Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I agree. Mutt should by default be much more like pine. I like all my multiple folders, each containing the mail from one mailing list, and I like being able to easily navigate between them like pine allows. - --sig-- Real Programmers consider "what you see is

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:00:03AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Please, let's decide based on facts rather than some hopelessly obsolete sympathy for the so-called Eastern Europe(TM). What sympathy? The Slavic nations should form their own union, and Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand should

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:36:15PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Tijuana?! Being curious... What would you expect to find in Tijuana? Cheap hotels, cheap booze, cheap food, and cheap whores. :-) Jonathan -- It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't

volunteering accomodations for Vancouver debconf

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Walther
Hi. When is this debconf that will be held in Vancouver? I can provide free accomodations and organic homebrew beer for up to two developers, preferably ones who are on a tight budget and could not otherwise make it here. Jonathan -- It's not true unless it makes you laugh,

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-30 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:23:16PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Cheap hotels, cheap booze, cheap food, and cheap whores. :-) More or less like here... In fact, if you look hard enough, maybe you can get them cheaper here ;-) Two questions; where is "here" for you, and when is the debconf happening in

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-31 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:29:06AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: That sound so appealing that I would even consider also attendig LinuxTag :-) Keep in mind, this is 730km and will take up to 8-12h Wien is not exactly close to western europe. You haven't lived in North America, have you. An 8 hour

serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
--- Begin Message --- I tried evolution tonight. It is impressive work. I wanted to import my 62 mbox mailboxes and 6 maildirs. Well, for whatever reason, it didn't let me import my maildirs. And the interface for importing mailboxes is painful for 62 different mailboxes. So I looked at how to

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:56:24PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Yea, this is kinda painful currently but hopefully by 1.2 this will be much easier. We plan on making it so that you can add a new account using "Standard Unix Mail Spool" as the source type and pointing it at a directory and have ou

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:49:12PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: IMO the good solution for this kind of problems is to use IMAP. don't trust MUAs to work with files. (of course, Evolution should play nice with symlinks) Note that in his reply, the Evolution maintainer said "the Unix rename() function

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:29:43AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: *This* is the real problem with Evolution. It should use another GnuPG system. Evolution's behavior with mboxes is the right thing to do, as mboxes need to be locked. Could you explain that? Using realpath() before locking the mbox

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:41:28PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Unfortunately, no. I made no changes whatsoever to the mailboxes. I just entered them to see if the messages showed up, they did, then I exited. Thats when I noticed the symlinks had been blown away, and the resulting "copied" mai

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
Thank you for the patch. To make it work, you need to define the variable "folder_path". I would recommend this: char folder_path[4096]; And then before using it, do this: memset(folder_path, 0, sizeof folder_path); Cheers. Jonathan On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:57:34PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:38:43PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Oops, copy/paste-o when migrating the patch to the 1-0 code base. Here is the correct patch for the 1.0.x branch. Hopefully the Debian maintainer will apply it? I am creating an Evolution 1.0-5.1 package on my system with the patch

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-10 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:49:59PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: IMHO, it is not evil to append to the headers of the message. Every MTA does that. But if you delete stuff of alter the actual message, then it is evil.. I agree. But that is what Evolution does. This bug isn't planned to be fixed for a

(LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread Jonathan Walther
s software on to every mirror possible, we strengthen ourselves as much as possible. The current situation with non-US limits the mirrors that carry software that is only illegal in a few countries. The proposed situation would maximize availability for everyone, and hopefully highlight the fruitlessness of current restrictions, without any of the current pain. Yours, Jonathan Walther

(SHORT) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread Jonathan Walther
the only difference is that non-US disappears, and formerly non-US software goes on every mirror where its legal to go. Jonathan

(FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread Jonathan Walther
Since the main (but not exclusive) use of non-US right now is for crypto software, we might want to create a Crypto-Regulations package which contains references to which countries restrict import and export of crypto, and how, with references to appropriate legislation and documentation. This wo

