Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

On Friday 30 March 2007 08.47:53 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > OK, so please take this honest. > >         I don't think I have ever been dishonest about it. Amused, >  perhaps, dishonest, no. Language issue. s/honest/serious/ Admittedly, I'm guessing. cheers -- vbi -- The young lady had an

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

On Sunday 01 April 2007 23:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 01 Apr 2007, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > IIRC signing subkeys are not accepted at package uploads, so maybe > > that's what you were thinking about. > > AFAIK, they are. Policy URLs are not a

Xorg 7.2

Yo! Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent announcement on David Nusinov's blog at . I wish such stuff would be posted to the mailing lists and

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20.51:16 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > man procmailrc On gmail? -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg pgpjhb3v1ODBT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xorg 7.2

On Thursday 19 April 2007 03.15:21 David Nusinow wrote: > We > need to push XCB forward though, and how to deal with the java bug > mentioned in that post isn't clear yet. What I don't quite understand is how a non-free package should block this upgrade. Yes, Java is used by a lot of people and

To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

Please DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN: +++ $ apt-cache policy mysql-server-4.1 mysql-server-4.1: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5.0.32-7etch1 Version table: 5.0.38-3 0 600 http://syydelaervli unstable/main Packages 5.0.38-1 0 700 http://syydelaervli lenny/main Packages 5.0

Re: To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

On Friday 04 May 2007 08:45, sean finney wrote: > hi, > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:52 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > An unfortunate string of events lead me to upgrade a server from sarge > > to etch, using the mysql-server-4.1 package and stupidly assuming that > >

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

On Friday 04 May 2007 20.52:07 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Don't forget the GUI tools: > x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > gnome-09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > k09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 You forgot to make Gürkan and a few others happy: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.app -- vbi

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22.46:30 Kris Deugau wrote: > I've been writing custom utilities and libraries for various systems at > work, and with one particular project recently it's become (more) > important to know exactly which Debian release it's running on (at some > stage or other between versi

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

On Friday 01 June 2007 20.51:27 Kris Deugau wrote: > Instead, we try to make them work > > > as far as their dependencies are met. > > ... which means what, exactly, if my program expects > /usr/lib/apache2/suexec but the system (stock Debian sarge) only has > /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2?  Or vice ve

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

On Monday 04 June 2007 14.20:46 Frank Küster wrote: > Michael Welle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The german term 'Sturmbahn' as in 'Sturmbahnfahrer' describes a trail > > were you have to vanquish some barriers to train your physical > > fitness. [...] > [1] and I'm german, not swiss as my sig

Re: Please all dependency info into your init.d script

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 20.04:38 Russ Allbery wrote: > Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Slapd may require an > > external SQL server if a suitable backend is defined, and I guess that > > a whole slew of other applications have similar problems. > > You should require everything you mi

unarchiving doesn't work?

Yo all! I'd be happy if anybody can have a look at #376910: according to the message from madduck (third from the bottom atm), the bug should be open, but somehow this didn't work. thanks & greetings -- vbi -- Alle schlauen Amerikaner arbeiten bei der NSA, und die dürfen nicht mit Aus

Find complete set of debs

Hi! [please cc: me. Thank you.] How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's very crude and probably buggy) download all .debs (and for bonus points the source pkgs, too) that belong to some .deb that I have (same src package, same version)? cheers -- vbi -- > So do

Re: Find complete set of debs

On Friday 07 September 2007 09.48:36 Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Adrian von Bidder [Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:49:19 +0200]: > > No, all the other .deb packages that come from the same source pkg as > > the one I have. (But usually I only want i386 and all architectures.) > > > >

Re: Find complete set of debs

On Thursday 06 September 2007 19.33:50 Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:45:28 +0200 > > Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's > > very crude and probably buggy) download all .de

Re: Bits from the Security Team

On Friday 19 October 2007 17.52:29 Steve Kemp wrote: > I don't believe that post contains significant new information, > (except that I like pies!), and as such I didn't believe it deserved > massive visibility. That you like pies is important. Seriously: I think exactly this kind of "not r

Bits from the Security Team

Hi everybody, Allow me to point out the message at which is really a Bits from the Security Team. Why is - once again - a message that I'd consider appropriate for d-d, or perhaps even d-d-a (though I admit that the r

