Re: hamm

1998-05-06 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Trying to upgrade via FTP to hamm would be too painfull at 28.8KB! > >Hi, > It depends on your pain threshold, I guess. I thought that too, >until I started the bo testihng program a little over a year ago. >Since then I

Re: hamm

1998-05-08 Thread James R. Van Zandt
>> I maintain a hamm mirror at work. According to my records, the >> traffic to keep hamm up to date amounts to about 20 MB/day. >I'm a bit of a newbie with respect to Debian, and I've recently susbcribed >to some mailing lists. I'm still reading a lot of FAQ material, but since >I saw this thre

Re: hamm

1998-05-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
>On Wed, 6 May 1998, James R. Van Zandt wrote: >> >..since >> >I saw this thread I couldn't resist to ask: what's the recommended way >> >(program) to keep an updated unstable distribution for a home user? >> >> I don't know of any easy wa

Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions

2006-08-20 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: aa Version : 5.6 Upstream Author : Steve Moshier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.moshier.net/ * License : under discussion (probably G

Bug#386034: ITP: astronomical-almanac -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions

2006-09-04 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This replaces the formerly proposed package "aa". Package name: astronomical-almanac Version : 5.6 Upstream Author : Steve Moshier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL

Re: Bug#386911: ITP: Claroline -- Course Management System for Online Learning

2006-09-11 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Minor point: the package name should not contain any upper case letters :-) > 5.6.7. `Package' > > > The name of the binary package. > > Package names must consist only of lower case letters (`a-z'), digits > (`0-9'), plus (`+') and minus (`-') signs, and period

Re: Problem including (linux-kernel-headers 2.6.17)

2006-09-30 Thread James R. Van Zandt
> I am trying to prepare packages for the new MaxDB release 7.5.00.38 and > am having problems with a new piece of code in there. > > The code in question looks like this and is known to work on Suse SLES9: ... > # include > are user-space applications not supposed to include any headers belo

Re: looking for the article with a graph of the relations between maintainer scripts

2006-10-02 Thread James R. Van Zandt
"Andrew Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can any one point me to the article with a graph of the relations > > of the various maintainer scripts? > > Sounds like you're after > http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/Main

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:23:48 +0200, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the > >users learn about looking at README.Debian :) That is, "they should be paying more attention t

Re: bits from the release team

2006-05-08 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow: > > > Doesn't work if the key is ever compromised and a new one has to be > > created out of schedule. Or when you spend your x-mas holidays away > > from your system and couldn't upgrade before new years eve. > > Exac

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread James R. Van Zandt
> > > 2. xpdf doesn't want to open gzipped pdfs by default which > > > makes this a pain in the **tt for people who want to read the > > > pdf. > > > > There's "zxpdf" in the xpdf package, analogous to zless and zcat it > > views gzipped files. And some of us want to use evinc

Re: *-doc package should not gzip PDF file

2006-06-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anyone wants this to be fixed following should happen. > > > > * Write a patch to the debhelper gzip text/pdf/ps file logic > >- do not compress if the package is *-doc and file extension is >

Re: Bug#375410: ITP: epdfview -- Lightweight pdf viewer based on poppler libs

2006-06-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > epdfview is a pdf viewer based on poppler libs, like evince but without > all gnome libs dependencies, it only uses gtk libs. So I'd expect a smaller memory footprint and faster startup. What would I be losing? The ability to drag a PDF file a

Bug#535143: ITP: gnome-do-docklets -- Dock applets for GNOME Do's "Docky" interface.

2009-06-29 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers * Package name: gnome-do-docklets Version : 0.8.2 Upstream Author : Jason Smith * URL : http://do.davebsd.org/ * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: C# Description : Dock applets

Bug#570180: ITP: docky -- Elegant, powerful, clean dock

2010-02-16 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers * Package name: docky Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Jason Smith * URL : https://launchpad.net/docky * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C#, Python Description : Elegant

Bug#702620: ITP: colord-gtk -- GTK+ convenience library for interacting with the colord system daemon

2013-03-08 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers * Package name: colord-gtk Version : 0.1.24 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://colord.hugsie.com/ * License : LGPL3 Programming Lang: C Description : GTK+ convenience

Re: How to provide support for -i386 utilities within -amd64 packages?

2014-05-22 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Hey Carl, On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Carl Worth wrote: I'm interested in packaging (or helping to package) several programs and libraries related to OpenGL, (such as apitrace, vogl, fips, and waffle). For each of these packages I have a question about best practices related to supporti

Re: How to provide support for -i386 utilities within -amd64 packages?

2014-05-23 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Carl Worth wrote: Christopher James Halse Rogers writes: For apitrace we ended up using the $LIB dynamic expansion to let the dynamic loader handle this itself (https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/pull/177). That's presumably applicable to fip

Bug#633518: ITP: colord -- system service to manage device colour profiles

2011-07-10 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers * Package name: colord Version : 0.1.10 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://colord.hughsie.com/ * License : GPL2+, LGPL2+ Programming Lang: C Description : system

Re: Bug#633518: ITP: colord -- system service to manage device colour profiles

2011-07-12 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 12:16 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > Am 11.07.2011 08:06, schrieb Christopher James Halse Rogers: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers > > > > > > * Package name: colord &g

Bug#633721: ITP: shared-color-profiles -- colour profiles to be used in colour management aware applications

2011-07-13 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers * Package name: shared-color-profiles Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/ * License : confused (zlib, CC-BY-SA, MIT, GPL

Bug#636679: ITP: apitrace -- tool for debugging OpenGL applications and drivers

2011-08-05 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers * Package name: apitrace Version : 1.0+git Upstream Author : José Fonseca * URL : https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++, Python Description

SATAN package?

1998-06-07 Thread James R. Van Zandt
I just finished reading the article on SATAN in the August '97 Linux Journal. SATAN can find weaknesses in the network configuration. I realize it can be a bad thing or a good thing, depending on the user's intent. I joined Debian after SATAN came out. Was there some decision made at that time

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Where should I start? I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would help cut down duplicate bug reports. Now, I'm forced to download a list of *all* the bugs.

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-14 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >"James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a >> list of the bugs registered against a particular package. > >Wha

Re: Unsatisfied depends in slink main

1999-01-22 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Dale Sheetz writes: ... > >Package not in archives Package which depends on > Package not in archives > ... >tclx emacspeak >tclx74

Re: Crypto software that *is* exportable from the USA

1999-01-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Paul Sheer wrote: >I remember someone was maintaining the debian release of this software >(although then, it did not support encryption). Please get the latest >version from: > ftp://lava.obsidian.co.za/pub/mirrordir/US/ I maintain the Debian package of mirrordir. The last version I packa

Re: Installation Profiles

1999-01-31 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Jonathan P Tomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >a possibility i considered: divide user-space...packages into >heirarchical groups (structure identical or similar to the debian >menus, possibly?). have a level wherein the user selects any of these >he wants; it will be easy to skip those things he

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Remember that the person who is most qualified to test any >>> piece of code is the person who wrote it. > >Wichert> I can argue about that. But I won't :) > >I can & I will. :) > >The person who wrote the code is almost always the *lea

Re: Intent to package: reportbug

1999-05-15 Thread James R. Van Zandt
>* Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, -MM-DD. - Jim Van Zandt

Re: a question about scsi installs

1999-05-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >i would like to install debian on a dell poweredge 4300 with a PERC/2 >SC raid scsi controller from AMI. ... >there is a driver available from the manufacturer of >this card, however it does not appear to be on any debian >installation media or software

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: >> Can I upload packages with the /usr/info -> /usr/share/info modification? > >Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory >since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.

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