Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-09-05 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 05/09/2012 22:11, Andreas Tille a écrit : >>> So we finally have three independently developed solutions (we also have >>> several instances of a debian/get-orig-source script in Debian Med >>> team) and my suggestion was just to settle with a common and simple >>> solution. This should be pret

Bug#686800: ITP: inxi -- system information script for console, IRC or forum posts

2012-09-05 Thread Gordon Spencer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gordon Spencer * Package name: inxi Version : 1.8.14 Upstream Author : Gordon Spencer * URL : http://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-33.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: bash script Description : system inform

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Lynn
On 05/09/12 18:10, W. Anderson wrote: > It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any > other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, > give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has > for many years been decidedly ambiva

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 05.09.2012 23:24, schrieb martin f krafft: > I said fglrx — because its binary-only version caused regular > crashes and headaches for Linux users. > Which is ATM more useful as nvidia prop. ones. And AMD (not the ATI in the past) is in general interested (and already legaly checked) in openin

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Patrick Matthäi [2012.09.05.2231 +0200]: > AMD also supports Debian (just now with an special point release > for Wheezy). I do not think that AMD (not the past ATI) is evil > and such foo should stop here. Good thing I asked… > And why hasn't got radeon a good reputation? I said fg

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 05.09.2012 20:57, schrieb martin f krafft: > also sprach Patrick Matthäi [2012.09.05.1902 +0200]: >> amd64 is the name of the x64 CPU architecture and also with my fglrx hat >> on I think you do not know about what you are speaking (just have got a >> look at radeon).. > > Radeon being owned b

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:19:29PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 17/08/2012 13:08, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > So we finally have three independently developed solutions (we also have > > several instances of a debian/get-orig-source script in Debian Med > > team) and my suggestion was just to

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 20:57 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Patrick Matthäi [2012.09.05.1902 +0200]: > > amd64 is the name of the x64 CPU architecture and also with my fglrx hat > > on I think you do not know about what you are speaking (just have got a > > look at radeon).. > > Radeo

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Patrick Matthäi [2012.09.05.1902 +0200]: > amd64 is the name of the x64 CPU architecture and also with my fglrx hat > on I think you do not know about what you are speaking (just have got a > look at radeon).. Radeon being owned by AMD and fglrx not having the best reputation, I don't

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:04:00PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:36:36PM -0400, W. Anderson wrote: > > It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any > > other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, > > give great publ

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:36 AM, W. Anderson wrote: > It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any > other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, > give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has for > many years been de

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2012 02:10 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Nothing we can do about it now. The news posting at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/17/#amd64 could be edited to change the first reference to amd64 in the text to link to http://www.debian.org

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 05.09.2012 18:36, schrieb W. Anderson: > It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any > other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, > give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has > for many years been decidedly am

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach W. Anderson [2012.09.05.1836 +0200]: > It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any > other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, > give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, The statement was not about AMD but about the

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:36:36PM -0400, W. Anderson wrote: > It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any > other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, > give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has > for many year

greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread W. Anderson
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect, give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has for many years been decidedly ambivalent and generally uncooperative towards the L

Re: Discussion of uscan enhancement 1 (Was: uscan enhancement take 3: script hook)

2012-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:04:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > the machine-readable format does not mention trailing slashes at the end > of directory names, and refers to the -path test of the GNU find command, Good. Having a trailing-slash be meaningful is very confusing. I especially hate th

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-09-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
Serge, I'm in the favor of having a try with OpenRC, and see what we can do, but here, your post is a bit naive at least in some cases. Let me explain why. On 09/05/2012 11:47 AM, Serge wrote: >> I don't see how these people help Debian if they start pushing their >> own solution instead of helpi