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Debian Report

Hi Arthur, On Monday 20 September 2010 11.37:04 Obey Arthur Liu wrote: [GSoC report] Hmm. It would have been nice to hear about what the students did and how far they got in their GSoC projects instead of what they did at DC10. Exactly like David Kalnischkies wrote his summary. (That said, TH

Bug#607043: ITP: jwhoisserver -- Java Whois Server - a small whois server written in java

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian von Bidder -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +++ * Package name: jwhoisserver Version : 3.3.0 or newer Upstream Author : Klaus Zerwes zero-sys.net * URL : http://jwhoisserver.net/ * License : Affero

Re: Bug#566126: ITP: openpgm -- Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol

Hi Steven, On Thursday 13 January 2011 13.18:58 Steven McCoy wrote: > A year later and I have a basic Autoconf/Automake system in trunk for > OpenPGM ready to package for Debian. Nice to see progress, note that I'm not involved in zeromq packaging anymore (except to sponsor the odd upload) be

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00.54:44 Silvio Cesare wrote: > I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux > distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is > automatically generated. Cool! Maybe I have missed a pointer or whatever: how did you compute this s

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

On Friday 04 February 2011 12.47:21 Fernando Lemos wrote: > do, say, an "apt-get upgrade", apt prepares an upgrade "plan" that > uses a given set of packages. If apt wouldn't lock [...] > new plan would have to be created, the user would > have to be asked for confirmation again. Doesn't sound that

Re: The "node" command in Debian

On Monday 07 February 2011 13.54:24 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 1. they can declare a conflict with each other, so that the packaging >system will never let both get installed in the same system. JavaScript and AX.25 sounds like it might be quite a distance in terms of people involve

Re: Qt3 removal rational

On Wednesday 09 February 2011 01.12:57 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Of course, we can simply orphan Qt 3, and hope somebody will step up to > maintain it; we are unconvinced this is a responsible step for us to take > as it would place the maintenance burden of a large package on

Re: Kernel

Heyho! On Tuesday 08 February 2011 22.57:51 Pontus Andersson wrote: > Hi. I like to make a request regarding the Debian Linux kernel. > I think the "tux boot" should be compiled with the Debian logo.. > With tux boot I mean that some distros e.g. Arch and slackware boots with > the logo > while di

Re: Bug#612694: ITP: scanmonitord -- scanner button daemon

Hi, On Thursday 10 February 2011 01.32:12 Jakub Wilk wrote: >Description : scanner button daemon > > Scanmonitord is a daemon which runs device monitors on one or more > devices. [...] I'm curious (and you might want to add it to the description): does this tie in with modern desktop sy

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

On Saturday 26 February 2011 21.44:07 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'd like us to decide on a policy about enable/disable flags in > /etc/default in general. +1 on those who don't like to have them. The init scripts (or whatever) need to * provide a sane default for startup order * allow users to

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

Hi! On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03.38:42 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: > > Hi all, > > [snip] > > > BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. > > This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are > upstream and other distros just not de

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 10.43:44 Ana Guerrero wrote: > Debian is applying as mentoring organization to the Google Summer of Code > (GSoC) this year Dealing with the init scripts / service enable / disable mess. See current d-devel discussion. As much a discussion / social skills project as a

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17.02:11 Marius Vollmer wrote: > - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into > half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a > big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status. You don't want to do this. While prod

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

Yodel again! On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17.02:11 Marius Vollmer wrote: > It shows a speed up between factor six and two in our environment (ext4 > on a slowish flash drive) . I am not sure whether messing with the > fundamentals of dpkg is worth a factor of two in performance To not be all negati

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

Heyho! On Friday 04 March 2011 14.16:34 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Sorry, could you explain how it works in python, when a given binary > package contains stuff for both python 2.6 and 2.7, for example? I'm not involved with Python packages, so somebody correct me please. The way it's done is that

Re: Frage zu eine DEB Paket

Hi, On Wednesday 09 March 2011 02.19:42 linus.kaltenbach wrote: > Hi ich hab ne Frage,wieso haben sie in Ihrem Repo kein OpenBVE drin > http://openbve.trainsimcentral.co.uk/ The answer to "why is X not in Debian" for free software packages is mostly: because nobody has done the work (yet.) I ha

Re: Process to adopt moribund packages?

