Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-25 Thread Marc Haber
th systemd units that use security. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf,

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-25 Thread Marc Haber
ian's fault. -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402

Re: My personal recommendation on how to create Debian packages from upstream Git

2025-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
n. Thank you very much, and I hope that you can make good use of my feedback. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."

Re: Exploring forgejo as alternative to salsa ? (Was Re: Private code: to forge, or not to forge?)

2025-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 22 May 2025 18:10:54 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote: >Nice to have the raw numbers; > 16k users is indeed a lot. >The most recent number I could find for codeberg was 11k users and 12k >repos. Salsa happens to be one of the largest gitlab instances that exist. Gr

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
ving said that I'll shut up to avoid friendly advice from the community team. I mentioned Discourse because that was the topic of the last discussion of this kind we had a few years ago. Greetings Marc -- -----

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
contributors by throwing away the BTS and the mailing lists. The project is going to get a lot more diversity this way, yes. I'll stop participating here, I don't want to get friendly advice from the community team and know when to shut up. Gree

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
e feeling of a mailing list". That is so utterly false... Listen. You're entitled to suggest new tools. I am entitled to say that the tools we have are just fine. That's the way it is. Greetings Marc -- Mar

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
, when our data is in another "existing" solution? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-21 Thread Marc Haber
ould like to keep the BTS with its opportunity to pull up a complicated bug report in my mail client WITH FULL THREADING. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 23 May 2025 10:00:22 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:57:36 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" >> wrote: >> >Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. >> >&g

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Marc Haber
transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. Thankfully that's not an option for us (not dfsg free). Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginn

Re: My personal recommendation on how to create Debian packages from upstream Git

2025-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
have anything to say anyway. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 N

Re: My personal recommendation on how to create Debian packages from upstream Git

2025-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 05:26:31AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 10:04:01PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: My personal pet peeve is the difference between the source package and the packaging git repository contents. Those two especially differ in the state of

Re: My personal recommendation on how to create Debian packages from upstream Git

2025-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 10:27:09AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: On Wed 28 May 2025 at 10:04pm +02, Marc Haber wrote: My personal pet peeve is the difference between the source package and the packaging git repository contents. Those two especially differ in the state of patches: They're ap

Re: patches-applied and patches-unapplied, dgit and source packages (was: Re: My personal recommendation on how to create Debian packages from upstream Git)

2025-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
might be unnecessary to know in five years, in 2025 it is still a must-know and must-not-be-confused. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Ger

Re: My personal recommendation on how to create Debian packages from upstream Git

2025-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
right? Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to ma

Re: emails from nore...@salsa.debian.org to bugs.debian.org

2025-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 31 May 2025 20:17:59 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: >I don't see a big problem in those messages being "noreply", >considering that they are generated automatically, Answers to these messages shouldnt result in a generic bo

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
need to be there. >You may argue that a contributor can find "someone" to setup a bouncer for >them. But this is >pretty difficult if no-one around you does any of that. Accessing IRC with a bouncer is already

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
ely care about and makes it hard to watch my merge requests. It's just too big. Can I have salsa somehow show me all repositories that I have ever committed to? Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Quest

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 02:29:05PM +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: Am 18. Juni 2025 12:35:04 MESZ schrieb Marc Haber : On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:42:18 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: I am not sure whether just pushing my fixed code to the branch that I submitted an MR for will automatically

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
ys 'allows to', please change that to the correct 'allows one to'". And after having said that I have not monitored the progress of the MR and the deletion of the forked repo. >But as said, I understand you have now your optimized workflow

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
read after pushing an improvement and who is supposed to close the discussion thread in the MR. I guess that a lot of this depends on convention, but in a forge as large as salsa we should have our conventions in writing so that newbies¹ know what to do. Greetings Marc ¹ I have been a DD fo

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
four people just right out of school resign in their first month because those people were expected to also maintian older code that doesn't use the latest frameworks. This behavior/attitute is obviously very common in younger people. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Static compiled packages option for apt

2025-06-22 Thread Marc Haber
bution. I'd recommend doing that in a totally new project and leave Debian alone. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beg

Re: Implementing feature requests for a package when a maintainer doesn't respond

2025-06-12 Thread Marc Haber
out Debian on the Raspberry Pi! Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG &quo

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
ying "help appreciated". That is still current even after 20 years especially if no one is home. PS, similarly with RFP/ITP? (oldest RFP is about to turn 24!) Those things get cleaned up regularly and I consider that a nuisa

