do is to honor Reply-To: headers, which I might note you didn't include in your message. Basically, you're on the wrong side of RFC 1855 on this issue and all the bit

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread John Galt
Why the hell should we go on #debian on OPN when you so much as admitted that the ops on it have some kind of power trip: devoicing instead of rebutting when they have an issue with what's said? If I help somebody, I really don't want to have to stay politically correct: getting the problem solve

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:56:38PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > FYI 28 (aka RFC 1855) is the standard. > > > > There is nothing about honoring X headers at all. > > I didn't say there was. Does "Mail-Copies-To:

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:53:04PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > > > In fact, the only thing the RFC says to do is to honor Reply-To: > > > > headers, > > > > which I might note you didn't include in your messa

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:11:50PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > Mail-Followup-To is the correct header to use. > > > > Mail-Followup-To isn't even a registered header!

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Steve Greenland wrote: SG>On 03-Jan-01, 22:53 (CST), John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SG>> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: SG>> SG>> > I didn't say there was. Does "Mail-Copies-To:" begin with an X?

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-04 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Joey Hess wrote: JH>Peter Makholm wrote: JH>> We have alternatives on almost everything but dpkg and man. If someone JH>> thinks it's worth the effort to make alternatives for these they JH>> should do it. If there is a general agreement that the alternatives is JH>> better tha

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread John Galt
On 4 Jan 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: MS>>>"John" == John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> MS> SG> Wrong. This would break my MUA so that "reply" no longer sends mail back MS> SG> to the originator, as it is supposed to do. MS> MS> Jo

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