Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >flyspray fixed on yesterday. I missed your posts on d-devel. maybe a post on d-d-announce would have been more accurate given the number of concerned packages ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROT

Re: Bug#330239: ITP: hibernate -- a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

2005-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.09.27.0538 +0200]: > You should really have suggested something. libhibernate-java? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer and author: ht

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:57:23PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Just a reminder that these maintainers still have packages that depend > > on debconf by itself without an alternate dependency on | debconf-2.0. > > As I mentioned in my original post, I plan to file bugs on a

libpng10(/2) gone, [gdk-]imlib1 and GNOME 1 going -- check your packages

2005-09-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
libpng2 and libpng10 are gone. This has caused quite a lot of uninstallable packages which either need new uploads or removal (listed below). In addition, imlib1 and gdk-imlib1 exist solely for libpng10 support (imlib11 is essentially the same upstream for libpng12) and will presumably be removed

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Conrad
Joey Hess wrote: > > This is your third and final reminder. I count 542 packages remaining, > down only 9 from last month. I assume most of the people below do not > read debian-devel, so I've taken the librerty of BCCing you all. :-P > > Debian Apache Maintainers >apache2 apache2 will be f

Re: Bug#330239: ITP: hibernate -- a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

2005-09-26 Thread Joe Smith
"martin f krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please choose a different name You should really have suggested something. I'm not sure, but perhaps 'hibernate-java' migh work. Sounds like a java port of the current hibernate utility though. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:36 +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > I agree that it's fairly annoying that none of the syndication formats > exported by Planet Debian include the author's email address. Having > to look up the email on db.debian.org is tirsesome. And well, AFAICT, not everybody in Planet Debia

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:57 +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > This is your third and final reminder. I count 542 packages remaining, > down only 9 from last month. I assume most of the people below do not > read debian-devel, so I've taken the librerty of BCCing you all. :-P Yep, debian-devel is not high

Re: Accepted grep 2.5.1.ds2-1 (source i386 sparc)

2005-09-26 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:04:24PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >found 181378 2.5.1.ds2-1 >thanks > >* Anibal Monsalve Salazar [Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:47:06 -0700]: > >> * Removed 64-egf-speedup.patch, 65-dfa-optional.patch, >> 66-match_icase.patch and 67-w.patch from debian/patches, >> close

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:57 +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Just a reminder that these maintainers still have packages that depend > > on debconf by itself without an alternate dependency on | debconf-2.0. > > As I mentioned in my original post, I plan to file bugs on all of these >

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Joey Hess schrieb: > Joey Hess wrote: > >>Just a reminder that these maintainers still have packages that depend >>on debconf by itself without an alternate dependency on | debconf-2.0. >>As I mentioned in my original post, I plan to file bugs on all of these >>soon, which, omitting all the lg-iss

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:25:05PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote: > W. Borgert writes: > > > I found out, that more and more important information about > > Debian development are on the planet.debian.org/.net website. > > I'm illiterate on "blogging", so please could someone tell me > > whether/how

Re: Bug#330239: ITP: hibernate -- a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

2005-09-26 Thread Nicolas Weyland
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:35:14 -0400 Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: hibernate > Version : 3.0.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search hibernate hibernate - activates your computer's suspend functionality There's already a package called hibernate, chose ano

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:50:52PM +, W. Borgert wrote: > In the past, there were important blog entries by Martin Joey > Schulze on security, by Branden Robinson on Debian trademark > issues, and some interesting thoughts on the upload process by > Martin F. Krafft to name just a few. I'm pr

Re: Bug#330239: ITP: hibernate -- a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

2005-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.09.26.2335 +0200]: > * Package name: hibernate Uh, apt-cache show hibernate [...] Please choose a different name. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: Is gcc-3.4 in the unstable chroot on crest.debian.org OK?

2005-09-26 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:20:30PM -0700, Rob Browning wrote: >> > If I compile a trivial foo.c in the unstable chroot with gcc-3.4, and >> > then immediately try to run it, it segfaults. >> >> You've hit #327780. >> >> m68k-build: could anyone with r

Bug#330239: ITP: hibernate -- a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

2005-09-26 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hibernate Version : 3.0.5 Upstream Author : hibernate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net * URL : http://www.hibernate.org/ * License : LGPL Description : a object/relational

Bug#330238: ITP: xom -- tree-based API for processing XML with Java

2005-09-26 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xom Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Elliotte Rusty Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xom.nu/ * License : LGPL Description : tree-based API for processing XM

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:35:36PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I generally don't see any value in cluttering up -devel with the stuff I > post on my blog. I hope people who read it will find it interesting, but > it's not broadly important and I don't think there's any need to annoy large

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2005-09-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Bushnell BSG] > I get empty pages from wiki.debian.net... anyone know why? Don't know why, but the content is supposed to be moving to wiki.debian.org real soon now. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

wiki.debian.net?

