Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
it piuparts has been too frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my laziness, would you consider doing continuous (or regular) runs of piuparts on the whole archive, and sending the results to the PTS (probably with a new keyword)? Roland. -- Roland Mas Just a little bit o

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
Holger Levsen, 2009-08-06 14:44:53 +0200 : > Hi Roland, > > On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Roland Mas wrote: >> Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been too >> frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my >> laziness, would yo

New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-20 Thread Roland Mas
. I'd be grateful for any help. The Bazaar branches are currently at [1] and [2], the former having only the SCM changes compared to upstream, the latter having the rest of the Alioth patches too. If you think you can help, please "bzr checkout $url" and poke in gforge/pl

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
currently empty (I didn't even remember how to create a repository). Roland. -- Roland Mas Neko-no me-to, onna-gokoro-to, aki-no-sora. -- Proverbe japonais (« Souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s'y fie. ») -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2009-08-24 14:15:18 +0200 : > For reference, the Darcs plugin is complete (thanks to Sylvain Le > Gall), so it should be usable as a base. The Git plugin is mostly > complete, and should only be missing the parts about the repository > browser and the code to map emai

Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-20 Thread Roland Mas
7;s approximately correct, then aren't these points in contradiction? I think the choice of established formats actually benefits the "smaller distros" since they can pick the one more adapted to their needs. Interesting questions nevertheless :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas [...] ou une dent

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Roland Mas
has stated that Canonical employees are encouraged to do the right thing in relation to Debian. These points cannot be swept under the carpet with handwaving or accusations of slander alone. The timing of #559206 is probably just an unfortunate coincidence, but I find it telling nevertheless. Ro

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread Roland Mas
s > type have you seen on IRC, mailing lists, Usenet? I've seen *TOO MANY*, and > that's why I drafted this DEP in the first place. > > Definitely no, I don't think this is a marginal situation not worth > doing some implementation work. (and I could help making patc

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-07 Thread Roland Mas
DPL candidates intends to work (or get people to work) on the Debian website; I suggest this page could be considered during that endeavour. Roland. -- Roland Mas With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United Stat

Re: apparently-corrupted-elf-binary lintian problems on recent sid and amd64

2007-05-17 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
rks correct. I installed lintian in the chroot and it doesn't return any error. So amd64 etch objdump doesn't seem to be compatible with amd64 sid compiled binaries. Tscho Roland -- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.spinnaker.de/ * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: bug closed by spam for the second times

2008-09-08 Thread Roland Mas
r. It's then ended with a meaningful > paragraph to pass it. > > Any trick to capture the final rendered page before passing it to > the filter for analysis? I don't know. Maybe by extracting the thumbnail-generating code from Chrome (unless it depends on X11) and piping that

Bug#498396: ITP: argyll -- ICC compatible color management system

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: argyll Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Graeme Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.argyllcms.com/ * License : GPLv3 Description : ICC comp

Re: Bug#504758: gforge-plugins-extra ships security issues-prone code copies

2008-11-09 Thread Roland Mas
he lenny release (real-life time constraints abound). I'm therefore soliciting advice and/or help on that problem. Roland. -- Roland Mas A lesson for you all: never fall in love during a total eclipse. -- Senex, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#504758: gforge-plugins-extra ships security issues-prone code copies

2008-11-15 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2008-11-09 14:57:52 +0100 : > The way I see it, there are three ways out: > > - prepare a new upload that doesn't contain this binary package, and > leave users with the task of getting the code from the source > package and installing it by hand; Just for r

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread Roland Mas
updated? I guess it would be useful for > the sake of deciding what to do. Maybe add a lintian/linda test? Maybe add that to Lina (http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/lina/)? Roland. -- Roland Mas Fate always wins... At least, when people stick to the rules. -- in Interesting Times (Terr

Re: Git on Alioth

2007-08-23 Thread Roland Mas
Peter Karlsson, 2007-08-23 09:50:53 +0200 : > Hi! [...] > Any pointers to the obvious documentation links I've managed to > overlook are very welcome. http://wiki.debian.org/AliothGit may be a starting point. Roland. -- Roland Mas LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.co

