Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ebian and not just about my particular packages and honestly, it bothers me to no end when I see packages which have dozens or hundreds of bugs unanswered because no one is stepping in to fix that. And I think Paul feels the same. I rather prefer to have a package removed than it being full of bu

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
timely manner because upstream doesn't really work anymore can't be justified with the argument that some people think the interface of XEmacs is prettier than the one of GNU emacs. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
as I said, if you're really using emacs for what it's renown >> for, you don't care about the X11 user interface and the looks >> because you use non-windowed mode anyway. > > Come on, John Paul Adrian, how can you assert all these things? Please just call me Adri

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/16/2013 08:37 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > >> Russ claimed that XEmacs has some features that emacs doesn't, however, >> he wasn't able to mention them. > > The one that bothered me the most when I switched to Emacs wa

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/29/2013 09:48 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> s390 and Hurd will not be release architectures for Jessie. > > Two words: THANK. YOU. However, m68k will be. *preparing to run as fast as I can* -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Deve

Re: Bits from ARM porters

2013-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/03/2013 01:40 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I’d really like to get everyone who’s got root on the m68k buildds, > or physical access to it¹, to be a member of the project, though… I second that! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Deb

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
7;m still a bit sad that the split among the ffmpeg people happened. Adrian > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729203 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - gl

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
bly have both. So, the alternatives then are either removing xbmc, mplayer and all packages with dependencies on these or switching back to ffmpeg? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - gl

Re: ITA: microcom

2013-12-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
for this package before, so I suggest you have at least your first version sponsored if you don't mind. I would be very happy to review the package for you and sponsor it if you like. And if there aren't any problems with your packaging, I am very glad to give you upload permissions

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
: /me has not fully read all postings in this thread) if >> mplayer(1) would disappear out of Debian. > > What's the problem with using mplayer2 or mpv? mplayer2 is badly maintained as compared to mplayer, don't know anything about mpv though. Just learned about it as of

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Jonas! On 12/21/2013 01:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > A week ago Reinhard started this thread, explicitly referencing mpv. > You quoted that, sidestepping to your own pet issue: > > Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-12-14 23:53:05) >> On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Rein

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ned upstream but because Debian has decided to take sides with libav because one of the libav developers also happens to be a DD and these upstream projects still prefer ffmpeg over libav and so do other like the PPSSPP emulator, for example, which is extremely popular. Adrian -- .''`. Joh

Re: gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
nes running unstable. It's a bit slow sometimes when starting up, but it's working as advertised. I am running systemd 204 on both machines. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin -

Re: [Prepare mass bug filling][RFC] New lintian tags: privacy-breach

2013-12-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
who want to become one and I run it every time when I am about to upload a package. This additional check makes it even more awesome, thanks a lot for implementing that feature :). Happy Holidays and Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - gl

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-12-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
o there is nothing violating the policy and the information you had was simply incorrect. In any case, please let's stop here and let the committee do their work. We've had enough discussion already. Cheers and Happy Holidays! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz :

Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
way, the 6.0.7 security update and the > 6.0.8 have similar issues…). Please look into this issues and let me > know if you can fix it somehow. Before we can do that, you need to file proper bug reports so that maintainers and developers don't have to search the necessary information to

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
;debian-devel", we don't provide support here. And, secondly, you can't expect people here fixing your computer for free. Nothing indicates so far that your problems are related to any bugs, you are just making assumptions. Again, file a proper and detailed bug report against a particular

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ething. debian-devel is not a users list, it's for the discussions related to the discussion around Debian. > You aren't a bit biased and/or pissed in that last paragraph, are you? No, not at all. I am just trying to explain you what you did wrong in your previous bug reporting. I am

Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ant to help you, but because we can't help you so far. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Also, even if your video card crashes, there are still means of obtaining log files or backtraces through SSH or a serial console. You could hook up your machine with a serial console and have the kernel redirect everything to it. If you're lucky, you will get the necessary backtrace through the s

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
tline in no time and yes, I have experienced that. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
listed 100% translated with my name.) And Canonical still wonders why so many other FOSS projects have reservations against Ubuntu, the company behind and their projects and projects in general. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.

Re: translations.launchpad.net: how to get PO for updating Debian packages?

