Re: Bug#278288: ITP: python-gtkmvc -- Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for pygtk

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:22:55PM +0100, Johannes Jordens said
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> * Package name: python-gtkmvc
>   Version : x.y.z
>   Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)

Erm?

>   Description : Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for pygtk
> 
>  This MVC for pygtk2 helps with writing well structured code by
>  splitting
>  the program's code into three distinctive sections. A program
>  written using this MVC pattern usually contains four parts: The view
>  (providing access to the Glade widget tree), the controller (providing
>  glue functions), the model (providing the abstract logic) and the main
>  program (simply connecting the three parts mentioned before).
>  For more information please visit 

Does look interesting, though.

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Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:20:19AM -0700, Ian Bruce said
> Now that gzip has the "--rsyncable" option, wouldn't it be feasible to
> rsync against compressed Packages files rather than having to keep the
> uncompressed ones around for this purpose?

You have to explicitly enable this option, which is not currently done.

-rob

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Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

[Rob Weir]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:37:08PM +1100, Matthew Palmer said
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:07PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > It gives you traceability and it can be used to prevent joe-jobs.
> > It's not a silver bullet solution against spam.
> 
> And yet it's being touted as one.  I predict that the effect of this system
> on spam levels will be about as detectable on a spam vs time graph as a fart
> in a hurricane.

I'm not sure why it's being touted as one;  SPF has the same issue.
Encouraging adoption of something by misrepresenting its use seems
rather pointless in the end.

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

[Rob Weir]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 06:02:48PM -0600, Marco Alfonso said
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Marco Alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> * Package name: gtk2-engines-clearlooks
>   Version : 0.4
>   Upstream Author : Marco Alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://maop.puntodeb.net/

Hrm, I can't seem to find anything about it at this URL...perhaps
there's a more specific one?

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Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:58:55PM -0600, Jacob Schroeder said
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:31:53 +
> Ben Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm looking for a new laptop, and wondered what DDs used. I might go
> > for the Apple 15" powerbook, but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > My apologies for this slightly off-topic post...
> 
> I hear iBooks have a much better value for the money. Not just from a

iBook's are quite solid little machines, but be aware that you cannot
use their internal wireless under Linux. Same with the powerbooks, but
you can at least use a pcmcia card there (on the 15" and 17" ones).

-rob

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Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:32:18PM -0600, Jacob S said
> pcmcia. For that matter though, I can't see that much difference in a
> wireless usb stick and a pcmcia when the usb and iBook are both used
> without modification.

Having something flimsy stick two inches out the side of the iBook is
very very noticable.

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Re: Bug#292105: ITP: libmusepack -- Musepack (MPC) format decoder library

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:16:08PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig said
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name: libmusepack
>   Version : 1.1
>   Upstream Author : The Musepack Development Team
> * URL : http://www.musepack.net
> * License : 3-clause BSD
>   Description : Musepack (MPC) format decoder library
> 
> libmusepack allows you to decode files in the Musepack audio format,
> which usually use the 'mpc' extension. MPC is a lossy compression format
> like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms,
> but has vastly improved.

This sounds interesting, but perhaps you could elaborate on how it is
vastly improved?  Better quality for the same bitrate?  Less distortion?
Lower bitrate/same quality?  etc.

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Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

[Rob Weir]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name: lopster2
>   Version : cvs pre3.9
>   Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at users.sourceforge.net
> * URL : lopster.sf.net
> * License : GPL
>   Description : gtk2 filesharing client that supports many protocols
> 
> Gtk2 version of the famous napster client atm it supports only
> napster but in the future:

Is this program compatible with the current napster protocol?

-rob

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Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

[Rob Weir]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: bazaar
  Version : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Bazaar Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://bazaar.canonical.com/
* License : GPL
  Description : arch-based distributed revision control system

GNU Arch is a revision control system with features that are ideal for projects
characterised by widely distributed development, concurrent support of
multiple releases, and substantial amounts of development on branches.
It can be a replacement for CVS and corrects many mis-features of that system.
.
bazaar is an implementation of Arch in C, based on tla.  It focuses on making
tla's UI more accessible, but also has smarter merging and gettext support.

