Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper
* Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050109 02:25]: > I've written an article showing how to make a package > just using dpkg and dpkg-dev. [..] > The document is right now in the wiki: > http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/BuildingWithoutHelper Did you read the lates Debian Weekly News[1] ? You are famous now :) Yours sincerely, Alexander Links: 1: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/02/ -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: package adoption question
Hi Sonia! * Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050209 15:39]: > * is my ITA (Intent To Adopt) correctly formatted? (see bottom of [2]) Actually you should have retitled it to ITP (Intend to package), since you are not going to adopt a package, someone maintained previously (you answered to an RFP - request for packaging). But I don't think, that makes a big difference ;) > * should I do my ITA again using reportbug? No. reportbug would have done the same as you did: Send a Mail to the bug tracking system. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: package adoption question
* Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050214 21:53]: > Anyone have a link that explains the various commands to control? Either http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer oder /usr/share/doc/debian after you installed doc-debian :) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: LinuxTag Debian-Day talks
Hi! * Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050426 18:22]: > The schedule is being made at the moment and if noone is found in a week > or so, the talk will probably be dropped. No, it won't be dropped, especially, since I asked for such a talk ;) Would just be nice, to have a name my list soon. BTW: Coordination for LinuxTag in general (and therefore Debian-Day, too) is done on the debian-events-eu@lists.debian.org mailinglist. You might want to subscribe, if you are going to be there (it's normaly a low traffic list). Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: I need your voice
Moin! * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041129 19:03]: > I'm currently building a nice thingy with no name yet but which could > be called "Bubulle's Automagic Babelbox" or something similar.:-) > > The idea is getting a machine which constantly installs itself over > and over, using the new Debian Installer, of course. Wow, that is a good idea! Would be nice for some events here in germany, too. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Possible d-w project: handling/help DWN editor
Hi! * Christine Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050707 18:48]: [ debian weekly news ] > I would gladly help, though hopefully with someone else. Honestly, I > don't think that I would be able to handle it alone, [..] Don't worry, you won't be alone. Martin Zobel-Helas (in CC:) is quite active, too. And from time to time I do a bit, too. Well, that might be the perfect oportunity to ask the Zobel-Martin to read the start of that thread, and ask him about his experiences when working with the Joey-Martin? Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Women in FOSS at OSWC II
Hi! * Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060222 19:10]: > > > panelists were very varied. One women spent 25 minutes (we only had 5 mins > > > each) basically telling off the crowd for locking women out. This left a > > > > Please excuse in advance my limited English knowledge but could you > > rephrase this as I have actually difficulties understanding what > > exactly was this woman doing (unless someone wants to translate this > > to me in French which would be the most convenient...:)). > Elle adresse des reproches à ces qui excluent les femmes, j'y pense. Uhm... could someone translate that in german (or rephrase the english phrase)? Thanks ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Hello and introduction
Hi! * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060225 07:13]: > Older members could also send mini bios, by the way.Who begins? :-) Uhm... perhaps me? Since I have never send a bio but was lurking arround for quite some time, you could say, that it's my turn ;) Hi! My name is Alexander Schmehl but I'm often called "tolimar" (no big meaning behing that, it's a quite unknown character in "book of lost tales", the prequel to the prequel to "Lord of the Rings"). I'm a Debian Developer as long as I'm 28 years old (which will be four weeks tomorov). I maintain a couple of smaller packages (related to games, some other packages will hopefully follow soon ;) but my main contributions to Debian are - if you like to say so - public relations work: Organizing smaller and bigger events, boothes and merchandising for exhibitions, fairs and small conferences, delivering talks. Most of that in germany and nearby european countries. If I'm not traveling arround in the countrie, I'm trying to complete my degree in computer science (Anyone heard ever of the Department of Computer Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt?) and work as part time employee as "software developer" / "techical foobarist" at a company producing cool (and uncool) open source stuff. My interest in d-w? Mostly curiosity at first I must honestly confess. I was just curious, what you are going to do. But I found some stuff created by d-w quite interesting and usefull (e.g. the bug squashing workshops or the maintainer scripts article (wouldn't have made it through nm without it)). So, if there's something I can help with, just say so. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
The machine for your piuparts test at DebCamp6
Hi! Via the DebCamp wiki [1] you asked for local mirror and a reasonable fast machine to run piuparts tests. I'll just wanted to confirm, that we'll have of course a local mirror available, and at least one machine fitting your needs (shared access). So I don't see any problems for you. See you in Mexico and have fun, Alexander Links: 1: http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf6DebCamp#head-7f26031c1d617bb14499ce037460611db999ba82 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: autoconf tutorial?
