Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2009-01-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, John Goerzen wrote: > Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and > > replaces them with hardlinks. > > . > > The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but > > the code has been written from sc

Re: Mailing list code of conduct, again

2008-05-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 19 May 2008 18:10, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > People already CCed are a different beast. But CCing the creator of > a mail by default is not reasonable. > Unfortunately that doesn't work with Kmail's reply-to-list, which means manual attention is needed when the thread is being intentio

Re: Bug#427697: Is sbackup maintained? If not, what to do?

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 16 May 2008 10:20, Charles Plessy wrote: > Since the revitalisation of sbackup is expected after the freezing of > Lenny, we have to solve the most important bugs of the current version > of sbackup. I do not know enough of python for helping on bug #427697 > (the gid of the backups). If

Re: Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:07, Noah Slater wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:44:00AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying "if you > > don't know what this is, you don't need this" defeats the purpose of > > packages descripti

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Vaughan
[Sorry for the late reply] On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:18, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >> > >> It appears that the Technical menu should include at least; > >> - Science > >> - Engineering > >> - Math > >> - HamRadio > >> - Electronics [snip] > I thought that Science fit under Technical, if the off

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 21 January 2008 07:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > >> Regarding the list above I would guess that what you want is something > >> like the following: > >> > >> * glib -> GL

Re: Flash player?

2007-03-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Sunday 18 March 2007 10:09, Gabriel Molina wrote: > Hello, I've recently installed debian on a MAC Power PC G4 but I have not > been able to find a flash player to work on it.. The one I found (gnash) > did not work. Is there anything out there that I've over looked? > > Thank you for your

Re: apt hangs for ever

2006-11-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 27 November 2006 11:55, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > Is this a bug in apt? > > pbuilder update --override-config --configfile > /tmp/pbuilder-local.SvMNy19452 W: /home/brian/.pbuilderrc does not exist > Upgrading for distribution etch > Building the build Environment > -> extracting bas

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 20 October 2006 08:06, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Sander Marechal] > > > True, but I meant that an app can kill X, requiring it to be restarted. > > Newbies get very confused at that point. > > Look, if you typed "startx" once, you can type it again. > > If you didn't, it means you're usin

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 05:41, you wrote: > On 2006-10-17, Goswin von Brederlow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > Anyway, the usual way to detect a newbie and give help to them seems > > to be to assume everyone a newbie and give little hints, startup tips, > > ... till they learn en

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Saturday 29 July 2006 04:42, Katrina Jackson wrote: > Hardware supported by > Ubuntu 6 months ago, should be supported by Debian by now. Just out of interest, what hardware in particular? Which Debian distribution? (Stable, testing, or unstable) Also remember that non-free drivers typically

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > > at the moment, we have two types of Live CD images: > > > > * the small one which contains only packages of standard priority, > > * and three larger ones, each of which contains one of the common > > desktop-environm

Re: Testing excuses question

2006-06-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 26 June 2006 23:08, Jiri Palecek wrote: > Sorry, I do not understand. You mean the "breaks xx packages" thingy? > > I have already said, that of these 74 packages, 15 are dependent, > and they are more or less prepared to enter testing along with > neon. The rest only depends on those 15,

Re: Bug#374607: ITP: mlmmjadmd -- a networked daemon for remote administration of mlmmj

2006-06-20 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 18:26, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: > > mlmmjadmd is a TCP based server that allows clients to remotely > administer an mlmmj installation. Currently, almost all mlmmj tunables > and actions are supported. mlmmjadmd makes it easy to construct > synchronous adminitratitive UI'

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thursday 11 May 2006 01:25, Frank Küster wrote: > The only things that should be installed separately are > probably aptitude, apt and dpkg, then just dist-upgrade. > From memory, upgrading apt + friends seperately isn't possible whilst synaptic is installed. In sarge, the gnome meta package

Re: Bug#354803: ITP: stx2any -- A converter from structured plaintext to multiple formats

2006-03-01 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:23, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: > Description : A converter from structured plaintext to multiple > formats What formats? Please be a little more verbose. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Bug#347617: ITP: itrans -- Converts romanised Indic text to LaTeX, HTML & Postscript

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:58, Frank Küster wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank Küster wrote: > >> Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> How did you manage to download the sources from there? I get: > > > > ftp://ftp%40aczoom%2Ecom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/itrans

Re: [Listmaster] Seeking petsupermarket

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:25, Cord Beermann wrote: > > Someone who is subscribed to d-devel forwards the mails to > petsupermarket. petsupermarket itself is not subscribed to any of our > mailinglists. > > If you have seen those c-r-responses outside of the debian-lists, or > in the last days on other

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:52, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Given the choice between having to double check work done by > potentially inexperienced folks, and ensuring that the package is > done by people who can do some of the double checking on their own, > and make less errors, I'd go for th

Re: No 2.6 kernels for 586 in Sarge and up

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 02:55, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 16:40, Jérôme Warnier wrote: > > I wonder why there is no 2.6 kernel package for 586 in Sarge while > > there is for 2.4? > > I can find 386-486-686 and k7, but no 586. > > Try linux-{source,image,headers}. (on sarge, long

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:32, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:32:21PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > > This is not a fair characterization of what the introduction of > > a two-maintainer rule would be doing. No one should be insulted > > by general rule changes designed to make Debian

Re: udev event completion order

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:29, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written... > > > Kay Sievers wrote: > >> There is also the plan to do parallel device probing inside the kernel > >> some day, that will make the situation of relying on kernel names even > >> mo

Re: kernel 2.6.14

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:34, Richard Fojta wrote: > Hi, > I've recently try to install new kernel. Somethings go wrong and I cannot > found solution. There is some problem with configuration. It seems to me, > that this problem is not unique. Does anybody know how to solve ti? [This is probably m

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:08, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > This is beyond tasksel, but Bob User would profit immensely from generic > > menu entries. SuSE does this and I think it's very helpful. Most people > > don't care, which web b

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 03:03, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Simon Richter wrote: > > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >> Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl > >> code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add > >> this functionality. > > > > You can use "pack

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:40, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > FWIW, Debian package names prefer e.g. foo-en-uk-doc over > > > foo-documentation-ukenglish. Can you provide a reference/stats to back t

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > FWIW, Debian package names prefer e.g. foo-en-uk-doc over > foo-documentation-ukenglish. This allows to filter documentation > packages by name (doc-* or *-doc), and following the standardized > ISO abbreviations also seems to be better than using

Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:17, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Frederico Rodrigues Abraham schrieb am Mittwoch, den 27. Juli 2005: > > i am using debian stable... (sarge) > > Then I'm sorry, I tried to reproduce the problem, here my results on a > fresh installed sarge chroot: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ap

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-08 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi all, The following two packages are the only ones not in testing that I currently use. Note that both are in woody, so it would be good they also shipped with sarge. (packages maintainers cced, in the hope they might fix these themselves). (Note: I'm not a dd, so I can't fix these myself.)

Re: [Fwd: Re: partimage-server]

2005-04-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Martin On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:51 pm, Martin Kos wrote: > hi everbody > > i'm forwarding this to the list and perhaps somebody could close the > bug for partimage-server, please? > > greets > KoS > > ps.: i am NOT a subscriber of the list so please take me on the CC > > Original Messag