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Roland Mas
st trolling are entitled to vote. Others aren't. How do we know the difference? The criterion is known as the NM process. It's open to all. Roland. -- Roland Mas Death *was* hereditary. You got it from your ancestors. -- in Hogfather (Terry Pratchett) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Mas
ne box to another and be able to use it right away was precisely the goal of static linking in that case. Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes n'ont qu'un oeil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#447592: RFP: fckeditor -- text/file editor for PHP

2007-10-22 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: fckeditor Version : "recent enough" Upstream Author : Frederico Caldeira Knabben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.fckeditor.net/ * License : GPL/LGPL/MPL Description : text/file editor for PHP Nico Go

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Roland Mas
T) in policy, then agreed on as a release goal (or fix the bugs even if they're not RC :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Indépendant en informatique libre -- Free software freelance http://www.gnurandal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Wrong Architecture for openhackware

2008-01-12 Thread Roland Stigge
quot;. It contains powerpc specific stuff and can only be built on (i.e. for) that architecture. Therefore, it should be "Architecture: powerpc". Workarounds like an error on wrong toolchain architecture are wrong (there is an error anyway if you try to build on !powerpc). Than

Bug#566884: ITP: gnome-color-manager -- Color management integration for the Gnome desktop environment

2010-01-25 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Mas Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnome-color-manager Version : 2.29.2 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL or Web page : http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/ * License : GPL-2, GFDL for the docs Description : Color

Bug#569813: dh-kpatches: Can't fulfill its original purpose anymore (kernel-package dropped --added-patches)

2010-02-14 Thread Roland Stigge
dh-kpatches doesn't look very useful anymore. The package would either need to be dropped or change its purpose somehow. Thanks for considering. bye, Roland -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Roland Mas
cing or complementing the md5sums with something stronger if it helps with security, but removing them altogether… please no. Roland. -- Roland Mas La menace de la baffe pèse plus lourd que la baffe elle-même. -- in Sri Raoul le petit yogi (Gaudelette) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Roland Stigge
e (hyperlatex in this case). From the other bug reports I deduce that gs calls should be extended with "-P- -dSAFER". This should be done in the hyperlatex source package in bin/ps2image, for the record. bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-27 Thread Roland Mas
owser http://localhost:$some-port/";. AJAX to taste, then submit via local or remote SMTP. Roland. -- Roland Mas Plus on en fout, plus y'en a du riz. -- Proverbe chinois. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-23 Thread Roland Mas
t; would be far easier than reimplementing all the functionality yourself. Given the above, I strongly doubt that. Adding PPA-like functionality to FusionForge *might* be easier, since we already have Alioth, but even that would be a significant amount of work, if only to setup the build-daemons for that n

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Roland Mas
n. You can still > have an encrypted swap, you just can't use a random key. Indeed. My current setup is that sda1 is small, unencrypted and holds /boot only. sda2 is the whole rest of the hard disk, and it's mapped to a LUKS device used as a physical volume for LVM, and there are seve

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
ed before actually shutting down the host. Roland. -- Roland Mas Fate always wins... At least, when people stick to the rules. -- in Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-27 Thread Roland Mas
n sid or testing, that's all fine and dandy, and we get a rolling thing. But it's not official, and it's not supported, and it's not “safely used”. If the release team does it (possibly with you as part of it), with sufficient buy-in from the developers, then we have something

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-27 Thread Roland Mas
Raphael Hertzog, 2010-09-27 14:21:12 +0200 : > Hi, > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Roland Mas wrote: >> >> What do you base this on? It does not at all seem clear to me that >> >> rolling would not introduce maintainers who only care about rolling. >> > >>

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-27 Thread Roland Mas
Joey Hess, 2010-09-27 15:26:10 -0400 : > Roland Mas wrote: >> At least for some packages, it's hard enough ensuring a more-or-less >> pleasant experience in a stable release; trying to provide it on a >> moving target is *much* more work, especially if one must su

