World first Patch Technology for penis Enlargement

2005-07-03 Thread Peter
No pills, no pumps - Its the Patch http://www.siratu.com/ss/ Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to s

Tradititional african music

2008-10-22 Thread peter
the traditionel origines. I am looking for traditionel music of the west side of Africa to find out relations with Javaneese music and for North-east African music to find out relations with Thai music. Could you help me? Thank you on forehand regards Peter Paul Seelig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Release upgrade, menu downgrade

2014-04-28 Thread Peter
ou too stop serving these users? I would upgrade to Debian 7 or 8 in the blink of an eye if it offered a full-featured desktop menu. -- Peter pe...@bratton.ca

source for pdftohtml

2015-06-16 Thread peter
Hi, There is no poppler-utils-dev package. https://sources.debian.net/src/pdftohtml/ refers to etch and sarge, which are somewhat outdated. What pdftohtml source is appropriate for jessie? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789

GooString

2015-06-24 Thread peter
GooString is referenced in pdftohtml.cc. What is its purpose or purposes? Thanks,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 http://easthope.ca/peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: popularity-contest: support for XB-Popcon-Reports: no

2022-05-04 Thread Peter
On 04/05/2022 19:43, Russ Allbery wrote: I don't know if it currently does this, but it would be useful for popcon to show counts for public third-party packages that aren't in the archive. See https://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_recent Cheers, Peter

Bug#968495: ITP: c-evo -- empire building game

2020-08-16 Thread Peter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Blackman X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name    : c-evo   Version : 1.2.0   Upstream Author : Jiri Hajda * URL : http://www.c-evo.org/ https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo/ * License : GPL2+   Programming

Bug#969652: ITP: xbrzscale -- Intelligent graphics file upscaling tool

2020-09-06 Thread Peter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Blackman X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: xbrzscale Version : 1.8 Upstream Author : Przemysław Grzywacz Zenju * URL : https://github.com/atheros/xbrzscale https://sourceforge.net/projects

Bug#1073849: ITP: python-imapclient -- easy-to-use Python IMAP client library

2024-06-19 Thread Peter Wienemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Wienemann X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: python-imapclient Version : 3.0.1 Upstream Author : Menno Smits URL : https://github.com/mjs/imapclient License : BSD-3-Clause

Re: Bug#1069256: debian-policy: clarify requirement for use of Static-Built-Using

2024-07-14 Thread Peter B
ttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997948 Regards, Peter

Bug#1078082: ITP: python-test-tunnel -- Write tests for network tunnelling utilities

2024-08-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-test-tunnel Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://devel.ringlet.net

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

2024-09-03 Thread Peter B
about upcoming hardware upgrades and other improvements to address these issues at https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/-/issues. Which particular issue here relates to the planned hardware upgrade? Regards, Peter

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

2024-09-03 Thread Peter Blackman
close it once it is fixed? Agreed. I can't reopen it myself, buy maybe you could as reporter. Perhaps people might provide as comments further insights about the issue. More likely if its open. Regards, Peter

Re: universal zcat ?

2024-09-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination > > of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the > > supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, and zstd. There are also acat in the atool package, and bsdcat in the libarchive-tools package. G

Re: Debian Weekly News Letter RSS Feed

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Hoffmann
Alexander Wirt wrote: Hi guys, I found some time to set up a rss feed for the dwn, try: http://people.debian.org/~formorer/dwn/dwd.rss Great work. But your link has a typo. Try this one: http://people.debian.org/~formorer/dwn/dwn.rss -- Peter Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Charles Fry wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use > > > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package > > > > operates? > > > > > > glastree prov

charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
to the terminal, but one can easily imagine a tool that would convert to a user's local character set when possible. I suggest that the affected source packages[3] be run through the command 'iconv -f ORIGINAL_CHARSET -t utf-8' as soon as convenient. Would people support a mass bug

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Samuelson] > I suggest that the affected source packages[3] be run through the > command 'iconv -f ORIGINAL_CHARSET -t utf-8' as soon as convenient. Ehhh, I see I have already ruined my credibility by pasting the wrong source package list. The real list is much shorter.

