Re: Funding for a Crazy Idea

1999-09-25 Thread paul
On 25 Sep 1999, Craig Brozef wrote: > > Uhm, they did just bomb Yugoslavia into the stone age... and > I hope that Debian does not resort to begging bald-faced liars. Would it not be better if the money is spent on Debian than if on warfare? --free software, not bombs-- ciao

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread paul
I find it hard to believe that this issue arises every time a new kernel is released. It may be useful to some to run the latest, but for most it's not an issue. IMHO including the latest kernel is only useful as a marketing gimmick, and as Debian is non-commercial we don't need that kind of m

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread paul
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Dave said: > The solution to this is that we ignore woody for the moment, and begin an all > out effort to get the 2.4 kernel, XF4.0, and Apache 2.0 into Debian as STABLE. > The work for these things can also incorporate the work needed to re-add the > packages that were remov

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread paul
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Stefan said: > i still don't see why compiling a kernel on your own is a problem. i > have never used a precompiled kernel, and i never had problems. Same here. IMHO, kernel-image packages are nice, but AFAIK, most users benifit from recompiling the kernel at some point any

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-16 Thread paul
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:18:24 +0530, Syed said: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:17:54 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> said: > Andreas> > http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb > Andreas> Size mismatch E: Una

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread paul
Why is it considered "difficult" for individual users adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to their path if they wish to? I'm sure that most users are competent enough to change their own path, and if they are not, they will be soon after they find that they need to. As a user with no formal computer tra

MEI Whitelist Autoresponse

2003-08-27 Thread paul
tent-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="_NextPart_000_000CF422" > BCT-delivery-for: paul > MEI-wl-code: MEI0250511061987327tId9CNuNr3t1YZv3sJrT8g > > This is a multipart message in MIME format > > --_NextPart_000_000CF422 > Content-Type: text/plain; >

Re: Bug#492157: ITP: apollo -- The Apollo Solr Server

2008-07-25 Thread Paul
tion was to make available something that I had already built and am currently using in production systems, to other potential users of Solr. Cheers, Paul. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIij8DtfkpAgkMO

Re: Bug#492157: ITP: apollo -- The Apollo Solr Server

2008-07-25 Thread Paul
the packaging of it that I want to resolve first. Many thanks to all who contributed to this with feedback. Cheers, Paul. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Paul
sy configuration > for printer :-P Of course I'm not a beginner :-P Have a look at PGI: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ Paul.

Re: [sylpheed:37253] Debian 12 released with two RC bugs in Sylpheed

2024-04-07 Thread Paul
Debian will overlook your behaviour and accept you as a developer, I don't know. with regards Paul

Re: [sylpheed:37255] Re: Debian 12 released with two RC bugs in Sylpheed

2024-04-07 Thread Paul
ter. with regards Paul

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2024-06-11 Thread Paul Gevers
as Debian. If you want an Debian architecture to keep Debian running on i386 CPU's, you can create a port. But unless you find enough volunteers, I'm a bit skeptical you'll succeed. There are enough problems to cover, of which upstream kernel support and the 32 bit memory b

Re: About i386 support

2024-06-14 Thread Paul Gevers
not saying we'll hold you from trying. What support means here is that if you come and say: here's a bug, we'll say: you're on your own to fix it. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Gevers
x27;t get it to work locally yet (facing non-obvious error messages). Maybe bug #1059725? Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: autopkgtest + podman user experience (Was: Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild)

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Gevers
be they don't belong there. Paul [1] Recently I started to work on a different way that autopkgtest would talk to the testbed (via ssh). That may or may not be appropriate for its use by sbuild. See bug 1068588. OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OpenPGP digital signature

2024-07-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 30-07-2024 10:21, Simon McVittie wrote: Please note that imtoas...@mail.com is (presumably) not Paul, Correct. the subject line is not what the release team would use, Correct. and Paul seems unlikely to send official Debian announcements through a gmx.com mail relay with a

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-04 Thread Paul Gevers
fig-common, liferea and viking). Feel free to enable all ci pipelines that work for those packages (I couldn't get cacti to build on salsa last time I tried, would love to see that fixed, I now use debomatic to try run builds). I'm not sure if I receive MR message if somebody w

Re: Strange armel build error

2024-08-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 16-08-2024 17:46, Alec Leamas wrote: All other builds are OK. Has anyone a hint about what might be going on here? https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_qualify.html armel column. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Paul Gevers
ake changes to it, I couldn't even do it because I wasn't member of the right team, which feels weird. The same is true for the key package set calculation (which is strongly related). Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

fftw3 needs testing on K6

2004-11-01 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi all, fftw3 needs testing on AMD K6. The solution suggested by the upstream authors is available at http://piem.org/~piem/debian/fftw3/ . it would be nice if a K6 owner could reproduce the bug (for instance running jamin with fftw3 3.0.1-10) and then try again using the above version. Please CC

Re: Very BIG Problem with debian packages versioning...