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-28 Thread Roland Mas
apshots rather than on rolling, but I agree with the general goals, as long as we keep in mind and advertise the difference in expected quality — or in the set of available packages. And if I may join the bikeshedding, let me suggest we rename “testing” to “staging”, and stick with “rolling” for t

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Roland Mas
the details. On the GUI client side, work is happening in Eclipse and probably others. Roland. -- Roland Mas Indépendant en informatique libre -- Free software freelance http://www.gnurandal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: HOWTO: Source a common shell script between DEBIAN/config and DEBIAN/preinst

2011-01-18 Thread Roland Mas
art as a separate file in your source package and inline it in both files of the generated binary. A very ugly implementation of this is in the fusionforge source package, using an ad-hoc tool I called DSF-Helper (short for "Debian SourceForge helper" -- that's how old it is). Roland. --

Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Roland Mas
html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200307/msg00264.html Roland. -- Roland Mas Death *was* hereditary. You got it from your ancestors. -- in Hogfather (Terry Pratchett)

Removal of LaTeX2HTML from main

2003-11-10 Thread Roland Stigge
or reading all this and for considering. bye, Roland [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204684 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200310/msg00383.html (and followups) [3] http://tug.org/pipermail/latex2html/2003-October/thread.html [4] http://www.a

Re: Removal of LaTeX2HTML from main

2003-11-10 Thread Roland Stigge
ugs are the least difficult ones (and they are still a small minority), I will possibly follow your suggestion. Thanks. bye, Roland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#220468: RFA: sourceforge -- Integrated development project framework

2003-11-12 Thread Roland Mas
er as time passes. If anyone is interested in adopting sourceforge, please step forward (and be warned that it's not necessarily an easy package to maintain). Otherwise, I'll probably orphan it and/or request its removal in some near future. Roland.

Source only uploads? -- A summary

2003-11-15 Thread Roland Stigge
loads: Yes" or "Source only uploads: No" in the subject. At the beginning of December, I will post the results, and if there is any doubt, I will disclose the list of names and votes. Thanks. bye, Roland [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200310/msg01226.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is vrms really still a Virtual Richard M. Stallman?

2003-11-17 Thread Roland Stigge
Andrew Lau wrote: > So is vrms now up for a name change before the real RMS decides to sue > us for misrepresenting him! = ) > > vbranden? > vdlegal? > > Nominations are now open. debian-legalint signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is vrms really still a Virtual Richard M. Stallman?

2003-11-18 Thread Roland Stigge
> to date, or whatever else. > > Though that'd be kinda cool too. Feel free to fill the wishlist and send patches. :-) bye, Roland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: perl 5.8.2-2 & mips buildd

2003-11-19 Thread Roland Mas
Domenico Andreoli, 2003-11-19 11:30:17 +0100 : > i see that perl 5.8.2-2 is marked "Not-For-Us" on mips buildd. > > why it is in this state? it blocks the build of a lot of software. I'm currently building it by hand. Roland. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est petit,

Re: Is vrms really still a Virtual Richard M. Stallman?

2003-11-19 Thread Roland Stigge
the one implied by the usage of "legal" in names like "debian-legal" ("rechtlich", "gesetzlich"). bye, Roland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Source only uploads? -- Survey evaluation

2003-12-01 Thread Roland Stigge
ision" isn't just "technical". bye, Roland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Source only uploads? -- Survey evaluation

2003-12-02 Thread Roland Stigge
e package "spass" ;-), I didn't encounter any problems. Wolfgang [1] could reproduce it (see the packages pages when they are up again), but it was disabled some day afterwards. bye, Roland [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200310/msg01226.html signature.