James Blackwell and I will be co-maintaining.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:12:53PM +0100, giskard said
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:40:30 +1100
> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > * Package name: lopster2
> > >   Version : cvs pre3.9
> > >   Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at users.sourceforge.net
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Why don't you let the maintainer of the existing 'lopster' package
> > maintain lopster2? Have you discussed it with him?
> > 
> > I have been the victim of new-version-package-hijacking in the past
> > and I find it quite rude. However it's OK if you have discussed it
> > with the current maintainer and have their permission.
> > 
> > 
> > Hamish
> hi,
> 
> The current maintainer of lopster is MIA AFAIK (August 2004 last
> action/mail). 
> I mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for a check (i intend to adopt it
> if they will'orphan lopster). 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the list address...there's also [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you want to semi-privately raise concerns about someone's MIA-ness.

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Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:38:18PM +0100, giskard said
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:01 +1100
> Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > * Package name: lopster2
> > >   Version : cvs pre3.9
> > >   Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at users.sourceforge.net
> > > * URL : lopster.sf.net
> > > * License : GPL
> > >   Description : gtk2 filesharing client that supports many
> > >   protocols
> > > 
> > > Gtk2 version of the famous napster client atm it supports only
> > > napster but in the future:
> > 
> > Is this program compatible with the current napster protocol?
> 
> napster is supported here is a table of what (ATM) is supported
> 
>   ,.==+==+==+==+==+==+==.
>   | FEATURE \ NET | NAP  | SLSK |  DC  | E2K  | GNT  | FST  |
>   +==`+==+==+==+==+==+==+
>   | login | yes  | yes  |  no  | yes  | yes  | yes  |
>   +---+--+--+--+--+--+--+
>   | multi-login   | yes  | yes¹ |  no  | yes¹ | yes  | yes¹ |
>   +---+--+--+--+--+--+--+
>   | share | yes  | yes  |  no  | yes  | yes  | yes  |
>   +---+--+--+--+--+--+--+
>   | chat  | yes  | yes  |  no  |  --  |  --  |  --  |
>   +---+--+--+--+--+--+--+
>   | search| yes  | yes  |  no  | yes² |  no  | yes  |
>   +---+--+--+--+--+--+--+
>   | buddy | yes  | yes  |  ?   |  --  |  --  |  ?   |
>   +---+--+--+--+--+--+--+
>   | browse| yes  | yes  |  ?   |  ?   |  ?   |  no  |
>   +---+--+--+--+--+--+--+
>   | download  |  no  |  no  |  no  |  no  |  no  |  no  |
   ^
Does this mean you can't download from any of the networks?

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Bug#199864: ITP: kahakai -- a highly customisable and scriptable window manager

[Rob Weir]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: kahakai
  Version : 0.2.1
  Upstream Author : The Kahakai Team
* URL : http://kahakai.sf.net/
* License : GPL, v2 or later
  Description : a highly customisable and scriptable window manager

 Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, adding a number of
 new features, most notably scripting support.  It uses Swig, so a
 number of backend scripting languages are possible, though only the
 Python bindings are currently working.
 .
 It still supports the features that made Waimea so neat:
  * Xft-based font rendering, for very nice-looking text.
  * Support for both viewports and virtual desktops.
  * A very flexible `style' system, including support for Blackbox themes.
  * Pseudo-transparent window decorations.

It currently only builds with libswig1.3 and swig1.3 1.3.17, unfortunately,
neither of which are in sid anymore.  See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=753568&group_id=1645&atid=101645
for more information.  Test packages are available with this sources.list line:
http://www.ertius.org.org/packages/kahakai/ ./
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Re: lyx

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said
> 
> lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't
> been rebuilt with the new versions.  What is the current NMU policy
> for such packages?

