Hi!
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080429 18:55]:
> There used to be http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtch but it's gone
> without a trace, [..]
There are still some Translations:
http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtchGerman
http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtchRussian
http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtchSp
Hi!
* Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080226 05:09]:
> Great idea. Please check: http://wiki.debian.org/FortunesDebianHints
>
> and get started! I am new to wiki, so improve my formatting too :)
You might want to "subscribe" to that wiki page, so you'll get notified
via email, when someone m
Hi!
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080214 06:54]:
> > Description : Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and
> > fishes
> At least uncapitalize "Arcade".
"At least"? You have further improvements? Sounds "3D racing game
featuring Tux, the Linux penguin" better for y
Hi!
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080214 08:43]:
>> Description : Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and fishes
> Thanks for your work on it. Could you please clarify whether it
> is just an alternative to ppracer or whether it is a replacement?
ppracer is upstream dead
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: extreme-tuxracer
Version : 0.4.0
Upstream Author : Pawel Drewniak, Guillaume Martres and others
* URL : http://www.extremetuxracer.com/
* License : GPL (
Hi!
* Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080205 21:57]:
> I did another rebuild. Thanks to the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD cabal, the
> results are available on io.debian.net. If you want shell access, read
> http://io.debian.net/ssh.html . If web access is enough, go to
> http://io.debian.net/~lucas/bdf
Am 8.1.2008 schrieb "Javier Fernandez-Sanguino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I do not suggest you report automatically, as you will not review
>false positives.
That wasn't my plan; acutally listmasters strongly discourage from doing
so. Problem was, that I sorted spam to one directory, and was to lazy
Hi!
Am 8.1.2008 schrieb "Kumar Appaiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[ reporting spam to listmasters and bts admins ]
>I think a single keystroke can be scripted for this. I'll try later
>tonight, though someone else is welcome to do this ahead of me. :-)
Would be cool, if your script would then auto
Hi!
* Dirk Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071015 21:11]:
> > Just name three valid reasons
> > to start a distribution from scratch.
> 1. It is the home exercise in "Operating Systems" until next week.
Uhm... Your exercise is to build a complety new Linux Distribution by
next week? Wow... that's
Hi!
* Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070720 10:22]:
[..]
> Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>ht
Could it be, that you are now filtering to strict? I could swear, that
when I looked at the list yesterday I saw fillets-ng which had a new lib
according to the
Hi!
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070713 22:54]:
> This division, while not IMHO technically very nice, helps the
> consistency and usability of the desktop environments, since the most
> accessible menu items are those from the desktop files for that
> particular desktop environment. To find
Hi!
* Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070605 17:42]:
> Moving game data elsewhere would require some way for games in main to
> depend on data elsewhere.
That's one of topics the pkg-games team is planing to adress during a
BoF at DebConf7 (beside some other stuff). Hints welcome ;)
Yours
Hi!
* Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070509 23:12]:
> > What do you think?
> > We think this is one of the available ways for a best desktop
> Hmh, a nice idea would be to add preview thumbnails next to each item,
> because clicking on each one to see full screenshot can be quite
> an
Hi!
* Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070413 00:27]:
> > The only caveat I can think of (but there might be others) is that it would
> > not be possible to properly count installations that are using
> > corporate (or ISP's) caching proxies (in somecases those are transparent to
> > the en
Hi!
* Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070409 10:00]:
> > I think we should push the multi-arch media. Particularly, the
> > x86/amd64/powerpc one can boot something like 99% of all the hardware
> > debian will ever run on, without the user having to care about what arch
> > his PC or Mac is, s
Hi!
* Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070306 19:16]:
> Although this clutters up /etc they could be saved as *.dpkg-last or
> so. New packages' conffiles can be saved as *.dpkg-new just like dpkg
> currently does if one chooses not to install the new file. Before a
> new version is install
[ removing -wnpp and the bug report from the CC list ]
* Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070205 23:34]:
> > > Is there any particular reason for iceape-l10n-* being a better
> > > name then iceape-locale-*?
> > consistency. end users and dumb people like me like it when they don't
> > have to
Hi!
* Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061001 23:46]:
> Does anyone on these lists know of any REAL GOOD resources to look for
> someone with HIGH caliper Debian Development skills?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-jobs/
http://www.debian.org/consultants/
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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http:
Hi!
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060928 16:09]:
> is there any relieable way to force opening a terminal from a menu
> entry and call a programm from this terminal to make sure that
> console output will be visible?
>
> I never succeeded to find this out. :-(
Regarding Debians menu syst
Hi!