2005-09-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I get empty pages from wiki.debian.net... anyone know why? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Paul Waite
Hi Joey, > Paul Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >    axyl >    axyl-lucene Now done, but not yet uploaded due to other changes in the works. I'm expecting I will get them both uploaded inside two weeks - is that a good enough timescale for you? Cheers, Paul.

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Chad Walstrom
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is your third and final reminder. I count 542 packages > remaining, down only 9 from last month. I assume most of the people > below do not read debian-devel, so I've taken the librerty of BCCing > you all. :-P Absolutely right. ;-) d-d is too busy. Th

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Monday 26 September 2005 06:26 am, Ben Armstrong wrote: > If it is so easy, why aren't bloggers doing this now?  There must be > some perceived value on the part of the bloggers to keeping limiting > their posts to their (presumably smaller? maybe that is a factor?) > blog-reading audience. I

Bug#330215: ITP: php-pear-packagefilemanager -- PEAR Package File Manager

2005-09-26 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: php-pear-packagefilemanager Version : 1.5.2 Upstream Author : Greg Beaver * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR_PackageFileManager * License : PHP License Descripti

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Decklin Foster
W. Borgert writes: > I found out, that more and more important information about > Debian development are on the planet.debian.org/.net website. > I'm illiterate on "blogging", so please could someone tell me > whether/how I can view this page in a "Debian only" mode? E.g. > without vacancy trave

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:57:23PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Just a reminder that these maintainers still have packages that depend > > on debconf by itself without an alternate dependency on | debconf-2.0. > > As I mentioned in my original post, I plan to file bugs on all of

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Of course I read debian-devel. But I fix bugs once they are >> reported. I use the BTS to track needed work in this way. > > This is of course suprerior to running vi debian/control because > beauracracy is fun. No, it's beca

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Of course I read debian-devel. But I fix bugs once they are > reported. I use the BTS to track needed work in this way. This is of course suprerior to running vi debian/control because beauracracy is fun. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#330206: ITP: php-creole -- Database abstraction layer for PHP5

2005-09-26 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: php-creole Version : 1.1.1 * URL : http://creole.phpdb.org/ * License : LGPL Description : Database abstraction layer for PHP5 Creole is a database abstraction laye

Bug#330203: ITP: php-propel -- PHP5 object persistence layer based on Apache Torque

2005-09-26 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: php-propel Version : 1.1.1 * URL : http://propel.phpdb.org * License : LGPL Description : PHP5 object persistence layer based on Apache Torque Propel is an object p

Re: Accepted grep 2.5.1.ds2-1 (source i386 sparc)

2005-09-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
found 181378 2.5.1.ds2-1 thanks * Anibal Monsalve Salazar [Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:47:06 -0700]: >* Removed 64-egf-speedup.patch, 65-dfa-optional.patch, > 66-match_icase.patch and 67-w.patch from debian/patches, > closes: #329876. Those patches fixed a bug (and two merged) that had b

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is your third and final reminder. I count 542 packages remaining, > down only 9 from last month. I assume most of the people below do not > read debian-devel, so I've taken the librerty of BCCing you all. :-P Of course I read debian-devel. But I fix b

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-26 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Just a reminder that these maintainers still have packages that depend > on debconf by itself without an alternate dependency on | debconf-2.0. > As I mentioned in my original post, I plan to file bugs on all of these > soon, which, omitting all the lg-issue* packages, comes to a

Re: Future of s390 port

2005-09-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gerhard Tonn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to lack of time I am not able to do the s390 porting work anymore. I > am looking for someone > who is interested to take over the s390 port. This includes the > administration of the buildd servers, > analyzing build failures and requalification of

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 04:47:31PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > On 26/09/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to comment > > on someone's blog post, use a useful means of communication to do it. > > A lot of the planet debain blogs don't have contact details, and seem to rely >

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Joey Hess
Dick Davies wrote: > A lot of the planet debain blogs don't have contact details, and seem to rely > on trackbacks for feedback. > > That's fair enough but it is annoying to see something you want to add > to or correct and have to set up a blog of your own to do it. > > Plenty of other blogs hav