Please don't NMU it, I'm the maintainer and tried to have it uploaded
last week, but it FTBFS for my sponsor due to #328684.  That bug's been
fixed in unstable for a few days now, and I've added a build-dep on the
fixed g++ version (as suggested by a buildd maintainer), so it should be
ready to go once I finish this test build.

-rob


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Re: lyx

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:52:02PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >> lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't
> >> been rebuilt with the new versions.  What is the current NMU policy
> >> for such packages?
> >
> > At this point in time?  Do it if you are up to it, and it can even be 0-day
> > if you're sure you did it right.  
> >
> > From memory, lyx is a major mess that FTBFS with gcc4 in very horripilant
> > ways, uses yada, and is otherwise NMU-unfriendly IMHO.  But it has been some
> > time since I tried to build it.
> 
> Blech.  The current team hasn't responded to my emails, but my
> complaint is that it has bugs marked "pending upload" for nearly two
> weeks now.

I don't recall getting any emails from you, but it's been pending upload
due to #328684.

-rob


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Re: lyx

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:11:05PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said
> >From memory, lyx is a major mess that FTBFS with gcc4 in very horripilant
> ways, uses yada, and is otherwise NMU-unfriendly IMHO.  But it has been some
> time since I tried to build it.
> 
> It is also outdated (1.3.6 is available upstream since July, 16th).  Maybe
> the new upstream version has better code and will compile cleanly with gcc
> 4.

1.3.6 compiles cleanly with gcc 4.0, yes (aside from #328684).

> IMHO lyx really needs new extra blood maintaining it, and maybe even to be
> repackaged from scratch.  Sorry, I do not have enough time to tack such a
> major cleanup in such a complex application right now, or I'd be offering
> myself (I like lyx a lot and use it for my texts as much as I can).

Sorry about the delay, but it has been repackaged from scratch to use
debhelper (though debian/rules is still kinda gross, patches welcome).

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Re: lyx

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:05:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't
> > > been rebuilt with the new versions.  What is the current NMU policy
> > > for such packages?
> > 
> > I understand that the maintainer (or most active uploader, whatever) has
> > been looking for sponsorship for his upload for a while ...
> 
> Where is he? I will sponsor lyx quite gladly, as long as the thing is not as
> hideous to understand as the current one in unstable.

The source is at http://crumbs.ertius.org/~rob/debian/lyx/, feel free to
upload it if you think it's ok.

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Re: lyx

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:39:34PM +1000, Rob Weir said
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said
> > 
> > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't
> > been rebuilt with the new versions.  What is the current NMU policy
> > for such packages?
> 
> Please don't NMU it, I'm the maintainer and tried to have it uploaded
> last week, but it FTBFS for my sponsor due to #328684.  That bug's been
> fixed in unstable for a few days now, and I've added a build-dep on the
> fixed g++ version (as suggested by a buildd maintainer), so it should be
> ready to go once I finish this test build.

And it's now been accepted by katie, thanks to Joshua Kwan.

-rob


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Re: Bug#333438: ITP: gtk2hs -- A GUI library for Haskell based on GTK

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:28:24PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva said
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> This is a very important package for haskell developers.
> 
> * Package name: gtk2hs
>   Version : x.y.z
>   Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
>   Description : A GUI library for Haskell based on GTK

Don't forget to find this out before uploading ;)

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Re: Please help me with this script!

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:04:36PM +0300, Mihai Felseghi said
>  Hello , my name is Mihai Felseghi and I am interesed in becoming an Debian
> maintainer and for the start I want to build some packages on my own machine
> and learning how to do it .
> One of these days I was reading the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" and
> found a script wich finds out what packages are nedded for building another
> package :
> 
> strace -f -o /tmp/log ./configure
> # or make instead of ./configure, if the package doesn t use autoconf
> for x in dpkg -S $(grep open /tmp/log|\
> perl -pe 's!.* open\(\"([^\"]*).*!$1!' |\
> grep "^/"| sort | uniq|\
> grep -v "^\(/tmp\|/dev\|/proc\)" ) 2>/dev/null|\
> cut -f1 -d":"| sort | uniq'; \
> do \
> echo -n "$x (>=" 'dpkg -s $x|grep ^Version|cut -f2 -d":" ' "), "; \
> done
> 
> but this does not work or maybe I don't know how to use it .
> 
> So please help me with this issue , maybe you could give an advice where to
> find such a script or what I have to modify to make this work.
Perhaps try asking on the debian-mentors mailing list?

