Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Pennace
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:50:08PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Alex Pennace wrote: > > > According to [1], this isn't the first time the nodejs folks ran into > > a name problem. Up until March of 2009 they were using the name > > "server," > > I

Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Pennace
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:09:09PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du lundi 07 novembre 2011, vers > 14:42, Ian Jackson disait : > > > 2a. Likewise the maintainer of "nodejs" should prepare a version > > of the package where the "node" binary is cal

Bug#616189: ITP: raspell -- A Ruby interface binding for the Aspell spelling checker.

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Pennace
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alex Pennace * Package name: raspell Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Evan Weaver * URL : https://github.com/fauna/raspell * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : A Ruby interface binding for the

Re: Fixed UID in the 60000-64999 range

2007-09-17 Thread Alex Pennace
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:09:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Who should I ask to be assigned a fixed uid in the 6-64999 range > for the SLURM user? Thanks for your attention. See /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: /etc/localtime (was: Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc)

2006-10-31 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:22:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alex Pennace wrote: > > I'm surprised your report missed one of the most established > > configuration symlinks of them all: /etc/localtime. I'm pointing that > > o

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-10-31 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:32:49PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.31.2016 +0100]: > > In all of these cases the files pointed to are not intended to be > > modified but what file is used can be configured. > > How are certificate files not in

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-10-31 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:41:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I am fully aware of this. However, it's misleading, don't you think? I cannot answer that from the average user perspective. However, symlinks are quite handy and there is already an established base of users who are familiar with

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-10-31 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:10:45PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Since #350282 is still being discussed, I ended up doing > > cat /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-class3.pem >> /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem > > on systems that needed access to all of CACert's certificates. > > The recent ca-certificates up

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-09 Thread Alex Pennace
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:16:51PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I propose another solution. Introduce init-common with wrappers: > * /sbin/init is a binary that > - reads a configuration file with the init system name and > - creates a file /var/run/inittype (or whereever is can be stored a

Re: Are you still there?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:22:35PM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote: > I'd like to know if you are still working for your debian packages, > specially libelfg0 which one of my packages may depend on. > > If you have no time, I'd like to take over this package since it's > pretty important for me. I hav

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread Alex Pennace
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:31:15AM +0100, Lenart Janos wrote: > As you might already have noticed Debian begun to bloat - so many > unneeded, unused, unmaintained(!) packages. > My opinion is that one DD alone couldn't upload NEW package, but he > needs 2 proponent DD who are willing to "give his s

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-06 Thread Alex Pennace
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why should the default configuration be changed to account for the > > diminishing number of broken routers on the net? > > From a technical behavior, throwing away packets with unkn