Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:27, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote: > > > >

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
SARS thing, and avian flu, and all that? And I want a pony. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:39, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:49:33PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:02:09AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > > >

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
er than you) actually cares what method such users use, so long as it does not affect us. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
d to all these years. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Canonical's business model

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
re complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." Mightily Oats: "Oh,

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
ta> > etc... I shall upload some of Manoj's pornography immediately. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
ty in his actions, and probably less actual insult. Dishonesty is *not* an equivalent substitute for respect. If you're being nice to somebody even though you don't like them, that doesn't make you a better person, it just makes you a l

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
the distinction between Canonical and any other company is pretty much nothing - except for their continual, offensive PR effort claiming otherwise. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:22:03AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > I don't[sic] the same rant over others Debian related companies Have you ever actually subscribed to any Debian mailing lists? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' :

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
first place. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
? Is it an unecessary fork? Or is it > not contributing back its changes to debian software? I think it's the pretending that pisses people off. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:07:43AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/10/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:22:03AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > I don't[sic] the same rant over others Debian related companies &

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:49:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:41 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > > >

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:56:35PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:07:43AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > On 1/10/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:25:01PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:56:35PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
s also wrong. I don't think it's any real surprise that people dislike this sort of behaviour. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#347617: ITP: itrans -- Converts romanised Indic text to LaTeX, HTML & Postscript

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
; but if it works for you it's obviously > more complicated... > > Regards, Frank The ftp: url at http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/#download works just fine in Konqueror. From the console $ftp ftp.aczoom.com Name (ftp.aczoom.com:andrew): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Password:aczoom.com is also fine. Andrew

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:41:16PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:09:12PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Let's take this one apart and see what it is that pisses people off so > > much. > > I don't intend to participate in this type o

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
etric that complains about any other packages (I've tried two or three times to invent one). Sure, you could just manually exclude those few big offenders, but if you're going to do that then what's th

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:31:40PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/12/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:41:16PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:09:12PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > >

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
ast two ways to accomplish this. If they fail to contribute in a meaningful way, it just means more work for them (in trying to maintain a diverging fork). Hence, that's their problem. It's not really a problem for us. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/L

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
at*, there's ways to derive the metric in an automated fashion. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:11:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Well it's nice in theory. The problem is that you have to set the > > threshold high enough to exempt glibc and dpkg, and when you do that, > > I have not yet found a metric that

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
m part of the "Debian world"? Intuitively, I would not expect any standard to classify any of the current derivatives as 'part of the Debian world'. We have very little interaction with any of them. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' :

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
etter cooperation so that WE can fill the > gap by taking part of their work. Did you really just say "we should cooperate better so that we can do Ubuntu's work for them"? The arrogance of such a statement is only surpass

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
If you can't understand sarcasm, why didn't you read the part for people who can't understand sarcasm? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><-

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:55:14PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > That's simply wrong given the many people who use both and who cares about > > > both. > > > > By this reasoning, Windows is 'part

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:20:40PM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > If you can't understand sarcasm, why didn't you read the part for > > people who can't understand sarcasm? > > I read the part about sarcasm and i partially argee w

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
anything wrong other than holding opinions you don't agree with, and you certainly can't put any evidence behind that 'detrimental to the project' claim, but *you* are pursuing a personal vendetta. Agai

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
like you missed the point of that mail, despite quoting it. What did you think the point was? Alternatively, what do you think is the correct mailing list for contacting (all of) the developers about appropriate use of d-d-a? -- .'

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:24:06PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:51:03PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> >> If you still can't take the hint, I'll be more blunt: this isn't th

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Pollock
Aren't we in a similar situation with other stuff that is in main already? rsync springs to mind. regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-inetd and xinetd

2006-02-13 Thread Andrew Pollock
etc/xinetd.d/ or similar, and then an update-inetd can tweak services at a per-file level. I realise that update-inetd needs to be more flexible than just servicing xinetd and netkit-inetd style configurations though... regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: AT&T Korn Shell

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew Porter
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:19 +0100, Josh Hurst wrote: Does the Debian ksh93 package include libast and libshell? No - dpkg -L ksh /. /bin /bin/ksh93 /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/shcomp /usr/share /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/ksh93.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/shcomp.1.gz

Re: Bug#354803: ITP: stx2any -- A converter from structured plaintext to multiple formats

2006-03-01 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:23, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: > Description : A converter from structured plaintext to multiple > formats What formats? Please be a little more verbose. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: USB-to-UART converter

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Pollock
oduct IDs for your device (determined from the output of "lsusb") and see if you can get an indication of the chipset, and what driver supports it the chipset. Often the solution is to add the vendor and product ID to the driver and rebuild it. I've had USB ethernet adapters that were base

Re: Debian Commercial Support

1997-12-03 Thread Andrew Howell
n this not only for myself but the whole idea in itself it great. When you say developers do you mean the developer of a package would answer mail associated for that package or would it be a free for all among developers? Andrew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

