On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:27:08AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> it's also possible to raise a variety of invalid concerns
> in ways that require responses
> their comments are only influential in so far as they persuade developers.
These statements apply to both DD's and non-DD's.
--Adam
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:11:42PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> If people who aren't members are raising valid concerns that need to be
> addressed before development can proceed, we shouldn't reject that input on
> the basis of membership and call it "blocking development".
Right. But it's also p
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG writes ("Re: severities of blocking bugs"):
>> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > As opposed to writing to demand that the maintainer spend their free
>> > time to help you fix your problem !
>>
>> How does adjusting the seve
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:27:54AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Package upgrades skipping a stable release are advertised as "not
> guaranteed to work", which allows maintainers to drop support for
> upgrades from versions earlier than oldstable in their uploads to
> unstable. However I've never
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:32:24 +0900
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Package name: sms2
Be careful naming source and provided packages to avoid namespace
pollution :)
Cheers,
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Nacho Barrien
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes ("Re: severities of blocking bugs"):
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > As opposed to writing to demand that the maintainer spend their free
> > time to help you fix your problem !
>
> How does adjusting the severity of a bug report amount to a demand
> that t
Daniel Kobras writes ("Re: Renaming a package"):
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:15:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I don't think it this patch is correct as is, but something similar
> > might not be unreasonable if it had to be turned on with a command
> > line option.
>
> [Context: When renamin
On 6/14/06, Jari Aalto+usenet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One thing, when etc/mailcap entry reads:
application/msexcel; oocalc '%s'; edit=oocalc '%s
What happens then 'oocalc' is not available? How is
the error handling done, so that e.g. 'xmessage' is
displayed under Window mamager to notify
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does this mean that maintainers should be expected to support the
> maintscript "install" "$2" cases for ancient versions, or is there
> some other convention of which I remain unaware?
I can't speak for any general conventions. But we had quite a lot o
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:03:21PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
>> I've been upgrading my machines since Woody to Sarge, then to Etch. Now,
>> my /var/lib/dpkg/available are huge (15MB), and it seems they never get
>> cleaned.
>> How a
Package: wnpp
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Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Package name: sms2
Version : 2.303
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Description : Biologica
Package upgrades skipping a stable release are advertised as "not
guaranteed to work", which allows maintainers to drop support for
upgrades from versions earlier than oldstable in their uploads to
unstable. However I've never heard a requirement that package
versions earlier than the most recent
* Wed 2006-06-14 Thibaut Paumard
* Message-Id: 1150288566.1225.141.camel AT pc-paumard.mpe-garching.mpg.de
> Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 01:33 +0200, Hendrik Sattler a écrit :
>
>> Why not have something that starts the proper program according to the given
>> mimetype? E.g.:
>> x-mime-handler app
Loïc Minier schreef:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>
>>I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
>>bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a
>>way to enable it with a standard kernel.
>
> Ubuntu starts Linux with a frameb
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 07:12, Anthony Towns a écrit :
> > Apps can do either:
> >
> > Package: foo
> > Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar
> >
> > /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> doesn't it breaks if python-bar only provides 2.3 modul
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
> bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a
> way to enable it with a standard kernel.
Ubuntu starts Linux with a framebuffer atop of the VGA16 video d
Le Mer 14 Juin 2006 15:23, Pierre Habouzit a écrit :
> Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 07:12, Anthony Towns a écrit :
> > Apps can do either:
> >
> > Package: foo
> > Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar
> >
> > /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> doesn't it breaks if python-bar only provides 2
Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 07:12, Anthony Towns a écrit :
> Apps can do either:
>
> Package: foo
> Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar
>
> /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python
doesn't it breaks if python-bar only provides 2.3 modules ? because in
an apt PoV the dependencies will be fullfiled
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 14:03 +0200, Daniel Kobras a écrit :
> dpkg --forget-old-unavail
Well, no, it doesn't help.
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BeezNest
Miriam Ruiz schreef:
> gensplash and fbsplash might be an option to consider too:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
Interesting...
>From the site: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/
---
This means that if you don't care about having an image in the
background of yo
Paul Wise schreef:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>
>
>>I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
>>bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a
>>way to enable it with a standard kernel.
>
>
> splashy is a bette
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:53:29AM +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
> Command line usage (or from Window manager menu):
>
> call: x-spreadsheet
How would this be different from using the already-existing run-mailcap
command? And what happens if 95% of time I want to use one application
as
Jérôme Warnier schreef:
> Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis a écrit :
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
>>bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a
>>way to enable it with a standard kernel.
>>
>
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 01:33 +0200, Hendrik Sattler a écrit :
> > >> If you open a file in a file browser, or you open it thru a web
> > >> browser or something, it might have a mime type assosiated with
> > >> it. So what I think you suggest is that based on the mime-type
> > >> we start an a
gensplash and fbsplash might be an option to consider too:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
Miry
--- Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>
> > I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
> > bootspl
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:59 +0100, Indraveni wrote:
> I want to know when will the deb packages for egroupware-1.2.2 and
> Bugzilla 2.16 version debian packages will be released.
egroupware 1.2 is available, you will have to wait for 1.2.2, or contact
the maintainer to help her/him out with it:
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 19:55 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Your other questions were answered by Jérôme Warnier.
I forgot the following pages related to boot splashscreens:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/kernel-patch-bootsplash
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/graphics/splashy
ht
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> I've been upgrading my machines since Woody to Sarge, then to Etch. Now,
> my /var/lib/dpkg/available are huge (15MB), and it seems they never get
> cleaned.
> How am I supposed to clean them? Isn't there any automated tools in
> Deb
Hi, I want to know when will the deb packages for egroupware-1.2.2 and Bugzilla 2.16 version debian packages will be released.Thanks & RegardsIndraveni Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http:/
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
> bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a
> way to enable it with a standard kernel.
splashy is a better alternative to the kernel-patch
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
> bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a
> way to enable it with a standard kernel.
>
> For many many people all the
Hello,
I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a
bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a
way to enable it with a standard kernel.
For many many people all these boot-messages are confusing. For me this
is really an important point in using
Hi,
I've been upgrading my machines since Woody to Sarge, then to Etch. Now,
my /var/lib/dpkg/available are huge (15MB), and it seems they never get
cleaned.
How am I supposed to clean them? Isn't there any automated tools in
Debian to do that?
Thanks
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Jérôme Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BeezNe
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Heikki Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Package name: mugshot
Version : 1.1.5
Upstream Author : Mugshot Developers (http://developer.mugshot.org/)
URL : http://mugshot.org
License : GPL-2 & Mugshot Client License Agreem
I thought it might be worth pointing out that this has already been done
on a large scale, in Mac OS X. That is precisely why PPC and i386 gcc
are now largely fixed. Also, that the Mac OS team did considerable
testing, and now build almost everything with -Os.
I heard this at a presentation fr
Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 20:38, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> For NMUers, always start by filling a bug report refering to this
> announce, register the bug number and your intent to work on it in
> the wiki page, do the work, send the patch to the BTS and upload the
> package appropriately (using a DELA
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: tworld
Version : 1.3.0
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* URL : http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tworld/
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