RFH: How to get rid of a link to a directory

2012-11-11 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, I would like to hear your opinion on the following matter: The TeX Directory Standard (TDS) has a hierarchy also for documentation files (TEXMF/doc). Historically tex-common ships a *directory*link* /usr/share/texmf/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf Now, that in fact does not make

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/04/2012 04:54 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > That is no case for open software as you still have no money from it, > whether would you fix the bugs or not, therefore will someone use it > beside you or not, it still will be for your own fun. That's the > difference and I have to admit that

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-11 21:27:19 +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: > Do you tried nvidia close drivers or nouveau (in the aspect > suspend/resume)?! Only nouveau (to avoid tainted kernels in particular). But I had problems with the Nvidia proprietary drivers in the past. At least the following bug has been fi

Re: Bug#690839: run-parts: By default the umask is set to 022

2012-11-11 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:35:46PM +0100, Stefan Klinger wrote: > Yes, I'm aware of that. On the other hand: The current behavior seems > insane to me, unless there would be a good reason for by default > changing the umask to a less secure setting, but then that should be > documented. > > I agr

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-11 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:06:15PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote: >> I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't >> gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would >> be a good place to upload wha

Re: off topic (Re: major linux problems summary 2012)

2012-11-11 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
Bart, My reason to posting to debian-devel the lists about "major linux desktop problems in 2012" (which additional are very similar to my 'using linux/ubuntu/debian-whatever' problems) was focus 'Debian developers' to real problems which had trubles many usual fans/enthusiasts of free operati

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
Riku, My laptop (Dell Latitude E6510) was bought without Windows pre-installed and with ubuntu installed. Regards, Karol Szk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
So Vincent we probably choose wrong laptops.. :-) Designed to run Windows. :-) ps. Thanks for links I've just look on them. ps2. Do you tried nvidia close drivers or nouveau (in the aspect suspend/resume)?! Regards, KarolSzk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:06:15PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't > gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would > be a good place to upload what I have so far from bootstrapping an x32 > port of Debian? Ha

Bug#692984: ITP: sogo-connector -- full DAV client for Thunderbird/IceDove

2012-11-11 Thread Joseph Nahmias
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joseph Nahmias * Package name: sogo-connector Version : 10.0.3 Upstream Author : Inverse, Inc * URL : http://sogo.nu/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: XUL/Javascriopt Description : full DAV client for Thunderbir

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the > problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not > Evil". From what I've seen, most - if not all - of the affected packages > are

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-11 Thread Maxime Hadjinlian
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Maxime Hadjinlian (maxime.hadjinl...@gmail.com): > >> What about : >> Description : lacie u-boot netconsole shell >> ? >> >> Now the dumb question, to change the description, what do I do ? I >> wasn't able to find that info i

Bug#692968: ITP: karlyriceditor -- Karaoke lyrics editor with video rendering

2012-11-11 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martin Steghöfer" * Package name: karlyriceditor Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : George Yunaev * URL : http://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/karaoke-lyrics-editor/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 18:28 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > To explain for people who may not know: the benefit of x32 is that it > gives a non-shit 32-bit x86 ABI. i386 is *awful* as a processor to > target for many reasons, horrendously starved of registers. amd64 > (x86_64/x64) fixed this *and* a

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-11 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 11 novembre 2012 10.25:05, Thomas Koch a écrit : > .oO(One day all maintainers will use Git... :-) … the same way, of course. OdyX signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Thomas Koch writes: > Ansgar Burchardt: >> Thomas Koch writes: >> > For every debian source package that enters the archive, dak should >> > commit the source code to a public readable Git repository and put a >> > signed tag on it. >> >> I do not think that is a good idea: >> >> You would end

Bug#692942: ITP: opusfile -- High-level API for basic manipulation of Ogg Opus audio streams

2012-11-11 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron * Package name: opusfile Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Xiph.Org * URL : http://www.opus-codec.org * License : 3-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : High-level API for basic manipulation of Ogg Opus

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-11 Thread Thomas Koch
Ansgar Burchardt: > Thomas Koch writes: > > For every debian source package that enters the archive, dak should > > commit the source code to a public readable Git repository and put a > > signed tag on it. > > I do not think that is a good idea: > > You would end with two repositories for packa

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 03:51:53PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > lucie-uboot > > lucie-uboot-netconsole If upstream refer to it as 'plum', then eradicating plum from the package name entirely isn't sensible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u