Bug#382995: ITP: nekohtml -- HTML parser for Java

2006-08-14 Thread marcus
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: nekohtml Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : Andy Clark * URL or Web page : http://people.apache.org/~andyc/neko/doc/html/ * License : CyberNeko Software License, Version 1.0 Description : HTML parser for Java This is a

Bug#370592: RFH: tikiwiki -- groupware and content management system

2006-06-05 Thread marcus
administered through a web-based interface. Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-src cannot build

2005-02-16 Thread Marcus Sundman
->8 Any idea what might be wrong? - Marcus Sundman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-src cannot build

2005-02-17 Thread Marcus Sundman
On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:32, Michael Koch wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:09:41PM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:18, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:19:59AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > >

Re: apt-src cannot build

2005-02-17 Thread Marcus Sundman
On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:18, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:19:59AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I do the following (irrelevant output omitted): > > 8< > > /usr/src/

Re: apt-src cannot build

2005-02-17 Thread Marcus Sundman
On Thursday 17 February 2005 22:44, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:26:12PM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:32, Michael Koch wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:09:41PM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > > > On T

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2005-12-13 Thread Gillings, Marcus
I know this email is unorthodox, but I feel strongly that my creative ideas are what Pixar is looking for.  First of all, my name is Marcus Gillings.  I have two books I like to call "Super fiction" published.  Second, I love what Pixar has done thus far.  But there is so much

Re: [no subject]

2006-01-06 Thread Gillings, Marcus
Hello,       My name is Marcus Gillings.  There was an email sent from me on your website.  Can you please delete it and the contents in it, please.   Thank you,

Re: Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-17 Thread Marcus Frings
n of x-symbol in Debian. However, upstream seems to be dead, too. The last version was released in 2003 and is a beta. :-( Regards, Marcus -- Zapp Brannigan: "You win again, gravity!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

2006-02-20 Thread Marcus Better
Christian Perrier wrote: > I have voluntarily limited the scope of the project to TTF fonts, > which become more an more popular. Perhaps the PostScript fonts in Debian could use some attention as well. I've been trying to package a very simple PHP library which in the upstream version includes co

Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
, sound and nice animations. Oh, you can create own animations, too. However, there is an issue with the sound server. It was taken from koules, and Hubicka took it from xgalaga. I will check this soon. As soon I become registered as a developer, I will upload my package. Thank you, Marcus

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > Hello all! > > > > I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good > > old commodore 64 days?). > > >

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 12:20:10AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > I intend to package xsc

Re: FUN USE AND INSTALL DIRECTLY ON X WINDOW

1997-12-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can subscribe with "subscribe" in the body of a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PRO

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 06:46:20PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 12:20:10AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > I i

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-17 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 03:34:34PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > Hello all! > > > > I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good > > old commodore 64 days?). > >

Re: Can I take wml and eperl?

1997-12-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
bandwidth. (Note that I don't know if the executables provide the same functionality, I'm just guessing). (On the other hand, we could link all executables statically, because they would be smaller then 2 MB in most cases >:-] Merry christmess, Mrcs (whr r my vwls ?) -- "Rh

Re: Can I take wml and eperl?

1997-12-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 06:54:08PM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Sorry, do you mean that wml contains copies of m4, eperl, txt2html and > > other? If this is the case, they should be removed IMHO and wml should > > depend o

Re: next release ?

1997-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
e. Be sure to read the howto http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html before! thank you, Marcus who is "up dp hamm" for quite a few weeks now (GIMP is cool!) -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux Marcus Brinkmann

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
daemons, can run as "news", for example, so they don't have to run as root for special tasks (the news daemon only needs access to news specific files, and not to the usr directory, for example). This somewhat complicated mechanism does protect the system aga

Intend to package gtk-- ...

1997-12-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
the neat C++ syntax, derivation from classes, overriding virtual methods with C++ syntax There are a lot of misfeatures 'though: lack of documentation, gdk not fully supported yet, many others... see http://www.iki.fi/terop/gtk/gtk--.html for more information. Thank you, Marcus --

Re: Financial support

1998-01-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
w could evolve to the main debian documentation center it is supposed to be, as we have policy that preferred doc format is html, havn't we? > from me. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux Marcus Brinkmann

autmake & debian? (was: Re: cron jobs more often than daily)

1998-01-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
(which itself is created by autoconf out of configure.in) to Makefiles. Automake does support the GNU standard, a less restrict one, and (perhaps) the gnits standard (the new GNU standard). Will there be automake support for Debian packages ? Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."

