Re: FTBFS: architecture all packages

2003-08-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Goswin von Brederlow | There is also another reason, not mentioned before, for source only | uploads. It takes way less bandwith to upload a diff.gz+dsc file than | to upload a big binary package. Bandwidth has costs for buildds as well. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Teófilo Ruiz Suárez | What about Apache? Should we change the apache2 package to apache? No. (Wearing apache & apache2 maintainer hat.) -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: FTBFS: architecture all packages

2003-08-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
connection to the internet than my box, for instance. It has a Gbit link, so it's limited by the puny 100Mbit card I have in the box and scp not being able to saturate that link. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly,

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joe Drew | On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 01:42, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Teófilo Ruiz Suárez | > | > | What about Apache? Should we change the apache2 package to apache? | > | > No. (Wearing apache & apache2 maintainer hat.) | | What are the criteria for the apache package

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-08-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
to debian-devel-announce instead of just debian-devel? -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Roland Mas | Tollef Fog Heen (2003-08-23 13:26:20 +0200) : [...] | > making pigs fly. | | 1. All you need for that is thrust (see Ginger, Mac and Rocky); | 2. Debian prides itself on its web of thrust; | 3. therefore the web servers in Debian do provide enough thrust. | | ...or a

Re: Translations sleeping in the BTS

2003-08-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ven though the only thing you did was to change a translation), then it's your responsibility to fix that breakage. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: where to install additional kernel modules?

2003-09-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Christoph Hellwig | > No need to Cc me, BTW. | | Then setup your headers properly.. What's wrong with his headers? The default on Debian mailing lists is to not Cc posters. Please read the mailing list docs on lists.d.o if you haven't already. -- To

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-09-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
(or a small number of them, if that makes sense) and just have the frontend enable/disable the rules. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-09-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Please file a wishlist bug against mailman to change the default for sending a response when holding a message. (The feature is there, it's optional, but after seeing your argument, I agree that the default should be changed.)

Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
h $0 "$@" fi hoping that bash is somewhere in the path. | -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: Bug#212988: ITP: turck-mmcache -- Precompiler and cache to improve performance of PHP scripts

2003-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
etval, 1, params TSRMLS_CC) == SUCCESS && retval.type == IS_STRING && retval.value.str.len == 32) { + +mmcache_make_cache_dir_if_missing(); strncpy(s, MMCG(cache_dir), MAXPATHLEN-1); strlcat(s, prefix, MAXPATH

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-10-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
and that's that. Except if you want to use EVMS or similar on /, in which case you need the evms userspace tools on the initrd. (Using 2.6, that is, in 2.4 the discovery is done in kernel-space.) -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UN

Re: cpufrequtils init script in rcS.d

2005-07-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mattia Dongili | - setting the CPUFreq policy must be done as early as possible in the | boot process (IMHO) Why? This looks just like an opinion without any rationale. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it&#x

Re: cpufrequtils init script in rcS.d

2005-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
://www.planetarytramp.net/bootchart/bootchart-20041210-1934.png, you will see that it actually is CPU-bound in some places and I/O-bound in other. S20 runs after about twenty seconds. I really don't think having your CPU run at full speed for twenty seconds is going to matter much for

Re: about to remove libdb4.1

2005-08-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
, this is just about the same response I got from upstream when I asked them about the issue. The solution is of course to get rid of libdb and use tdb or something equivalent. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's j

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-08-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
lanet.debian does not mean you want all your postings to end up in a public mail archive somewhere. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, i

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
PROTECTED] ~/svn/trunk > LANG=C svn st svn: Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8': svn: F?\248rste informasjonsskriv.doc -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 19, 2005

2005-08-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
lines long. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ing gdm (or the boot will fail), if it uses Xdmcp for connecting to a terminal server, it will need networking to be up (and so on). -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just p

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Peter Samuelson | [Tollef Fog Heen] | > I just stumbled across one issue: it doesn't handle the case where | > you change your encoding without checking out the repository again: | > | > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/svn/trunk > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 svn st | > svn: Valid

Re: invalid-arch-string-in-source-relation amd64

2005-08-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
suitable for general development. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just pic

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ust rebuild the archive on a fast architecture: A single AMD64 system can rebuild the archive in a couple of days, but few other architectures can. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just p

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Olaf van der Spek | On 8/24/05, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > * Olaf van der Spek | > | > | I understand most maintainers don't try the new toolchain themselves, | > | but wouldn't it be possible for someone else to build the entire | > | arch

