El Tue, 24 de Dec 2013 a las 2:03 AM, Jakub Wilk
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* Bastien ROUCARIES , 2013-12-23, 16:23:
I have just implemented lintian-privacy-breach tags [1,2]
I don't think “privacy breach” is an appropriate expression to
use here. Can we find a less judgmental and more technical term?
Per
There is a chance.
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Kathleen Spence
wrote:
Hello,
Just wondering if there was any chance that pulseaudio could be
removed from trunk (any debain dist) and just go back to basic known
working good alsa?
Thank you!
Debian User
Matt,
Yes, it is possible, but only the contributions of the fork would be
GPLv3 only, the original GPLv2+ code would still be just that.
Nevertheless, the final product would be GPLv3 only.
Cameron Norman
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Matt Zagrabelny
wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8
Once upon a time Wesley W. Terpstra said...
> Good evening!
>
> I'm developing an error-correcting code library which works on a lot of data
> at once. Since the API is quite simple and the cost of process creation
> relatively insignificant, I would like to provide a command-line API.
>
> ...
>
uck for anything remotely taxing on the CPU.
Cameron.
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rename my devices to sensible names based
on what's on the other end (e.g. eth and wifi on my laptop).
Unfortunately, giving interfaces odd names confuses some software -
off the top of my head, iptraf is one of these.
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Once upon a time Ron Johnson said...
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:43 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > One thing I do know is that traditional apps like df (and anything
> > > that uses stat(), I guess) don't know about /.dev, and so return
> > > false inf
ce a local root exploit? A user can easily write
their own /tmp/app/1/image file which contains, say, a setuid root bash
executable.
Cameron.
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many machines.
What kind of userland support do you see as being missing? I use the
hibernate package for ACPI sleep and it works pretty well. Most of
the problems that I've seen with ACPI have been kernel or BIOS issues
(e.g. the screen not being switched on when resuming unless you give
f
testing with --dry-run and backing out previous patches if one of them
fails.
Cameron.
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spit out as many worrying acpi warnings.
I'm about to write a hibernate scriptlet for doing this soon.
Cheers,
Cameron.
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individually to determine whether the
licence was acceptable.
Cameron.
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Once upon a time GOMBAS Gabor said...
>
> $ df -h
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 99M 75M 19M 80% /
> [...]
>
> $ du -sh /etc/gconf
> 26M /etc/gconf
>
> That's 1/3 of my root fs. It's damn too much.
I discovered this a while ago and lea
-volume tar archive for extra perversity).
Cameron.
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(although not any Mozilla ones) and ship a
quite different default configuration for many more (including
Thunderbird and I think Firefox too), and would like to make sure
we're on the right side of Mozilla's trademark licence :-)
Cheers,
Cameron.
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e is the correct path and
plan to file the bugs in the next few days.
I just uploaded a new version that fixes this problem.
Thanks,
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I am still unable to contact Thorsten Sauter. Has anyone heard anything
from him in the last 4 months? Anything at all?
Cameron Dale said the following on 11/04/2006 4:53 PM:
> I've been trying to reach Thorsten Sauter for some time now. I've sent
> him a couple emails over th
gh they eventually did):
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/06/msg00105.html
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Once upon a time Steve Langasek said...
>
> There is nothing in the -source package that actually requires (or should
> recommend) the -utils package. A much better fix here is for people to get
> over the fact that dpkg isn't apt.
Apologies for continuing this but having read through the thread
Once upon a time Scott James Remnant said...
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:15 +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
>
> > dpkg first removes foo-modules_1.0
> > dpkg then check dependencies of foo-modules_2.0
> > dpkg complains that foo-utils is not installed and aborts the
Once upon a time Scott James Remnant said...
>
> Actually, this vastly depends on the package, but yes, in general an
> unpacked-but-not-configured package is not yet usable. And nor should
> it be.
Then wouldn't it make sense to avoid this state is possible? An unusable
package is obviously of
of the iceberg.
For anyone running stable, the Packages.gz files rarely change and so
apt-get update will not normally bother to download them again.
Cameron.
n apt doesn't, but it seems to.
Cameron.
elines to them seems a little odd.
Cameron.
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:20:02PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
|
| When the program is run, it gets put in read/write memory.
|
So embedded firmware running from an EPROM doesn't count as a program
then?