On Saturday 12 March 2011 14.50:53 Neil Williams wrote: > roy hills wrote: > > I know the current package maintainer can file an RFA, or orphan the > > package, but is there a process for a new maintainer to take the > > package over if the current maintainer doesn't update it but doesn't > > requ

popcon?

Hi, Is master just hopelessly overloaded, or is popcon defunct? I get bounces ('warning: msg not delivered after 24h') from master. cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro pgpwfLEDQFM2a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Urgent

On Friday 28 January 2005 15.49, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 28-Jan-05, 04:30 (CST), Francois Bottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For those not speaking french, this is a nigerian scam... The first I > > have ever received in this language, albeit very poorly written. > > That's sad, because the

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

On Saturday 29 January 2005 18.28, Frank Küster wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, sean finney wrote: > >> why not do something like this in > >> any script that uses gettext: > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> > >> PATH=${PATH}:/usr/share/gettext/scripts > >> . gett

Bug#677230: ITP: adhcp -- DHCP implementation in Ada

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: adhcp Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : codelabs.ch * URL : http://www.codelabs.ch/adhcp/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming

Re: Bug#677230: ITP: adhcp -- DHCP implementation in Ada

Hi, On 06/12/2012 03:45 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > k...@codelabs.ch wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: "Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger" >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> * Package

Re: Bug#677230: ITP: adhcp -- DHCP implementation in Ada

Hi Steve, On 06/12/2012 04:59 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:33:00PM +0200, Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger wrote: [snip] >> If it is the latter: I believe having a simple and robust DHCP >> implementation would be beneficial for the Debian project in general. >

Habilidades Administrativas para Gerentes Desorganizados

01 800 212 0660. Será un placer atenderle! Lic. Adrian Gomez Líder de Proyectos Reenvíe esta invitación a compañeros que les pueda ser de utilidad! ESTE CORREO NO PUEDE SER CONSIDERADO INTRUSIVO YA QUE CUMPLE CON LAS POLÍTICAS ANTISPAM INTERNACIONALES Y LOCALES: Responda este correo con el

Re: Is BTS down?

Heyho! [bts down?] Note that Googlebot or other bots sometimes hit (some of) the bts mirrors quite hard. I repeatedly had the case where using a different bts mirror (via static entry in /etc/hosts) temporarily helped. cheers -- vbi -- Think of it as a steak haché sur un petit pain aux gra

Re: Hay one more, in GNU World

Hi, On Sunday 03 April 2011 11.57:02 Snow Star wrote: > We are developing on good infrastructure Yours and Ubuntu, > We want to develop on Your and Ubuntu GNU / Linux, and also to become > great friends of the GNU world, and so our community becomes stronger. > > Our visions are similar to Yours

Re: Bug#620821: ITP: vpnautoconnect -- Automatically reconnect VPNs created by NetworkManager

On Monday 04 April 2011 14.15:37 barraud wrote: > vpnautoconnect is a daemon that allow you to reconnect automatically > (at startup too) a vpn created with network manager. It can reconnect Can I please have a daemon that monitors if vpnautoconnect works correctly? perhaps vpnautoconnectmonitor

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

On Monday 04 April 2011 18.04:20 Luk Claes wrote: > The most obvious reason to not degrade bash to Priority: important is > obviously that one needs to declare a dependency on bash when it's used > in a package. Which means quite some packages will need to be changed. Do you have any kind of estim

Python 3 as default? (Re: "Python2.6 as default")

Hi, On Tuesday 12 April 2011 01.22:55 Scott Kitterman wrote: > The notion that /usr/bin/python pointing to any python3 version in the > near term is anything other than crazy talk is, well, crazy. Agreed. However, it would be interesting to track which of the bg/major python packages/frameworks

Re: rock around hwclock.sh

On Wednesday 13 April 2011 08.05:23 Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > ii) Possibly, `hwclock.sh stop` should be run more frequently than just > once on shutdown, because it sometimes happens that the system doesn't > shut down correctly. If that happens after some time correction (like > DST), system tim

Bug#929504: ITP: odysseus-web-browser -- A web browser focusing on decentralized discovery

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Lyall Cochrane * Package name: odysseus-web-browser Version : 1.5.17 Upstream Author : Adrian Cochrane * URL : http://odysseus.adrian.geek.nz/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Vala Description : A web