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
them away. Reasons: See above. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
at have an RFH Bug in WNPP. Could it be the case that we're talking about different things? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany|

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
r distributions do? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordis

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 08:32:49AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Marc Haber writes: Do you seriously think that people who can't be bothered with finding an IRC Client, pointing it to a server and joining a channel can be bothered with Debian's other peculiariaties? Yes? I refuse

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 08:24:45PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: That would be nice and the work is already ongoing. Well, let's switch over to RPM then. Greetings Marc, leaving this thread for today for mental health, making a mental note to have at least one meal with wRAR in

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
bies), and optionally to a list of RC bugs tagged help (with the warning "not for the faint of the heart"). Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Hea

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
at we offer: looking for a sponsor. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 160040

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Marc Haber
ly an important point. The usually means that make a >project socially work are not there. > >Not that we should have daily standups :-) We could offer weekly video conferences. I might be willing to provide technical guidance during those. I would be an exception

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-02 Thread Marc Haber
else is doing this particular work ;-) Greetings Marc ¹ I want u-boot! -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordi

Re: Question regarding Trixie and SFML

2025-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
aries are not backwards compatible, you might want to talk to the Debian Games Team (pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org) whether they plan to package the 3.0 series independently from the 2.x series in Debian 14/forky. Greetings

Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream

2025-07-18 Thread Marc Haber
dpkg's "new" feature of having source packages with more than one orig.tar.gz work here? Any ideas? Greetings from (still) Brest Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They |

Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream

2025-07-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 02:17:50PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: Marc Haber wrote: I would like to build differnt "flavors", lets call them linux-server, linux-vm, linux-desktop and linux-notebook. But I'd like to have them from - at least - the same .orig.tar.gz, just for the r

Re: Personal note on recent discussions (Was: Can the community team remove packages or kick me out for not removing packages?)

2025-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
farts need to accept that the world has changed and the project has changed and that things that used to be okay 20, maybe even 10 years ago are not ok any more. Love it or leave it. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber

Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 - Request for corrective action before release

2025-07-23 Thread Marc Haber
ong upheld: KDE Plasma 6's decision to enforce double-click as the default behavior for file interaction. I find it the right thing to follow Upstream's Decisions, ensuring consistent behavior of KDE on different distributions. Can we close this discussion ple

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so > much about getting the torrent files off a trusted mirror... dpkg-sig exists. Use it :) Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rella

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:00:16PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [...] >> > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
ying > that it returns a zero exit code. Like rm, dpkg is a tool for system administrators. It will not protect you from potentially harmful actions because it assumes that you know what you do. Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.)4/3* )e$(ht

Re: Bug#298354: ITP: gtk2-engines-clearlooks -- An attractive gtk engine with a focus on usability.

2005-03-07 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
html, it's already in the NEW queue. And hey, Ross, what about an ITP of your own? Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.)4/3* )e$(htgnel+23(rhc,"u"(kcapnu ,""nioj ;|_- |/+9-0z-aZ-A|rt~=e$;_$=e${pam tnirp{y V2ajFGabus} yV2a

Re: Bug#298354: ITP: gtk2-engines-clearlooks -- An attractive gtk engine with a focus on usability.

2005-03-08 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:21 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Marco Alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> * Package name: gtk2-engines-clearlooks >>> Version : 0.4 >> [..

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
e release process, but if they work hard enough, they can release together with the main architectures - and on the same code base, which would easen security support. Marc Footnotes: [1] I have to admit that i haven't read the whole thread until now, so if this was discussed before,

dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
fying (== non-Debian stuff). As the ftp-masters and the dpkg maintainers seem to have no interest in the whole thing, I'm beginning to doubt that it's sensible to work on dpkg-sig. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 138: OSPF One Single Point of Failure (Pasca

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
ul as I can be. And now we're all happy again. Yay! Marc Footnotes: [1] http://cvs.debian.org/dak/jennifer?root=dak&r1=1.56&r2=1.57 -- BOFH #139: UBNC (user brain not connected) pgpARUHMfjp3A.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
. Can somebody > confirm or deny? No. dpkg-sig is a completly independent application (though some ideas were taken from debsigs) Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt (120: INN 2.x) INN 2.x ist wie Fertig-Spaghetti aus der Tüte. Schmeckt lecker und ist im Grunde gan