Bug#330189: ITP: texitheque -- small documentation utility based on texinfo

2005-09-26 Thread Sam Hocevar (Debian packages)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Sam Hocevar (Debian packages)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : texitheque Version : CVS HEAD Upstream Authors : Alper Ersoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tim Janik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cvs.freedes

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-09-26 kello 16:47 +0100, Dick Davies kirjoitti: > On 26/09/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to comment > > on someone's blog post, use a useful means of communication to do it. > > A lot of the planet debain blogs don't have contact details, and seem to rely > on t

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 26, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it is so easy, why aren't bloggers doing this now? There must be I do it for my posts, when I believe it's needed. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Future of s390 port

2005-09-26 Thread Gerhard Tonn
Due to lack of time I am not able to do the s390 porting work anymore. I am looking for someone who is interested to take over the s390 port. This includes the administration of the buildd servers, analyzing build failures and requalification of the s390 port for the etch release, see http://li

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 26/09/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dick Davies wrote: > > And most of the blogs block comments, which is infuriating. There is > > blog software out there that allows them without getting hacked/filled with > > spam every other day, you know.. > > Web forums (including blog com

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Joey Hess
Dick Davies wrote: > And most of the blogs block comments, which is infuriating. There is > blog software out there that allows them without getting hacked/filled with > spam every other day, you know.. Web forums (including blog comments) are useless. If you want to comment on someone's blog

Bug#330178: ITP: b2evolution -- a multilingual, multiuser, multi-blog engine

2005-09-26 Thread Arnaud Guiton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Guiton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: b2evolution Version : 0.9.1b Upstream Author : François Planquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://b2evolution.net * License : GPL Description : a multilingual, mul

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Christoph Haas wrote: > Actually I second that. I still haven't seen a reason to use it since I > don't understand the "historical reasons". I have always wondered about the historical reasons too. Because it never made sense to me either. > On my servers I have always removed the "localhost.loc

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-09-26 kello 10:26 -0300, Ben Armstrong kirjoitti: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:29 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I think it's a much better and easier solution to use the structure we > > already have: the existing mailing lists. Copy-pasting a web log entry > > to an e-mail shouldn't be t

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that this is part of the essence of blogging. When you write > a mail to debian-devel you risk being flamed about whatever you are > saying. When you blog about it, it's your right to say what you think > and feel like. People managed to

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 26/09/05, Francesco P. Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:13:17PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > > And most of the blogs block comments, which is infuriating. There is > > blog software out there that allows them without getting hacked/filled with > > spam every other

Re: [Pkg-ime-devel] ITP: kmfl -- Keyboard Mapping for Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So I guess the upshot is if you need this, you'll know because you'll be > trying to install a Keyman keymap, and will have apt-cache searched for > Keyman. That is no excuse for not explaining what it is in the package description. -- Henning M

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:13:17PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > On 26/09/05, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/26/05, W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IMHO, the blog has some drawbacks: > > > > > - answering to questions difficult (not as easy as pressing > > > 'r'

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:13:17PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > And most of the blogs block comments, which is infuriating. There is > blog software out there that allows them without getting hacked/filled with > spam every other day, you know.. Could you cite at least one which does not requir

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:46:16AM +, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I found out, that more and more important information about > Debian development are on the planet.debian.org/.net website. > I'm illiterate on "blogging", so please could someone tell me > whether/how I can view this page in a

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 26/09/05, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/05, W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, the blog has some drawbacks: > > > - answering to questions difficult (not as easy as pressing > > 'r'eply or 'g'roup reply in mutt) > > I think that this is part of the essen

error linking Boost.Serialization on hppa

2005-09-26 Thread Domenico Andreoli
hi all, i'm now pretty sure this FTBFS [0] on hppa won't go away by itself (= nobody is going to upload a new version of something in the toolchain which fixes also this problem). build error follows: /usr/bin/ld: bin/boost/libs/serialization/build/libboost_serialization.so/gcc/debug/shared-l

Bug#330174: ITP: netgo -- KDE tool to interactively manage network settings using different custom profiles

2005-09-26 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: netgo Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Per Johansson * URL : http://netgo.hjolug.org/ * License : GPL Description : KDE tool to interactively manage networ

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Poole
Margarita Manterola writes: > On 9/26/05, W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMHO, the blog has some drawbacks: > >> - answering to questions difficult (not as easy as pressing >> 'r'eply or 'g'roup reply in mutt) > > I think that this is part of the essence of blogging. When you write >

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 9/26/05, W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, the blog has some drawbacks: > - answering to questions difficult (not as easy as pressing > 'r'eply or 'g'roup reply in mutt) I think that this is part of the essence of blogging. When you write a mail to debian-devel you risk being fl