New loong64 porterbox available

et me know. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=shenzhou -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: Bug#278289: ITP: apt-dupdate -- diff-based update of APT's index files

On Monday 25 October 2004 23.47, Eduard Bloch wrote: > - in difference to apt-pupdate, I do not use chains of small diffs, >based on days and managed by the server. Instead, the server provides >the patch for a md5sum which contains the diffs between the version >of the client and the

Re: A localisation success: French po-debconf translations briefly reached a full "virtual" 100%

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 07.41, Christian Perrier wrote: > Again, please make your best for requesting translation updates on > debian-i18n@lists.debian.org when introducing new templates to your > packages or when you change some other internationalised material. Yo! Jujst wondering: hor mu

Re: A localisation success: French po-debconf translations briefly reached a full "virtual" 100%

[please remember Debian list policy: no cc:s unless requested] On Wednesday 27 October 2004 17.54, Christian Perrier wrote: > > But does anything warn me (linda/lintian?) when I update debconf > > templates and/or package descriptions and forget to post to > > debian-i18n? (which would be: it shou

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

On Thursday 28 October 2004 01.53, Joey Hess wrote: > paddy wrote: > > what about ~/Desktop and friends? > > I don't know if Desktop falls under the heading of being a configuration > file or directorty. Not that I much like that directory, but like > Maildir, it seems out of the scope of this FHS

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09.20, Ian Bruce wrote: > Can anyone explain why rsync is no longer considered an appropriate > method for fetching Packages files? IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so while the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to 1

Re: An important lesson

On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Warning: The signature is bad. I guess this was unavoidable in a posting about a security related issue with GnuPG... greetings -- vbi -- Oops pgpsZSnPddRmR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: An important lesson

On Friday 29 October 2004 01.57, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:08 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder > > > > wrote: > > > On Thursday 28 October 2004 16.40, Matthew Garrett wrot

Re: Synching mirrors and clients (was: Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync)

On Thursday 04 November 2004 17.46, Otto Wyss wrote: > Why do you keep on saying this without providing _any_ figures! Who is "you" here? Please pay attention to attribution on mailing list postings - especially if you're starting a new thread with your mail. I posted this statement about cpu

Documentation for upstream software authors

Hi, I've just started http://wiki.debian.net/SoftwarePackaging, intended to collect thoughts of packagers how upstream developers can make the life of a packager easier. I'm sure all packagers have wondered about "brain-dead" upstream developers who have not put much thought into how their sof

Re: Documentation for upstream software authors

[list policy is not to send cc:s - thank you] On Tuesday 09 November 2004 17.00, Frank Küster wrote: > Please do not use language like "brain-dead" in the text of this > page. Right - and you're too late, was already removed. > An other point could be "Use sensible version numbering": added, th

sarge security (was: Re: Release update: please upload to unstable; toolchain; buildds; ...)

On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23.44, Colin Watson wrote: > N+0 days > Official security support for sarge begins Will the start of official security support for sarge be announced widely, to get as much testing as possible? (Like: general debian-announce, press contacts, ...) -- vbi -- Oop

Re: Bug#280900: ITP: tea -- a powerful text editor for GNU/Linux and *BSD

On Friday 12 November 2004 16.16, Christoph Berg wrote: > That leaves us with "text editor" ;-) Debian, the distribution of a hundred window managers and a thousand text editors... -- vbi -- Oops pgptm6UpoamMe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Documentation for upstream software authors

On Sunday 14 November 2004 21.55, Martin Pitt wrote: > Martin Schulze [2004-11-14 20:13 +0100]: [...] Thanks for your comments, I believe I have covered all that now. cheers -- vbi (And: hey, it's a wiki, do it yourself :-) -- Oops pgpMIDf03LZ1t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sarge security (was: Re: Release update: please upload to unstable; toolchain; buildds; ...)

