Xorg 7.2

2007-04-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent announcement on David Nusinov's blog at . I wish such stuff would be posted to the mailing lists and

Re: Intent to take over: tilda

2007-04-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 02:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greg Folkert ha scritto: > > > Not to be a stick in the mud... but I show this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show tilda > > Package: tilda > > Priority: optional > > Section: x11 > > Install

lesstif

2007-04-16 Thread costin c
How compatible is lesstif with openmotif ? A lot of examples from Motif Programming Manual return some errors like this one: simplespin_value.c:108: error: 'XmNwrap' undeclared (first use in this function) simplespin_value.c:108: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once simplespi

Re: Intent to take over: tilda

2007-04-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greg Folkert ha scritto: > Not to be a stick in the mud... but I show this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show tilda > Package: tilda > Priority: optional > Section: x11 > Installed-Size: 100 > Maintainer: David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Bug#419622: ITP: yaml-mode -- emacs mode for YAML files

2007-04-16 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: yaml-mode Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Yoshiki Kurihara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://yaml-mode.clouder.jp/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Emacs lisp De

Re: Intent to take over: tilda

2007-04-16 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 00:44, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 22:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/04/msg00113.html > > Not to be a stick in the mud... but I show this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show tilda > P

Re: thrall arccosine

2007-04-16 Thread Corina Simmsnj
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Re: Intent to take over: tilda

2007-04-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 22:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > the maintainer of tilda (Zak Elep) seems disappeared :) I wrote him a > lot of e-mails and he never answered me. > > I like this useful program, I use it every day, that's why I've built > tilda[1] with the new upstream version an

Re: hovel wrist

2007-04-16 Thread Rodh Bentonl
This one is shoe in to Double by end of week Huge Volume spike, many people are already in the know Imagine getting in on next HANS or FIZ Fire Mountain Bev Company Sym-FBVG 2 Cents is a STEAL Add this to your radar, Dont miss this one like HANS and FIZ Remember Snapple, this will be bigger Get

Intent to take over: tilda

2007-04-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, the maintainer of tilda (Zak Elep) seems disappeared :) I wrote him a lot of e-mails and he never answered me. I like this useful program, I use it every day, that's why I've built tilda[1] with the new upstream version and maybe I found already a sponsor. I think it's time to do something an

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > True, but it wasn't my intention to put it into a package as it would be > obviously useless for the target audience. sorry, I did understand it the other way round. > I thought about distributing > it along other media (installation CDs/DVDs, Live-CDs). i do not have the

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > I guess I do not know enough about Live-CDs, but obviously others have > this problem as well. Is it true that it is as easy as a VM to setup a > Live-CD for daily productive work? for me, it's even simpler :) live-helper is taking care about almost all of the little magic r

Re: Debian qualified as a OMG operating system

2007-04-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 17:57 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Emanuele Rocca píše v Čt 15. 03. 2007 v 10:33 +0100: > > Hi guys, > > > > quoting http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSystem#systemadministration > > > > "Debian has been qualified as a OMG operating system for administrators, > > primarily becaus

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-16 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Presently the number of installations reported to popcon is about the > same as the number of subscriptions to debian-security-announce, but I > am sure there are many users of debian who don't read d-s-a and many > users, who have several -maybe hundreds- of installati

Re: Debian qualified as a OMG operating system

2007-04-16 Thread Ondřej Surý
Emanuele Rocca píše v Čt 15. 03. 2007 v 10:33 +0100: > Hi guys, > > quoting http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSystem#systemadministration > > "Debian has been qualified as a OMG operating system for administrators, > primarily because of its ease of use, security and straight-forward > common sense

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread George N. White III
On 4/16/07, Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I maintain an inofficial package of FSL (a non-(commercial|free) toolkit for fMRI analysis). For a special-interest package like this it has pretty high number of users, but from reading the upstream mailing list and other user feedback I know

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Hanke
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:10:59PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Hanke wrote: > > I think VMs are superior to Live-CDs for this task as the VMs can be > > used as a living Debian system that can be further customized. In > > contrast Live-CDs always feel like a snapshot of a certain system

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, [ I failed to use my mail client properly. Sorry. This message should make it to -devel AND -science now - hopefully ] On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:05:45PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Hanke wrote: > > Therefore I'd like to ask whether you think that it would be > > reasonable for D

Bug#419523: RFH: openoffice.org -- OpenOffice.org Office suite

2007-04-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the openoffice.org package. The package description is: OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. . This metapackage installs all components

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > I think VMs are superior to Live-CDs for this task as the VMs can be > used as a living Debian system that can be further customized. In > contrast Live-CDs always feel like a snapshot of a certain system that > one has to live with. just for the records: live-cds can be per

Re: Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Hanke wrote: > Therefore I'd like to ask whether you think that it would be > reasonable for Debian to provide a virtual machine image with the > most recent stable release that can be customized to perform a specific > task on a win32 machine? I completely fail to see why a VM image /insi

Re: teTeX is gone, beware of build-dependencies

2007-04-16 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear fellow developers, > > the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live > 2007 to unstable. With this version, teTeX will vanish as a separate > package and only continue to exist as transitional packages. I must apologize for

Thoughts on distributing virtual machine images to promote Debian

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, a few day ago I posted a similiar message to the Debian-med list, but perhaps this is of a more general interest. http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/04/msg2.html I maintain an inofficial package of FSL (a non-(commercial|free) toolkit for fMRI analysis). For a special-interest packa