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:50:02PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> As I'm responsible for most of dpkg-sig's code (and planned to do some >> more work in the next two months) I'd like to kn

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I will fill a whishlist bugreport against debuild to support dpkg-sig > side by side with debuild. There is already #247825. #247824 is the wishlist bug for dpkg-buildpackage support. Marc -- BOFH #105:#247824 UPS interrupted

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-24 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
he additional signature, and re-ar it? You can simply strip off the parts that change the md5sum, without the unpack/pack cycle. The problem is to know which parts need to be removed. Marc -- BOFH #335: the AA battery in the wallclock sends magnetic interference pgprsAWzGrlFl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-14 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > As this post indicates, it isn't just the ftp-master team failing Debian. Yeah, some Debian Developers suck a lot. Hm. The ftp-team is quite good in comparision, I'd say. Marc -- BOFH #208: Your mail is being routed thro

Re: debian control field "depends"

2005-12-28 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
file bugs about it. > The constructive thing would be to write a new test for lintian and/or > linda so that they warn about it. I would not want lintian to warn about this issue, it's simply not a problem. Marc -- BOFH #176: vapors from evaporating sticky-note adhesives pgpf0mW8rcoWs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian control field "depends"

2005-12-28 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ke, 2005-12-28 kello 13:48 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt kirjoitti: >> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> ke, 2005-12-28 kello 10:59 +0100, Florian Ludwig kirjoitti: >>>> There are some

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
n > -private? No, but the decision was only published in a posting to -private. The whole point of Joey's mail was to make the act of revoking posting permissions public (which I support, though I'm not too happy about the way it was done) Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach

Re: The klik project and Debian

2006-01-19 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
the subject was wrong. It should have been "For those who care about their packages in klik" to be marked as real announcement. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 207: Gesundbooten Das Allheilmittel für jegliche Probleme, die auf, mit und um Windows a

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
te questions when they arise. Marc -- BOFH #5: static from plastic slide rules pgpO2tl2bhnzX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-02-16 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
ave *anything* to say about the actual topic of the discussion, just shut up. Thanks! Marc -- BOFH #15: temporary routing anomoly pgpiYRfSRpEUa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Pre-Stable Distro

2006-03-01 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
the packages depending on those basic libs can migrate to pre-stable. In other words: If you'd fix the technical problems, releasing stable would become so easy that "proper" stable releases every 6 months would be possible without too many problems. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der In

Re: Bug#356384: ITP: libtest-use-ok-perl -- Alternative to Test::More::use_ok

2006-03-12 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
te it before actually uploading the package, but generally, it would be nice to provide something that resembles the final Description in the ITP, so that peer-review can actually work. Thanks. Marc -- Cabal theories right: https://launchpad.net/distros/debian/+members Security is for whimps: h

Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

2006-03-12 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
x27;t you use uclibc-i386? Marc -- Cabal theories right: https://launchpad.net/distros/debian/+members Security is for whimps: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/34606/ Film at 11! pgp1mPQmfy3qF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Two package proposals

1998-05-09 Thread Marc A. Volovic
. Likewise. I would be very grateful if anyone who is already considering one of these lets me know, in order to limit duplication of effort. -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic | Comfort, n: A feeling one gets from [EMAIL PROTECTED] | contemplating discomfort in another

Re: duplicates of fonts in some packages

2005-03-29 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
already. A symlink and a dependency is better. Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.)4/3* )e$(htgnel+23(rhc,"u"(kcapnu ,""nioj ;|_- |/+9-0z-aZ-A|rt~=e$;_$=e${pam tnirp{y V2ajFGabus} yV2ajFGa&{gwmclBHIbus}gwmclBHI&{yVGa09mbbus

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

2005-03-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
can use the same debian/rules for Ubuntu and Debian and don't need to use evil patch systems. Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.)4/3* )e$(htgnel+23(rhc,"u"(kcapnu ,""nioj ;|_- |/+9-0z-aZ-A|rt~=e$;_$=e${pam tnirp{y

Re: Bug#250202: Standardizing make target for 'patch' and 'upstream-source'

2005-04-01 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
d allow people to contine their bad habit of keeping all Debian changes in a .diff.gz-like thing. Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.)4/3* )e$(htgnel+23(rhc,"u"(kcapnu ,""nioj ;|_- |/+9-0z-aZ-A|rt~=e$;_$=e${pam tnirp{y V2ajF

