Now I'm not a buildd operator nor do I have any experience on non-x86
arches, but a 16 core MIPS 1U server that only pulls 50W power and that
ships with Debian preinstalled just has a very high coolness factor :-)
http://www.movidis.com/products/rev.asp
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr
[Steve Greenland]
> By "autoconf related problems" I mean things like it suddenly
> deciding it's running a cross compiler, or that stdlib.h is
> missing. A lot of this kind of stuff could be improved by simply
> SHOWING ME THE FSCKING ERROR MESSAGES, rather than just checking the
> return code an
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:48:24PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> So are some widespread programming languages. If you blindly follow bad
> examples and bad styles you can dynamite yourself happily without even
> noticing, but that does not make them disused or abandoned (on the contrary
> some
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Em Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:29:31 +0200
Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:59:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Ottavio Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> >
> > > That is a *very* bad idea.
> >
> > Even only on a small details, I am please to see a few
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[Wouter Verhelst]
> It has nothing to do with "being afraid to", but everything with "not
> needing to".
There's lots of things we don't _need_ to do but we do anyway, as a
matter of quality of implementation. I believe that building a package
from source is something we should do as well, if on
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 10:43 -0300, Fabricio "aybabtu" Cannini wrote:
> Sometime ago, i've seen ( don't remember when or where ) a DD orphaning
> libapt-pkg-ruby. Where can i get it ( if it still exists, and no, google
> didn't helped much :( so that i can study and perhaps adopt it ?
You can sta
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The suggestion to use "nodaemon" as default for exim4 when only handling
> local
> mail will probably be rejected?
I guess you meant nullmailer.
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On Thursday 17 August 2006 19:21, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 10 August 2006 23:56 schrieb Roger Leigh:
> > The inetd daemon installed by default:
> > etch: openbsd-inetd | netkit-inetd
>
> Note: etch beta 3 show me a dpkg status of "ic" for netkit-inetd after
> a fresh installat
On Thursday 17 August 2006 19:02, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 16-Aug-06, 20:49 (CDT), Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As for useless autoconf tests - have you looked at how autoconf is
> > used? You pick the tests you think you need. It's not like the system
> > forces you to use a
Am Donnerstag 10 August 2006 23:56 schrieb Roger Leigh:
> The inetd daemon installed by default:
> etch: openbsd-inetd | netkit-inetd
Note: etch beta 3 show me a dpkg status of "ic" for netkit-inetd after a fresh
installation. openbsd-inetd is installed. Where does this come from?
The de
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:00:13PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > but that Solaris itself is not
> > particularly well suited to PC-class hardware (because it has less
> > drivers, or whatever).
>
> This is true, but OpenSolaris is getti
I wrote:
> I suggest you file a severity
> "serious" bug against the base-files package, since it is responsible
> for creating the directories under /usr/local in its postinst. The
> serious severity is justified IMO since the existence of /usr/local/etc
> is a "must" directive of the FHS. (Any
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And, for example, all of a sudden (autoconf 2.5, I think) every/many
> (newly generated or regenerated) configure script starting checking for
> C++ compilers, Fortran compilers, etc. etc. etc. even for pure C
> projects.
This is a libtool bug.
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Hi,
Metalinks might be helpful on Debian's download page for CD/DVD images. You
could have a single quick link to your ISOs that contains all the
mirror/p2p/checksum info in it.
Metalinks, a cross platform vendor neutral fortmat, are used by download
managers & contain Mirror & p2p locations for
On 17-Aug-06, 09:06 (CDT), Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the other hand, sw with custom build systems were always a pain:
> usually they had no idea how to build a shared lib on AIX,
Neither does libtool. But I can usually easily change the Makefile to
fix that problem; libtool is
On 16-Aug-06, 20:49 (CDT), Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As for useless autoconf tests - have you looked at how autoconf is
> used? You pick the tests you think you need. It's not like the system
> forces you to use a certain range of obsolete baseline tests. A huge
> number o
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16-Aug-06, 19:23 (CDT), Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yeah, wanting to use functionality when it's available is always a
>> dreadful idea. Far better to reimplement it locally in order to ensure
>> that we have more copies of it to
On 16-Aug-06, 20:23 (CDT), Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The main problem with your argument is that you seem to be looking at
> poorly written programs that use autoconf, and jumping to the conclusion
> that autoconf is the reason for the poor programming -- it's not. Bad
> programmer
On 16-Aug-06, 19:23 (CDT), Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, wanting to use functionality when it's available is always a
> dreadful idea. Far better to reimplement it locally in order to ensure
> that we have more copies of it to fix should there ever be any sort of
> security
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:11:19PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> So you chose to use a function not reliably available. Sounds like bad
> planning to me.
More than a year ago the plan was that we'll support Debian Sarge only.
Then a couple of weeks ago our project partner said they'll be using
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:46:49PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> > hmmm... I don't think a sane seasoned Solaris admin would evaluate a
> > Unix-like operating system for server-class work by installing its
> > 'Desktop' task, perhap
Hi!
Sometime ago, i've seen ( don't remember when or where ) a DD orphaning
libapt-pkg-ruby. Where can i get it ( if it still exists, and no, google
didn't helped much :( so that i can study and perhaps adopt it ?
Or tell me that i haven't woken up yet. :)
Sreehc!
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:59:26AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > That is a *very* bad idea.
>
> Even only on a small details, I am please to see a few
> people on a Debian mailing list not blindly accepting
> whatever comes from the Ubuntu world.
Well, yeah, but in fa
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:46:49PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> hmmm... I don't think a sane seasoned Solaris admin would evaluate a
> Unix-like operating system for server-class work by installing its
> 'Desktop' task, perhaps?
A seasoned Solaris admin may very well be of the opinion tha
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:42:09AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Michael Poole]
> > On top of the default automake behavior being horribly broken, does
> > that make usual revision control practices horribly broken?
>
> It really bothers me to hear people claim as a best practice that you
> sho
* Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-14 07:11]:
> You can't tell from the message if some actually looks at the
> moderation queue. I think it's fine to moderate your maintainer list,
> but you should tell Mailman (or whatever MLM you use) not to tell the
> message sender that his messag
* Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-17 10:52]:
> * The warning message implies that people who send bug reports to
> Debian must also subscribe to upstream mailing lists. This is
> unacceptable (IMHO). I already subscribe to far too many mailing lists.
As regards mailing lists managed by Mai
Hi Klaus
> So is there a way to give official packages to debian without being a
> official maintainer?
Sure, you can prepare the package and then give it to an official debian
developer who can upload it for you and therefore act as a kind of sponsor.
You are still responsible for the package a
Hi, Klaus...
On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:47, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be
> able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem:
>
> Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it
> went asleep as
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Hello,
I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be
able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem:
Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it
went asleep as I have no time to fini
Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've two problems with libslang2. The first is, the package libslang2
> includes a patch that changes the behaviour of a function. But jed
> expects the function behaviour as given in the original slang2 library.
> I've reported this bug #369152, 80 days ago, but the ma
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16-Aug-06, 04:00 (CDT), Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:26:29PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
>>
>> > And guess what? System tests are actually more reliable, especially
>> > when the user tells you what the s
Ralph,
it's interesting, but now it works for me too, versions are the same.
Just few days ago it "crashed happily".
Well, seems it would be harder to abandon Debian than it seemed :o) In
fact, very hard for me..
Peter
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