CP.
principles.
The anarchism package is an excellent example of a package in Debian
main that, although DFSG-free, is neither software nor software
documentation.
Cameron.
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:36:48PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| Well, once you folks have come up with a definition of "software", you
| be sure and let us know.
How about "anything included in Debian"? That way we won't be in danger
of violating the Social Contract #1.
Cameron.
Perl programs.
I would argue that while Perl is Turing complete, HTML is not, thus
anarchism is not software.
Cameron.
rs per
installation - which also seems rather unlikely. :)
Cameron.
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:12:13PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
| actually they are million users :)
One mellion users!!!
CP.
) with the
fans removed. I removed the fan on the Geforce 4 to keep the noise
level down and it too seems to work fine.
Cameron.
support SMTP and only
/usr/bin/sendmail for reasons of minimalism and simplicity.
Cameron.
come to configure ssmtp or exim to forward to a smarthost.
This has the additional advantage that there's only /one/ point where
the outgoing SMTP server needs to be specified, and if it changes later,
there is only one program that needs to be reconfigured.
Cameron.
en in a couple of months' time, it seems unlikely that KDE 3.2 will
be able to make it in. *grumble* :(
Cameron.
This is what systems like grsecurity or SE Linux are trying
to do. Which is not to say that less-buggy software is a bad goal; but
the reality is that programmers are human, and /do/ make mistakes.
Cameron.
to write non-free software or a generalised software installer (like
dpkg) which can potentially be used to install non-free software.
Cameron.
ystems, it does nothing to help spam that
comes from e.g. Debian mailing lists.
Cameron.
[1] Where the definition of "legitimate email" may vary from person to
person.
option? Not sure which
of the three is best, though.
Cameron.
RCH with something more sane (e.g. sid
and i386)?
Cameron.
However, I don't see the need to ban DDs from
the GSoC, as my previous packaging and Debian experience was essential
to completing my project.
Cameron
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Your Debian queue daemon
Is that a bug, or were my assumptions wrong? FWIW, I think using real
(not pseudo) mail headers is a mildly better solution, but I'm happy
either way.
Thanks,
Cameron
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ATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or
> T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /usr/share/php/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 336
Please use reportbug to file a bug report for this issue so I can try
to help you with it.
Thanks,
Cameron
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dify my subversion repository so
upstream is a single branch, with the different versions being tags
instead (and why doesn't svn-buildpackage use this form)?
Any help you can offer is appreciated,
Cameron
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On 5/31/07, Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm thinking of converting a subversion repository I use for one of my
debian packages to git (preferably with all history intact).
[snip]
No replies, so I brute-forced it. It's not pretty, but it works. I
posted it on
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: debtorrent
Version : 0.2.0
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Programming
ckage manager is (adept) synaptic, I've tried them out but ended up
going back to aptitude, and through the long process of marking
everything as automatic and then picking and choosing what I want to
install (which is actually easier on ubuntu thanks to the umbrella
packages they use).
Cameron
t
seem to be available in projectb, but that it would be nice to have.
The suite_architectures table is incomplete (only listing unstable,
experimental, sarge-r0, and etch-m68k). And there also isn't a way to
determine the codenames from the suite names without looking in the
Release files.
T
ll of "regular", i.e.
not advanced, users) and found these results for Yesterday, which I
hope is recent enough. :)
threads mentioning apt-get: 146
threads mentioning aptitude: 27
posts mentioning apt-get: 214
posts mentioning aptitude: 34
I don't think there's any doubt from th
oad
was in 2005).
Thanks,
Cameron
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can't be put into /usr/share.
Cameron.
ard that name mentioned before on this mailing list, in
conjunction with phrases like "dick-head" and "will never be allowed
into Debian." Presumably there's a good reason for this animosity
towards him; would someone mind enlightening me as to why?
Cameron.
automatically retry with gcc
| -O0 ?
This sounds like something that is best done with human intervention,
not by an automated process which could potentially break things further
when it screws around with compiler options. Are gcc optimiser bugs
really that common?
Cameron.
have broken up already :-)
Cameron.
ure it
does.)
There's no way to /stop/ someone from sending you data, whether you want
it or not.
Cameron.
roper support is only in kernel
versions >= 2.4.21.)