Re: autmake & debian? (was: Re: cron jobs more often than daily)

1998-01-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:08:51PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Automake does support the GNU standard, a less restrict one, and (perhaps) > > the gnits standard (the new GNU standard). Will there be automake support >

Re: AucTeX

1998-01-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
naged > to make dvi files with ps images print right through magicfilter, I would > love to hear how you did it. Is there really a ps2dvi program? Or do you mean the other way round ? Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brin

Re: [?] egcs increases C++ binary size dramatically

1998-04-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
throw(); } for example. I don't know if egcs does make use of this promise by the programmer, but it certainly should. Take the bigger binary as a sign that the C++ support gets better. Maybe the size will go down again if it gets again far more better. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian

Re: [?] egcs increases C++ binary size dramatically

1998-04-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
So, the bigger size is more a sign of unefficient C++ programming style. Only to use exceptions in a few places and use other global error handling strategies most of the time is IMHO unnecessary. Marcus who prefers safety over brevity. -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU

Re: [?] egcs increases C++ binary size dramatically

1998-04-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 02:58:39PM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:01:46AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > However, you can give the compiler a hint that a function does not throw any > > exceptions by adding throw() at the right place: > > >

Re: [?] egcs increases C++ binary size dramatically

1998-04-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 05:15:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Exception handling is a powerful feature, and makes other global error > > strategies mostly unnecessary. Therefore the size of compiled and well > >

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I understand your concern, you want a stable Debian main Distribution. But for special hardware, you need some components. Those you can find in Extra. Some of these components could be a Kernel 2.1.x snapshot. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
on your modem. OTOH, we don't have a kernel-source package for hamm. So you have made your point, as I have made mine. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
mpt setting scheme, in hopes this > inspires someone else (any improvements greatly appreciated) Manoj, have you considerd autoconf support for this beast ;) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann htt

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
loper would know where to look, and it could be mentioned in a readme.new-kernel. > Acceptable? Sure. My only interest is that a 2.1.x kernel is on the CD ;) And I would not start fighting around for it... Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
nclude selected directories from there on the official CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)? Great idea Brian, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.d

Re: boot-floppies_2.0.4 (source i386) uploaded

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
alling base" > bug. I haven't had time to include pkgsel, but will try to do it in a few > days. And now, give those little * a hard testing time! :-) GRR. Just after downloading the "current" ones :-/ Will give them a try, thanks for your work Enrique! Marcus --

Re: [conradp@cse.unsw.EDU.AU: ANNOUNCE: Express (web browser) released]

1998-04-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
> that is installed before trying to use it. > > Source and screenshots are available at: > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/express/ [...] -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:19:03PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official > > CD (I think of gettext (ouch, d

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 04:50:05PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi. > > Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian. > > It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it > "

Re: Test Report (was: Re: boot-floppies_2.0.4 (source i386) uploaded)

1998-04-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:59:18AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 05:16:54AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > >2) irritating: When installing from a (not yet mounted) hard disk partition > > > and entering the path to the m

Re: [gtk-list] ANNOUNCE: GTK+ 1.0.0 Released!

1998-04-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ace change (e.g. do we need to upload new versions of related packages) ? Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gtk-list] ANNOUNCE: GTK+ 1.0.0 Released!

1998-04-15 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 05:32:17PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> Did the interface change (e.g. do we need to upload new > Marcus> versions of related packages

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ot. I think the whole thing about free software is to spread it. Probably not on the binary CD, but what about the source CD, which is mainly interesting for developers. I hope some vendors will be kind enough to be not so picky. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."D

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
us? We need it. Everyone needs a teddy. This is human psychology. Could you make xteddy pop up at kernel oops? ;) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.deb

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 01:07:34AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> Is gettext so unstable? I doubt it. > > Dpes not matter. We should be respecting the upstrea

Boot Disks and Adaptec 2940

1998-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hould be fixed (if at all possible). I can try fresh boot disks, but not before thursday. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [

Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
s of adaptec 2940 support, btw? Older boot disks hang during boot...) Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]fo

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:13:32PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:03:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > Enrique, could you *please* fix the help screens? They say you should boot > > "default options=value" and "rescue op

Re: License advice

1998-04-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
modificated versions and selling. Please point him kindly to Debian, the dfsg and to a more explicit license we require to put it in main. This would mean, that you point him to Artistic License, GPL, Xfree's and so on. Thank you, Marcus > Copyright (c) 1997-1998 by Armin Biere. >

Re: License advice

1998-04-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 06:20:21PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you > >> disagree. > &g

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
mber those? I have one, is it valuable?] to Alpha station) ;) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for pu

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
for newbies easier, for interested people it would be something to get starting with and all the prof's can improve it without caring about defaults ;) Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann

Re: 21164 must be fixed before 2.0.34 comes out!

