Re: binary NMUs and version numbers

2004-12-08 Thread Anthony Towns
in alpha chars would solve both cases: That'd mean REJECTing uploads whose versions match "[^0-9]+[a-z][0-9]+$" presumably. Another case that should be considered is the existing use of + for revisions of a cvs snapshot (e.g. mutt uses a + but always does so): 1.2-20041208 &qu

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
Steve Langasek wrote: Changing library *names*, OTOH, is something quite different -- and in the first case, providing "compatibility with the old names" totally defeats the purpose of *having* sonames, whereas in the second case, it still sounds like gratuitous change to me. Steve, I

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-08 Thread Blunt Jackson
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:32:35 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:23:16PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > > Maybe I'm still waiting for my first real problem to show up, but I > > generally find dselect to be a real pleasure to use. > > > > Could you present

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:36 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:26:00PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:30 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > On 08-Dec-04, 11:15 (CST), "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Get off your ass. >

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 17:41 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Bruce, > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:49:13PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: [snip] > > I'm skeptical to begin with of the benefits LCC has to offer Debian -- being > bound not just to an external *standard*, but to an external > *implementat

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:26:00PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:30 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 08-Dec-04, 11:15 (CST), "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > Get off your ass. > > > > Ah. I see. Courtesy is not your strong point. > > His pa

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:23:16PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:11:31AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > > I used dselect a lot back in the day (I don't know, like up until 2000 > > or so?). It had a clunky but useable interface (though I fully > > understand how new

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:30 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 08-Dec-04, 11:15 (CST), "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Get off your ass. > > Ah. I see. Courtesy is not your strong point. His parents must not have taught him manners. Or he knows that he can't get beat u

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:11:31AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > I used dselect a lot back in the day (I don't know, like up until 2000 > or so?). It had a clunky but useable interface (though I fully > understand how newbies could get frustrated), and generally worked all > right until there was a

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2004-12-08 Thread Miles Bader
paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In which case, is there something fundamentally broken about the spamcop > system ? Or is there some technically insoluble problem here ? It seems to be more that they just don't really give a crap: (1) they trust users, (2) users are stupid, and (3) there's

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:55 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:49:49PM +0100, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The authoritative document is the menu _manual_: > > (/usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz), section 3.7 > > > > An extract from that section: > > > >

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:31 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > To be honest I really don't see what the problem is here. Content > > which is illegal to distribute in pretty much any significant market > > should be kept off the first CD, and proba

Re: Bug#170548: On closing lists of bugs in changelog...

2004-12-08 Thread Lawrence Williams
Matthew Danish wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:47:25PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: reopen 170548 thanks On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:43:42PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: * Added ./autogen.sh call in debian/rules ( makes package more portable and easier to maintain in the futur

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:34 -0800, Scott Robinson wrote: > > If my wife saw my son with these pictures on a disk that I gave him, she'd > > take a frying pan and beat me dead. > > And what would she say about any number of other iffy packages? > > bible-kjv? Probably nothing because it isn't offe

Re: dpkg-reversion: how about debedit?

2004-12-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:56:23PM +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > retitle 284642 ITP: debedit -- script to edit DEB files with hooks or > interactively > thanks > > Together with Goswin, I have now given dpkg-reversion the ability to > invoke a hook on the unpacked binary pa

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:49:49PM +0100, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The authoritative document is the menu _manual_: > (/usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz), section 3.7 > > An extract from that section: > > Debian package maintainers should ensure that any icons they include

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Henrique answered your question. There has been some divergence between > various distributions regarding the naming and especially the versioning > of these libraries. We would heal that fork to increase compatibility. > Doing that means that some nam

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-08 Thread Miles Bader
Gergely Korodi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From time to time I give a try to aptitude and synaptic, but always recoil > in horror. I don't know what the fuss is about aptitude, IMHO it's way > more complicated to use than dselect, and less clear as well. Amazing I used dselect a lot back

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
Bruce, On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:49:13PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Henrique answered your question. There has been some divergence between > various distributions regarding the naming and especially the versioning > of these libraries. We would heal that fork to increase compatibility. > D