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Jon Dowland | On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:52:36AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > If you have an USB mouse, you need to have the driver for it loaded | > before starting gdm (or the boot will fail), if it uses Xdmcp for | > connecting to a terminal server, it will need networking

Re: how to make a patch

2005-09-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Andreas Schuldei | and because i never can remember if the first or the second file | is the one the resulting patch should apply to, i also use | "--from­file=" pointing to the original. diff $from $to, just like cp. -- Tolle

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-09-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ublic archive. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-09-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Alexander Schmehl | * Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050914 10:47]: | > | Maybe, if you don't want your output to be found on the Internet, you | > | should not make it available on the Internet? | > I think there is a difference between putting it all in one pla

Re: Build-Depend'ing on libasound2-dev just for Linux

2005-09-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Josselin Mouette | If support for it is in etch's dpkg, we will be able to use it *after | the etch release*. The policy has always been to require only dpkg | features from the previous stable release. This is for Build-Depends, which doesn't have that restriction, aiui. -- Tolle

Re: Interfaces for dpkg/deb packages

2005-09-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
. There are rumours that one will be written in the not-too-distant future, however. (That is, there is a libdpkg.a, but it's statically linked into dpkg and not distributed.) -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
arguments some people are using to get people to use the BSD licence in favour of the GPL. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NMU - remove or just let be superceded

2008-03-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
it, that's fine too. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#469331: ITP: python-libgmail-imap -- Python bindings to access Gmail accounts (IMAP implementation)

2008-03-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
IMAP library? Apart from the other reasons stated in this thread, I could imagine it giving you workaround for some of the bugs and missing features in the google IMAP server. See [1] for more details. [1] http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2008/03/03/a-few-months-of-google-imap-lets-evaluate --

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
r review a couple of times, but nothing unreasonable. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
#x27;m not questioning his motives, I am just pointing out that iwj maintained it for about two out of its fourteen-year life. Calling the project Ian's and implying that he has a god-given right to take back dpkg because he first wrote it is just silly. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly,

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
for update-initramfs.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
some Autoconf macros that wrap pkg-config, libbar-dev should suggest or recommend pkg-config, but Autoconf macros don't really map to build-depends/depends, they are more like a development-depends. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are --

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Hendrik Sattler | Am Samstag 05 April 2008 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: | > Whoever develops software based on libbar will have to have a call to | > pkg-config somewhere in their build process so they should depend on | > pkg-config. | | _If_ they do. Please consider the possibilit

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
a long discssion on some of the ramifications of blindly disabling IPv6. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
y breaks NAT-PT, this probably also breaks for people who want to talk to services on localhost using IPv6 (and doesn't otherwise have IPv6 configured) as well as people who put link-local addresses into DNS. Don't do that, then. IMNSHO. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
tream source tarball was prepared and whatever the packager had installed at that time. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
for), you need to use pkg-config. pkg-config allows you to, say, move all the headers from each package into its own namespace, like how GTK+ and Glib does it and you can then rename that later if you so wish, without causing FTBFS-es. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky abo

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
the other changing. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#477699: general: No read permission for /usr/include/GL directory

2008-04-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
07:26 /usr/include/GL/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # Could you (Heikki Orsila) please try removing and then installing the mesa-common-dev package and see if that fixes the problem? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#477699: general: No read permission for /usr/include/GL directory

2008-04-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Heikki Orsila (Cc-ing you as I don't know if you're on debian-devel or not; apologies if you are subscribed). | On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:28:33AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > Could you (Heikki Orsila) please try removing and then installing the | > mesa-common-dev pa

Re: ssl security desaster

2008-05-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t to restrict postinsts to only be able to do a limited set of operations, the quality of packages will detoriate quite a bit as they are no longer flexible enough to cater for all packages's needs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUB

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-05-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sune Vuorela | 3) do the real ugly hack and invent a a-m-t-a depending on the default mta FWIW, aa sorts together with å (after x, y, z, æ and ø (or ø and æ, in da_DK, I think)) in some locales, so that might not be the best choice. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's

Re: ssl security desaster

2008-05-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Uecker | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > How would you go about doing that? If you just mean «all packages | > should be built on the buildds», that's fairly easy to do, but if you | > are talking about actual verification of source => binary which can be | > done post

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
witched on by default. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: hatools -- The halockrun program provides a simple way to implement locking in shell scripts.