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:29 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > "Debian development issues" is a rather broad category. Should a travel > report from Debconf be included? I think it should, yet it is not at all > technical. Having a single "Debian development issues" feed is not going > to work particul

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-09-26 kello 09:13 -0300, Ben Armstrong kirjoitti: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:05 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I don't think there is a working way of reliably doing that. In theory, > > most web logs can do "categories", but those are not being used > > consistently, and they're also no

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread John Hasler
W. Borgert wrote: > (I would prefer to get all the technical information on > debian-devel Andreas writes: > Same for me who does not spent time in reading blogs. Me as well. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:05 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I don't think there is a working way of reliably doing that. In theory, > most web logs can do "categories", but those are not being used > consistently, and they're also not really visible on planet.debian.org > in a way that lets them be

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-09-26 kello 13:32 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen kirjoitti: > [Nico Golde] > > AFAIK this will not happen because some people don't want > > their blog entries in a public archive. It is perfectly possible to set up an archived list based on opt-in principles: only archive web log entries fro

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Nico Golde] > AFAIK this will not happen because some people don't want > their blog entries in a public archive. Well, these people need to stop publishing their content on the Internet then, as all web page versions end up in the wayback machine, and thus their blog entry is already in a public

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Use rss2email. It makes blogs almost as useful as maillists. Sounds OK, but it would be more convenient to just have all relevant (= technical) information in debian-devel. > Right, that's a real disadvantage. Everyone knows that debian-devel

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-09-26 kello 08:46 +, W. Borgert kirjoitti: > I found out, that more and more important information about > Debian development are on the planet.debian.org/.net website. > I'm illiterate on "blogging", so please could someone tell me > whether/how I can view this page in a "Debian only"

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-26 12:35]: > "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > - not archived (or is it?) > > AFAIK, something like that is planned. AFAIK this will not happen because some people don't want their blog entries in a public archive. [...]

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
"W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO, the blog has some drawbacks: > > - offline reading is difficult Use rss2email. It makes blogs almost as useful as maillists. > - answering to questions difficult (not as easy as pressing > 'r'eply or 'g'roup reply in mutt) That's true. > - not

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for this hint - I just skipped this thread because I regarded > it relevant for blogs (and thus not for me). But I do not really want > a new list - I just want technical information neither spread to debian-devel > and planetdebian nor debian-de

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Nico Golde wrote: There was a discussion about this, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323227 Thanks for this hint - I just skipped this thread because I regarded it relevant for blogs (and thus not for me). But I do not really want a new list - I just

Re: Identifying Postscript fonts

2005-09-26 Thread Colin Tuckley
Hamish said: > defoma? I've had a quick look at the various man pages for defoma. Can you confirm that by using this I could make the list of fonts returned by things like fontFamily() be restricted to just Postscript fonts? Or possibly get a list from some other Perl function call. Unfortunate

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-26 11:01]: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, W. Borgert wrote: > > >(I would prefer to get all the technical information on > >debian-devel > > Same for me who does not spent time in reading blogs. (Sorry I'm > a little bit old fashioned, do not wear a mobile

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, W. Borgert wrote: (I would prefer to get all the technical information on debian-devel Same for me who does not spent time in reading blogs. (Sorry I'm a little bit old fashioned, do not wear a mobile, sended less than 5 SMS messages in my whole life, ...) Thanks Wolfgang

planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, I found out, that more and more important information about Debian development are on the planet.debian.org/.net website. I'm illiterate on "blogging", so please could someone tell me whether/how I can view this page in a "Debian only" mode? E.g. without vacancy travel reports, personal opini

Re: Identifying Postscript fonts

2005-09-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:09:54AM +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote: > I have a Perl-TK application which uses fonts, I need to offer a list of > Postscript fonts to the user. > > Does anybody know a way to identify which of the fonts installed on the > system are postscript? defoma? Hamish -- Hamish

Identifying Postscript fonts

2005-09-26 Thread Colin Tuckley
I have a Perl-TK application which uses fonts, I need to offer a list of Postscript fonts to the user. Does anybody know a way to identify which of the fonts installed on the system are postscript? The best I've come up with so far is: xlsfonts -ll "*" | grep -i postscript | sort -u However, th

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 25 septembre 2005 à 20:14 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : > Perhaps I'm missing something (please fill me in if I am), but there > does not seem to be anything to edit in: > > > > > > > > schema="/schemas/apps/aisleriot/statistics"/> > > > schema="/schemas/apps/