(COMPATIBILITY) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread Jonathan Walther
The concern has been raised about people using older versions of apt suddenly unknowingly breaking the law. I propose that the new mirroring scheme only apply to those distributions (potato? the one after?) which implement the policy. All the older ones would continue to be mirrored as before. I

(MIRROR ADMINS) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread Jonathan Walther
Another concern noted was that if we require special mirroring software to mirror Debian, many hardnosed sysadmins will take some convincing to use our script. That is not our problem. Either they use our mirroring script, or use their regular script to mirror from a debian mirror in the SAME cou

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread Jonathan Walther
No. The scheme makes us less liable than we already are, since it shows that we are "trying". It puts us ahead of every other Linux distribution out there. Certainly we only distinguish non-US stuff right now. But the laws of France and Russia are equally clear and well known. We don't increase

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Well what do you do about a mirror in the US that can import software but > cannot export it? You either have to somehow validate all downloads of that > software from the mirror are from people in the US, or you leave the mirror > open to downloads from ev

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > From the tone of your remarks, it appears that you expect laws > to be reasonable and logical. Unfortunately, that expectation may be > unrealistically optimistic. > > manoj > > >>"Jonathan"

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so fine-grained that it disappears into the rest of the distribution. Or am I

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
On 18 May 1999, Philip Hands wrote: > Perhaps a better goal (although significantly more difficult) would be > to design a system where we can have multiple symmetric masters, where > you can upload to any of them, and the propagate packages amongst > themselves. Perhaps I didn't explain it clear

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-19 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Well, we've established that no site in the US will carry the crypto stuff. > So what if I'm in the US and want to get non-US stuff? Since non-us has > disappeared into the distribution, I can't add a line to apt pointing to > non-us. So what am I supposed t

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-19 Thread Jonathan Walther
Debian is about freedom, specifically freedom of software. Being seen as examplary citizens can only help our cause. We have a sterling reputation for high standards. I agree with you on using the two letter iso country codes. However, I don't see a need for the extra fields Use-Restricted and

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-23 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > A couple of remarks: > * we don't control how mirrors mirror our archives, and we don't want to > create a situation where mirrors need special tools and/or scripts. According to previous posts, our top tier mirrors already run special software to

Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: Re: Deficiencies in Debian]

1999-09-15 Thread Jonathan Walther
Steven, you have no clue what we were even talking about do you. Go away. Playing devils advocate is fine. You aren't even doing that right. On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 2:09:38 AM, Gerhard wrote: > > /usr/pkg would be much better ;-))) > /var/pkg e

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: ...])

1999-09-15 Thread Jonathan Walther
Good god. Steven is even quoting Tom Christianson wrong. Tom said not to stick the WHOLE message at the bottom, where it doesn't provide context. What I have been doing falls in the realm of "providing context". On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > Goody, I get to use this. Thank Tom Ch

Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: Re: Deficiencies in Debian]

1999-09-15 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > See, this little subthread came from that where someone said > /usr/packages, which was shortened to /usr/pac (IIRC), then /usr/pkg, > whereupon I jumped right back in and pointed out /var/pkg and forgot the lib > in /var/lib/dpkg. Source code is not va

Steve Lamb in my killfile.

1999-09-15 Thread Jonathan Walther
Will someone please notify me when Steve Lamb becomes a reasonable person. As of 2 minutes ago, all mail from him is being sent to /dev/null by procmail. Sincerely, Jonathan

Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

1999-09-16 Thread Jonathan Walther
With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be sufficient: / 32M /var 96M swap 32M or more. /usr all the rest /home is a symlink to /usr/home /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp For more than 150 megs of disk space, I have found this the best way of partitioning. F

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-16 Thread Jonathan Walther
I agree, Netherlands is probably best option. It has to be easier to get into than the US. While my work Visa is in process, I don't dare cross the border from Canada for fear it will influence my application negatively. On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > It'd be kinda nifty to do it in