-rob


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Re: Alacarte - GNOME menu editor

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:54:52AM +1100, Rob Weir said
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name: alacarte
>   Version : 0.8
> * Upstream Author : Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.realistanew.com/projects/alacarte/
> * License : GPL v2.
>   Description : GNOME-based freedesktop.org menu editor
> 
> Alacarte is an menu editor for GNOME that can add and edit new entries and
> menus. It works with the freedesktop.org menu specification and should work
> with any desktop environment that uses the spec.

Erk, forgot x-debbugs-cc.

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Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

[Rob Weir]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:38:51AM -0800, Nick Jacobs said
> In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a
> significant amount of work should be done to restore
> support for a processor that has not been manufactured
> for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance for
> the 99.9% of x86 users who have Pentium/Athlon/or
> better?

I don't know if they're still made or not, but they are certainly still
being put into new devices (I've not seen one running Debian, though).

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Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

[Rob Weir]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:14:11PM -0800, Erast Benson said
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:36 -0800, Alex Ross wrote:
> > > > Do you plan to submit your port as an official port to Debian once
> > > it
> > > > stabilizes?  
> > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > Wasn't this already discussed regarding CDDL being not compatible with
> > DFSGs?
> > 
> > Otherwise, hit myself with a cluebat :)
> > 
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00893.html
> > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alvaro?entry=why_i_do_think_opensolaris
> > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alvaro?anchor=debian_with_opensolaris_a_broken
> 
> World is changed since then, and today we have Nexenta OS. This forces

We do?  Where can I download it?  www.nexenta.com just points at
www.gnusolaris.org, but that page still requires http auth to see.

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Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:47:30AM -0500, Greg Stark said
> or perhaps a little less automatic,
> 
> apt-cache show libc6
> 
> to list the available revisions then explicitly
> 
> apt-get install libc6:2.3.2-8

With a s/:/=/ and a sources.list line pointing at sid, say, two days ago
on http://snapshot.debian.net/, this would have worked.  If the Debian
Reference doesn't mention this, it certainly should, but this is
something that your friend could have solved by asking another Debian
user IRL, on debian-user or on IRC.  When people say "newbies shouldn't
use unstable", they're not (generally) being elitist, it's shorthand for
"newbies won't know about the tools they need to fix their systems when
unstable goes bad".

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Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:39:46PM +0100, Peter Busser said
> > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote:
> > > In fact, anyone can do it Russell, I'm pretty sure even you can do
> > > it:
> > Why not volunteer to make the .deb, get a sponsor and get it uploaded
> > then?
> 
> Good idea! Already did that in fact. So who do I send this new kernel-source
> .deb to?

Put it up somewhere and then ask on the debian-mentors
(@lists.debian.org) list for a sponsor.  I sure hope you mean "...this
new kernel-patch .deb...", though, since adding an entirely new kernel
source package for a patch that "takes less time to apply the patch to
the Debian kernel than the time that is wasted on this discussion" seems
silly.

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Re: Kernel 2.4.18 and GCC 3.3 (not a good mix)

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:05:02AM +0100, smurfd said
> Seems that gcc 3.3 and kernel 2.4.18 (with grsec patch) dont like
> eachother.

Yes, this is a well-known problem.  Use gcc 2.95.4 (which is still the
recommended compiler for 2.4, anyway) or upgrade to 2.4.23.  Also,
2.4.18 has at least two local root holes, one of which is not stopped by
grsecurity.

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Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:19:16PM +0900, GOTO Masanori said
> BTW, the coming Linux kernel 2.6 will support sysfs, replacement for
> procfs (/proc).  