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
Steve, Henrique answered your question. There has been some divergence between various distributions regarding the naming and especially the versioning of these libraries. We would heal that fork to increase compatibility. Doing that means that some names and version tags are going to change f

popularity-contest releases-in-use stats

2004-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian developers I have added sometimes ago a new graph to popcon.debian.org showing what release of popularity-contest were used to report. Here is today results: Statistics per popularity-contest releases: 1.18.woody.19: 114 1.19 : 33 1.20 :

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > The main technical effect that I see would be that the names of some > > dynamic libraries would change. And compatibility with the old names > > could be maintained indefinitely if nece

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > The main technical effect that I see would be that the names of some > dynamic libraries would change. And compatibility with the old names > could be maintained indefinitely if necessary. How in the world does changing the names of

Re: Bug#170548: On closing lists of bugs in changelog...

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Danish
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:47:25PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > reopen 170548 > thanks > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:43:42PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > > > * Added ./autogen.sh call in debian/rules ( makes package more > > portable > > and easier to maintain in the future ).

Re: binary NMUs and version numbers

2004-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
b1 1.2-1~beta << 1.2-1~beta2 << 1.2-1~beta+b1 Adding the implicit '0' that dpkg assumes on versions ending in alpha chars would solve both cases: 1.rc << 1.rc0+b1 << 1.rc2 1.2-1~beta << 1.2-1~beta0+b1 << 1.2-1~beta2 Another case that should b

Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
The Linux Core Consortium would like to have Debian's involvement. This organization has revived what I originally proposed to do as the LSB - to make a binary base for Linux distributions that could be among several distributions who would share in the effort of maintaining certain packages. I

Bug#284806: ITP: authfail -- Netfilter REJECT/DROP for hosts with too many "auth failure"

2004-12-08 Thread Olivier Lemaire
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: authfail Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Bartosz M. Krajnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bmk.bz/authfail/ * License : GPL Description : Netfilter REJECT/DROP for hosts with too many "auth failur

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:25:22AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:06:26PM +0100, Lo?c Minier wrote: > > > > It's defined in the _Menu_ Policy. I think the people maintaining the > > Debian menu system are best placed to tell what should be allowed or > > not. > > I

Re: On closing lists of bugs in changelog...

2004-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
reopen 170548 thanks On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:43:42PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > * Added ./autogen.sh call in debian/rules ( makes package more > portable > and easier to maintain in the future ). > * (Closes: 273895, 217516, 220407, 252897, 159110, 170548, 203843) > (

attn: matt hope -- your mail bounces

2004-12-08 Thread martin f krafft
This is probably related to your university address, which also bounces with "too many hops". - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Too many hops - End forwarded message - -- martin; (greetings from the heart of th

On closing lists of bugs in changelog...

2004-12-08 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
libsdl1.2 (1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Thanks go to Lawrence Williams ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) for this release. * Updated to 07/10/2004 CVS. * Added --static-libs to sdl-config manpage. * Added NAS support. * Provide debian patches for autogen.sh ( needs autom

Re: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-08 Thread Scott Robinson
> If my wife saw my son with these pictures on a disk that I gave him, she'd > take a frying pan and beat me dead. And what would she say about any number of other iffy packages? bible-kjv? Probably nothing because it isn't offensive to her. fortunes-off? Because hot-babe uses graphics it's worse

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akamai is fully able to turn customers away, and has done so for various reasons (e.g. the customer is a spammer). That's the key. And we had a posting from Joe Alewin that was most informative on this topic. For an example of a non-discriminatory mirror, consider the

dpkg-reversion: how about debedit?

