Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:25:03AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > [1]: As I write this 79 NEW packages, 85 total. Then ftp-master must be really busy, since it's now 64, total 69. Also note that most of those packages in new aren't even a week in it, alot aren't even a day old. I think they're

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:00:09AM +0100, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > Strange, 4 NEW packages processed in less than a week for me. I think it > is fast and not irritating. > > So, i really congratulate ftpmaster team. AOL. Moreover, they really show interest in what is being uploaded and they care

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Steinar H Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know the details of the three longest-running packages, but I > assume you asked an ftpmaster about those? Patent issues around video codecs, discussed on debian-devel ad nauseam over the past few years. It would be nice to eventually get

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Hello, On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:25:03AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely > process packages progressing through the NEW queue. > > [1] > > I think you are an excellent example of people

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anand Kumria [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:25:03 +1100]: > I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely > process packages progressing through the NEW queue. Agreed. Thanks, Anand, for reflecting the feeling of (I believe) most developers in the project with such a short a

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
> [Anand Kumria's sarcastic criticism of the ftp-master team removed] On the contrary, it seems to me that the ftp-master team is doing a fantastic job and has been for many months. They have stayed on top of the flurry of NEW packages generated by two series of library renames from two separate

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:25:03AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely > process packages progressing through the NEW queue. > > [1] > > I think you are an excellent example of people who are

congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-13 Thread Anand Kumria
I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely process packages progressing through the NEW queue. [1] I think you are an excellent example of people who are too busy for Debian. I must say that I am particularly impressed that you

Bug#210245: bbbike - debian package

2005-12-13 Thread Slaven Rezic
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #210245 Owner: Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A debian package (bbbike_3.15-1_i386.deb) is now available from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19142 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy:

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Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 12/13/05, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alternatively each user can spread his load over all three servers; >> his download now takes 5 minutes, and each server _still_ sees >> 600*5 = 3000 active connections at any time. Thus _al

Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages

2005-12-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Regenerating acinclude.m4, aclocal.m4, configure.in, and finally configure, >> can be a pain in the neck. In some packages, it's done by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >autoreconf ? NO NO NO. That does not work for these KDE-based packages, w

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2005-12-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Roberto C. Sanchez familiasanchez.net> writes: > Gillings, Marcus wrote: > > I know this email is unorthodox, but I feel strongly that my creative > > ideas are what Pixar is looking for. First of all, my name is Marcus > > Gillings. I have two books I like to call "Super fiction" published. >

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Monday, 12 December 2005 22:26, Frans Pop wrote: > - a proper discussion on wether to keep things as they are now, default to > "the other" desktop (no, not that one ;-) or a solution where the user > is actually offered a choice during the installation (which has always > been my personal

Re:

2005-12-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Gillings, Marcus wrote: > I know this email is unorthodox, but I feel strongly that my creative > ideas are what Pixar is looking for. First of all, my name is Marcus > Gillings. I have two books I like to call "Super fiction" published. > Second, I love what Pixar has done thus far. But there

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2005-12-13 Thread Gillings, Marcus
I know this email is unorthodox, but I feel strongly that my creative ideas are what Pixar is looking for.  First of all, my name is Marcus Gillings.  I have two books I like to call "Super fiction" published.  Second, I love what Pixar has done thus far.  But there is so much left to do.  I

Re: question towards "freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages"

2005-12-13 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, thanks for you comments. > A bug report is probably in order. Done. Best regards Ben -- Please do not send any email to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] - all email not originating from the mailing list will be deleted automatically. Use the reply to address instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 20:25 +0100, Simon Richter a écrit : > > -default sound setup > > Sound is symptomatic of a much larger class of problems, namely that > there is no system service that forwards resources other than display > and keyboard to the user currently logged in. In Unix, the

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 18:34 +0100, Christian Perrier a écrit : > Yes, but they don't use tasksel...which is the one installing a > "desktop" task. First of all, there should be separated "KDE desktop" and "GNOME desktop" tasks. Most users don't want both of them installed. > Here, let's fac

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2005-12-13 Thread Amu
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Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-13 10:52]: > This is beyond tasksel, but Bob User would profit immensely from generic > menu entries. SuSE does this and I think it's very helpful. Most people > don't care, which web browser they are using and if they're browsing > through their a

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-13 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/13/05, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assume a situation where mirror bandwidth is the limiting factor, and > imagine a world with 3 mirrors. Say that during a certain time of the > day 600 users each minute start to download updated x.org packages. > Either they can do their d

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > THis is not something that would bother anyone if it is a single user... but > if you have 10k users doing that, often close enough in time, well, things > should get MUCH worse as far as I can see. If they are doing this at random > time

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:08, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > This is beyond tasksel, but Bob User would profit immensely from generic > > menu entries. SuSE does this and I think it's very helpful. Most people > > don't care, which web b

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:46:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:51:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Anthony Towns writes: > >> > (a) seeing if the FTBFS can be fixed immediately, and finding it can't > >> > (b) documentin

Re: Report from foss.in/2005

2005-12-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Kartik Mistry wrote: [4] http://www.braincells.com/debian/ Btw, the direct URL to my report about foss.in is: http://www.braincells.com/debian/index.cgi/search/item=121 I also plan to write more about the status and future prospects for Debian in India when I get the cha

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Christian Perrier wrote: > > And, anyway, the KDE/Gnome thing is only one of the points I meant > > about the "usability" of our default desktop system, when we target > > our dear Bob User. > > This is beyond tasksel, but Bob U

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Christian Perrier wrote: >> And, anyway, the KDE/Gnome thing is only one of the points I meant >> about the "usability" of our default desktop system, when we target >> our dear Bob User. > This is beyond tasksel, but Bob User

Re: question towards "freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages"

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:17:51AM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > today I've tried to address the issue raised by Steve Langasek regarding > "inherited" dependencies [1]. > As I am unexperienced with the whole linking and dependency process I > was not able to deduce the consequences of this ann

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Christian Perrier wrote: > And, anyway, the KDE/Gnome thing is only one of the points I meant > about the "usability" of our default desktop system, when we target > our dear Bob User. This is beyond tasksel, but Bob User would profit immensely from generic menu entries. SuSE does this and I think

Re: question towards "freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages"

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:17:51AM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > today I've tried to address the issue raised by Steve Langasek regarding > "inherited" dependencies [1]. > As I am unexperienced with the whole linking and dependency process I > was not able to deduce the consequences of this ann

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:03:57AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Joey Hess [Mon, Dec 12 2005, 03:53:02PM]: >> This kind of disconnect between what an installed Debian system actually >> does, what some developers think it does, and results like Debian >> developers passing out Ubuntu CDs instead