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060504 18:26]: > apt-get install make-doc autoconf-doc automake1.9-doc > > F..k! -- no autoconf-doc automake1.9-doc! autoconf-doc is in non-free (licensed under the terms of the GFDL with invariant sections IIRC). Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Videos of DebConf5
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060522 17:26]: > Now I have successfuly downloaded then whole DebConf5 MPEG archive > with one exception. In 2005-07-16 the fiveth mpeg is missing. Not all sessions were filmed. That could be one of them. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: You rock
Hi! * Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060612 20:55]: > I don't know about other anonymous posters, but I actually enjoy working > in mixed-sex environments a lot. So do I. > Thank you all for being there, and for becoming more and more > every day. I concur with Enrico. Many thanks! Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: proposed addition to debian-women list filtering, please comment
Hi! * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060613 00:30]: > You may have noticed that we've had a difficult time enforcing appropriate > standards of mailing list behavior against a particular troll over the past > year or so. I noticed; I had the honour to be one of those we get every mail three times: To -project, to -women and as special service a private copy, too. > The problem is largely a technical one: by using throw-away > Yahoo! [..] Uhm... No, I don't think it's a technical problem. It's a social one. And you can't solve social problems with technical solutions. Ban him, and he'll get a new e-mail adress; ban tor and he'll find an other anonymizer; etc. etc. sadly it's always the same. IMHO the only thing you can do, is to ignore him. Works fine for me. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: New female DD
Hi! * Jonathan Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060614 16:26]: > > With this happening, we can claim that in Argentina there are more > > female DD than male DDs. > Where can I get list archives? For example: http://lists.debian.org Should be possible to find the list on google groups, gmane and several other public archives, too. > I want to blog about this and post a link to this message :) http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2006/06/msg00078.html Or use http://lists.debian.org/~jeroen/ which will redirect you there. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Back to the group
Hi! * Fernanda G Weiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060626 10:05]: > So I decided to send this e-mail, because I don't know how to (re)start... Well, if you want to continue package something, it's a good idea to take a look at the packages you use, first. Install the package "devscripts". It contains a script called "wnpp-alert". (If you allready know, what "wnpp" means, skip this paragraph ;) "WNPP" means "work needing and prospectiv packages. wnpp's are special categories of bugs in our bug tracking system, to coordinate who's working on what and which packages need new maintainers. The most interestings right now are the "RFA", "RFH" and "O" wnpp-bugs. RFA is a "Request for adoption": The maintainer can't continue to take care of a package. "O" means orphaned, and means the package has curently no maintainer at all, and the (allways work overloaded) qa-team takes a bit care of it. "RFH" means "request for help": The maintainer still cares about the packages, but can't take the work load alone, needs someone who helps him. If you run "wnpp-alert", the script will take a look at the packages you have installed, and then looks them up in the wnpp-bugs, listing you all packages you have installed (and therefore might have some interest in them ;) which need new maintainers: Other interesting thing (especially since we want to realease in december): Fix some release-critical bugs. Again there's a nice script, which lists you the rc-bugs for the packages you have installed. Try to run "rc-alert", and take a look for those bugs. Try to reproduce them, write to the maintainer if you couldn't reproduce it, or if you could, how exactly you could. Try to fix the problem and prepare a patch. Or: Package something new. You have something installed under /usr/local? Go, package it! Some other might be interested in them to. Or look at the "RFP" (request for packaging) wnpp bugs. You mentioned you allready had gnome and mozilla-related packages. Well, GNOME is team maintained. You could join that team. Subscribe to their lists, help fix bugs or package new GNOME stuff. Mozilla isn't team maintained; but AFAIK they have a coordination list, too. You could subscribe there, and help fixing some mozilla bugs :) Other idea would be to join the localization team of your (native) language and translate documentation, debconf messages and all that stuff, to help make your people understand Debian. And of course you can subcribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists (Warning: Some have quite high traffic) and help users solving problems with Debian (and learn so where we need to improve Debian). Yours sincerely, Alexander PS: Doh, almost forgot: Welcome back :) -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
fedora women founded
Hi! It seems that debian women is such a great idea, that other projects do something similar: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women?action=show&redirect=FedoraWomen Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
First woman to receive ACM Turing Award
Hi! Might be interesting for you to hear, that the first woman received the "Nobel Prize of computing", the Turing Award: http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/2_2007/turing2006.cfm Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Introduction
Hi! * Anne S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070528 16:40]: > Because I don't have skills to build websites or programming, yet. I > think that participate to translation- or documentation project would be > easier way to me to contribute. Than http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/ddtp might be interesting for you; that's a project which translates all the package description to other languages. An easy way to start contributing :) Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem with log out
Hi! * Karolina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080218 00:45]: > I have a big problem, and I hope you can help me. I can't log out from > gnome session. Could you be more specific what "I can't log out" means? > I'm using Debian unestable (sid) with Gnome. I have ATI Radeon HD 2600 > Pro graphic card and I'm using fglrx 8.45.4 driver for it. Problem > started after upgrating fglrx from 8.43 to 8.45. You looked at the changelog for something interesting that could cause your problem? Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian Package
Hi! * Nur Aini Rakhmawati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080326 08:06]: > I would like to package OSS that is not need to compile. > For example websvn package > Is there any tutorial for it ? In general the new maintainers guide [1]. In your special case, you just need to adapt it a bit: Since you don't need to compile anything, you don't need to call an compiler in debian/rules ;) Links: 1: http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide Yours sincerely, Alexander PS: You do know, that there already is a websvn package, do you? Something wrong with it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