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-05 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
o fix the problem, though a correctly cachesize is still important for performance. Roland

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-07 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Steve Langasek wrote: > Hmm, I'm pretty sure the box is running stable, so this should be a > non-issue (for now). I see; thanks for the clarification. I just wanted to make sure... Roland

/usr/bin/xpp with different functionalty in xpp and iraf

2003-12-10 Thread Roland Stigge
possibly called) or /usr/lib/iraf/xpp (if it's just an iraf-internally used tool). Note that it doesn't seem to be enough if the two packages conflict on each other. Please add further suggestions for the maintainers to consider. Thanks. bye, Roland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Roland Mas
I'll suggest Offler (or Om), Foorgol (I don't like Fate) and, um, some other god coming out of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, preferably whose name starts with an N. Or something like that. Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day off.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2003-12-14 21:30:17 +0100 : [...] > I'll suggest Offler (or Om), Foorgol (I don't like Fate) and, um, > some other god coming out of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, > preferably whose name starts with an N. ...and then I found http://en.wikiped

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Roland Stigge
t work with my BCM5702 interface anyway (#240812), I'm using the bcm5700-source driver from non-free. I guess people running servers and using the advanced features of this driver are doing the same. Feel free to write a personal email to Broadcom asking for the source of their GPLed driver. bye, Roland

Re: RFD: Architecture field being retarded? [was: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?]

2002-08-11 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Andreas Rottmann wrote: > I think in the light of upcoming *BSD ports, the HURD port and the > (hopefully not too distant ;-)) possibility of getting the HURD ported > to other CPU families, we really need improvement here. http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt -

Re: MailMan Security patch for Woody Broken?

2002-08-15 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
right", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> type('foo') >>> type("foo") >>> -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: list of valid distributions in Debian changelog file.

2002-08-15 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make > uploads to? Wouldn't that be unstable, woody-proposed-updates, and experimental? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: ELF extension for starting symbol search from module dependencies

2002-08-22 Thread Roland McGrath
I think you can get the effect you need just by using -Bsymbolic. In your example, build the GTK+ library with -Bsymbolic. If that causes problems because some of the library's references should be resolved in the normal global scope, then confine the code that uses libpng to a wrapper library th

Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

2002-08-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
AP support on upgrades. Now that woody is released, couldn't that dependency be dropped? /me runs Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: OpenLDAP with TLS support

2002-08-28 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hmm.. so diverting is a bad idea, right ? Why? slapd depends on libldap2-tls which will divert libldap2 and install the TLS version as libldap2 instead. -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: old ITP's

2002-09-03 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
tuff. Isn't it possible to rather rename the "new" version of xplot to, say, xtcpplot or something? -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: New maintainer process

2002-11-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
H. S. Teoh wrote: > "Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public FTP-server > and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds So let's hope that somebody mirrored it... I hope a public HTTP-server is alright, too. -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Roland Mas
-- means "duck" in French). - Your idea here. Now is the time to debate and argue. There's no guarantee we'll pick what the crowd wants, but good names will be considered :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas A lesson for you all: never fall in love during a total eclipse. -- Senex, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
g obscure? Service names > should be easy to remember. Think "non-us" or "security" vs. "satie", "people" vs. "gluck", etc. Roland. -- Roland Mas Two elephants fell off a cliff. Boom, boom.

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Sebastian Henschel (2002-11-28 10:08:11 -0500) : >* Added an empty postinst to prevent dh_installdocs from deprecated > linking from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc. That's an ugly hack. Please use DH_COMPAT=4 instead. Roland. -- Roland Mas Food, shelter, source code.

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:37:44 -0400) : > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: >> Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:14:50 -0400) : >> > Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already, >> > why bother naming the service somet

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Colin Watson (2002-11-28 18:40:28 +) : [...] > You need Build-Depends{,-Indep}: debhelper (>= 4.1.0) for this, not > a particular setting of DH_COMPAT. Well, to be frank, I think you need both :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chic

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread Roland Mas
Colin Walters). Could we possibly hope for a merger of those two? I'd very much like to have a pool-aware mini-dinstall... Roland. -- Roland Mas Sauvez une souris, mangez votre chat.