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060811 13:22]:
> Shouldn't we switch to using/advocating a smarter algorithm like
> the one debmirror or anonftpsync use, which is to push new package
> files to the archive, then synchronise indices, then delete obsolete
> package files?
We used someth
Hi Aníbal!
* Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060721 01:42]:
> Someone using apmd on ppc please test patch for #222635 [0].
Works. I could reproduce the bug with 3.2.2-6, I couldn't reproduce it
any longer with a patched 3.2.2-7:
=
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/apmd-3.2.2$ apm -m
On-l
Hi!
* Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060513 01:38]:
> At the appropriate time, point your media player at
> http://video.debconf.org:8000/tower.ogg or
> http://video.debconf.org:8000/hacklab.ogg depending on the session
> venue. We have multiple servers so you can also use
> us.video.debconf
Hi!
* artefact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060428 11:06]:
> I am packaging a game, Wormux. This game use the font DejaVuSans which
> is already a Debian package. How can I use Defoma (I think this is the
> tool to use for this) to get this font path when building my package so
> that it could depend on
* krot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060408 20:22]:
> Good afternoon! Prompt where it is possible to find diff.gz for
> assembly gcc 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12? There Is such resource
> where are stored{kept} all diff.gz for all versions of source codes?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/
Hi!
* Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060408 13:45]:
> --- translation ---
> Good afternoon! Could you please tell me where to find diff.gz for a
> collection of gcc 4.0.1, glibc 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12? Is there such place
> where all diff.gz, for all versions of source code, are kept?
>
retitle 312078 ITA: ht -- Viewer/editor/analyser (mostly) for executables
owner 312078 !
thanks
Hi!
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060329 20:51]:
> * Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060329 20:00]:
> > The following packages are up for adoption, if you want
Hi Florian!
* Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060329 20:00]:
> hexedit - view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII
I use that very often, so I'll take it.
> ht - Viewer/editor/analyser (mostly) for executables
And I use that from time to time, so
Hi!
* MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060307 02:04]:
> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > donated by Schlund + Parner where it is hosted as well. It is a
> > DualCore Opteron and only runs this service for Debian users and
> > developers.
>
> I think/hope it should read "runs only this service".
Hi!
* Oya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060220 03:04]:
> * Package name: wormsofprey
[..]
> Description : Worms like multiplayer, realtime game
> This is another multi-player, real-time clone of Worms just like Liero and
> NiL.
> You control a little worm and try to score as many frags a
Hi!
* Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060114 09:57]:
> You're only one inside Debian and you can't generalize your personal
> opinion on the whole project.
Neither can you.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
--
http://learn.to/quote/
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
signat
Hi!
* Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060102 10:21]:
> (No, I don't really think titles will attract most of the productive
> kind contributors to Debian. Sorry.)
Being one of those who contributed a lot, I disagree a bit. I would
say, that having a title would be a "nice to have": You cou
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: squirrel-lang
Version : 2.0.5
Upstream Author : Alberto Demichelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.squirrel-lang.org/
* License : zlib/li
* Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051202 00:33]:
> This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is "what
> about closing an ITP?"
Then why not make a check (source package of bug and changelog are the
same) or (bug to be closed is an ITP)?
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
--
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051123 19:11]:
> > So, most of the DD's do not care about security at all.
> I think that DD's do not use dpkg-sig and debsigs because they believe them
> to be hard to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by policy.
... or not even know about them. I
Hi!
* Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05 15:28]:
> So what about a special exception which provides updated
> lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution?
> Is it technical possible? I mean becaused it should be
> fixed.
Curently it's quite easy to run unstables lintian, debootstr
Hi!
* Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051108 01:48]:
> > (0.6.40.1-1.1) nor your patched debhelper (4.9.3elatte) as requested in my
> > other mail.
> I'm personally working on it, and I will not commit those changes until
> they will be tested. Rememer, these all binaries are under development,
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050914 10:47]:
> | Maybe, if you don't want your output to be found on the Internet, you
> | should not make it available on the Internet?
> I think there is a difference between putting it all in one place with
> a public archive and having the content availa
* Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050913 21:35]:
[ vote for RFPs ]
> > Currently everyone interested in such a package could send a "me too"
> > mail to the report...
> That isn't going to do much good if nobody ever reads them.
>
> For a "me too" thing to be useful, it needs to be immediatel
* David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050913 19:11]:
> > Perhaps we should have some voting mechanism, to let users tell us
> > which missing packages are most wanted?
> Probably something like a rfp-request-seconded tag on the bug could
> work. Although rfp-request is somehow redundant.
Curre
Hi!
* Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050913 02:46]:
[ long RFPs ]
> Or don't even open RFP bugs in the first place because they're
> thoroughly useless?
Do you have a proposal for a better way on how our users can request /
suggest software to be packaged?
I don't think RFPs per se are useles
* Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050913 00:47]:
> Especially the RFPs. What about closing an RFP bug
> automatically after the third semi automatic notice mail
> which is sent to the BTS entry?
What is the purpose of this mail? Either there is someone interested in
packaging it, or you won't
Hi!
* Florent Bayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050816 16:20]:
> And why not also using popularity-contest (eg. if a package is used by more
> than X users, it should be maintained by a team).
And what, if a package maintained by a single person (who is doint a
good job) is get's a growing userbase an
Dear Wolfang,
* W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050814 16:15]:
> as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to
> maintain all packages by teams. [..]
Do you realy think you can enforce teamwork? I don't think so. Either
some people will work together as a team or individuals wi
* Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 17:37]:
> > Documentation in /usr/lib/foo?
> Sorry? I don't understand what documentation you mean. The .ps file _is_
> the resource.
Ah, okay. Sorry, I missunderstood that.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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Dear Terry,
* Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 16:36]:
> Okay. I've created a Debian package for Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript at
> http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/libpostscriptbarcode.deb.
> Are there any DDs willing to examine this and, if all is well, upload it
>
* Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050628 11:18]:
> http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/26/0,3672,2326362,00.html
> The article on heute.de says that ca. 100 million user in
> Germany changed to Ubuntu because of problems with Debian.
Wow, till know I thought we had only 82 Million germans...
Hi!
* Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050615 12:51]:
> I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug:
> #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery
Interessting... my I report the wishlist bug, that it should be possible
with GLSnake to show a specific - uhm - thing?
>
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: htpdate
Version : 0.8.2
Upstream Author : Eddy Vervest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.clevervest.com/htp/development.html
* License : GPL
* Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050531 15:49]:
> Speaking of prospective ports, what would be the feasibility of keeping
> testing frozen after sarge releases, do whatever toolchain updates are
> needed to support amd64 via t-p-u, and release etch as a "sarge+amd64"
> release in, say, 3 mo
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: Nexuiz
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Nexuiz Team
* URL : http://www.nexuiz.com/
* License : GPL
Description : High End 1st person 3d shooter
(copy past
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050412 08:31]:
> >Guess some people have preferences for either languages or other.
> The reason: "I just rewrite an application because the language it is
> written in." sounds a very stupid reason to me.
It doesn't for me after I heard, that foo was orhpaned.
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050330 16:09]:
> Just out of curiosity: Why do you need to do this?
Sorry, was out of synch and just got your other mail.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050330 14:08]:
> It seems tha dpatch cannot be trivially used to patch debian/rules
> when the patch target is called implicitly.
Just out of curiosity: Why do you need to do this?
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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* Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050322 22:25]:
> > AFAIK we don't have a good "What you can do to help us" documentation
> > (please correct me, if I am wrong).
> How about http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ ?
> Which is linked from the main debian.org page (bottom left: "Help Debian")
I think it
< cc-ing to -doc, since most part of the mail is more relevant there >
Hi!
* Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050318 18:59]:
> [...]
> > I've been thinking of contributing to Debian for a long time since I
> > started
> > using it. The problem is that I've not been able to find a good
> > com
Hi Markus!
* Rechberger Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050130 16:44]:
> if someone's bored and looking for a 700mb paris.avi file ...
> ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/pub/
> forward it to the maintainer of that ftp if you know who it belongs
> to... if possible
Thanks for the note.
As far as I know he is
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050129 12:13]:
> | go to http://comas.linux-aktivaattori.org/debconf5 and register.
> On the registration page, under Accomodation in Helsinki, one of the
> options are «Lodging at HUT, with my BF/GF/wife/family». Does this
> cost anything? Should my girlfr
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050124 13:37]:
[ ITP of a new tuxracer ]
> > It is based on the GPL version of TuxRacer.
[..]
> > Oliver, as the current maintainer of tuxracer. Would you like to
> > comment an my intentions? Any hints or usefull suggestions?
> If this is a fork and tuxr
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: planetpenguin-racer
Version : 0.2.3
Upstream Author : planetpenguin.de Crew / Volker Stroebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://projects.planetpenguin.de/racer/
* License : GPL
Description : another 3D rac
* Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050119 09:42]:
> > Ok, since you're one of the administrators of [0], would you mind
> > adding Simon, Rudy and me to the project? We can coordinate the work
> > there.