Re: Detecting the installed MTA

2005-04-07 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
currently running MTA. dpkg -S /usr/sbin/sendmail. Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.)4/3* )e$(htgnel+23(rhc,"u"(kcapnu ,""nioj ;|_- |/+9-0z-aZ-A|rt~=e$;_$=e${pam tnirp{y V2ajFGabus} yV2ajFGa&{gwmclBHIbus}gwmclBHI&

Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked

2005-04-07 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You know, our userdir-ldap manages ssh keys. You dont need >> to put them manually in .ssh dirs. > How do you set the ssh key in LDAP? Please read the documenation at http://db.d

Re: lintian & linda

2005-04-10 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
major difference and is the reason why we don't share code. Marc, stating the obvious -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e$.)4/3* )e$(htgnel+23(rhc,"u"(kcapnu ,""nioj ;|_- |/+9-0z-aZ-A|rt~=e$;_$=e${pam tnirp{y V2ajFGabus} yV

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
new architectures in sarge. That's right, but the buildd network has to work for both oldstable and stable. potato + woody didn't need as many buildds as woody + sarge will need. Marc -- BOFH #221: The mainframe needs to rest. It's getting old, you know. pgp1LSjXjahP0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where to put XML Application Files in UNIX File Hierarchy?

2005-06-08 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
u can do the same as perl does: Put everything to /usr/share/cybop (and provide some sensible load path that allows users to install libraries without the package system, like /usr/local/share/cybop). Marc -- BOFH #28: CPU radiator broken pgp85CLRXU0i6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ada in Debian, past, present and future. Request for Advocate.

2005-06-17 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
plans. Writing an advocation mail isn't that time-consuming, Matthias really should be able to do it himself. Asking random developers to do it abuses the whole advocation process. Marc -- BOFH #173: Recursive traversal of loopback mount points pgptYJwnDsr95.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to properly close a non-existent bug?

2006-08-02 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
test zeroc-ice was not yet compiled. Right. I didn't check the changelog of the source upload, as hppa had always failed to build before. > Should #369605 be merged into #360482? No, different bugs. > Should #369605 be closed using an email? Yes, done. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 7: DOS Denial Of Service (Kristian Köhntopp)

ITP: vala -- Compiler for the GObject type system

2006-11-12 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Package: wnppOwner: "Marc-Andre Lureau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Severity: wishlist* Package name    : vala  Version : 0.0.5   Upstream Author : Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini sa at gmx dot ch>* URL : http://vala.paldo.org* License : LGPL 2.1  Progra

Bug#398198: ITP: vala -- Compiler for the GObject type system

2006-11-12 Thread Marc-Andre Lureau
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marc-Andre Lureau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vala Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini * URL : http://vala.paldo.org * License : LGPL 2.1 Programmi

Re: ITP: vala -- Compiler for the GObject type system

2006-11-12 Thread Marc-André Lureau
find documentation on how to do this. That's pretty interesting stuff. Are there projects that are alreadyusing it or planning to ?Scratchpad 0.3.0 (from mono to vala port) http://www.paldo.org/pipermail/vala/2006-September/79.html-- Marc-André Lureau, GSmartMix

Re: Bonsai: Candidate for removal from the archive?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
ut. >> Furthermore, it can't be installed without mysql-server, which is in >> recommends, and not depends > Uhmm... Without looking too deep into Bonsai, I'd not put it as a > depends - Bonsai uses DBI + DBD::Mysql to connect to MySQL Right, it asks for the Host provi

Re: Mass closing of bugs ?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
sts in iceape ? I believe that the enormous number of bugs on mozilla make this the only reasonable choice. IMO you should close all bugs with a message explaining the changes and how submitters can reopen the bugs (probably best with a complete template which also sets the correct versioning i

Re: Bonsai: Candidate for removal from the archive?

2006-12-04 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt dijo [Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:47:45AM +0100]: >>>> use File::Find; >>> Provided by perl-modules, which is build-essential. However, this >>> module is used at installation time (in

Re: Bonsai: Candidate for removal from the archive?

2006-12-04 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
never depend on bonsai :) [Apart from that, configuration isn't even needed for most uses] Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 198: kompatibel Eine transitive Relation (Gert Doering) pgpjCYJlkFrEx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: x86 buildd for experimental ?

