(no subject)

2000-03-10 Thread Mark
that tried all combinations within the 8 char limit, it'd be pretty easy to at least do that. I've tested other distributions like slackware, slack7 allows a 126 character password at max which is a really good thing. Just a recommendation. -Mark

Debian XML Catalogs (was Re: OASIS Membership: was ...)

2003-07-03 Thread mark
eady and uploaded. At that time I'll post an announcement to debian-devel. Cheers, Mark

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Mark
and associated data. You can then drop that partition image onto a new/blank disk, that does not have anything in the MBR, and once Clonezilla restores the image to the new partition, will put the MBR in place and the machine boots on its own the next time, with no extra work (I just did this last week with a new hard drive). This has been my experience with using Clonezilla and Lenny, at least. So it may help in your case. Mark

San Valentín: invitar y salir billonario

2009-02-13 Thread Mark
personas, todo incluido. Y la posibilidad de salir como billonario. Una calidad de comida perfecta, un servicio genial y además ... precios normales. Mas información etc. en www.alicantetimes.com Les esperamos. Mark Restaurante El Flamenco www.Alicantetimes.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#861912: general: turning off bluetooth in upper toolbar in Gnome 3 doesn't keep it off (Wheezy)

2017-05-05 Thread Mark
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I tried turning off bluetooth via the icon in the upper toolbar in Gnome 3 in Wheezy oldstable, which I run WITH hardware acceleration on PowerMac G5 Quad, a feature I obtained easily without troubleshooting kernel recompiles in Stable. It's n

Bug#865280: general: I requested a PowerMac GPU reset in the next version number of Jessie (8.8). Need again.

2017-06-20 Thread Mark
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, It seemed after I installed 8.8-Jessie-upgraded packages on my 8.7.1 Jessie on my PowerMac G5 the graphics were reset. However, UNFORTUNATELY :..I needed to use an ATI graphics card to get my screen working prior to the upgrade. So wh

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Could you elaborate on that? Why is it so painful? > Probably because you need maintain packages for both unstable and > testing at the same time. This is exactly what happened

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 08:56:45AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, it would be easy for me to break the tetex-packages (and cause lots > > of FTBFS bugs) just by applying all the great ideas about improved > > packaging that I have in mind. No upstrea

Re: gfreeamp playlist inquiry

2004-10-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:35:19AM +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > On Saturday 23 October 2004 05:42, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Your ability to > > ask for features in the software programs that you use is one of the > > advantages of libre/free software. > > Errm, can&#x

what is /var/backup for?

2004-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folks, just a simple question. Is there a policy for /var/backup and what is it for or how should it be used? If there is a URL, google didnt show anything. TIA -Kev -- (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ "Have you mooed today?"... signature.asc D

aide 0.8-2 moved /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf

2004-10-28 Thread Mark-Walter
Hello, I've just installed aide for woody but it was required to move /etc/aide/aide.conf to /usr/local/etc/aide.conf. Can someone reproduce this if it's a bug or not ? -- Best Regards, Mark

Re: Debconf is not a registry

2004-11-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > But that could as well be achieved by parsing the configuration files: That is exactly what packages were the Debconf configuration winds up in a configuration file have to do. However, Debconf answers will not always wind up in con

any comments on diagram?

2004-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folks, i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png TIA -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /--\

Re: any comments on diagram?