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
development *already* have to know a modicum of English - and thus, non-ASCII variations on the Roman alphabet should not confound most of us in the way other writing systems might. In either case, at least the email address will be a clue, and a point of contact. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
nd debian/changelog to be the same - I'd agree. I'll wait for more feedback before doing it, though. One thing I don't wish for is a public flogging for filing an unjustified mass bug. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Collingbourne
managers still do not provide .desktop files. Please bcc me any replies replacing "no.spam" with "doc.ic.ac.uk" as I am not subscribed to the list and do not wish to receive spam. -- Peter

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thaddeus H. Black] > Would Peter permit me a mild dissent? I prefer Latin-1. Dissents are fine. (: The reason to go with UTF-8 is for consistency. Tools that wish to render text onto the screen ought to be able to depend on knowing the encoding that text is in. See below for why I (and m

Re: menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-06 Thread Peter Collingbourne
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:34:45PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:54:12PM +0000, Peter Collingbourne wrote: > > Hi > > > > I notice discussion on bug #241554 regarding a menu-method for .desktop > > files used by KDM/GDM for window manager

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
rect encoding for its LC_CTYPE is no harder than fixing it to make it accept iso-8859-1 and spit out the correct encoding for its LC_CTYPE. And if the app already deals with charset conversions but assumes iso-8859-1 input, then it's trivial to fix it to assume utf-8 input. Peter signatur

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roger Leigh] > I've been using Debian with UTF-8 only locales for over 12 months > now. I now consider it fine for general use, with respect to > terminal and application support. Unlike a couple of years ago, most > things work perfectly. Some apps like 'screen' do not just configure themselv

Re: menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-07 Thread Peter Collingbourne
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:35:45PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:47:16PM +0000, Peter Collingbourne wrote: > > > > This is a good start, now the question is how to integrate this into > > the system. > > > > To tell you the truth I ha

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > Its a Accounting/Ledger system from http://www.sql-ledger.org/ -- apt-get install sql-ledger

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
re about 1/4 right. Or, being charitable, if you really meant "*only* the Consistency part of ACID" when you said "ACID consistency", then you were right but quite misleading. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why does Debian distributed firmware not need to be Depends: upon? [was Re: LCC and blobs]

2005-01-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
, think about how most people use xdvi. Firmware files are not the sort of thing people can create their own versions of. In most cases the format is not documented and there are no free or even publicly available tools for this, and even in cases where it *is* documented, this

Re: Why does Debian distributed firmware not need to be Depends: upon? [was Re: LCC and blobs]

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Samuelson
> >even in cases where it *is* documented, this is not by any > >stretch of the imagination a typical use case. [Peter 'p2' De Schrijver] > That's not true. Firmware can created by anyone and requires only > documentation and a compiler/linker for the

Re: Call for papers embedded track Fosdem 2005 (26-27 feb, Brussels)

2004-12-09 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:04:53PM +0100, Philippe De Swert wrote: > Hello all, Hi, My eye just caught a few small items. For the rest, this is plain good work, Peter > (e.g. reverse engineering, porting too (and adapting of) comm

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:24:25PM -0800, Oliver Kurth wrote: > > Wrong. > > - the orinoco drivers use eth > > - the hostap drivers use wlan > > - madwifi uses ath > > - at76c503 uses wlan > > none of the drivers you mention as not using eth%d are i

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Tollef Fog Heen] > Assume makes an ass of u an' me. Why do people keep circulating this saying? It makes no sense. Normally, assuming only ever has the power to make an ass of the person who did the assuming, i.e. "me", not "u and me". And even then, it's not like you could get very far in lif

Re: Request for Help: apt 0.6

2005-02-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Why? What argument is there against a per-release key, including > > keys for security, testing, unstable, and experimental? It would > > certainly make things a little easier... > > You still need to deal with key revocation and a new k

apt: replace /etc/apt/trusted.gpg with /etc/apt/trusted-keys/

2005-02-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
that could be trivially added should people feel the need. As should be obvious, I'm not a C++ hacker, so let me know what needs cleaning and fixing. It works for me at least :) I think this patch should be applied to apt before it goes into sarge, as it makes some key issues easier to deal