Re: RSync

1998-05-05 Thread Andrew Tridgell
m glad it's useful! I'll be releasing a "anonymous rsync" package soon that you guys might like. I'm settiing up mirrors of samba.anu.edu.au so I thought it was about time I did a secure anonymous rsync daemon (Warren released one a few months back, but the security wasn&#

Re: RSync

1998-05-08 Thread Andrew Tridgell
roving, I just need some time to do it :-) Cheers, Andrew PS: Thanks for all your comments! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NM queue and groups [Was: NEW queue and ftp-master approval]

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
ered to document the problem; they're very different things. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: NM queue and groups [Was: NEW queue and ftp-master approval]

2005-01-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:01:26PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:06:06AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:52:48AM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > > [1] Which is a separate rant, and frankly, I think Debian needs to be > &g

Re: NM queue and groups [Was: NEW queue and ftp-master approval]

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
27;'`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
l in > prerm or postrm --remove, isn't that a release-critical bug? Failing to remove is a grave bug anyway. Policy doesn't really matter. Not every possible bug is written into policy. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ |

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:26:15PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:08:27PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > >> In fact, the parts you have chosen to keep, and respond to, are the far > >> *les

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:41:12PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All the rational discussion has always been about what constitutes > > 'hiding', > > I have also read discussion about what we promise not

Re: Bug#302138: incorrect Description line wrapping with bullet lists

2005-03-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
idea to exclude "o"; I doubt many packages use "o" > as a word by itself at the beginning of a literally-formatted line, but it > might be a word in some foreign language, I know of at least two such languages. Don't include 'o&#x

Re: Minimizing ld dependencies with --as-needed

2005-04-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
x27;'`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Minimizing ld dependencies with --as-needed

2005-04-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:24:23PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Andrew Suffield > > | It's a method of working around bugs. Just fix the bugs > | instead. Update libtool to the latest version and don't -l stuff you > | don't need to -l. > > pkgco

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-04-03 Thread Andrew Pollock
? This is one of the limitations of FAI. One cannot create the NFS root for say Sparc on i386. regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-04-03 Thread Andrew Pollock
about 30% of the time. /Of course/ we build KDE, there's no > point in not doing that. > Why, does it get used on this architecture? (Serious question, I have no idea). regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
ave no idea if FAI can play ball on ia64 But the majority of what I believe to be project-critical machines are on i386, which FAI can help with the receovery of. regards Andrew signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debconf and locale specific characters

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
n multiple hosts. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:32:02AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:38:17PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian >

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Pollock
elease manager and security team should rank higher than the maintainer also. (i.e. if they don't want the overhead of having to support the unsupported for the next $LENGTH_OF_ETCH_RELEASE_PERIOD then they should be able to veto it being in the release of Sarge. regards Andrew --

Bug#303600: ITP: gnome-power-manager -- tool for user configuration of power management policies

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Lau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnome-power-manager Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://gnome-power.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : tool to provid

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

2005-04-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
tall rather interesting for me... regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

2005-04-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
into it. Any given Debian box does a whole bunch of things, and you want to be able to take (using the example) packages.d.o and move it, so if all the infrastructure for packages.d.o was in a package, you'd be laughing. You could then reshuffle services between boxes very easily. regards

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
nd correcte > all stuff in the older versions. (upstream does only support the most > recent version, which will be different about one month after the sarge > release). > This is the sort of stuff suited for volatile, for this very reason. regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
ng all communication between them. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
ften than the manual. I suggest that this is at least partially because it's non-free - certainly that's the reason why you don't see *me* submitting patches to fix it. I'm not working on non-free stuff without getting paid for it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [Fwd: Re: partimage-server]

2005-04-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
ally? AIUI all packages from the same source package migrate to testing together. Partimage-server is built from the partimage source package. This source package has 2 RC bugs. - #210611 tagged woody which should be irrelevant for testing migration - #294953 which will block all of partimage

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
es; don't abuse it. [There are many other, more complicated cases. Consult -legal for consideration of specific examples.] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-08 Thread Andrew Vaughan
ct 2004 12:16:25 +0100 So it seems that the changes in 0.6.4-10 were insufficient to really fix #268248. Thanks Andrew V. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: www.debian.org and users information

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
So the bottom line is people that listen/spreading FUD will probably not > be addressed by this FAQ because they are not interested in reading > documentation in the first place. > However, a single URL to refer to in anti-FUD responses is better than telling people (perhaps open-minded

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
ot have that bug, so it's not important to us. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:12:38AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We do not have that bug, so it's not important to us. > > Still, nobody has said. What filesystems available on Debian have a > better than

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
Your mail was borderline incomprehensible and certainly not worth the effort it would have required for me to read it. Go and eat a dictionary. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http:/

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
read it. He's lucky that I did, and should be grateful for that. I *could* have simply ignored him. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:57:12PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote: > Le Mercredi 18 Mai 2005 15:48, Andrew Suffield a écrit : > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:46:33PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote: > > > I agree that the previous mail was not very easy to read, nor written in > >

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
s. I got bored when /usr/lib got up to 50k files and gave up, concluding that people were being pointlessly whiny about nothing. Even for tiny, trivial binaries, the linkers spend all their time linking and no easily measurable time doing anything else. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Li

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
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Re: [Release Notes] Use Woody's or Sarge's aptitude for upgrades?