2004-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:55:45PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > Kevin Mark [u] wrote on 09/11/2004 18:29: > > >i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development > >model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. > >http://kmark

Re: Bug#280675: ITP: l2tpns

2004-11-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:07:36PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > Please stop following up to this ITP and telling me you don't understand > the description unless you have prior experience of L2TP in an ISP > environment. If you don't know what L2TP is or how an LNS fits into the > picture, th

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:57:56PM +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:17:37PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > However, I'd be *highly* agitated if someone gave my daughter a > > CD-ROM with *any* nudy cartoons. > > I'd rather live with this risk than with less freedom. only

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:04:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think that the best solution to many of the worlds problems would be to > > provide really cheap laptops and good net access (including satellite net > > access). The idea is

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:45:25AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:53:41 +0100, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > Quoting Fernanda Giroleti Weiden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Hi all, I read all the thread and I

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:36:56AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 01:54 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:57:56PM +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:17:37PM -0600,

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:04:06PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 10.36, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:04:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > >

package rejection

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi fellow debianista, the package in question has not yet been accepted. For a pacakge to be accepted, here is conditions some have mentioned: 1) dfsg-free 2) can not be sexist 3) has to be able to be mirrored by all mirrors based on the laws of the location of the server 4) can not offend someone'

Re: Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:19:44PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >Would country/region-specific jigdo files be a reasonable > >solution? > > > > > I don't think we've enumerated all of the data paths that can generate > problems. I guess jigdo means the general category of

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:07:59PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It shows that sexual harassment in the workplace is one of their big > > concerns. And rightly so. Awards have been as large as $30 >

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:24:19AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:08 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A legal opinion on this matter would be a good idea... > > > > Keep in

Re: package rejection

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:51:23PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 2) can not be sexist > > Bad idea. We should avoid subjective criteria. >

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 04:09:04AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Is a bit of flash or rom that much bigger than ram? Isn't most of the > space in the dongle air or filling material? Space is space on the board (not to mention the complexity of the board) as well as three dimenisonal space.

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 04:54:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > - why is dmesg 0644? This is not really a problem, but do users > need access to the boot messages? The log buffer can normally be read using the dmesg utility (or similar code) as well as via the log file. -- "You grabbed

updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Folks, I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments appreciated! Also, the source is *.fig. Can anyone point to a similar .deb of a graphic document so that I can see what documents a graphics file needs so that I can make a GPL & DFSG compliant package. I exported

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:47:02AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Folks, > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > It's "volatile", not "

Re: RFS tag?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:30:21PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > hi, > * Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 12:43]: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:50, Nico Golde wrote: > > > Hi, > > > what about an RFS tag for ITPs or and RFS bug report for > > > wnpp. So debian developers who li

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:16:44PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:04:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:08:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > >> Ken Bloom wrote: > >> > http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the > >> > ReleaseProposals topic

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:56:13AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi Kevin! > > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050103 07:08]: > > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > What is the target grou

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:38:46PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Kevin Mark dijo [Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:08:49AM -0500]: > > Hi Folks, > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > Very nice! I expect to use it at s

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:52:22PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 19:46]: > > > Yes, a legend for the acronyms would be fine. > > Oh, I just saw, that your diagramm has a legend. I'm wondering, why I > didn't noticed it the other day.. > > > Y

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:14:56PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > || On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:08:49 -0500 > || Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > km> Hi Folks, > km> I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > km> appre

Re: Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Mark Brown: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > x86info: x86info.1.gz This isn't Debian-specific since I contributed it back upstream. I've contacted upstream about relicensing it under the GP

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:47:50AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005, Holger Levsen wrote: > > unstable is described as suited for "...laptops and desktops on > > non-critical > > systems..." > > testing is described as "... can be used for desktop systems that need

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

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:46:19PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > With the proviso that static linking against libc6 is more likely to > introduce ABI problems via nss than just dynamically linking against an old > libc6 ABI (i.e., GLIBC_2.0 or GLIBC_2.1). Not to mention the LGPL too. Static lin

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:46:03PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2005-02-03 03:15:41, schrieb Sam Watkins: > > > > > 1. People (including children) will get a nasty surprise when they > > >choose to download all the comics

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

2005-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Martin, On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:47:27PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Based on the work of Kevin Mark (URL not available, sorry), I have http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.fig > made a graph of the life cycle of a Debian packa