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

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
(which is a > problem on *all* non-i386 platforms). I'd add unaligned data access (broken or at least problematic on most non-i386). Again, though, it's not something s390 or mipsel have special problems with. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > Not from what I know of dist-cc. You just need dist-cc, and nothing > else. dist-cc just offloads the number-crunching, so it uses no data > from the non-master node. AFAIK anyway (which is NOT much on dist-cc > matters). Right. distcc runs the C preprocessor o

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

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
mirrors), that's a problem for rsync/zsync to solve. Of course, that doesn't help with buildd time, which is still a bottleneck in certain cases. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
rsyncs the uncompressed version. No reason it couldn't be made a bit smarter so as to look inside the components of a .deb ar file. This being a fairly interesting use case for zsync, I expect it's already being considered, if not implemented. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#297121: ITP: wmail -- WindowMaker docklet watching your inbox

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Julien Danjou wrote: > * Package name: wmail > Version : 2.0 > Upstream Author : Sven Geisenhainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/70 > * License : Seems specific, but free and probably GPL-compatible > Descri

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390 ... [or have strict arch: control? ]

2005-02-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Goswin von Brederlow] > Which also avoids that packages will be unavailable on every new > architecture debian introduces because the maintainer has to adjust > the Architecture: line. I suppose it'd be nice to be able to use !foo in the Architecture: line for cases where something is known not

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

2005-03-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
ions were involved. Two, even if ALSA drivers were perfect, upgrading a working configuration that uses OSS to a kernel that only provides an ALSA driver for your hardware is just one more avoidable upgrade hurdle. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Blunt Jackson] > I am familiar with the nss issue, although that's not really relevant > to this question. The nss issue, and the related question in the FAQ > is that when statically linking to libc, there are still dynamic > loads required -- but libc handles this for the application. > (Presum

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
aticly and the system libraries dynamically is probably a good plan - if you need anything static at all. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Very informative changelog entry (was: Accepted jwhois 3.2.2-2 (i386 source))

2005-03-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
blems I am having trying to get the next upstream version to work properly. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An idea from a Debian user

2005-03-17 Thread Peter Eckersley
sive effort into it. It might also be easier to implement a new, less crufty, command line shell (and programmatic interface to standard command line tools) from scratch while one was at it. -- Peter Eckersley Department of Computer Science & mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Christopher Crammond] > Suppose you have a repository stuffed full of binary packages, in > this case Debian Packages. If you were unlucky enough to have them > in a rather un-organized fashion, I was just wondering if the package > file itself would provide said information to allow me to write

Re: getting unstable lintian & linda into stable

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Alexander Schmehl] > Curently it's quite easy to run unstables lintian, debootstrap and > pbuilder on system running stable for the other packages. So I don't > see a big problem creating and testing packages on a stable system. It would make more sense to me to run lintian *inside* pbuilder, t

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve Langasek] > python-dev provides an interface that packages can build-depend on > which gives them both /usr/bin/python, and a set of development tools > from the corresponding version of python. This is not analogous to > petsc-dev, which only depends on the versioned -dev package. The on

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Nathanael Nerode] > Put it in the .diff.gz. If it's too large for that to seem > reasonable to you, then you proabably shouldn't put it in your > package. :-) Heh, and how large is that? The combined effect of 'configure' and '**/Makefile.in' can look pretty formidable, yet people exist who c

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Anand Kumria] > - require the developer to generate a new key > - require the developer to have _at least_ N > number of other, existing developers sign > their key > - once the devel

what does Enhances *really* mean?