2004-11-03 Thread Paul Hampson
hanged !! Or just wait for freshclam to update server1... Did you do these at the same time, or was there a day between server1's output and server2's output? ^_^ -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies stu

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Hampson
spec, I'll stand corrected, but on the basis of what I've read > in the FAQ, I have no interest in the spec itself, because it's not going to > be any better than SPF in practice. Which is a pity, because the initial > idea is quite a decent one. I haven't read the

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-09 Thread Paul Hampson
utofs4, which you can't manually unmount without becoming root. >_< -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No survivors? Then where do

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Hampson
though I guess partitioning would require +w for the user, but in that case the user needs direct access anyway, and then dialling your USB stick becomes a distinct possibility. -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asi

Bug#280650: ITP: wired -- a music production and creation software

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Brossier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: wired Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Colin Laplace, Vincent Bongiorno, Coumba Nar, GrÃgory Duhamel, Diodio Sambe, ClÃment Baret * URL : http://bloodsh

Bug#280656: ITP: portmidi -- a library for real-time MIDI input/output

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Brossier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: portmidi Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Ross Bencina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phil Burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roger B. Dannenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~m

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Hampson
dministrator could add appropriate people directly to those groups for things like a headless server where someone whacks in a USB stick, and then wanders back to their laptop to access it. This would close (to my mind) a security hole in systems where both local and remote users have access. -- --

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-12 Thread Paul Hampson
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:07:12AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi! > > Paul Hampson [2004-11-11 10:03 +1100]: > > But don't CD-ROM and floppy devices also need the same sort of pmount > > support you're proposing here? After all, you can hot-swap the media in >

Bug#278246: Cannot help anymore

2004-11-12 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
emely outdated Red Hat 8.0, so I don't know if the bug persists in Debian. Perhaps, if no one can reproduce it, the bug should be closed. Paul

Re: Bug#283903: ITP: dbconfig-common -- common framework for packaging database applications

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Hampson
erested in helping out. _Sweeet!_ What's the timeframe on seeing this? And any chance of it making Sarge? -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN:

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

2004-12-05 Thread Paul Plop
ower is a phallic representation. I could hurt some people's sensibility. Paul

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Paul Hampson
te a new > distribution for use in China. Again, what will they do if the package tools > only support Latin-1? Isn't there a proposal around for Description#en: Description#ja: etc? I can see that this would have to be split somehow to avoid the Packages file suddenly filling CD1 on it

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

2004-12-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:38:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:16 -0500, Nick Sillik wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 16:22 +0100, Paul Plop wrote: > > > A flower may not be a good idea. For many specialists, a flower is a > > > phallic repres

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:26:57AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:54:36AM +1100, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Isn't there a proposal around for > > Description#en: > > Description#ja: > And you'd advocate

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Paul Hampson
7;m not sure if this has any importance in terms of the tools... Changelogs would presumably continue to match the Maintainer: field, and so they would include the ASCII transliteration of the name. -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies st

Re: Duelling banjos or how a sane community goes crazy

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Hampson
ct Debian with hot-babes. > Waw, 20th hit on google:hot babe for the german article. On the other hand, the program itself is the number one google hit for both hot babe and hot-babe. The Debian discussion thereof _ought_ to be right up there. ^_^ -- ----

Re: Depending on Virtual Packages (Public Service Announcement)

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Hampson
do a lot of questioning. Certainly things like aptitude, synaptic, dselect etc. should. And possibly they do. ^_^ -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-11 Thread Paul Hampson
s, and I love them for letting me specify what I want to do in a way that is intuitive to me. Altough I wish I could tab-complete package names sometimes. ^_^ -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-11 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:08:12PM +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: > Hello. > Paul Hampson: > > The email address isn't important, since > > that has to be a subset of ASCII anyway. > Are the Unicode-encoded domain names > supported in (modern) browsers

Re: Filing bugs with upstream

2004-12-16 Thread Paul Hampson
n bug number. It largely depends on the relative responsiveness of upstream and the Debian maintainer, which can only be learnt by trying this and seeing what happens next. -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Hampson
nstall kernel-image-2.6. Also module-init-tools. I got burnt by this recently when I modularised my kernel and was mystified that my network card had disappeared. -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU Shorter .sig for a more eco-friendl