2008-06-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ackage)? Or even flock(1), which is part of util-linux. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nature to it in which case it still corresponds to the original private key. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: hatools -- The halockrun program provides a simple way to implement locking in shell scripts.

2008-06-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ode which | hosts the halockrun instance which holds the lock will also take care | not to stale the lock (the kernel again, not the user space). without | having done any deeper checks, ITUMO more robust that dotlockrun. This is something flock does not do; it does not lock over NFS. -- Tollef F

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e about, but it probably makes sense for it to be dpkg, making sure it's root:root 0644). -- Tollef Fog Heen / Linpro ASt: 21 54 41 73 UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
mistake to want to use /usr/lib/i386/ when it is | entirely possible that multiarch users will actually need the full | triplet - think about hurd or kfreebsd as multiarch packages. I don't believe anybody has suggested using just /usr/lib/i386, but rather /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu? -- Tollef Fog

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
chroot. It's not that hard. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Stefano Zacchiroli | On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 01:26:23PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] Yannick | > | > | For instance, I wanted to test Firefox 3.5 in 32bits on my amd64 | > | Debian (64bit Firefox 3.5 does not have the new tracemonkey javascript | > | engine). With

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
same goals, which is not the same thing as doing the same thing. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig, but you can actually multiarchify packages with .pc files already. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Introduction to multiarch: What maintainers must do

2009-07-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
onvinced it's a better idea than to just have a /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-pkg-config. pkg-config has a bit too much magic already, I'd rather not make it even more magic. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
action, so that the package manager itself would create a | .desktop file entry, given an icon and some information about the | package. like, the path, the description, translated into multiple languages and so on? This is just .desktop files reinvented. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly,

Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

2009-08-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ther bug in the story.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

2009-08-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
rt | these? Fundamentally breaking IPv6 for these use cases to work around | broken routing hardware is IMO a step too far. Does anybody use IPv6-only link-local? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Bug#535833: marked as done (general: Slow internet on iceweasel, epiphany and so on...)

2009-08-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roger Leigh | On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:39:46AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] Roger Leigh | > | > | Having working local networking is important. We wouldn't consider | > | broken IPv4 loopback acceptable, and broken IPv6 loopback is just as | > | bad. | &g

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
a bit of context) and to adapt to sources where they don't apply 100%. I would start by asking upstream first and see if they reject the request, or ask «why?» before pushing for changes in Debian tools. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its frie

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ABI from changed API. Say you have foo, linked against libbar1, this works fine. foo, linked against libbar2 (where the ABI was bumped because some part of the ABI changed), doesn't work. Being able to debug both of those to see where their behaviour differs has value. -- Tollef Fog Heen U

Re: What’s the use for Standards-Version?

2009-08-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
what purpose? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
dump of the cache. Since it's so tied to the in-memory structure, and the in-memory structure is so broken (hurrah for a char * for the cache..), I would suggest getting upstream to use sensible data types or forking the library. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
n the initramfs on those boxes which will do the mount before init is started, for say, 10k€? I'll even make it as a Debian package. -- Tollef Fog Heen, not really serious. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
. I'd would | consider using the conffile fragments under /etc/exim4/conf.d if those | were natively loaded by exim4 itself, a la apache. I'd be content by it just being handled by the init script even. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
stuff there is absolutely not fine. It's even more off-limits than /usr/local (where you can create directories, but not remove them). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: safe value for HOME

2009-09-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Atsuhito Kohda | I'm a maintainer of mathematica-fonts which downloads fonts | with wget and I got the following bug report. | What is a safe value for HOME in this case? Make a temporary directory and point $HOME there. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Re: Copyright infringement on www.rossbeazley.co.uk — Overreacting?

2009-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
since | aggregation is voluntary but what about redistribution ? :D Given there's no licence, that's a fairly clear breach of most copyright laws I know of, at least. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Holger Levsen | Hi, | | On Montag, 28. September 2009, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > I realise you've had good an constructive responses for webapps, so | > commenting on /srv in particular: | > | > As I read it, putting stuff there is absolutely not fine. | | Where

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
rid of ENABLED=[01] in /etc/default/* for instance.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#551123: ITP: echinus -- lightweight tiling window manager

2009-10-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
s?) rather than via recompilation. I think | this gives sufficient reason for inclusion. In Xresource format != via X resources. I don't see why a particular file format is a sufficient reason to one WM or the other. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about wh