A replacement? I'm pretty sure you need both; /sysfs doesn't include
*everything* that /proc does (and vice-versa).  I'm not sure what the
long-term plans are, but /sysfs can't replace /proc right now.

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Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:51:01PM +0200, Joachim Reichel said
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name: core

This seems a tad generic, especially since it's a library.  Maybe
libcoremath or libcore++?

-rob

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Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:18:29AM -0400, Brendan said
> On Monday 04 October 2004 01:26, Jules Dubois wrote:
> > I may never get totally open source, but one of the biggest reasons is
> > that some Linux (and presumably BSD) users buy their hardware anyway.  The
> > attitudes of ATI and Nvidia (and others) says clearly that they don't care
> > about their customers.  I'm not buying their excuses or their products.
> 
> Oh snore. You obviously have never been in the hardware business, and have 
> zero clue what it takes to make a business fly. Please, saying things like 
> "they obviously don't care about their customers" just highlights your 
> ignorance.

So why not release documentation for the freaking card?  Even if it was
under a NDA to some exclusive group of developers, we could at least
have Free drivers.

> They care enough to make a driver. Yeah, what about the other companies?

I don't know if ATI wrote the driver or just provided docs, but my
Radeon 9200 works perfectly with Free drivers.

-rob

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Re: proposal: factoids bot on #debian-devel

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:45:55PM +0200, martin f krafft said
> On #debian-devel, we tend to answer the same questions over and
> over again:
> 
>   - when will the freeze start? ("not today")
>   - can someone help me with autoconf? ("-> #devtools")
>   - i cannot get my sound working? ("-> #debian, #alsa")
>   [ad infinitum...]
> 
> The /topic is used for the most important stuff, but its limited in
> length, and not everybody reads it.

Is this any more useful than a wiki FAQ?

-rob

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Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:05:45PM +0300, George Danchev said
> > oh well, msmtp has TLS and SASL and IPv6, so I guess it is more
> > featureful than nullmailer...
> 
> and much more ... also has msmtpqueue which is a pair of very simple shell 
> scripts that allows you to "queue" mails and send them all at a later time 
> (useful for dialup connections: write your mails offline and send them when 
> you are online).

Hah, so unlike things like exim and postfix...

-rob

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Re: discover or alsa?

[Rob Weir]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka said
> |--==> Wouter Verhelst writes:
> 
>   WV> [1  ]
>   WV> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:51:46AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>   >>On Oct 13, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   >>> Lots of users are reporting that ALSA sound doesn't "just" work when
>   >>> they install it.  The cause of the problem is the fact that discover
>   >>> loads OSS modules even when ALSA modules are available.  This bug cannot
>   >>> be worked around consistently with policy because discover offers no
>   >>> mechanism for blacklisting modules other than editing a conffile.  The
>   >>> bug report against discover1 (#220616) has been tagged "wontfix" so I am
>   >>> not expecting the discover maintainers to solve the problem.
>   >>Discover should not try to load drivers for PCI devices AT ALL, we have
>   >>hotplug for this.
> 
>   WV> The reverse could be (and has been, on multiple occasions) said about
>   WV> hotplug.
> 
> I thought hotplug was dealing  with hot plugging devices (pcmcia, usb,
> etc.)

PCI (on special motherboards) is hotpluggable :-)

-rob

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Bug#188608: ITP: xmms-speex -- Speex speech codec - XMMS input plugin

[Rob Weir]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-12
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: xmms-speex
  Version : 0.6.0
  Upstream Author : Jens Burkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
* URL : http://jzb.rapanden.dk/speex
* License : GPL
  Description : Speex speech codec - XMMS input plugin

 Ogg Speex is an audio codec designed for speech recordings.  It can
 go down to very low bit rates (on the order of 16Kbps) while
 remaining intelligible.
 .
 This package contains an XMMS input plugin for Speex files.  For a
 command line encoder and decoder, have a look at the `speex' package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux thebox 2.4.20ck3+skas #1 Tue Feb 25 01:23:43 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

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