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread Roland Mas
Matt Ryan (2003-04-21 11:03:49 +0100) : > Again, if anyone knows of another client that supports both > requirements I'll give it a go. A good mail client that works on Windows, provides IMAP and obeys standard headers? I suggest Gnus. It does all that, and more. Roland. --

Re: experimental conffile merge for dpkg

2003-04-27 Thread Roland Mas
ryone will want to spend. Maybe make it optional. Roland. -- Roland Mas 'ALL your base? No!! One tiny base continue bravely to resist.' -- in #debian-devel

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-27 Thread Roland Mas
own-good version of each part of the system, putting all that together and hoping the whole system will work is, to say the least, idealistic. Roland. -- Roland Mas Just a little bit of you every day will surely keep the doctors away. -- Just a little bit of you (The Jackson Five)

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-20 Thread Roland Mas
ot be very welcome in the USA. That's only my personal opinion though, and I'm in no way trying to turn anyone from organising a Debconf in the USA or attending it. Roland. -- Roland Mas Fate always wins... At least, when people stick to the rules. -- in Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Re: alioth.debian.org down

2003-05-21 Thread Roland Mas
t have any slave yet.", but since I can't take the appropriate actions to make these slaves happen, that won't be of much help to you. Roland. -- Roland Mas Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it. -- Regalian, in My Hero (Tom Holt)

[Roland Mas ] ITP: elite-el -- A port of the Elite game to Emacs

2001-04-25 Thread Roland Mas
6 CEST 2001 i686 --- End Message --- -- Roland Mas C c ee lm re q j l a l l iè e . -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°1, partie 3/3.

VA Debian banner old

2001-04-25 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
The Debian banner that is shown on VA / SourceForge or whatever pages, still says Debian 2.1. Don't we have something more up to date? http://www2.valinux.com/images/ads/2.gif Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
task-abc, abc, bcd, cde, def Please, NO! This is a pretty ugly hack and there are better ways to do this, e.g. the debfoster aproach. I don't agree at all with you that this is the "generally agreed best idea". Rather the opposite. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
s a dependency, but is not necessary anymore. Do you want to remove it? [Y/n] If a package is set Installed-by: auto and later manually apt-get install'ed, the field would be updated to manual. Just a thought. On apt-get remove also only those package would be checked that are depended on by the

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Roland Mas
eople to switch to UTF-8, there's no need to provide them with an excuse to stay with their own charsets. Roland. -- Roland Mas Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. -- in Small Gods (Terry Pratchett)

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
John Hasler wrote: > The chrony mailing list is a "Yahoo Group" at the moment. This less than > optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for a (free) > home? Sourceforge? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Woody Freeze Plans - Progress Report II

2001-05-07 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
for all ten architectures (six in potato > plus the four you mention here)? http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/testing_outdate.txt (resp. unstable_outdate.txt) shows which packages are out of date and at the end there seem to be some statistics... Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
this wasn't working. I wrote Michael Elkins about it, but never got a reply. With isync 0.5 it actually seems to work. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Roland Mas
and meta-data are not really supported in CVS; - Symlinks are not either; - Repeated merges (when you work on branches) are a PITA. These are real-life problems of CVS, not just theoretical weaknesses. One lives with it (I've been doing so for years), but one dreams of a day when they are

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-11 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Joey Hess wrote: > Still doesn't work for me. What IMAP server are you using? courier-imap-ssl. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Roland Mas
in Debian, instructing the user on how to go > about downloading it. Does something like this make sense? So we'd have some sort of book-get package, like the controversial porn-get (which shares the characteristics you've described)? Roland. -- Roland Mas A lesson for you all

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-04 Thread Roland Mas
hat's probably my own settings. Nope. I get it too, as I should: the message was declaring itself as encoded in ISO-8859-1, and that means the  is a  and not a â. Or, for you non-UTF-8-enabled people: that means the "international currency sign" is a "international curren

Re: Installed postgresql 7.1.3-6 (i386 all source)

2002-01-06 Thread Roland Mas
x27;m not quite sure this is what you meant there. Bug #12166 is related to fdutils, not postgresql. Just my tuppence, of course. Roland. -- Roland Mas Plus on en fout, plus y'en a du riz. -- Proverbe chinois.