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

2005-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:08:49PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * martin f. krafft: > > > Based on the work of Kevin Mark (URL not available, sorry), I have > > made a graph of the life cycle of a Debian package for inclusion in > > my forthcoming book (http://debianbook

Re: First line in /etc/hosts

2005-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:25:15PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > However, now we've suddenly discovered that _other_ programs get confused by > this! In particular, if you use an NFSv4-patched mount, it does a > gethostname() and resolves that, which returns 127.0.0.1, which in turn makes >

Re: First line in /etc/hosts

2005-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:21:09AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mark Brown writes: > > ...NIS needs to hand out the IP address of the machine... > Machines don't have IP numbers. Interfaces have IP numbers. Every machine Actually, that's not quite the case (as a number o

all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-14 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi debianista, after my initial work on a diagram, and the comments and the work of madduck, I had some time to redo my diagram to produce a totally new concept. any comment appreciated. http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/newdebian.png http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/newdebian.dia cherio, Kev ps.

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:29:37AM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > Hi Kev, list! > > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:27, Kevin Mark wrote: > > after my initial work on a diagram, and the comments and the work of > > madduck,  I had some time to redo my diagram to produce a to

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:24:18AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Great work! I am glad to see you got down with dia; I love that > tool. Here are some comments: Its cool that it exports to xfig as a way to use both tools. > > a. I am not sure what the "process realm" is. ACK. r

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:11:33PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > h. There are more rules as to when packages migrate from unstable to > >testing. > > i. You use both meanings of "priority" (changelog and control) > >without making it clear wh

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:34:38PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 02:27 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi debianista, > > > > after my initial work on a diagram, and the comments and the work of > > madduck, I had some time to redo my diagr

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:34:27AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Kevin Mark [Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:09:03 -0500]: > > > > And I've never read "ITO" as a tag for orphaning bug. Either one mails > > > to -devel (or wherever) saying that they intend to give

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:04:21AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Hi Martin, > > source package: dsc + (diff) + orig.tar.gz > binary package: deb > source upload: changes + list of files therein I added some of this to my diagram. not 100% yet. > nah, we turn software into debian packages by

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:53:28AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > although, now I am getting confused about the difference between a > > debian developer and a debian maintainer. I labeled most items with 'DD' >

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:33:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> Clint Byrum spamaps.org> writes: > >> > Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below,

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:30:27PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > >> Hypothetical daily KDE builds would also insanely incr

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:35:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:13:42PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > > Do the buildd people read this list? How do we get this cleaned up? > > > > As far as I can t

updated package development diagram w/new spanish translation

2005-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi tired and overworked folks, I recently got some help from a fellow in cuba(Maykel Moya) to translate my diagram into spanish. I have added some bits about the autobuild network but have not reconciled it with my original bits. On the far right is the unincorperated bits. Its now at: http://deb

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

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:57:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Considered that ftbfs bugs for scc architectures are not going to be > RC any more, people will stop fixing them, thus the scc architectures Some may, but some would continue to be helpful. My experience doing porting work was that pr

Re: OASIS -- Our Membership and their IP Policy?

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Johnson
effect change. For example, I'd be willing to run for a position on the OASIS Board of Directors the next time there is an election. Hope that helps... Cheers, Mark {1} http://perens.com/Articles/OASIS.html Claire [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/124548/ [2] Lawrence Rosen, Bruce Peren

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

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:35:38PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > That suggests that FTBFS bugs for SCC archs will be ignored just as > long, 1/2 - 3/4 of the planed release cycle. Now imagine a bug in fsck > that destroys data being left open for so long. In my experience doing this sort o

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

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:04AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > What that actually means is that when porters want to stabilise, they'll > be able to simply stop autobuilding unstable, fix any remaining problems > that are a major concern, and request a snapshot be done. That'll result ... >

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

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:54:24AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > If you wanted to make the decision _with_ the input of developers, why > did all the powers that be vehemently deny that the number of > architectures was a problem for the release schedule, right until > everyone turned on a platt