2005-05-20 Thread Andrew Donnellan
I agree with Steve. Just add perl to the list. Who the heck would have removed perl anyway? When I have a chance, I'll try upgrading my system and see how it goes. Andrew Donnellan On 5/20/05, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:17:49PM +0200, F

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
her critical nor trivial. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: depending on shared libbfd from binutils-dev

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
s" and have any guarantee of > > getting the correct lib). > > Does make me wonder why we ship libbfd.so and libopcodes.so, instead of > just the static libraries. To reduce the size of the binutils package, iirc. It has about a dozen binaries, all of which need libbfd. --

Re: Dear Adrian Bunk, Please hold off a week or two

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
;s being wrong every time, on a weekly basis (because he has an axe to grind but no actual point) which annoys people. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
too many external factors. Although it may do now that x86-64 is going mainstream; the principal reason it's never worked historically is because the 'fastest' machines have been obscure stuff that gets fucked for bu

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
ys something significant. [Note that trying *modern* software on an old box, and observing how much slower it is, just underlines my point. The comparison here is to the software you would have run on it when the box was new]. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :&#x

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
GPG fingerprint together by the statement, and the > > picture from #1, and with their "government" identity, as that is checked > > by the notary). > > > >   4) I'd sign the key, and send the updated key to the e-mail address > > given, signed by the GPG key wi

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
;goodwill', since most people won't bother to check. This thread will probably become a good example, most of the others did. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:30:40PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Moore's law is cpu speed. > > *TRANSISTORS* on a single die > > <http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm> Bah, yeah, but

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:13:54PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:11, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:03:12AM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > > I wrote this up to someone. I thought I'd share it, and get your > &

Re: remove me from call wave

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew Lau
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:09:25PM -0500, Heyer Family wrote: > Please remove me from call wave. What part of the email address looks like it screams out "we are part of Call Wave"? Please get your facts straight next time. Yours sincerel

Re: Bug#311997: ITP: gaim-latex -- gaim plugin wich translate LaTeX code into image in conversation

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
to the textual portion. Or you could shoehorn images into the textual portion, with uuencode. See X-Face. Note that such systems must traditionally use the most arcane and absurd image format possible. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
ess. The page itself is a good example of why things are the way they are, though. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
there's no advantage to consuming an entire runlevel just to say "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" or "/etc/init.d/networking stop", which is all that you are proposing. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:03:12AM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a > > wrote: > > > - inetd begone! -> xinetd (bett

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:06:45PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 16:25, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:23:33AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > To begin with we can all go back and review: > > > > > >

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:58:52PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Andrew Suffield] > > It's supported just fine if you take backups at the appropriate > > moment. I can't think of any useful way in which it could be more > > supported than that. > >

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:06:55AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Why? What if I prefer to have something from inetd only when neces

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:19:19PM +0200, Remi Vanicat wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >>

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:18:28PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:25:22PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:23:33AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > To begin with we can all go back and review: > > > http:

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:33:05AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > Why on earth would you? It's just more administrative overhead, and > > yet another package you didn't need. > >

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
l file. Trying to do this *will not work*. At the point when the changes are made, the source package HAS ALREADY BEEN BUILT. What happens is that the changes made in the currentx build get included in the *next* source package you build from the same tree, so the source and binary are perpe

Re: Vancouver prpopsal (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
oblem: ... - Here are some proposals for solving it, along with discussion of their merits thus far determined: ... A fait accompli looks like this: - Here is what we're going to do: ... It's not hard to tell the difference. There has, to date, been no 'starting poin

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
x27;s why we need keys in the first place (and all you people waving smtp-tls around, go back and think about how useful that's going to be without signing keys). (I can't even be bothered to start laughing at the idea of encrypting signatures. That's just too silly even for rid

Re: dhcp-client package in sarge

2005-06-12 Thread Andrew Pollock
ings. > FWIW, I've recently become a co-maintainer, and now the Sarge has released, I'm planning on bringing dhcp3 up to date with the latest upstream and having a good bash at all the bugs. regards Andrew signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dhcp-client package in sarge

2005-06-12 Thread Andrew Pollock
because of the size of the udeb. regards Andrew signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dhcp-client package in sarge

2005-06-12 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:23:46PM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:19:03PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > FWIW, I've recently become a co-maintainer, and now the Sarge has released, > > I'm planning on bringing dhcp3 up to date with the latest

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:10:15AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:49:51AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:17:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > What are we setting out to achieve? > > > > > > -

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