Re: Diversion of APT tools by dpkg-cross (apt-get,apt-cache,apt-config)

2005-02-01 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Tuesday, Feb 1, 2005, Raphael Bossek writes: > >Hi, > >I'm a active member of the dpkg-cross package part of the www.emdebian.org >project. > >A long outstanding feature request was to support APT for dpkg-cross. The >realisation >result in diversion of apt-get, apt-cache and apt-config which

Re: Bug#293292: ITP: btexmms -- XMMS plugin to use some (Sony) Ericsson phones as a remote control

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Brossier
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:41 +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > * Package name: btexmms xmms plugins would be better named xmms- (btexmms for the source should be fine though) > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.examp

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Hampson
k that data's structured into changes between releases, making it hard to autoupdate the data to match the new library. I think bringing libraries into the dicussion was another poster's... straw man? (I'm not sure that's the right logical fallacy) and doesn't help at all.

Re: execturing libc

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Hampson
executable flag > set like libc. It's a different bug but it's still there. Is that a bug? I can run -x perl scripts with perl so why not -x ELF scripts with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 What stops me taking a copy of the binary, making it +x and running that anyway? So I don't

Re: Bug#294209: ITP: reminiscence -- REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Hampson
ng of "Another World" are you? http://membres.lycos.fr/cyxdown/raw/ (That's the same person who's writing REminiscence) I had them confused in my head, anyway. ^_^ -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year Comp

Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Hampson
other - as currently - not? That would allow > using ssl whenever possible. I think that could be done, without > breaking things. That's funny. Didn't we spend all that time since Woody merging lib-*-ssl back into lib-*? -- ---

Cross-compiling and dist-cc (Was: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]))

2005-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
good use for it yet, but the _idea_ is neat.) -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No survivors? Then wher

Re: First line in /etc/hosts

2005-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
tric routes arriving? -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack S

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Paul Hampson
hat when you modify a single message, you only need to modify the > I thought it was "illegal" to modify a message. "Status: O"? -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, A

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-28 Thread Paul Hampson
ld mplayer, like using external libflac, libsdl etc, and it's easier to rebuild a local mplayer with the latest lib{avcodec,format} versions, assuming the packager of those is tracking CVS closely. -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson

Re: Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Hampson
ntations. ^_^ [3]) [1] http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/2756/graphics.html [2] http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/ansi.html [3] http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gloss.html -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year

Re: Bug#297606: ITP: unionfs -- Stackable Unification File System

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Hampson
ither I'm daft, or the naming/description might need work... "merge" is possibly the wrong word here? -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (

fftw3 non-pic k7 optimisations

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi all, I am trying to get rid of fftw3 non position independant code brought on i386 by the --enable-k7 configure flag. As dropping these K7 optimisations gets rid of the non-pic, the problem seems to lie in dft/k7/codelets/, which are generated by ocaml scripts found in genfft-k7/. Two question

Re: fftw3 non-pic k7 optimisations

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Brossier
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:16:50PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Brossier: > > > Two questions: > > - can anyone spot what in these codelets causes the non-pic ? > > Tables of constants are addressed directly, not in some IP-relative > way. thanks, i thou

Re: Bug#297606: ITP: unionfs -- Stackable Unification File System

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:42:15PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Paul Hampson [Wed, Mar 02 2005, 08:05:14PM]: > > > I've used this, but briefly, in NetBSD. So maybe I'm missing something > > > when I ask: how is this different from "mount --bi

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Hampson
ate non-PID things from /proc to /sys where sensible, I wouldn't rely on things like /proc/cmdline to be around come Linux 2.8. -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubbleswort

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Hampson
d be to leave out the ALSA modules from the Debian kernel package, since we have a seperate package of ALSA modules which _does_ depend on alsa-base. Then a "desktop" install could offer to include them, and a non- "desktop" install could leave them out by default, or somethi

Re: fftw3 non-pic k7 optimisations

2005-03-06 Thread Paul Brossier
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:47:34PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Paul, > > You need to refer to KP707106781KP707106781 through the GOT, something > like > pfmul [EMAIL PROTECTED](%ebx), %mm3 Ok, i gave it a try, it compiles and runs fine, but i still get the 'obj

Re: fftw3 non-pic k7 optimisations

2005-03-07 Thread Paul Brossier
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:05:44PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Brossier: > > >> Why do you insist to have that code be position-independant ? > > > > I could say because it is a 'must' in the debian policy, but... > > There is no such requ

Bug#276148: ITP: nsis -- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (modified for debian)