Bug#141494: ITP: fuse -- Filesystem in USErspace

2002-04-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
rspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the linux kernel. -- Roland Bauerschmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Refactoring the Debtags web interface

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Mas
like going further, I (with my FusionForge upstream+maintainer and Alioth hats) would be happy to provide support, guidance and testing. Roland. -- Roland Mas Food, shelter, source code. -- Cyclic Software -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Debian has switched to FusionForge (was: "Debian is switching to EGLIBC")

2009-05-07 Thread Roland Mas
o "gforge" way back then (for pretty much the same reason, even -- to go away from a name that becomes associated to proprietary software). Okay, so this is not glibc (which is about a thousand times more popular according to popcon), but it had to be said, I guess :-) Roland. --

Bug#530789: ITP: libicc -- ICC profile I/O library

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Mas Severity: wishlist * Package name: libicc Version : 2.10 (beta) Upstream Author : Graeme W. Gill * URL or Web page : http://www.argyllcms.com/ * License : MIT Description : ICC profile I/O library The icclib is a set of routines

Bug#766211: ITP: fonts-orbitron -- geometric sans-serif typeface intended for display purposes

2014-10-21 Thread Roland Hieber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Hieber * Package name: fonts-orbitron Version : 20110526.13e6a52 Upstream Author : Matt McInerney * URL : https://github.com/theleagueof/orbitron * License : OFL-1.1 Programming Lang: n/a (font) Description

Bug#766324: ITP: relion -- toolkit for 3D reconstructions in cryo-electron microscopy

2014-10-22 Thread Roland Fehrenbacher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Fehrenbacher * Package name: relion Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Sjors H.W. Scheres * URL : http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/relion/index.php/Main_Page * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-09 Thread Roland Mas
oductive" (ie maximize the bandwidth of the human-computer interface) are an afterthought at best. Apparently I don't know much. I just know, from repeated experience, that I stick to the Gnome fallback session because I'm more efficient and productive with it. It may not be m

Re: Anonymous svn does not work any more

2013-06-28 Thread Roland Mas
der Wirt (and DSA) mostly handle the sysadminning part, for which we're all grateful; on the other hand, there's mostly only me maintaining the functional FusionForge-related stuff. I would very much welcome helping hands in addition to, or in place of, complaints. Roland. -- Roland Ma

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Roland Mas
etwork-manager (>= 0.9) Roland. -- Roland Mas The more it stays the same, the less it changes. -- in The Majesty Of Rock (Spinal Tap) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Dealing with embedded javascript libraries

2011-10-23 Thread Roland Mas
ge name. Javascript doesn't have an ABI, but libraries written in that language are still libraries, aren't they? Roland. -- Roland Mas That's one of the good fings about not existin'; they leave you alone most of the time. -- in My Hero (Tom Holt) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-10-27 Thread Roland Mas
ic point. > > We should not mix the minimal requirements that we have and our own > personal ideals in terms of what's needed to modify in sane conditions > the stuff what we are releasing. I thought that the minimal requirements were precisely designed to reflect what's needed to

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-10-27 Thread Roland Mas
Pau Garcia i Quiles, 2011-10-27 11:22:08 +0200 : > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Roland Mas wrote: >>> Requiring the non-minified file to be provided in the same source >>> package is not a very productive use of our time. >> >>  Right.  In the same way

Re: RFC/RFR: dh-exec -- Scripts to help with executable debhelper files

2011-12-14 Thread Roland Mas
andle Debconf (with the #DEBHELPER# magic), but I'm looking for something more generic. Maybe dh-exec could be involved? Roland. -- Roland Mas Homme qui plus rien à dire, citer proverbe chinois. -- Proverbe chinois. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Roland Mas
ot but in a separate host (whether physical host, VM or LXC); and I've seen several cases of one consolidated (and adequately-maintained) database server used remotedy by many applications. Roland. -- Roland Mas 'ALL your base? No!! One tiny base continue bravely to resist.' --

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-17 Thread Roland Mas
ubset with only one file can be eliminated from the rest of the scan, and even if there are only multiple-file subsets, the number of comparisons to be performed at further steps is reduced by at least one. Roland. -- Roland Mas You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish. --

Re: NMU needed for TL2012

2012-03-05 Thread Roland Stigge
g and NMU your packages. Would you please first send a debdiff what changes are necessary, ideally attached to a Debian bug? It's hard to agree to sth. you don't know anything about. Thanks in advance, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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