Incidentally, wasn't there a woody 3.0r2 planned to be released a couple
of months ago with a newer kernel version and miscellaneous security
fixes?
Cameron.
one or the other in the stock Debian
kernel.
("Without breaking things" is the tricky bit here, of course.)
Cameron.
window if it
can; if it can't (e.g. the second instance of Mozilla is on a different
X display) it will try to con you into creating a new profile.
Openoffice displays even weirder behaviour wrt to multiple instances,
actually ... perhaps I should file a bug on that one.
Cameron.
ke sweeping generalizations all the
| time.
Yes. Everyone knows that all generalisations are false anyway :-)
Cameron.
me by continuing this
thread? Ingo has already stated that he won't continue arguing with
you, and I don't intend to continue posting in this thread after this
message either.
Cameron.
e is spent
in user space, not kernel space, as your own tests show.
Cameron.
des another data point in favour of
optimisation making a difference in bzip2. Once again utterly
irrelevant for benchmarking different kernels. If one wanted to compare
the effects of optimising the kernel, a valid benchmark would be one
which actually spends most of its time executing kernel co
what he wrote, though.
| And answered to a mail discussing KERNEL ISSUES. If you like to talk
| about general benefits of code optimisation, start a new thread.
Fair enough.
| > Michael and Cameron: No-one has shown anything remotely interesting
| > here about the effects of optimisating k
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
| Please, please, no! /dev/urandom does not reliably deliver
| pseudo-random data. There is a chance that fresh entropy will arrive
| in the middle of the computation and mess up with the pseudoness.
No, I already covered that in
unds 'wrong'. The
hyphen, especially, looks out of place. "Unarchiver" is what I'd use
if I had to coin a word for it, but I don't believe that's a common
English word either.
I'd suggest something along the lines of "tool for extracting ACE
archives" instead.
Cheers,
Cameron.
ython code.
| Steve, who would not object to the removal of character 9 from the ASCII
| set, even without the existence of Python.
:-)
Cameron.
-character indentation by pressing the tab key
and outdentation by pressing backspace, but the file will contain spaces
instead of tabs. I would be surprised if other editors did not have a
similar feature.
Personally I prefer 8-space indentation, though.
Cameron.
significant whitespace thing, even if the idea makes them a bit
squeamish at first.
Cameron.
don't speak Perl. :-) Python's
parser wouldn't object to that, BTW, because it's all one expression -
the following, for instance, is legal (although ugly) Python:
if (
1 + 1
==
2
):
print "hi"
Cameron.
PS. I&
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:19:32AM +, Darren Salt wrote:
| I find myself wondering if Duff's Device is implementable in Python...
I don't think it is. Python doesn't have a switch/case equivalent. It'd
have to be done with a bunch of if's or something.
Cameron.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:58:54PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
| Cameron Patrick wrote:
| >I don't think it is. Python doesn't have a switch/case equivalent. It'd
| >have to be done with a bunch of if's or something.
|
| Well, depends. Do you consider its dictionary
(This is waaay off-topic but what the heck, I'll keep going...)
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:08:51AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
| Cameron Patrick wrote:
| >Nope, no fall-through in that one, so it doesn't help. It /is/ nifty
| >though :-)
|
| Uh, there was a fall through there.
| >
| > I am not sure about this. I think this is true only for the devices with
| > Intersil radio.
|
| Does this company even deserve our support?
Possibly not, but I think a case could be made that Debian's users do.
(You know, that other priority, the one that isn't Free Software...)
Cameron.
t imposed.
I believe that when Zenaan was saying was the copyright laws /are/ a
government-supported monopoly on distributing a particular creative work
(in this case, a piece of proprietary software).
Cameron.
nus
under a lot of categories, presenting applications with .desktop entries
separately from those which only have Debian menu entries.)
Cameron.
That, also, should be simple,
because it's already bleedin' done.
In fact, it looks like it's been implemented twice, once for KDE and
once for GNOME. (Is there any reason why the .desktop files aren't being
shared between the two DE's? It also appears to me that KDE is doing a
marginally better job of integrating the Debian menu into the KDE menu.)