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Wise
retitle 276148 ITP: nsis -- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (modified for debian) retitle 276153 ITP: nsis -- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (modified for debian) owner 276148 ! owner 276153 ! thanks for the banana republic :( More info and a long description about the version I intend to

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Hampson
e initrd before it actually does anything, and you can see what devices exist and drivers and whatnot. I can't remember the command though. -_- -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Hampson
uess. I _do_ pull those at build-time, since _they_ sometimes need to be upgraded for different architectures. This is a different (controversial?) issue. ^_^) -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Paul Hampson
el boot without swap until you manually activate it? Solve to taste, and serve with a side of "I hope that helps". ^_^ Hmm. This assumes you're using update-grub and the Debian-supplied/ maintained grub/menu.lst. If not, then... well, don't lose your paddle. -- -

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-14 Thread Paul Hampson
config.{sub,guess} needed to be updated due to the fluidity of some ports (I think the mips, sh and BSD ports were/are the most common "FTBFS: Update config.{sub,guess}", but I could be wrong.) -- --- Paul "TBBle" Ha

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-15 Thread Paul Hampson
also because this way I can have "pee" associated with the Debian mailing lists in google. ^_^ -- --- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 2

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-17 Thread Paul Hampson
y because Australian English seems to be influenced by both British and American pronounciation, in the same way that route is understandable in either pronounciation, although then I know the linguistic background of the speaker's English. ^_^ However, this is a pronounciation rule, not a spel

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-17 Thread Paul Hampson
unds like "anistoric event" to me). On the other hand... "The stylebook of the London Times calls for an hotel, an historic and an heroic. But, remember, that's British English." As to when the second syllable of a h-word is stressed, that's an exercise for the s

Re: Building windows versions of debian packages

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 23:02 +0100, Enrico Tassi wrote: > mh... I do not completely agree... I think a separate repo should be > the way to start... but at the end I would like to see these packages > in debian... the best developing environment (not only the best OS). > > If you want to start thi

Re: Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-12-01 Thread Mike Paul
I don't remember hearing a definitive answer to that. (Note that I'm not a cryptographer; I attended simply as an interested individual.) -- Mike Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Hedderly
My biggest problem with all this is that it's gonna mean a lot of work - for the 'declassifying team' and for people who want to be bothered about commenting on the process is respect of particular email. Thats time that I feel could be better spent. I do understand the motives.

Bug#343403: ITP: libwww-topica-perl -- Read emails from a Topica mailing list

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwww-topica-perl Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/WWW-Topica-0.5/ * License : Perl

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul Hedderly
with nvi as the default vi... I can get quite lyrical with my ranting. For me, vim-tiny would be great! -- Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul Hedderly
ogress vim has made to make use of vi quicker/better/easier. I don't see that the world has to be stuck in 1985 - should we still be shipping a linux kernel version 1? -- Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: > I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using > meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in > package descriptions in general. Sounds like something that should be added to lintian. I suggest filing a wishlist bug

Bug#347202: ITP: xmms-midi -- MIDI plugin for XMMS

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xmms-midi Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Chris Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://web.archive.org/web/20040401143932/http://ban.joh.cam.ac.uk/~cr212/xmms-mid

Re: libecw

2006-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > I'm not sure if it's license ( > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293346 ) can be considered > > free enough to be in main: Some feedback from upstream is in this thread: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-general/2005-August/thread.html#1

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
from Ubuntu users and developers alike that this is Planet Ubuntu. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got Jabber? http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber pgpFMwVfN7DAX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Brossier
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:09:28AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Jérôme Warnier] > > Or even better: a list of all packages already installed on my system > > which have an experimental version? > > There might be a better way, but assuming you have experimental in your > sources.list... >

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
rything, pretends there is cooperation where there is none, and merely duplicates the effort of the debian-desktop project, and contributes nothing to the community or society, what's stopping us from officially discouraging Ubuntu's existence? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP &

Re: Bug#351069: ITP: knetworkmanager -- system tray applet for controlling NetworkManager

2006-02-05 Thread Paul Cupis
Enrico Zini wrote: > Do we have the NetworkManager daemon in Debian yet? > > I did "apt-cache search network manager" and "apt-cache search > networkmanager" but could not find it. http://bugs.debian.org/270538 ITP: networkmanager -- desktop network management system Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:26:

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

2006-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 07:40 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, please follow up in -devel to show interest, criticism, laughs > and the like. As maintainer (non-DD) of the following two fonts, I think this is a great idea. > ttf-khmeros - KhmerOS Unicode fonts for the Khmer language of Cambod

Re: I am using GPG and am still learning.