2014-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/09/2014 03:14 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > and projects in general. products*, sorry. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
914Z.html This is part of Debian's new scheme to keep an always releasable testing. And if no one can be bothered to fix these bugs, the package will automatically removed from testing. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.o

Re: ITA: microcom

2014-01-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/14/2014 02:01 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > In case you missed what I said on irc: I uploaded my source package to > mentors, find it on: Yes, I saw that. I was just too busy yesterday. We had to move a 10-shelf SGI InfiniStorage SAN, my muscles are still sore. Adrian -- .

RFH: sane-backends FTBFS on buildds, but not in pbuilder

2014-01-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
d PPA for these tests [2], but without luck so far. Anyone has a clue what could be wrong? I can't really wrap my head around the fact that it builds fine in a pbuilder environment but not on the actual buildds. Any help is highly appreciated! Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://buildd

Re: RFH: sane-backends FTBFS on buildds, but not in pbuilder

2014-01-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
gt;From where do you see that? The build log for i386 actually states "Generating sane.ps from sane.dvi...". However, I think the buildd is probably disregarding the package due to the architecture set to "all" for libsane-common. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adria

Re: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
eir own opinion and you should respect that. Insulting your fellow Debian users and developers doesn't help your case. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
the original. How should this even work with the init system then? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
What would you write to the description texts of the different choices? It's crazy just to think about it. There are many core components where you cannot be choose between different alternatives and no one bats an eye, yet everyone loses their mind when it comes to init. Adrian -- .&#

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
x27;s just better accepting the choice and move on even if you > don't like the choice. Do we allow users to choose their FireWire stack, WiFi or Audio Driver stack in the kernel? There were several alternative implementations of these, yet we only provide one of each. Adrian -- .'

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
be no DD cares enough for ffmpeg? No, it's because it's not possible to have libav and ffmpeg packaged at the same time due to conflicting so names and the fact that reverse dependencies would have to be taken care of as well. > On 02/11/2014 04:10 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrot

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
on. No further changes are necessary and everything works right out-of-the-box. And if you want to go back to sysvinit, just remove the init line from the kernel command line and uninstall the systemd package. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Dev

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
like init should be carefully chosen and maintained to be able to guarantee a stable environment. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/11/2014 11:03 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 10:27 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> See, I am one of the people involved in the m68k port of Debian. >> Just recently, one of our main contributors decided to jump >> the ship who canno

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/11/2014 12:23 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:27:04AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> And this is very much what I would see in Debian. Use your desktop >> and applications of choice and you will get support, but if you >> want to change

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
using a different platform. But I guess it's pure politics and trying to push their own projects. Adrian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/af16d566-82f2-4f8d-be34-564a6adad...@physik.fu-berlin.de

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 02/11/2014 08:13 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Yes, but we are not talking about hypothetical things. I am also not >> planning my life for the case that I am winning the lottery tomorrow. > &

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ther it's part of PID1 or not. And, as it has been reiterated several times, if you still want a classic syslog, you can simply install and use it. There is nothing in systemd that will keep you from doing so. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
you an out-of-the-box working solution. There is no need to use any external tools. And, again, if you want to continue to use syslog, you still can. > http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/759/both.png :) Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :'

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ardized format. The very same code parses all your Apache log messages and all your Exim log messages. And you can just go ahead and query the journal about error messages conveniently like a database. Not having to write a parser is without doubt easier than having to write one at all. Adrian - --

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ternative window managers here?" Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -BEGIN PGP

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
at is possible or even easier with systemd. I don't see your point. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 000

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/11/2014 04:19 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/11/2014 05:27 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> No, it's absolutely not. You can have the choice for the interior >> design, the paint job, the radio, the type of engine and comfort >> features, but you certainly

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
anies. On the other hand, what companies and distributions and companies actively support Upstart and OpenRC. Don't diminish the achievements by the systemd developers when the competition isn't even remotely on par when it comes to momentum and community and company support. Adrian --

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
y support you. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: hacking your car

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
s in computers. PLease don't try to tell us that hackability and fixability > is bad. No one is keeping you from hacking. You are free to do whatever you want. The point is simply that the ability to hack Debian should not make the life of package maintainers and average end users more d

Re: hacking your car

2014-02-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ard with words. I enjoyed reading that :). Cheers! Adrian * = alternatively, the CEO of that fruit company from Cupertino -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-

Re: OpenRC

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
me (and paultag) go over mentors to support people getting their new packages into Debian or adopting orphaned ones. Mentors is way too often neglected in my opinion. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie U

Re: its developers and its users. [was: something from util-linux]

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
have been answered at least several dozen times. -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUB

