Intent to package Xswallow

1998-05-04 Thread Martin Read
k nevertheless. > I have tried it with Netscape 3.0 and 4.0b5 (not with Mozilla yet :( ) > it can be found as a RedHat package so I intend to use this first for the > first release. BTW it is GPL'd. Martin -- \_V_/ | Martin Read, goth, geek, rocker, and sometime tart. \ / | &

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Read
On 15/10/14 23:01, Adam Borowski wrote: shim doesn't appear to work, at least for me. To get basic functionality like shutdown from GUI, suspend or mounting USB drives, I needed to downgrade the whole Utopia stack to their last working versions. Out of interest, what's the bug number? -- To

Re: apt-get install sysvinit-core removes gnome?

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/10/14 12:20, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Apitude, too, *really* likes to choose 500 deletions rather than upgrading even a single package to a version with slightly-lower priority (as defined in /etc/apt/pref*), but at least you can tell it to try harder. :-/ I got sick of "remove half the pl

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/10/14 15:32, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: It did not work, yes. That's why, for example, fail2ban can be used by local users to deny access to other users[1]. With that said, if that fact *actually matters*, you probably have other, worse problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Martin Read
On 28/11/14 11:56, Svante Signell wrote: 3) Add information in release-notes on how to: - Upgrade from stable/testing/sid to jessie to avoid getting systemd-sysv installed (this should not strictly be needed if the ctte chooses to decide that upgrades will _not_ switch init) This part has alrea

Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?

2015-07-28 Thread Martin Read
On 28/07/15 14:13, Ben Hutchings wrote: Installation of a package from the 'metapackages' section does *not* mark its dependencies as automatically installed. This statement does not appear to be correct on my Debian jessie system using aptitude. I just experimentally marked the cinnamon-core

Re: IceCat package request

2015-11-04 Thread Martin Read
On 04/11/15 15:00, Michel Le Bihan wrote: Could somebody add/cerate a IceCat package? https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ This request has been made (and discussed but not acted upon) multiple times, most recently in September 2015: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00184.h

Re: Bug#782264: grub-install fails in nested LVM

2016-01-27 Thread Martin Read
On 26/01/16 15:52, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Bump. It's been more than 10 months and still nothing (even a simple ack). Could you consider adding a stable version of grub in a partial release of Jessie? A cursory inspection of the public browsing interface[1] to the relevant git repo make