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Enrico Zini] > My hope is that if more people start to use it, then package managers > can start building features with it. I thought that Enhances is merely the converse of Suggests, and that it was invented for situations where it is problematic or inconvenient to use Suggests directly, as whe

Re: too long to build 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Orfanos] > I hope I post this to the right list. debian-user is probably the right list, actually. > The delay was not due to lots of new modules, it was clear that the > incremental list of compiled components on the screen was moving up > slow. I remember kernel builds where ultra fas

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > Hmm... wasn't the situation around this bug cleared up in another > d-devel thread no more than two or three days ago, and a fix already > commited to CVS? That's what I thought. But the bug is still open. And jvw's reasoning that it is OK for ftp.debian.org to c

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Erinn Clark] > Yet just today you filed a bug (#340403) for documentation to be > included in the package since you were unable to explain dpkg-sig's > strengths. How is it possible for you to claim something is more secure > when you don't understand it well enough to say how it's different? Th

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Goswin von Brederlow] > > Use 2: I have this Ubuntu CD and want to know which debs are from > >debian and which got recompiled > > > > Look for all debs that have a deb signature of the debian archive > > (to be added to dinstall at some point). [Matthew Garrett] > The answer is "

Re: possible freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-11-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Steve Langasek wrote: > * Use Debian's libtool. I took one affected package (kmldonkey) from your list, relibtoolized it as described, and rebuilt it, which failed spectacularly. Then, I took another one (rekall), relibtoolized it, rebuilt it, and that failed with a strikingly similar pattern. k

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steinar H. Gunderson] > All three might eventually be truly broken, but you can bet that MD5 > will be the first to go. If you use SHA-256 today instead of MD5, you > probably buy yourself a few extra years, which you can use to smooth > out the transition to the next hash function when the world

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[George Danchev] > Even using weak hash sum algorythms you can easily make the hash > collider life tremendously difficult by simply having more than one > (ok two should be enough) hash sums generated with _different_ > (weak?) algorythms on the same entity. What you have just defined is a new h

Re: Bug#340624: ITP: sendcard -- web-based virtual greeting card (e-card) software

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Wesley J. Landaker] > As described by the upstream website (the rest of this is a quote): > > What is sendcard? > Sendcard is a multi-database (It currently supports 9 different > databases!) e-card or virtual postcard program written in PHP. Suitable > for large or small sites, it is very easy

Re: Bug#340631: ITP: culmus-fancy -- Type1 Fancy Hebrew Fonts for X11

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Lior Kaplan] > * Package name: culmus-fancy > Description : Type1 Fancy Hebrew Fonts for X11 I understand that the 'culmus' package already exists, and other packages like 'lmodern' don't follow any particular name convention either, but could you consider naming this thing t1-culmus-f

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Florian Weimer] > > It should be replaced with "-". Beyond alphanumerics, only ".", > > "_", "-" are in the POSIX portable filename character set[1], and > > some systems do not allow the character "+" in file names. [Henning Makholm] > However there are already plenty of files with "+" in th

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Anthony Towns] > gnupg comes close to being this, except for two things: it's got too > many dependencies, and it's command line arguments are overly > complex. A "gpgh" variant (like gpgv but for hashing) might work, > though. It doesn't support --check, and "gpg --print-md md5 > /etc/motd" has

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
First of all, let me cast my vote for -doc-XX rather than -XX-doc. It makes much more sense from a sorted package names point of view, which, as others have said, is important in package manager UIs. [Norbert Preining] > texlive-documentation-czechslovak texlive-cs-doc Czech and Slovak are two

Re: Checksumming tool

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Adam Heath] > > File: foo%20bar/hellurei.txt > > Size: 12345 > > MD5: 012345667 > > SHA-256: 0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a > > Mode: 0644 > Checksum: > md5: 0123456789[B > sha-256: 0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a Checksum: md5: 01230123012301230123012301230123 C

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Frank Küster] > > Why do we need two packages containing the "latex" command, for example? > > Why do we need N packages that provide MTA functionality? That's not equivalent. An equivalent question would be more like "why do we need N packages all containing the source code for exim and build

md5sum output format

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Has the tech-ctte decision regarding the output format of md5sum [0] been withdrawn in some form? It seems to be back to the old format: $ md5sum http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2004/06/msg00032.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto C. Sanchez] > Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close > bugs assigned to other packages? This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what about closing an ITP?" signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [tex-live] Re: XyMTeX in TeX live