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/12/2014 11:28 AM, Oleg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:47:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> systemd is used as the default init system in: >> >> - Fedora >> - Arch Linux >> - Mageia >> - openSUSE >> - SLES (upcoming) &

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/12/2014 11:33 AM, Oleg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:37:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On the other hand, what companies and distributions and companies >> actively support Upstart and OpenRC. > > Is this important? Yes, it is. Large mar

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ons over and over again. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: its developers and its users. [was: something from util-linux]

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
4th: > http://udd.debian.org/sponsorstats.cgi So, I guess I am doing "some" work :). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 02/12/2014 01:04 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/12/2014 03:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Why not stop here with OpenRC and call it day? >> You cannot always win in life :). > > Short version: > > Why don't you just call it a day, and let m

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/12/2014 01:49 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/12/2014 01:27 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate what you and the other >> maintainers are working on. But I think that it's not leading >> anywhere. > > That&#

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/12/2014 03:35 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > To sum up what Adrian wrote, according to him, I'm: > - derogative > - arrogant > - utterly annoying > - hypocrite > - and finally, I wasn't honest before > > Well done... ! Anything else? Telling me to shut up a

Re: Bug#727708: [DONE] Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
anymore since the TC has come an conclusion. I would like to continue with my sponsoring work now. Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF

Re: systemd2init PoC

2014-02-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
e very helpful during the transition. There has been a similar project during a Debian GSoC project, have you looked into that as well? > https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - g

Re: Honestly, f__k systemd and f__k lennart, and f__k the fans of them. Where's linus in all of this?

2014-02-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ails of the members > reasoning) to outright consider 4 for systemd against 4 for the others > as a decision in favour of systemd? The TC acted in compliance with the Policy, so there is nothing wrong with the result. I don't understand why you are questioning it. Adrian -- .''`.

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
es and you have your problem resolved. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/15/2014 08:42 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > If any configuration is required, that is a bug in pulseaudio. According to that logic, half of the software in Debian is broken. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/15/2014 08:59 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: >> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:58:05AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >>> I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio correctly. They >>> have the assumption that sound

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
o. I think the reservations are mutual. If your attention as a user is "I'm too lazy to take a second to look into how PulseAudio actually works and what box I have to check.", you can't expect us on the other side to be happy to help as well. Adrian -- .''`. John

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/15/2014 10:12 PM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > In data sabato 15 febbraio 2014 21:52:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha > scritto: > >> The problem is that many people who complain about PulseAudio issues >> are often prejudiced about it > Well I am now biased against pu

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ion back. > That is true. Keep in mind that the email was written after I had installed > an > IM client, and then after a while my media player had stopped working, and > that had taken me a few hours to pinpoint. Not the most obvious correlation > to > find. That might b

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/16/2014 01:05 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: >> Well, I'm sorry but I would have probably reacted the same. You were not >> reporting a bug, you were just ranting. > > If you are wil

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
that the level isn't zero upon install, seems like a >> sensible thing to do. > > Ubuntu appears to get it right. I haven't seen a fresh Ubuntu installation > that > had broken sound for a very long time now. Exactly my second argument. If Pulse-Audio was actually

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/17/2014 08:44 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > >> So, if your computer has several sounds cards - which is the case when >> you have both a sound card and HDMI audio - how is PulseAudio supposed >> to know which sound card to use? This i

Re: IA64 removal from unstable and experimental

2014-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/17/2014 12:50 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > And ia64 is now gone from unstable and experimental since last Saturday. And isn't it going to become a port like all the other dropped architectures? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Develope

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
help you with your problem, you need to provide something I can work on. Just claiming it doesn't work isn't helping in this situation, I don't have a crystal ball I can consult in this case. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer -

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
reproduce the bug, hence he lowered the severity to prevent this bug to be a show stopper for the release. I do not see anything wrong with that. Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00779.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ontrol on Mentors which I (or Sjoerd) are going to sponsor. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 --

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/17/2014 05:25 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/17/2014 11:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I don't see how I am rewriting things in a wrong way. Do you want to >> argue about the exact meaning of "broken" now? > > Indeed, words are important. F

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
u won't be able to repair your corrupted ZFS filesystem with a Linux live medium in such a situation. I don't understand such arguments, those are strawman arguments in my opinion. Adrian > [1] https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/zfsutils -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glau