2006-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 February 2006 11:12, Kirchner Ron - rkirch wrote: > I revoked a key, but need to use this key again, is that possible, as I was > sent a new key but can not seem to No way to do that. Once you revoke a key, it's done. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Googl

Re: Fonts packages maintenance team (second) proposal

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:33 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, I hereby propose building a Debian fonts team. I'm interested in participating in this, and would add ttf-khmeros and ttf-mph-2b-damase to the list of group maintained packages. I'm interested in order to communicate with and learn

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Paul Bame
least one package (dpkg) uses its directory name in such a way that when the directory is .../dpkg/ the build fails, while it works when the directory is a versioned one, .../dpkg-1.2.3/. -Paul Bame -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Paul Bame
= > Communication should be done via a package-specific mailing list. The = > maintainer of the package decides who has commit privileges for this = > package and who gets on this package's developers' mailing-list. = = The way we are currently doing it here (at Pixar) is that nobody checks = in a

Possible bug in dpkg-source? Possible fix?

1997-05-30 Thread Paul Serice
t be equivalent to typing at the command prompt the following line: patch -s -t -F 0 -N -p1 u -V never -b ".dpkg-orig" Sure enough, when I do this, I do not end up with files that only have .orig as a suffix instead of the intended .dpkg-orig. Now, I have looked through the

Rick's Cheesy MIDI Plug-In Package

1997-05-30 Thread Paul Serice
I've got packaged a program which provides a midi plugin for Netscape. The name of the program is Rick's Cheesy Midi Plug-In. Does anyone mind? Thanks Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

anyone working on updating mgetty?

1997-06-02 Thread Paul Haggart
Mgetty is quite a few versions behind.. is anyone actively maintaining this package? If not, I have enough free time now to take it. -- Paul Haggart - phaggart at cybertap dot com - Debian Linux - PGP 0xD61313E9 "Is all the world jails and churches?" - Rage Against the Machi

ircd up for grabs

1997-06-05 Thread Paul Haggart
Anyone want the ircd package? Christopher Clameter handed it off to me, but I don't think I even managed to upload a 'new maintainer' version. I've got enough under my belt as it is.. :) -- Paul Haggart - phaggart at cybertap dot com - Debian Linux - PGP 0xD61313E9 &qu

mgetty 1.1.7-1 released

1997-06-10 Thread Paul Haggart
I just uploaded mgetty 1.1.7 to master. It's my first multi-target package, so please let me know if it's broken. It's late, and I might have screwed something up. :) -- Paul Haggart - phaggart at cybertap dot com - Debian Linux - PGP 0xD61313E9 "I'm a firm believ

klogd?!

1997-06-22 Thread Paul Haggart
Anyone else having problems with klogd sucking up all their cpu time? Even with it fully 'nice'd, it still uses 100%. So far, my solution is 'killall klogd' but I'm sure it's a pretty essential program. Any other solutions? -- Paul Haggart - phaggart at c

[klee@mit.edu: Bug#10795: makefiles for nethack are i386-specific]

1997-06-23 Thread Paul Haggart
over to use libc6 (which can't be done at the moment because of the lack of a libc6 xpm library). How does one detect the architecture of the machine being used? -- Paul Haggart - phaggart at cybertap dot com - Debian Linux - PGP 0xD61313E9 "I'll hit you so hard, when you fart

Some new package proposals!

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Seelig
s background and that i'm more or less limited to simply repackage the original upstream sources without touching anything of their code internals. But i don't think this should be necessary anyway. Cheers, P. *8^) - -- Paul Seelig

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Slootman
to what the "<--" key sends, there's no problem. You could make that key send ctrl-e or whatever; as long as the stty value corresponds to that, it will work the way you expect it to. As rxvt's default action is to configure the "<--" key to send whatever is in

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread Paul Seelig
n to make packages with and using RPM! Anybody already working on such a beast? Cheers, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University -

status of bzip

1997-12-11 Thread Paul Slootman
What are the thoughts on this? I'd be willing to package this ('bunzip' perhaps?) bzip2 might then suggest bunzip and conflict with bzip. Paul Slootman -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.or

Re: status of bzip

1997-12-11 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 11 Dec 1997, Paul Slootman wrote: > > As bzip resides in base, that should also change, as it it apparently > not free. Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of bzip when search

Re: status of bzip

1997-12-12 Thread Paul Slootman
termine where bunzip might go. I'll report back here. By replacing bzip with bunzip, and also offering bzip2, we should be able to limit the further use of bzip. Paul Slootman -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.

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