On Saturday 13 November 2004 14.53, Martin Schulze wrote: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23.44, Colin Watson wrote: > > > N+0 days > > > Official security support for sarge begins > > > > Will th

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

On Thursday 02 December 2004 10.36, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:04:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > In Europe, cheap printing led to [...] a > > sudden huge broadening in thought [...] > > > > In China, the result of the very same technology was the exact > > opposite;

Re: charsets in debian/control

On Sunday 05 December 2004 20.11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Any parser that acceps 8bit non-ascii chars > will accept UTF-8 then. What remains is just making the UTF-8 chars > visually correct then. And make sure that, where character strings are modified, the multibyte sequences are counted

Re: charsets in debian/control

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 00.19, Roger Leigh wrote: > I think going to UTF-8 as the default locale charmap for all locales > is a feasable goal for etch, as is recoding everything to UTF-8 (where > it makes sense). Yep. My biggest problem right now is 'lpr ' to a postscript printer (I use cup

Bug#288769: ITP: cedilla -- ascii to postscript renderer

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cedilla Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Juliusz Chroboczek * URL : http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/cedilla/ * License : GPL Description : ascii to postscript renderer with unicode support An ascii t

Bug#298030: ftp.debian.org: remove pdp11-unix-v{5,6,7}: orphaned, non-free

Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed the pdp1Â-unix-v{5,6,7} images - how useful are they really? popcon suggests that only a few people have installed them. Since Kevin now orphaned them and they are non-free, can we get rid of th

Re: Bug#194550: ITP: libemail-mime-encodings-perl -- A unified interfa

On Monday 26 May 2003 22:30, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerfried Fuchs) wrote on 26.05.03 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As for the long descriptions, I really don't see what the use is in an > ITP. The packages will of course have them. A proper long description will help avoid ques

Re: RFC: fewer vim variants

On Sunday 15 June 2003 17:39, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:23:34AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > What about a version _with_ all non-threaded interpreters, but _without_ > > gtk2/kde support? > > That would be console Vim, from either package. The GUI doesn't add so > muc

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:51, Daniel Stone wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: debbackup > Version : 0.1 Version 0.1... How much of it does already work? How much is sid specific and won't work on woody/sarge?

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

On Friday 27 June 2003 01:32, Millis Miller wrote: > Description : Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, > with optional encryption > Also, if gpg is installed, it can digitally sign and encrypt outgoing > emails. Just out of curiosity: inline PGP, or PGP/MIME cheers -- vb

Re: Debconf or not debconf

On Tuesday 01 July 2003 17:12, Julien LEMOINE wrote: > Hello, > > I received a bug report on stunnel package from an user [1] that > complained about the fact that I didn't warning about the new > /etc/default/stunnel file introduced in package (thereis a note in > README.Debian and in change

Re: Bug#199683: ITP: librcs-perl -- Front end to revision control utilities for perl

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 15:45, Matt Hope wrote: > This Perl module provides an object oriented interface to access > Revision Control System (RCS) utilities. Is this the original rcs specifically, or revision control system utilities in general? This is not entirely clear to me from this desc

Re: NEWS.Debian support is here

Thanks a lot, this is great! On Friday 04 July 2003 10:02, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > Is it reasonable to think about some sort of localizzation support for NEWS > file? Changes documented there might be worthy of translation. Not about i18n, really, but please at least specify from

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 13:14, Ignacio García Fernández wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:09:46PM +0200, Lucas Moulin wrote: > > On mar, jui 08 09:36 > > Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > > [...] > > > > > Birthday > > > > > > Debian > > > 10 years > > >100 countries > >

gnupg - old bugs

Yo all! I went through some of the older bug reports of gnupg - I'd like some input whether I should act as suggested, or rather not. All of those bugs are more than 1 year old. Greetings -- vbi http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=101502 "gnupg: gnupg uses wrong key"

Re: gnupg - old bugs

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 22:44, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:23:45PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > I went through some of the older bug reports of gnupg - I'd like some > > input whether I should act as suggested, or

Re: Future releases of Debian

On Thursday 24 July 2003 17:09, Martin Pitt wrote: > Could > someone tell me what is actually wrong with them (apart from not > having a more colorful interface, SCNR)? If it is totally screwed up > under the hood, then a clean redesign is good. If its only a cosmetic > issue, I do not see the poin

Re: unicode

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 14:11, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > Is Debian aims to be unicode compatible system? IANADD - but I guess the answer definitely is yes. But it's not a very urgent task. > If yes, then should I mail a bug report against packages which are not > able to handle unicode

Re: unicode

On Friday 25 July 2003 11:04, David Pashley wrote: > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem > to work out of the box. Fully ACK [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat ~/bin/man PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

Re: unicode

On Friday 25 July 2003 11:10, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 25.07.03 um 10:04:26 schrieb David Pashley: > > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or > > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem > > to work out of the box. > > What's a "dash"?