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
pletely wrong when you are having so much trouble with Pulse Audio. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/18/2014 12:13 PM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > In data martedì 18 febbraio 2014 12.03.57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha > scritto: >> That works here just fine, just tested it while listening to music >> on Youtube. You really must be doing something completely wrong >>

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
x27;s wrong with the accessibility mechanisms provided in GNOME (screen reader, magnifier)? (Serious question). I had the impression that accessibility works rather well in GNOME and upstream actually puts efforts into making that happen. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz :

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
state of a service? Isn't that approach somewhat unreliable and hacky? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
s perfectly apply to ALSA as well? Having to rely on using a screen reader when trying to debug problems with your sound card sounds like a chicken-and-egg question to me. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
io-utils". But I haven't used it that much to be able to assess whether it provides the features Mario needs. Cheers, Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physi

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
uns a webserver, a login node for 1200 users and a large compute clusters with over 200 nodes and an SGI UV1000 (1024 CPUs, 2 TiB), so we need something which is able to control resources and track processes. Many enterprises and websites run Debian. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/21/2014 03:28 PM, Mario Lang wrote: > No, you have summarized it pretty neatly. > I just don't consider an X11 program a true alternative to a ncurses tool. Did you give pulseaudio-utils a try then? They don't require X. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adri

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
well. Just imagine some other (malicious) process using the same name as well or when you need to control different instances of the very same process. "pidof" might help when you have the full path. But how does that keep you from working on the wrong instance? I have been looking for a sol

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ny compelling reason why I should. With systemd there is one mature solution that does the job well and which is adopted by most other distributions now. I was merely expressing that I think that CGroups are an indispensable if you're planning to use Debian to build modern productive systems w

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
th it and yet some people lose their minds when it doesn't get the same attention as the Linux port. Adrian > [1] http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/speakers/2589.en.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `'

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
://popcon.debian.org/stat/submission.png And I am not complaining that we're not making it a stable release, simply because it's pointless with a documented user base of 9. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `'

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:45:10PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/23/2014 07:32 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > > >> On 21 Feb 2014, at 12:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > >> wrote: > >> > >> I agree and understand that this

Re: Bug#568303: can-utils Debian package

2014-02-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
sked the FTP Masters to have the package set to REJECT in NEW and get into touch with Uwe to coordinate improving the package. > Package is in new queue right now and will be soon available in > unstable repository. It's actually been set to not be reviewed before February 28th to be abl

Re: Bug#568303: can-utils Debian package

2014-02-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
. I don't see a need to pull that conflict into public. I agree. Still, you should post the results here. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berli

Re: Bug#568303: can-utils Debian package

2014-02-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
eue right now and will be soon available in >>> unstable repository. >> >> It's actually been set to not be reviewed before February 28th to be >> able to discuss this matter first. > Well, I remember time when packages were held in new for 2-3 months =) They still are.

Re: Idea for apt-get : getting source code instead getting binaries

2014-03-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
and attention by a dedicated Debian Maintainer which knows the in and outs of Debian, its Policy and its powerful tools. Cheers, Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu

Re: --> APT's New Version <--

2014-04-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
? I've set APT::Color to "true"; but that just gives a different color for the download progress message, the rest is still colorless. Am I missing something? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `'

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
etwork which also allows you to mount ISO files as virtual CDs. In that case, you don't really care about whether it's a CD or DVD. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@ph

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
lly unless you want to lose your sanity. And without a kvm, I'd have to run to the server room each time the hardware crashes hard or similar problems. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Be

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Use FAI or Puppet, problem solved. Setting up a network boot environment allows much quicker installation anyway. For us, installing a machine involves: - unpack the machine - hook it up - add new host to host database - power on and set up machine for network boot - done Takes around 20 minute

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/07/2014 08:58 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , 2014-04-07, > 20:36: >> No need to be rude about that, ok? > > “Oho!” said the pot to the kettle; > “You are dirty and ugly and black!” I wasn't rude in my previous mail, if yes, quote please. --

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
the method was not professional, not him. Don't put thing into my mouth I didn't say. -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006

Changelogs - was: Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2014-04-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
27;t wrap lines after 80 characters (which lintian will complain about), for example (I should file a bug against git-dch, maybe). Thank you! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin

Bug#749579: ITP: virtualjaguar -- Cross-platform Atari Jaguar emulator

2014-05-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz * Package name: virtualjaguar Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : James Hammons * URL : http://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/ * License : GPL-3, Public Domain Programming Lang: C, C++ Description

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