1998-04-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
lthough someone submitted an entry for FWIW, IIRC ;) FWIW was the worst to find out for myself, it really puzzled me a long time, as non-native english speaker ;) CU, M -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann h

Re: consistency check

1998-04-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
and b) Repartitioning (here you have a good chance for a reinstall, because moving the root directories across partitions can be a pain, if you don't know your tools well (/dev and /proc comes to mind)). I still find your two rules of thumb very well said, I'm just a little verbose today

Re: License advice

1998-04-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 11:34:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcus Brinkmann) wrote on 23.04.98 in <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As far as I can tell this license is DF

Re: License advice

1998-04-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
However, it is not as obvious as you want to make us believe. Things that are not explicitely allowed are forbidden. Things that are not spelled out, are not there at all. There is only little room for interpretation of legal texts. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egy

Re: License advice

1998-04-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:40:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > And now my comments: > > 1) He does not mention that selling is allowed. So you are not allowed to > > sell it. > > Last time I heard, "red

Re: Pronouns (was Re: Proposed Constitution)

1998-04-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
;t have the time for kid games and name calling. I only ask you to have a footnote explaining: If you need it in your Ph.D. to warrant this language, you certainly want it in an internationally used document, too. Remember that Linux as well as Debian is an international project. Marcus -- "Rhubar

Re: Pronouns (was Re: Proposed Constitution)

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
e that Ian can provide such a list. Marcus On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 10:37:36PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope you are well aware of the fact that a lot of people will not > > understand it, and probably will ask you abo

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
velopers by some "higher person", but something the developers force on *themselves*. You can only experience real freedom if you feel the border. In short, I agree with Manoj. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
best system in the long run. I don't feel good about suboptimal configuration tools, they tend to create more problems then they solve. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
sly, this was not what Branden suggested. Sorry for the fuzz, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for p

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:36:37PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > While I agree with much of what you say about the need for policy to be > clear, I will continue to urge caution when being dictatorial about > policy. > > I only

Suggestions for base package

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ried it and it worked out of the box. He also suggested to add a few default nameserver to resolv.conf if empty. I have to admit, that I too have problems to remember the number of my local ns sometimes, which can be a pit when needed. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."De

COAS & Debian (was: Re: Ease of use and configurability)

1998-05-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Obviously, this has somewhat changed. I don't know if he is still working on it. I asked him some time ago, but got no response. Perhaps we should create a COAS for Debian group? Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkm

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ved works are forbidden? " ...provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact and is not made part of any program either in whole or in part [...]." IIRC, we have to be able to derive a program (or would you allow a 10MB patch?). Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.&

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

1998-06-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
tion and > source code? > Or how about those C(++) systems that let you write documentation and source > code in one file? Yes, you make very valid points here. IMO, this problem rises now because we have more and better documentation than some years ago. Marcus -- "Rh

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

1998-06-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ist when I get an answer. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://hom

Is Chris Anderson MIA?

2006-10-16 Thread Marcus Better
Hi, does anyone have information on the whereabouts of Chris Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the maintainer of php-date? I'm trying to get the package updated because it's severely outdated, but I haven't received any responses on either bug reports or private e-mail. Marcus

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-08 Thread Marcus Better
ention to a package without notice, and are never unlisted from the Uploaders field [1], until the package is effectively orphaned. This scheme does not discourage such "fire-and-forget" behaviour. I think it's a very good idea to have a single lead Maintainer. Marcus [1] http://li

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-08 Thread Marcus Better
Christoph Berg wrote: > Note that you can subscribe additional packages to any maintainer > view. The GIS team does that: Is there a way to subscribe a mailing list to receive bug reports also, without having the mailing list in the Maintainer field? Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-04-30 Thread Marcus Better
D/DejaVu-Sans.ttf"(s) Is there a way to use fc-match to locate a Type1 font (pfb) and also its associated font metrics (the afm file)? Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEVSFhXjXn6TzcAQkRAt1DAKCVI2yEibbdFoNp/pzK7YkbC1ApZACfZtrC uRwegAoBJyh

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-05-03 Thread Marcus Better
ctly, I think > fontconfig cannot locate the .afm. Ok, do you know of some other way to do the above? Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread Marcus Better
for svn, that would understand this repository layout, keep better track of the various branches and make it easier to switch between them, update to new upstream versions, etc. Does anyone else have thoughts in this direction? Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread Marcus Better
martin f krafft wrote: > Well, ideally the support tool should not impose on the structure Yes, svn-buildpackage is quite nice since it's easy to tell it about your layout. Something like that could work here as well. > SVN does not track merges across branches, unless you do it in the > changelo

Re: Which gcc builds potato?

