Re: Remove

2005-11-25 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Ken Bloom wrote: Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Chris Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:54:12PM +, paddy wrote: I though a robots.txt thingy on the list web archive is coming to the rescue ? Huh? Isn't having the lists searchable gen

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Daniel Baumann wrote: Lars Wirzenius wrote: I don't like those laws, but publically urging people to violate them isn't going to do anyone any good. Hu? Why should it be illegal to re-sell or outreach a piece of US hardware, which is already imported into a free country, into another

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-23 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Andrew Suffield wrote: On the other hand, I think there might be some benefit to requiring that the Maintainer field must always denote one single Debian developer, who would be the "buck stops here" guy for that package. Not an applicant, not a mailing list, and not a group of people. I believe

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-23 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Eric Dorland wrote: but this change is the sort of thing that will help the change perception of Debian for people who think we're a bunch of crazies. Wait...is that an arguement for or against? ;-) Benjamin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-23 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: On the other hand, I think there might be some benefit to requiring that the Maintainer field must always denote one single Debian developer, who would be the "

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-24 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Frank Küster wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Instead, why not propose a Responsible-For: header for control that lists a person inside the project who th

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-28 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Michelle Konzack wrote: Please not, that I had berween 12/1999 and 12/2004 a contract with a Parisian ISP for a OC-3 and Hosting of one 19" Rack (210cm, 600kg). I have payed including unlimited traffic 499.998 French Francs (76.000 Euro) per month and my own Class-C Block registered at RIPE. I

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-28 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Please not, that I had berween 12/1999 and 12/2004 a contract with a Parisian ISP for a OC-3 and Hosting of one 19" Rack (210cm, 600kg). I have payed including unlimited traffic 499.998 French Francs (76.000 Euro) per month and my own

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 09:02 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: - Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via packet radio, where swearing is illegal. This sentence surprised me in quite some ways: - "besides": besides what? Do not swear, an

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Yes, the FCC. See part 97 of the FCC rules (US CFR Title 47), specifically § 97.113(1) [0] Err, sorry, I meant § 97.113(a)(4). Also, my previous message applies to amateur operators in the US. Amateurs in other nations are similiary regulated by their

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Miles Bader wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Err, sorry, I meant § 97.113(a)(4). Also, my previous message applies to amateur operators in the US. Amateurs in other nations are similiary regulated by their equivelent to the FCC, with similar rules which are all

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-10 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: - Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via packet radio, where swearing is illegal. Are you saying some people are transmitting the lists via radio without taking personal responsiblit

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-16 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Joey Hess wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: Although sarge's aptitude did.. I don't know, there were no ways to upgrade to sarge's aptitude. The bug log contains a log of astronut doing the upgrade with sarge's aptitude.. I think the bigger problem is not whether it's possible

Re: For those who care about the GR

2006-01-22 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: 2006/1/22, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This goes even further here, because the DFSG is not even a strict set of rules but are guidelines. As we all know, guidelines are subject to interpretation on a case-by-case basis, that's what distinguishes them f

Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

2006-01-25 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Joe Wreschnig wrote: It's clear to me you've never had to use an iRiver's Ogg support. It fails outside a limited bitrate range, drains battery faster, does not read metadata, and is not available on all devices. Newer iRivers also use a proprietary communications protocol that is not yet suppor

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Nathanael Nerode wrote: Incidentally, if I ever become a DD, I *will* immediately propose a GR to amend the Social Contract to explicitly allow unmodifiable license texts in Debian, since it technically doesn't, but everyone agrees that it should. I'd welcome someone else beating me to it.