Re: unicode

On Friday 25 July 2003 12:21, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On Friday 25 July 2003 11:10, Michael Piefel wrote: > > > What's a "dash"? Sorry, but you have to be more

Re: unicode

On Friday 25 July 2003 13:51, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 25.07.03 um 11:43:15 schrieb Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder: > > Hmmm. This is really funny. Look at > > http://fortytwo.ch/~avbidder/man-page.png. > > Good you mention it. File a bug against gnupg. It

Re: unicode

On Friday 25 July 2003 18:57, Colin Watson wrote: > Oh, konsole? No idea, as I don't use KDE. I saw your mentions of font > problems elsewhere in this thread. Have you tried, say, uxterm with a > known-good UTF-8 font? I use > '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-*-iso10646-1' on my work >

Re: Future releases of Debian

On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:08, John Hasler wrote: > No research, but I've had a couple of experiences that tend to confirm it. > It's irrelevant, though, because people who have never used Windows or Mac > are getting scarce. In the industrialized world. But there's 3 billion people who have nev

Re: More mailing from BTS?

On Monday 28 July 2003 22:31, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Currently, BTS sends weekly two mails to debian-devel-announce - one about > WNPP and one about RC bugs. > > I think it will help to improve Debian quality if several more lists will > be "broadcasted" by BTS: [...] > - Packages with more

Re: unicode

On Monday 04 August 2003 19:08, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:27:38PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > see, there's no lucidatypewriter ISO-10646 font, but I don't have all > > > the packages installed. >

Re: About NM and Next Release

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 18:42, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Your conclusion that long DAM wait times leads to slow releases has > little or no basis in fact. You do not need to have completed the NM > process to contribute to Debian. In fact, I believe the whole DAM > process would be more eff

Re: About NM and Next Release

On Friday 08 August 2003 05:23, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Policy changes, voting and the internal discussions all need > membership. Having NMs hang in limbo without due cause is denying them > the right to those. Voting yes. But to me it seems that most issues are discussed on the open list

creating official Contributors (was Re: About NM and Next Release)

Not wanting to start yet another thread, but I not knowing where to tack it on... How about moving from the one-step application (one is non-dd or dd) two a two stage process: introduce the 'Debian Contributor' brand with very easy entry level, and only DC's (older than a month or something lik

Re: About NM and Next Release

[on list, this time. sorry] On Saturday 09 August 2003 04:48, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > You can talk but you can't second a proposal. You somewhat can (or > could) make a proposal since that isn't signed and normaly noone > bothered to check if one was a DD. But thats more of a backdoor than >

Ye olde " and is not working in X" bug

Yo! This was discussed at length (iirc soon after woody release, in one of the 'what should be better in sarge' threads). but without any real solution being presented. I don't know, has there been any progress? Somebody (a DD) failed to reproduce it. I did set up a few Debian machines recentl

Bug#474965: ITP: libxml-feedpp-perl -- Parse/write/merge/edit RSS/RDF/Atom syndication feeds

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently investigating this perl module; I'll package it or close or rename to RFP depending on how co

Bug#559414: general: Strange keyboard problem

Package: general Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Heyho! Quite an annoying bug and no idea where to start looking... On this Atom (AOA 150; kernel, hal, udev, X mostly from sid or at least squeeze), I have now twice (both times after several suspend/wakeup cycles)

Bug#566125: ITP: zeromq -- Lightweight messaging library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: zeromq Version : 2.0~beta2 (right now) Upstream Author : iMartix Corp. * URL : http://www.zeromq.org/ * Li

Bug#566126: ITP: openpgm -- Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Needed for zeromq library: * Package name: openpgm Version : 2.0.something Upstream Author : Have to check this * UR

Re: Smooth Debian Installer Experience

On Saturday 09 October 2004 21.33, Adam Majer wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Scroll up to the top of the country list and you'll see "enter > >information manually". > > Not to nitpick here, but shouldn't options like "None of the above" be > at the end of a list? Generally, the idea of picking s

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

On Monday 11 October 2004 20.24, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 11, Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > why ppp provides its own mechanism of telling programs when the > > interface is coming up or down? Many programs register for the ppp > > mechanism, but not for the network mechanism. Wher

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