2004-12-08 Thread martin f krafft
retitle 284642 ITP: debedit -- script to edit DEB files with hooks or interactively thanks Together with Goswin, I have now given dpkg-reversion the ability to invoke a hook on the unpacked binary package. He is now using it to test moving /lib64 from base-files to libc6 on amd64 and to change th

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread dsr
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 04:48:24PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > A mirror operator in general /does/ make choices about the content > carried on the mirror. The closest analogy that would already have been > litigated is a Cable TV system. The U.S. FCC decided that

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:41:35PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El mi??, 08-12-2004 a las 12:30 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez escribi??: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 05:21:56PM +, David Pashley wrote: > > > On Dec 08, 2004 at 17:15, Luis R. Rodriguez praised the llamas by > > > saying: > >

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > thanks for the prompt e-mail. The goal of my e-mail was to get us off > our asses and get a debian xorg package out. Today I realized there An email won't help. The package itself might, if uploaded to experimental (don't you dare upload such a thin

Bug#284778: ITP: freebooters -- Free "Pirates!" like strategy game

2004-12-08 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: freebooters Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://home.gna.org/freebooters * License : GPL Description : Free "Pirates!" like strategy game The Caribbean Sea in the late 16th c

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could be wrong, but Debian is occasionally used and distributed by > people outside the USA. Making any argument in this thread with > reference solely to US law is irrelevant to the problems at hand. I was answering a claim about US law; I was not the o

Re: Where is your freedom of speech ? (Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor)

2004-12-08 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:29:55AM +0100, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > Debian might fare much > better if its members who happen to be citizens of the U f*ck*ng S of A > rememeber sometimes that they are *not* center and moral arbiter of the > world... The same can be told of (semi-) legal conc

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Greenland
On 08-Dec-04, 11:15 (CST), "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its been more than a year now. What's the status of this ITP? > This is ridiculous. If you can't package it, then say so so others can > come in and do the job. We deserve a freedesktop.org package by now in > debian. If

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El miÃ, 08-12-2004 a las 12:30 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez escribiÃ: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 05:21:56PM +, David Pashley wrote: > > On Dec 08, 2004 at 17:15, Luis R. Rodriguez praised the llamas by > > saying: > > > > > > > > > Its been more than a year now. What's the status of this ITP? Thi

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 05:21:56PM +, David Pashley wrote: > On Dec 08, 2004 at 17:15, Luis R. Rodriguez praised the llamas by > saying: > > > > > > Its been more than a year now. What's the status of this ITP? This is > > ridiculous. If you can't package it, then say so so others can come i

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread David Pashley
On Dec 08, 2004 at 17:15, Luis R. Rodriguez praised the llamas by saying: > > > Its been more than a year now. What's the status of this ITP? This is > ridiculous. If you can't package it, then say so so others can come in > and do the job. We deserve a freedesktop.org package by now in debian.

Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Its been more than a year now. What's the status of this ITP? This is ridiculous. If you can't package it, then say so so others can come in and do the job. We deserve a freedesktop.org package by now in debian. Get off your ass. Luis -- GnuPG Key fingerprint = 113F B290 C6D2 0251 4D

Backups in maintainer scripts

2004-12-08 Thread Diogo Kollross
I'm replacing files in the maintainer script of a package, but I would like to maintain backups of these files. Is there any good practice about that (eg: like renaming the old file to filename~ or filename.old)? I would also like to know if dpkg makes any backups when installing packages, and if

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:06:26PM +0100, Lo?c Minier wrote: > Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Wed, Dec 08, 2004: > > > To summarize, I think recommending SVG would require a change to the policy. > > It's defined in the _Menu_ Policy. I think the people maintaining the > Debian menu system

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-08 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
It is one thing spiritedly to argue a point against friends and allies. It is another to be obstinate. I do not wish the latter, and I admit that I am both outnumbered and outreasoned today. Please permit me without malice to conform my position, which now might be stated as follows. Unicode

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Loïc Minier
Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Wed, Dec 08, 2004: > To summarize, I think recommending SVG would require a change to the policy. It's defined in the _Menu_ Policy. I think the people maintaining the Debian menu system are best placed to tell what should be allowed or not. Additionally,

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, isn't the actual underlying problem that the Debian Policy only accepts XPM icons (and lintian with it)? I don't know the background of this decision, but could imagine: - broad acceptance (aside from GNOME and KDE), PNG should be fine on this one, SVG not yet. - text oriented format: SVG OK,

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:31 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:00:14AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:17:46AM -0300, Fabricio Cannini wrote: > > > --- Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > escreveu: > > > > Am 2004-12-07 10:39:42, schrie