2005-12-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Hans Hagen] > how about a package (zip or rpm) with 'goodies'; since user are > willing to install other non-free stuff (acrobat reader and such) > they probably also hav eno problems with les-free goodies It's not OK to violate someone's copyright just because users don't mind things which are

Re: Packages-arch-specific (was: Sparc build failure analysis)

2005-12-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russ Allbery] > Maybe the right thing to do would be to work out a way for package > maintainers to provide input to their own P-a-s entries in some sort > of automated fashion? It does seem like a package maintainer is > generally going to know this sort of thing Could be done, but my understa

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
ting M == 0. It doesn't even look good in legacy frontends. And as you say later on a related subject: > Furthermore, fixing the description in this case is trivial. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Burrows] > (1) The first line begins with N >= 2 spaces, > (3) Each subsequent line begins with at least N + 2 spaces. Hm. That brings up the minor point of whether N should ever be anything but (2 * nest_level). I don't feel strongly about that one, though. Also, in the Best P

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Samuelson] > Hm. That brings up the minor point of whether N should ever be > anything but (2 * nest_level). Or if you consider nest_level to be zero-based, (2 + 2 * nest_level). It occurs to me, though, that some might prefer the raw presentation look of (2 + 3 * nest_leve

/run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Hood] > After installation you should have a tmpfs mounted on /run. This has > been created for the use of that handful of packages that need a > place to store run time state files independently of networking. Given the need, and now the reality, of /run, is there any need for a separat

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve Langasek] > Given the reality of /lib, is there any need for a separate /usr/lib? > > The principle is the same: /lib is used only for the minimal system > required for booting, and everything else should go in /usr/lib. > /run should be used only for junk that needs to be stored early in

Re: Debian menu entries(was Re: Debian and the desktop)

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:23:54PM -0800, Eduardo Silva wrote: > As a lurker to debian-devel, I would like to point to > all a deficiency in the current KDE way of naming > menus, and hope that if Debian menu goes this way, it > should improve on it. > > The current way KDE names programs is: > Ty

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Samuelson
erloaded in the FHS to mean libraries, executables and data does not excuse putting, effectively, temporary files there. If anything, /etc/run, since /etc used to be the preferred dumping ground for things which have now moved to /dev/shm (ick) and /run. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Hood] > Any other defenders of /lib/run? Of /run? /etc/run. mtab and resolv.conf and the lvm1 state files and so forth always lived in /etc before, so there's continuity. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Miquel van Smoorenburg] > I tested this and it works fine. It's also a better solution, since > several packages contain directories in /var/run and ofcourse they > expect them to still exist after a reboot. That's a bug, IMO - they should mkdir -p in their init scripts if necessary. It's not l

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2006-01-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Frank Küster] > You are right - I was under the impression that this means "people > who will do maintainer uploads of this package", but in fact it just > says "maintainers" in the Policy. Right, the field is misnamed, it should be "Maintainers:" but that might be slightly confusing, visually.

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2006-01-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brian May] > Is there anyway you can disable this implicit shell, either with ssh > or rsh? I really don't like it. I would rather each parameter be > passed straight to the remote executable via exec without being > parsed by sh first. So you want rsh/ssh to do the job of word splitting? The q

Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
What do you think about this request? It seems reasonable, but I think if this should be supported, there ought to be a general policy (formal or informal) on it because I think many other init scripts will suffer from similar problems. -- Forwarded message -- Subject: Bug#3

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roger Leigh] > In the case of someone who attaches a patch to a bug report, I think > getting a mention in the Debian (or upstream) ChangeLog is > sufficient. Indeed, back in the days when reporting a bug and attaching a patch was all I was willing to spend time doing, I thought a mention in the

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Eisentraut] > What do you think about this request? It seems reasonable, but I > think if this should be supported, there ought to be a general policy > (formal or informal) on it because I think many other init scripts > will suffer from similar problems. This issue was ment

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve Langasek] > That's fine; I'm just saying that there's not much point in telling > people to *not* ship /var/run (or subdirectories thereof) in their > package. Hmm, it should be noted that if you do remove /var/run/foo from your package, you need to make sure the postrm deletes the directo