Re: Something like Pre-Depends for Suggests

2009-10-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michal Čihař | Any suggestions how to solve this problem? Get dbconfig-common fixed to allow you to configure a database that's not yet set up. I guess you can do this by asking the questions, then having a trigger fire when the database is configured? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is

Re: Clarify rationale for ‘debian/rules ’ shebang line

2009-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
r/bin/make -f» too. There's no reason to mandate one particular style of hashbangs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Clarify rationale for ‘debian/rules ’ shebang line

2009-11-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
| @@ -1725,7 +1725,10 @@ | > | | > | It must start with the line #!/usr/bin/make -f, | | [Tollef Fog Heen] | > This should probably also be changed to allow «#! /usr/bin/make -f» | > too. There's no reason to mandate one particular style of hashbangs. | | Why not? If there's absolutely n

Re: MBF: embedded copies of Python modules

2009-11-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
reasons why you should be careful when designing APIs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using a perl lib from postinst

2009-11-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Dominique Dumont | Since the postinst is a shell script, you cannot call directly the | perl lib. Postinsts can be written in any language, including perl, so he could just write it in perl and use the relevant module. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about wh

Re: The horde of sloppy maintainers is a myth. Maybe not. Maybe yes.

2009-11-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ld not fix the whole problem or prevent this problem from happening at all. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t specific. Isn't this what the LSB package format is? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I disagree with it being a bug in the package; if the data needs to be so big because of quality of textures or number of levels or whatever, that's just how the world is. It's not like it's a bug in linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64 that it doesn't fit on a 16MB USB stick, which is a

Re: is it ok to listen on a localhost port for tests during build time?

2009-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ly not. | From a robustness perspective, I could patch the tests to try several | different port numbers if the default (11400) is not available. This might be good, yes. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dh_config_model_upgrade: package upgrade with Config::Model

2009-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
;s non-trivial to properly edit a configuration file properly preserving all user changes. I believe this module helps with that. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

2009-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
logfiles on purge). So you would expect a package to be marked as uninstalled and not purged in the dpkg status file when it's purged? And for packages that does not come from Packages file to be completely dropped? If not, what am I missing? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's

Re: is it ok to listen on a localhost port for tests during build time?

2009-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Serafeim Zanikolas | On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:56:37AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] Serafeim Zanikolas | > | > | The service supports no authorisation/authentication and, as of now, has no | > | way of limiting the size of inserted messages. Would it be acceptable if

Re: Bug#560863: ITP: lamson -- The Python SMTP Server

2009-12-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Sebastian Otaegui | * Avoid aliases forever! Lamson uses friendly regular expressions | and FSM-based routing. What does the flying spaghetti monster have to do with email routing? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -

Re: [OT] Bug#560863: ITP: lamson -- The Python SMTP Server

2009-12-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ben Finney | Tollef Fog Heen writes: | | > ]] Sebastian Otaegui | > | > | * Avoid aliases forever! Lamson uses friendly regular expressions | > | and FSM-based routing. | > | > What does the flying spaghetti monster have to do with email routing? | | You

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t not without patches to dak). While I'm not an ftp-master, I would be surprised if they were happy to take patches for a 3.0 (simple-patchsys). Quilt isn't that complicated to use and should just replace simple-patchsys, dbs and similar patch systems. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user frie

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
This is less of a problem for Ubuntu than Debian because Ubuntu's slowest arch is quite fast, while doing the same to the Debian ARM port would make the buildd (and the buildd operator) very unhappy. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Hamish Moffatt | How is iodine different from nstx? - Works on !i386 - Source code that does not make me cry and run away. It's slightly less performant (in my experience), but I still much prefer it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its f

Re: Not stopping daemons, where are we?

2008-07-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
p with and which might confuse the tools we have provided. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil Williams (Please respect my Mail-Followup-To and my Mail-Copies-To: never) | On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 08:33 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > How would you then handle libraries that go in /lib? (Apart from the | > fact that I think just using a subdirectory of /usr/lib is much

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t is to prevent a fairly substantial regression from etch. Whether etch should have shipped a dom0 or not is a different question and a little late to complain about now; we just have to do the best we can with what we have. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky abou

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ory might very well not exist. I would argue shipping a /srv/www is a bug if the site does not use that layout. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ve time to process the bugs properly, nor use learn how to use LP's mail interface either. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
something useful. FWIW, this is roughly what we're going to do with Apache post-lenny. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Authentication with LP for DD's using gnupg

2008-08-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
more. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
le release will be broken (as noted above). Not everybody runs debian-cd from svn. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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