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

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:26:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > >Would it also be possible for porters to update the snapshots in some > >manner beyond having an apt source equivalent to the security archive > >added by d-i? > It'd be possi

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:01:06PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On some mirrors? > -> Not all mirrors have to mirror all ports. The mirroring part of the proposal is effectively just a proposal to rearrange the archive in order to make this easy for mirror admins. -- "You grabbed my hand and we

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:30:00PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > The need for gcc-2.95 usually means the source code is broken (in C99 > terms) and should be fixed. Do you have an example of an use case where > this is unfeasible, and which is important enough to justify continued > maintenance of

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:27:33PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > impediments (like licensing problems), do people generally think that > it's reasonable to do this even if the other packages aren't really > part of the upstream package? If so, are there usual mechanisms for > doing this? What a

Re: Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 05:21:46PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > >> I can do the analyzing, but what should I do with the results? > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be a black

[EMAIL PROTECTED] offline

2005-12-16 Thread Mark Purcell
I'm moving house and am told it could be 15 days before I have broadband on at the new location. So I maybe offline for the duration. Please NMU as necessary, but include the details in the BTS. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:10:03PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > It turns out that there is no need for them to be hurt at all. Lone > can carry on working as before and find a co-maintainer who won't get > in his way. But when Lone falls off his horse he'll be glad that Tonto > is nearby. ...

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:07:10PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12.23, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > I don't think that it is ridiculous to require that every package have a > > team behind it---i.e., at least two maintainers. First, if someone can't > > find ONE oth

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:40:22AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > The other side, and we've seen some people say this in this thread already, > is that even if a maintainer asks for help, he may not get any - IIRC nis > was one such package, and I claim that its still used by quite a few, so

Re: bug tracking for non-RC architectures

2005-12-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:26:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > For architectures that are not release candidates, we are going to need > another way to track "release critical" bugs. The whole point of having > architecture criteria is so the project can give higher priority to i

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 01:03:21AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:11:57AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > > The difference is who does the work. > > I a well-team-maintained package, the work is actually done by "the > > team", and decisions are made after finding a consen

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:39:01PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > To prepare for the eventual removal of makedev, I propose that packages > currently depending on it will add an alternative dependency to udev. > Also, policy should be amended accordingly. It might be useful to tell the maintainers

Re: debian "experimental"

2005-12-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:12:23PM +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > I have noticed that directory > debian/dists/experimental/main/binary-i386 is empty. > Where is new "experimental" repository? Unless there is a problem with the mirror you are using that directory should contain a Release and P

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:11:26PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I suspect a similar system for Debian might increase visibility and > commitment from a large set of users. With the exception of the web forums and most of the commercial stuff that does sound rather like debian.org. -- "Yo

Re: Maintaining a debian package

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:59:12PM +0100, Andi Drebes wrote: > Hi there! > I'm currently developing an application for library management (real books, > CDs, etc). I'd like to distribute it over the internet, because I think it > could be useful to other users. As I'm using debian and like it prett

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:20:07PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > we need to promote the easy entry points to contributing to debian > > more prominently and should hide the "how to become a DD" in > > comparison. > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > What on earth for? > > And

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:03:24PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Having said that, I'd also like to have non-ubuntu-specific patches be > fed to our BTS; that would really make me feel there's a strong policy > of giving back. While my relationship with people at ubuntu working on > gksu is

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:03:14PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/13/06, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Please stop trying to twist my words around. Canonical didn't contribute > > > back. An individual who happened to work for

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:03:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > However, to the degree that the Ubuntu patches have these sorts of > gratuitous changes that shouldn't be merged with Debian, the patch > database quickly becomes useless. The current patch system is only useful > if a maintainer can

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:34:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can't agree. From the sound of this and other threads, there are a number > > of folks who are unlikely to be satisfied with any behavior on the part of > > the Ubuntu project