Cheers,
Cameron.
o supports merging menus from multiple sources, which might make it
easier to incorporate Debian menu entries into it. However, I don't
believe it's actually been implemented by anyone yet, and I'm not making
any claims about how useful it might be practice.
Cheers,
Cameron.
[1
avour of one system
or the other. Given that extra features should be added to Debian's
menus anyway, and that no matter what happens there's going to be a need
to convert between .desktops and Debian menu entries, I can't see why it
should really matter which format is preferred.
Cameron.
here is no reason for Debian to do something merely because Red Hat
does. Trying to make Debian compliant with freedesktop's standards by
dropping everything that doesn't support them is a sub-optimal approach,
and is unlikely to be taken seriously by many people.
Cameron.
ss
citizen compared to the {GNOME,KDE}-specific menu. *sigh*
| > There is no reason for Debian to do something merely because Red Hat
| > does.
|
| Why do you assume that I want Debian to follow RedHat choice?
[...]
| Nobody proposed that. I do not see the point in arguing about a
| non-existant proposal.
In that case, why did you mention what Red Hat were doing?
Cheers,
Cameron.
ktop.org site are:
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.8.html
Cameron.
o get it mostly, if not entirely,
automated. q.v. what KDE and Gnome already do in their menu methods.
Cameron.
t the Categories definitions for .desktop files? I
don't believe that mapping them onto the section field of our menu
system (and vice versa) without losing any information would be trivial.
Cameron.
nobody anything'.
I suspect that those who would rather see menu entries in their native
language - and whose native language is not English - would consider the
larger menu data files necessary to handle i18n to be a real advantage.
Cameron.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:12:58AM +0100, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
| Cameron Patrick wrote:
|
| > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:57:29PM +, Henning Makholm wrote:
| >
| > | > Because you gain *nothing*
| > |
| > | Are you claiming that everyone who says that .des
/usr/share
| applications and GNOME uses the same directory.
Woo, good to hear it! I stand corrected, then. :-)
Cameron.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:19:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| Perhaps we should use the names of famous atheists and other critics of
| religion.
Bertrand Russell: "The Christian religion has been and still is is the
chief enemy of moral progress in the world."
Cameron.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote:
| This is a fundamental change in X architecture, which has been
| underway for over 18 months.
And it's strongly associated with freedesktop.org, which I'm sure will
endear Andrew to the new method even more :-)
Cameron.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:07:56AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
| Only GNOME applications should be in the GNOME Applications menu.
Why?!
Cameron.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:59:46AM +, Will Newton wrote:
| (there are at least two ways of pronouncing Debian).
... only one of which is correct :-)
Cameron.
/ch-basic_defs.en.html#s-pronunciation
Cameron.
to shun demons as codenames for Debian operating systems, though.
Cameron.
ngst others) is quite
obviously not concerned about the subset of Christians that is likely to
get upset over the suggested names.
Cameron.
;
| > ... and in some cases justified.
|
| Who are you to pass judgement on others?
I am Cameron :-) Seriously, judging people and their beliefs and
actions - and acting on these judgments, discriminating against people
because of them - is something that everyone does, and I don't see i
s like
| this...
|
| If I say "I hate Adolf Hitler and his cabinet", is that practising hate
| speech?
No, but if you say you hate Jews, then many would claim you are. If you
wanted to be cynical, you could point out which side won the second
world war...
Cameron.
Once upon a time martin f krafft said...
>
> The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves
> /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm
> as alternatives symlink in addition to x-terminal-emulator. Then,
> progressively, the other x-terminal-emulator p
-sized chunks, download the
debs from a mirror somewhere, then fetch the installer and whatever
else is necessary to make the CD usable. It'd be like jigdo, but
taken one stage further.
Cameron.
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:23:39PM -0700, Nathan Paul Simons wrote:
|
| [...] Most sound cards these days don't even *come* with wavetable
| synthesis, [...]
|
Er, the SBLive and its Creative brethren do, don't they? At least, I'm
presuming that's what "sound fonts" are for. Has it been remove
database in the first place?
|
So that most of the time, you don't have to hit enter mindlessly to
confirm the answers to questions that you've already answered when
upgrading?
Cameron.
e Via C3? That was introduced not too long ago, runs
moderately quickly (~1GHz) with low power consumption, but IIRC doesn't
support the i686 instruction set.
Cameron.
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