> > [0] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xfce/
> Sure, I just need a list of your Alioth l
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 19:46]:
> Yes, a legend for the acronyms would be fine.
Oh, I just saw, that your diagramm has a legend. I'm wondering, why I
didn't noticed it the other day..
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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Hi Kevin!
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050106 05:52]:
> > What is the target group of your diagramm?
> I wanted to visualize the deb lifecycle for my understanding of 'the
> debian way'. So I was the 'target'. I asked for comments here and there
> to fill in missing bits. And once I did it
Hi Kevin!
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050103 07:08]:
> I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments
> appreciated!
What is the target group of your diagramm? Since I don't think people
without deeper knowledge of Debian will find your diagram easy to
understan
* Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041213 21:21]:
> Anyone (with the appropriate permissions) that could help with setting up the
> greek language for DDTP? (Michael Bramer hasn't responded to the following
> email yet)
[..]
> Date: Sunday 12 December 2004 01:54
AFAIK grisu is often quit
Moin!
* Sucha Lohtia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041213 12:42]:
> Thankyou very much SIR.
You are welcome :)
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
PS: Here are the missing smilies for my last mail: ;) ;-) :-)) :) :P
PPS: Oh, by the way: A more meaningfull subject would be great next
time ;-)
Hi there!
* Sucha Lohtia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041213 10:50]:
> gut morgen.
> ich suche eine software programme name ist FEDORA CORE 3 (Punjabi sprache)
> wenn sie haben bitte sagen sie mir.
First you should know, that this is an english mailing-list
* Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041206 01:15]:
> * Package name: lapispuzzle.app
> Version : 0.9.1
> Upstream Author : Banlu Kemiyatorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://home.gna.org/garma/lapispuzzle/index.html
> * License : GNU GPL
> Description :
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041130 11:46]:
> Should this be moved to debian-legal?
No, to -curiosa.
SCNR,
Alexander
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041202 10:24]:
> | Are there any such FPS' in Debian? nethack is there, but the
> | violence is imagined, not in your face.
> lxdoom is in main. quake2 and -data are in contrib.
Did anyone mentioned "overkill" yet? Okay, it's not a FPS but it's
quite bloo
Hi there!
* Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041114 03:55]:
> If I believe I have found a security vulnerability in a package what is
> the proper course of action to follow?
Please contact the security team. Please read the Debian security FAQ
[1] especially [2] and [3] for furhter details.
* Noèl Köthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041012 11:18]:
> > http://kftpgrabber.sourceforge.net
> > Anyone that can join the project as a packager?
> > #kftpgrabber on irc.freenode.net
> best would be to send a RFP like described on
> http://www.de.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
Vince Tantardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED
* Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041008 10:11]:
> > (b) what can be regarded as most useful for our users (I, at lest,
> > think it is, and some other people will as well, I hope).
>
> I don't really see how it's useful -- it doesn't matter what libs are used
> by an app.
In my
* SAVERIO FERRARO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041005 18:49]:
> I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE CONFIGURATION OF THIS PRINT.
> HOW HAVE I TO DO?
Tell us your problem, and we might be able to help.
Oh, and in case you didn't noticed: Your caps-lock key seems to be
broken.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
si
* ROBERTOJIMENOCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041005 16:00]:
> So I download the source package (dsc, diff.gz & tar.gz), dpkg-source
> it, apply my patches, dpkg-buildpackage
> -rfakeroot, install it and mark it for hold so when upgrading a newer
> version isn't installed.
I didn't tried it myself, but
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030729 14:43]:
> > I'd like to start organizing the debconf for the year 2005 in Vienna,
> > Austria. Why that early announce? So we have time enough to find
> (...)
> Even if you are stepping in our idea of making it in Madrid, Vienna is
>
e.
Install a new page (even an empty one would do it).
Yours sincerely
Alexander Schmehl
* Luiz Rafael Culik Guimaraes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030602 13:09]:
> How to start debian direct on console mode,
One possibilitie is to remove all display manager packages: apt-get
remove --purge xdm kdm gdm wdm
(Perhaps you didn't installed all of them.)
The other possibillitie would be to dea
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030603 01:06]:
> > How to start debian direct on console mode,
> Eh? I thought Debian always started in console mode unless you both
> installed
> xdm (or the gnome/kde equivalent) and enabled it.
Which is the case, if he choosed "desktop environment
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030423 23:38]:
> I just had the idea of translating these hints myself and thus I talked
> with Grisu about using the DDTP server for this purpose. He promised
> to think about this ...
Well, did I missed something, hasn't anybody translated them, yet? I
was
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