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:42:22AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Um, I have said nothing against crediting maintainers in the > > packages. I have only said that I would like Ubuntu to clearly label > > which is the Debian maintainer and which

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:36:43PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > would it be usefull if the Ubuntu Maintainer would add a > > 'ubuntu-specific' usertag to those bugs in the Ubuntu BTS as a way of > > telli

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:47:15PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 1/17/06, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As it is, to me, Ubuntu is just a group of people, some of which might > > have names[1]. I find it hard to work with such a

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:26:05AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:01 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-17 11:36]: > > > Kennedy wasn't a citizen of Berlin, either, not literally. T

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:47:18PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:23:30PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-1

Re: A great weekend for Debian

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:56:56PM +0100, Amaya wrote: #include and thanks for your time to write such a useful note about how you and others are keeping Debian great! > > It leads me to think Debian accounts should expire in a year of no > activity and packages be automatically orphaned, but it

Re: emacs 21.4, Chinese and utf-8

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
en the developer is unable to reproduce because of the differences between a derivative and Debian 3. complaining in #debian when they should be asking on an irc channel of the derivative (eg. #knoppix) At some point in the future Debian may have similar discussion with other derivi

Re: Offline use of apt-cacher

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:23:55PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > As said bvefore, if you activate this mode manually, this should be an > easy feature to add on. How do you want to configure it? > > Eduard. Hi Eduard, I was just struck by your choice of phrase. It, in a way, expresses

Re: A great weekend for Debian

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:08:57AM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > I think you're overly optimistic :-) Most of the simple RC bugs > > (related to the xlibs-dev transition) have been fixed; there aren't 90 > > more like those. Those left are: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org

Re: Bug#350982: ITP: slimscrobbler -- SlimServer plugin that submits listening data to Last.FM

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:58:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 02 février 2006 à 09:10 -0700, dann frazier a écrit : > > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 03:05 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > [dann frazier] > > > > * Package name: slimscrobbler > > > > Description : SlimServer plug

Re: Bug#350982: ITP: slimscrobbler -- SlimServer plugin that submits listening data to Last.FM

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:16:29AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:41:55PM -0500, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Josselin, > > I have read many descriptions that made no sense to me and it was > > mentioned that you either

Re: How to contribute

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:58:09PM +, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all, > > How to I contribute an application to Debian? > > I am the developer of the application and it is released under GPL > > Regards, > Michael Rasmussen > Hi Michael, there is documentation on the debian.org website f

Re: How to contribute

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:14:04PM +0100, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On 13-02-2006 15:38:16, Kevin Mark wrote: > >there is documentation on the debian.org website for developers under > >the developers sections. The basic thing is to read about the 'ITP

Re: Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:25:07PM +0300, =?UTF-8?Q? =D0=9F=D0=BE=D1=80=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BD_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9B=D1=8C=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=B8=D1=87 ?= wrote: > First, I suggested .zip just for an example. There are other similar > archivers with bigger compression ratio. > > > One

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:13:04AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Xavier Roche dijo [Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:55:57AM +0100]: > > > > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake! > > > everything that is not hardware is software > > > > So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have t

Re: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:02:57AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:55:22PM +0100, Guerkan Senguen wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: freebsd-manpages > > Version : 6.0 > Wouldn't this package conflict with

Re: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:42:19AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:30:38AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:02:57AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:55:22PM +010

Re: Change .rm to mp3 or wav file

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:29:52AM -0800, Peter Khwatenge wrote: > Do you have a program that can change .rm to mp3 or wave files? If yes, how > can I get one? > > Thanks > > Peter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peter, there is software to do this but your questions should be asked on the de

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 02:11:30AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > No, the point of Java is to allow users to run Java software, which > they may or may not have written themselves, and which may or may not > be free software. Examples of all permutations of the above are really > easy to find. C

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:42:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow > >> The availability to do this is enough even if there are other > >> (possibly better) ways to do the same. One fr

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