2007-01-08 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
should follow in the next few days. Marc -- BOFH #329: Server depressed, needs Prozak pgpwrwXFdch9z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the 2IC

2006-05-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
ter for the d-i team if they don't have to fight with you on a regular basis. The time and motivation lost in flamewars is more valuable than anything a single developer could contribute. Marc -- BOFH #448: vi needs to be upgraded to vii pgpm9RVGbvoGW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
e things expected of a good package maintainer. *What* of that is a "great job"? Marc -- BOFH #337: the butane lighter causes the pincushioning pgpf9mE1B0VfX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-18 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
not under these circumstances. And, BTW, I'm not at all impressed by your way of dealing with concerns of other DDs. Marc -- BOFH #199: the curls in your keyboard cord are losing electricity. pgpQCICNRBAZG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
ould please remember that we're trying to create the best Linux distribution *together*. Flaming is usually not the best way to present one's arguments. Thanks, Marc (hating legal stuff and flamewars in general) -- BOFH #431: Borg implants are failing pgpXqut5iKMUr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: proposal for a more efficient download process

2006-05-27 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
e us today? What about the kind of signatures dpkg-sig provides? Anyway, this was proposed some times now. Have you actually read the old threads and can explain why your proposal is better and actually works? Why haven't you implemented it yet? Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informat

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-29 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
d source package. > Sounds like a clean approach, but is there a clean transition? > I doubt you can upload a source package that generates the same > binary package as another source package. You are free to doubt that, it's still possible. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - E

Orphaning blam

2006-07-06 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
le in Ubuntu, so this could be a possible base for a new Debian package. So, if anyone is interested in maintaining blam, step up now, or it won't be released with etch. Marc -- BOFH #223: The lines are all busy (busied out, that is -- why let them in to begin with?). pgpYxOFS2YdXj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: header sanity check?

2006-07-08 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
s on the whole archive (which would be needed to implement checks for the issues you listed). Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 239: MacOS X Unix für Weicheier. (Manfred Worm Schäfer) pgpr6URVFDVzC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
sk hat and hides it under the table... It's nice of you to send this interesting statement to debian-devel, this way it will be easier for your AM and the DAM to see how you work with your fellow Developers. Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt writes: >> It's nice of you to send this interesting statement to debian-devel, this >> way it will be easier for your AM and the DAM to see how you work with >> your fellow Developers.

Re: convenience script for building a.out packages

1995-11-28 Thread Jean-Marc Bourguet
in /bin, not within /usr/bin... they even give /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/bin/mh as directories for X11 and MH mail system binaries. --- Jean-Marc Bourguet Service d'Electronique Faculte polytechnique de Mons Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgique

Bug#2081: named does not start

1996-01-02 Thread Jean-Marc Bourguet
th the PID in /var/run/named.pid. So I suggest to change the line 19 of /usr/sbin/ndc PS=`ps -p $PID 2>/dev/null| tail -1 | grep $PID` by PS=`ps -p $PID 2>/dev/null| tail -1 | grep named` so that only a process called named with the right PID will cause ndc thinks that named is running. --

Re: ITP: firehol -- a powerful and easy to use firewall configuration system

2003-05-24 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
. If there is no answer in a week, i'll ask my sponsor to upload the package [2] to the Debian archive. Marc Footnotes: [1] The mail was sent at Sunday, 04 May 2003. [2] http://marcbrockschmidt.de/debian/ -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever })e

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
re of HTML4/XHTML and CSS(|2|3) is the separation of structure and design (as you said): HTML should be used to structure content in a usable way (ie one can extract the given information from the document in every environment, with or without a CSS-capable display software) while CSS is used to creat

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
It would make Debian much less useful for the average LAMP > server. > > Maybe someone can enlighten me here? Read http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200308/msg00024.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200309/msg00030.html M

Re: Removal of transitional dummy packages

2005-07-18 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
de paths from old releases possible, so some packages support it, most don't. It's the same with downgrades: Some people care about them and change their packages to make them, most don't. Marc, doubting that there are any problems to update the lg-* packages From woody -- BOFH #340:

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
least not released with etch). Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 190: Cisco Protokolhure. (unbekannt) pgpfbiChxJKCj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I'm not sure if any additional AMs are necessary -- there is a > sufficient quantity of them to cover all current DD applicants... No. Marc -- BOFH #406: Bad cafeteria food landed all the sysadmins in the hospital.

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:51:53PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >>> I'm not sure if any additional AMs are necessary -- there is a >>> sufficient quantity of them to cover all current DD applic

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