1999-09-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
working on it, and I am sure we will follow very soon, but anyway, currently egcs is the only option for us. (gcc 2.95.x couldn't compile itself last time I tried). Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
[OK] Note that Gtk-- is currently completely revamped, and although there probably will be an update, Gtk-- 1.0 is mostly dead meat. I am not sure 1.1. makes it into potato though. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Lizard / Debian

1999-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
usable over a serial line?), nor from the license (IMHO). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 3

Re: Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
of free information and data available. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 h

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
download: > 1.0.40 3196381 Sep 27 15:19 gnome-libs-1.0.42.tar.gz and recompile. Will be done in no time. Don't worry. But only if it is installed in the archive by now (last time I checked it was stuck in incoming). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://

Re: architectures, endianness

1999-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ld check the endianess with the AC_C_BIGENDIAN at configure time, at least if it is an autoconf program, which it should be. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key

Re: architectures, endianness

1999-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
program if __BYTE_ORDER is not defined, so you get it right even on machines which don't define this macro in their header files. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgf

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote: > > Please tell me what for do we need doc-base? To piss off people like you of course. Shaking my head in despair. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcu

Re: Is XEmacs nonfree?

1999-09-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
t require legal papers from contributors, we just don't care and hope that our ass is covered by our good intentions (we act responsible and in good faith). No problems with XEmacs. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Br

Corel changes BTA?

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ed in this Agreement. Nothing in this section shall effect the rights of copyright holders of non-Corel Software or the rights granted to User under license by such copyright holders. Part 13: Confidentiaity of Information [This section has in BOLD:] For clarity, non-Corel Software is not consi

Re: Is XEmacs nonfree?

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:14:15AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > The FSF does only include code in GNU programs if the author assigns the > > copyright to the FSF by signing a paper. > > Wrong. > > Take a look

Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:53:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1] Indeed. I think we can drop this idea altogether. How many people do use passwords on groups anyway? thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.'

Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 07:44:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:28:53AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:53:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1]

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
but that doesn't excuse academic or market research > surveys. Yes. What I find acceptable are snail mail surveys. Those can be easily ignored, and are paid by the sender. (Note that I find mail advertisement highly offensive, but surveys are not at all comparable in mass). Thanks, Marcus

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
not user independant is it? On the Hurd it is! > The system can not be set so that one user > has support for running Java/JPEGs from the command line, and another does > not? Yes! Oh, you mean Linux? No. See above :) http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
stem. > Changing the mime-type for one file would automatically effect > all programs. Yep. For this and other stuff (package managment) a filesystem which can store arbitrary metadata would be nice. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org C

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
gy, non-conforming HTML is not a good thing to start with. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key I

Re: procps trying to overwrite /bin/kill

1999-10-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
rd would be without a kill. But then, we haven't ported util-linux yet (we can still use their kill even if linux ports don't). Maybe we should just fork out our own version of kill, as this seems to be the last fashion here. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian h

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
foo2 \ && (cmp tmp-foo1 tmp-foo2 > /dev/null 2>&1 || echo $$file differs >> .bad_compare) || true; \ done Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp:

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
as the industry. Making last minute changes and rushing in x.0 versions of critical software is just Plain Wrong. Especially the Linux kernels are often very unstable 'til x.12 or 14. Everytime a new version of the kernel is released the same story. Sigh. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:44:39PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> Making last minute changes and rushing in x.0 versions of > Marcus> critical software is just Plain Wrong. Esp

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:37:01PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The simple fact you are missing is that Debian is not an industry. > > Which doesn't mean that all arguments are not valid. As Manoj

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
defining ProjectRoot to > /usr for 4.0. Upstream has already moved almost entirely to the way Debian > currently does things as far as filesystem layout goes. If you do this, I would cheerfully go with ProjectRoot / on the Hurd! Please :) Thanks, Marcus

Re: Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
get. Only if there isn't a copyright file somewhere laying around, giving a license to us. Probably contact borland for a license if there isn't. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUh

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
l to make a package which looks different from the "official" package. The debian-snapshot list was created to aim at a solution, but nothing came out of it so far. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Compiling Error

2000-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
know the fix. Now you just have to accept it. > The following modification is obvius and Iam not interested in it. Tough. Thanks, Marcus > > -- > #include > > FILE *output; > > int main() > { >output=stderr; >fprintf(output,"Hello World\n"); > } > ---

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