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Xavier Roche dijo [Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:55:57AM +0100]: So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have to provide the sources (the DNA full sequence) if I want to give a kitten to someone, following the "free" s

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-25 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Since I have no valid ID-Card (problens with France, since I am origin > iranish/turkish witeh illegal german adoptivp arents) I can not enter > the NM... nobody can sign legaly my GPG key and more bs. > > Maybe if I go back to Iran or Turkey it would be possible for me. >

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:01:21AM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >> Michelle Konzack wrote: >> >>> Since I have no valid ID-Card (problens with France, since I am origin >>> iranish/turkish witeh illegal german adoptiv

Re: Conditionally applying an architecture-dependent patch

2006-11-27 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Shaun Jackman wrote: > When using CDBS, what is the best way to conditionally apply an > architecture-dependent patch. I'm using CDBS, but not yet using a > patch system such as simple-patchsys, dpatch, or quilt, so > recommendations of a patch system are welcome. Currently I have... > > ARCH64 :=

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Shaun Jackman wrote: > On 11/28/06, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm personally leaning towards to two arch: all packages (one 32-bit, >> one 64-bit) and a meta-package which depends on the right one. I am >> considering and open to the one arch: any package though. If it >> affects

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-29 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Benjamin Seidenberg: > > >> Less archive/mirror bloat. >> > > Which is easily nullified if the more complex Architecture: all > approach needs more bug fixes. > > > Except old versions are dropped from mirrors. So after

Re: Bug#401227: ITP: metacafe-dl -- download videos from metacafe.com

2006-12-02 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: metacafe-dl > Version : 2006.11.25 > Upstream Author : Ricardo García González > * URL : http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/metacafe-dl/ >

Re: shared libraries dependecy problem.

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Grzegorz Bizon wrote: > Hi. > > I have problem with dependecies on shared libraries in my package > (tleenx2). > Linda complains that: > W: tleenx2; A binary links against a library that is not depended on. > (By the way - shoudn't it be error rather than warning ?) > Linda seems to be doing th

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi *, > I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing > that "I'll be in MN in US from MAR 01 thru 05" and I'd like to have a > beer and do keysigning. Would it be worthwhile to create a list like > 'debian-meetup' (or debian-beer-meetup x-))that woul

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-25 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >> Kevin Mark wrote: >> >>> Hi *, >>> I noticed on occassion on -devel and planet that folks mention in passing >>> that "I'll be in MN in US f

Re: Keysignings and other "meetups" (Was: etch before vista)

2006-03-25 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Luk Claes wrote: > Jeroen Massar wrote: > >> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:53 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: >> >> >>> Kevin Mark wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Benjamin Sei

Re: Bug#360224: ITP: dglog -- CGI log analyzer for DansGuardian

2006-03-31 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Elizabeth Krumbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: dglog > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : Jimmy Myrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.tiger.org/technology/dg/ > * License

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:48:48AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 04:46:10PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: >> >>> Package: debian-policy >>> Version: 3.6.2.2 >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> Background: >>> -- >>> The menu structure

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:40:34PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >> 2.1 Multiple advocates >> -- >> > > >> Ask for more than one advocate (at the moment, I'm thinking about >> two). This should get the number of people advocated with a

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-16 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > To the practitioners, it is HAM radio. Not Amatuer radio -- > and the only reason we are considering not calling it ham since > ignorant users should not be confused. Sounds like dumbing down to > me. > > manoj > > Eh? I use amateur radio all the t

Re: Please remove rules.old

2006-04-17 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file > | called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup > | copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve McIntyre] > >> I can see that more and more of my own Debian IRC discussions are on >> oftc, to the extent that I'm (currently) not on any freenode >> channels at all. >> > > For me it is the other way around. I am currently on one channel on > OFTC, whi

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> [Steve McIntyre] >> >> >>> I can see that more and more of my own Debian IRC discussions are on >>> oftc, to the extent that I'm (currently) not on any freenode >>>

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-29 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:42:16PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > >> I think it's debconf time and everything is slower, but will be as >> usual when it's end and everyone came back to his/her normal work. >> > > The point of the first mail was exactly

Re: mystery of dh_installdirs

2006-06-10 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi all, I got an FTBFS bug yesterday; > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:13:53 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > >> Package: lynx-cur >> Version: 2.8.6dev18-1 >> Severity: serious >> >> There was an error while trying to autobuild your package: >> > ... > >>> install -m 75

Re: SUMMARY -- Generic handling of WORD, EXCEL, FILE MANGER ...