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 07 dÃcembre 2004 Ã 23:51 -0500, James A. Treacy a Ãcrit : > SVG use is increasing and I have seen nothing in Debian about how they > should be handled. So, I don't think that's much different from PNG icons. > What is the proper way to handle svg icons? > For example, where should they b

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:57 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wednesday 08 December 2004 07:42, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Fortunately, though, pictures of naked dogs are *not* considered > > > > to be appealing to prurient interests. Unless, *maybe*, a hyper- > > > > horny 1

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-08 Thread cascardo
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:00:14AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:17:46AM -0300, Fabricio Cannini wrote: > > --- Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > escreveu: > > > Am 2004-12-07 10:39:42, schrieb Fabricio Cannini: > > > > > Me wonders if simply NOT installing hot

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 13:12:35 -0800, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Oh, and if we do not specify what the nature of what we package, >> would it be easier to prove we merely carry packages? That would >> really be nice. >> > I just do not see that we have th

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:56:54PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > > But yes, non-ASCII Latin-1 chars should not be given > > special status over the national chars found in other > > languages spoken by project members. Debian should be > > using either ASCII, or Unicode; standardizing on > > L

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Tim Cutts
On 8 Dec 2004, at 8:53 am, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The discussion about common carriers is all very interesting, but irrelevant. There are many protections in American law, and common carrier status is only one. We are certainly not responsible for things which are not obscene, and the package

Re: Duelling banjos or how a sane community goes crazy

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Küster
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:12:50AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I failed in ending this thread when I posted > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/12/msg00016.html > > > > instead I caused two trolls making even mor

Re: Bug#282742: Move daily find run later

2004-12-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Anyway the solution seems to be overengineered for the problem at > hand. I have yet to decide whether > * I'll close the bugreport with "request denied" Please don't do that but tag it wontfix instead if you "won't fix" this bug report. Regards, Joey -- Open

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-08 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 07:42, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fortunately, though, pictures of naked dogs are *not* considered > > > to be appealing to prurient interests. Unless, *maybe*, a hyper- > > > horny 13 year old boy is seeing a picture of dogs copulating, and > > > n

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
The discussion about common carriers is all very interesting, but irrelevant. There are many protections in American law, and common carrier status is only one. We are certainly not responsible for things which are not obscene, and the package in question is not obscene (b/c under US law a carto

Where is your freedom of speech ? (Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor)

2004-12-08 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Warniong : I'm not an Ordained Debian Developper (TM) : my words are just those of a Debian User, worried by this new upsurge of hair splitting, US smelling madness. > Hi again, > > perhaps to bring down the conversation to something more constructive, > I think we should base decision to have s

Re: Bug#282742: Move daily find run later

2004-12-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-12-07 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2004-11-24 Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Package: findutils [...] >>> It would be nice if the daily find run could be moved behind the >>> logrotate and sysklogd runs (maybe as zz_find) [zz_find is ugly

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.08.0909 +0100]: > Generally the dpkg-* namespace is reserved for features that are > intended for integration into dpkg at some point. well, by all means then. If dpkg-repack and dpkg-www are intended for integration into dpkg, then reve

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 18:13 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I needed a tool to change the version number of DEB files after > repacking them with dpkg-repack. So I wrote one. Very simple, does > not really warrant its own package, but devscripts is also not > really the place for it. It is unlikel

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:17:46AM -0300, Fabricio Cannini wrote: > --- Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > Am 2004-12-07 10:39:42, schrieb Fabricio Cannini: > > > Me wonders if simply NOT installing hot-babe > > > wouldn't fix this. > > > IMO Seems to be the easiest solution.

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > very strict regarding anything regarding Nazism. s/Nazism/Crimes against Mankind (or whatever it should be properly called in English...original version is "apologie de crimes contre l'humanité")

Re: menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Bill Allombert wrote: So we could: move kdm:/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ to menu-xdg:/usr/share/xdg/sessions/ Perhaps a stupid question because I do not understand all this menu stuff: Would this (together with Gnome 2.8) fix the user menus in Gnome??? This would be reall gre