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Hood] > Would it be useful if the initscript that clears /var/run also > created a directory hierarchy under /var/run? I cannot fathom how telling someone else to do a particular 'mkdir -p' and 'chown' could possibly be simpler than putting the 'mkdir -p' and 'chown' into your init script

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul TBBle Hampson] > Although as Steve Langasek has pointed out, the Sarge->Etch upgrade > will be hard unless the etch key becomes available to Sarge users > who've not touched their system since Sarge r0a... I guess this comes > down to making the etch key available in some kind of Sarge-signe

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Stephan Hermann] > Oh, I never signed an NDA, so I've never seen the code, actually I'm > not interested in the code, because if I have a problem with the > result, I can file bugs against this products, or bug the maintainers > of the code in their present irc channel :) It is clear that you do

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Martin Meredith] > Thing is, in ubuntu - we don't neccesarily have "maintainers" for > packages. > > We use a collaborative process - anyone who had access can modify the > package. Basically - many many people can change a package, which can > be confusing for people. Here's the thing: the Mai

Re: Better communication between projects [Was: ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sami Haahtinen] > like 'dpkg --show-primary-contact ' That way we could even > add a separate field Preferred-Contact: (or something alike) that > could override the maintainer and modifier. "Preferred contact" is *exactly* what the Maintainer field means. [Well, and the co-maintainers ("Uploade

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
(M-F-T set.) [Frans Jessop] > When somebody wants to become a DD he is told ?Go find a package to > maintain, one that you can be the maintainer for.? I see serious > problems with this approach as Debian increases in DD's. I will how > this is in a second. What I think should be emphasized is

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ken Bloom] > $substvar{'Source-Version'}= $fi{"L Version"}; > +#Indep-Version is for supporting binary NMUs when a strict > +#version dependancy is required against an arch independant package > +$substvar{'Indep-Version'}= $fi{"L Version"}; > +#strip out the +bN format binar

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Adam M.] > Instead of doing blind substitutions like it is done currently, it is > possible to separate Arch:all from Arch:any|other|whatever in the > substitution script such that, > > Source-Version => bin NMU version for binaries that are build > Source-Version => 'original' version for Arch:

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread Peter Mathiasson
. > > As pointed out several times, the source package in the ubuntu archive > is NOT different to the source package in the debian archive. The > binary package have been rebuilt in an different environment, which > can caus different dependencies on the resulting binary package. You sai

Re: The klik project and Debian

2006-01-18 Thread Peter Samuelson
e. We've got enough to worry about just making packages suitable for Debian - why go out of our way to help people who refuse to use Debian? Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Bushnell BSG] > Since you don't do bin-NMU's, you could simply alter the version of > every package to add an "ubuntu" tag, and then be done with it, > right? That would work well and be very easy to implement. You are so hung up on this point, it's not even funny. Do you really think u

Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Jérôme Warnier] > After the last update of OOo in Sid (aka Unstable), I wonder if it is > generally considered acceptable to keep obsolete packages in > experimental (currently, Sid has 2.0.1-2 and Experimental 2.0.1-1). Hmmm, I thought experimental was garbage-collected automatically in this ca

Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-20 Thread Peter Samuelson
[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... t=$(tempfile); awk > $t '/^Package:/{print "^" $2 "$"}' \ /var/lib/apt/li

Re: statement from one of the klik project members [was: The klik project and Debian]

2006-01-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > /tmp/app/1/image /tmp/app/1 cramfs,iso9660 user,noauto,ro,loop,exec 0 0 > > > > Doesn't this introduce a local root exploit? A user can easily write > > their own /tmp/app/1/image file which contains, say, a setuid root bash > > executable. >

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[David Nusinow] > As far as I understand it, this is simply grandfathered in. I'm not > that up on the FHS details though, so I may be wrong. Remember also > that this isn't X11R6 any more, but X11R7. Branden toyed with the idea of setting ProjectRoot to /usr when packaging XFree86 4.0. I was so

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