2006-06-15 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Jari Aalto+usenet wrote: [] > Where items proposed for graphical programs could include: > x-word-processor > x-spreadsheet > x-file-manager > x-archiver > x-media-player or "x-video-player" > x-media-editor or "x-media-mas

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

2006-06-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Joe Smith wrote: > > "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * Package name: googleearth-package >> Upstream Author : Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

2006-06-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Ron Johnson wrote: > Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >> Joe Smith wrote: > >>> "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > >>>> Package: wnpp > >>>> Severity: wishlist > >>>> Owner: "

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I have to start yet another discussion about our packaging > practise. Did anyone ever take a look at our > /usr/share/doc//README{,.gz} files? If the users have > difficulties with a package, we often reply "Why didn't you

Re: Mindterm

2005-08-20 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:15:45PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > >> Proxies and firewalling is not in my experience a huge trouble in >> these environments; the general non-availablity of any other >> software

Re: Mindterm

2005-08-21 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:18:29AM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg > wrote: > >> Many internet cafe's or kiosk computers (or school computers, >> *sigh* though they're a lot better than they

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Proulx wrote: > David Pashley wrote: > >>> Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. >> >> No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on >> Google. > > > That is exactly the point. We DO NOT WANT people to find the > Debian mailin

Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: gaim-slashexec Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Gary Kramlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Lawler Daniel 'datallah

Re: Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
owner 327425 ! thanks Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: gaim-slashexec Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Gary Kramlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:24:20PM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Sorry, missed a field. Also used wrong email (annoyed at reportbug for not honoring $DEBEMAIL) Err, it does? Hamish See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324341 . It now

Re: Easy third-party package installer for debian-based distributions

2005-09-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK, may be an overkill. But what happens with your solution if skype depends on libskype, which is not available from debian's repository ?The user has to download several .debs in order to install a single software ? Skype should se

Re: Bug#331528: ITP: debinstaller -- a graphical frontend for installing local .deb packages

2005-10-05 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Joe Smith wrote: I wonder why nobody did implement that feature before. I imagine (without knowing much about APT's internals), the pseudocode would look like that: - install command gets the list - if the package does not exist in the cache and the given string is a file, then: - read the

Re: Bug#333844: override changes are not announced to the package maintainers

2005-10-13 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Matthias Klose wrote: Package: general override change are not announced to the package maintainers, _after_ a package is uploaded. I don't beleive this is true. I just got the following email from the archive: --- Subject: easyh10 override disparity There are disparities between your

Re: eidviewer menu entry

2005-11-12 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 06:33:07AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:44:50AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [eidviewer menu category] These things are about user identity and authentication for possibly bank transactions or login like cryptog

Re: New README.source documentation for Debian packages

2008-04-29 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.29.0113 +0200]: >> Here is a sample of the sort of documentation that would satisfy this >> recommendation, written for a package that's using quilt: > > Might I suggest that for such cases, a common file explaining how

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-28 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Joey Hess > > | > (b) source only uploads are in my experience very often badly tested > | > if they're even tested at all. For a long time after Ubuntu > | > switched to source only uploads, it was really obvious that a > | > large number of them hadn't

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-11 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:47:48AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yeah, you're perfectly right. That's the best advice one could give to >> not so active DD who doesn't want to lose much time («"lose" the time to >> vote so you don't "lose" the t

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-18 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Theodore Tso wrote: > > At the moment, if you want ^C to interrupt the e2fsck and you want the > boot to continue, you actually have to set the following in > /etc/e2fsck.conf: > > [options] > allow_cancellation = 1 > > See the e2fsck.conf(8) man page for more details. > > Regards, > >

Re: Bug#412570: ITP: fldigi -- digital modem program for hamradio operators

2007-03-06 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: fldigi > Version : 1.30 > Upstream Author : David H. Freese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.w1hkj.com/Fldigi.html > * License :

Re: Bug#412570: ITP: fldigi -- digital modem program for hamradio operators

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I would suggest adding a word about the interface - is it a GUI or >> console program? >> > > FLTK is a GUI toolkit. > > Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature