Bug#697553: RFA: nqc -- Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX

2013-01-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp The LEGO Mindstorms RCX is a Hitachi microcontroller embedded into a LEGO brick. This package lets you write programs in a C-like language and download them to your RCX using the serial or USB infrared tower included with the RCX. I am seeking a new maintainer for this package beca

Bug#695901: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git:: git://openvswitch.org

Bug#695897: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git:: git://openvswitch.org

Bug#695896: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git:: git://openvswitch.org

Re: GFDL in main

2012-12-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Russ Allbery writes: > Jakub Wilk writes: >> First one should ask upstream if they are willing to relicense the >> documentation. If they are not, then removing the documentation or >> moving it into a non-free package is the only option left. > > It's worth noting that the FSF (which is the lar

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
ontains valid Package: or Version: pseudo-headers. If I'm right, that could be used as a criterion to accept email to sub...@bugs.debian.org that otherwise appears to be spam. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#605105: ITP: snaked -- lightweight and minimal python editor

2010-11-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Federico Ceratto writes: > Snaked (snake editor) is inspired by Scribes and indented mostly for Python. "indented" or "intended"? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Bug#586828: ITP: chipw -- custom level editor for TileWorld / Chip's Challange

2010-06-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Adam Borowski writes: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:04:41PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Luke Faraone writes: >> >> > Description : custom level editor for TileWorld / Chip's Challange >> > >> > Tile World is an emulation of the game

Re: Bug#586828: ITP: chipw -- custom level editor for TileWorld / Chip's Challange

2010-06-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
e, and was later ported to MS Windows by Microsoft. It seems odd (perhaps not *wrong* but odd) to package a level editor for a game that is only available on non-free platforms. Alternatively, if the game is also available on free platforms, then it also seems odd to mention only the non-free platf

Re: Bug#548720: ITP: libkml -- The C++ library for supporting OGC KML 2.2 standard

2009-09-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Francesco Paolo Lovergine writes: > Description : The C++ library for supporting OGC KML 2.2 standard > > This is a Google's library for use with applications that want to > parse, generate and operate on KML. It is an implementation of the OGC > KML 2.2 standard. It is written in C++

Re: Anybody have a spare sparc machine?

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ryan Niebur writes: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:53:26PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Ryan Niebur writes: >> >> > This is a sparc only FTBFS, and none of us own a sparc machine. Does >> > anybody have a spare one they could let me (or somebody else in the >

Re: Anybody have a spare sparc machine?

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ryan Niebur writes: > This is a sparc only FTBFS, and none of us own a sparc machine. Does > anybody have a spare one they could let me (or somebody else in the > Perl group) ssh into to debug it? http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi lists a number of Debian sparc machines. -- Ben Pf

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
GNU `diff' can produce this format and only GNU `patch' can automatically apply diffs in this format. For proper operation, `patch' typically needs at least two lines of context. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Pedantry or clearness

2009-06-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
calate to asking debian-devel. I agree that your wording is both clearer and more accurate, but in the end it doesn't seem to be a big deal for the Debian project--or even for the package in question (it's severity "minor"!). -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org --

Re: RFS: kernelcheck

2009-06-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jan Hauke Rahm writes: > Practically, I do see problems in the US, too: do you think a US court > would grant you copyright if the only statement in a file were "(C) > 2009, cate"? The copyright office has a webpage that explains some of these issues at http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl101.html:

Re: Bug#533369: ITP: tinycalc -- Command line calculator for developers

2009-06-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Rocco Folino writes: > Tiny Calculator is a command line calculator for developers. > It can resolve a complex expression mixing decimal, esadecimal an binary > number. > The result is automatic converted in decimal, esadecimal ad binary format. I suspect: s/esadecimal/hexadecimal/. And "and"

Re: The ‘read -r’ bashism.

2009-06-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
ging read to read REPLY. You can read about bash's "read" command by typing "help read" at a bash prompt. You can read the POSIX standard for the "read" command at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/read.html -- Ben Pfaff ht

Re: autoconf2.13

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Zack Weinberg writes: > Ben Pfaff wrote: >> (Maybe it's time to get rid of the autoconf2.13 package >> altogether, come to think of it.) > > It's still needed for just about everything put out by Mozilla, alas > (iceweasel et al, obviously, but also libnspr and

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
the config.{sub,guess} files in a package that is provided only for use with software that itself has not been updated in many years. (Maybe it's time to get rid of the autoconf2.13 package altogether, come to think of it.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Bug#525192: ITP: vtg -- Vala Toys for gEdit

2009-04-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Marc-André Lureau writes: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Marc-Andre Lureau writes: >> >>>  Vtg tries to make less compromises as possible so, for now, its scope >>>  is narrowed only to support the Vala programming language. >>

Re: Bug#525192: ITP: vtg -- Vala Toys for gEdit

2009-04-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Marc-Andre Lureau writes: > Vtg tries to make less compromises as possible so, for now, its scope > is narrowed only to support the Vala programming language. I don't understand the phrase "less compromises as possible". Could you rephrase it? -- Ben Pfaff http://

Re: Bug#524517: ITP: cachefilesd -- CACHE ON ALREADY MOUNTED FILESYSTEM

2009-04-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
Shane Wegner writes: > Description : Support fscache ON ALREADY MOUNTED FILESYSTEM Please don't write the description in all-caps. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Multi-instance startup scripts

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pasztor Janos writes: > I would like to address an issue which has been a thorn in my side for > a long time. Recently I made multi-instance scripts for some server > packages like Apache, etc. I also noticed, that the PowerDNS package > has a m.i. script provided. Perhaps you should define "mul

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
rement being applied uniformly? I don't see any such attempt in linux-image-2.6.28-1-686, to pick one example at random, even though the Linux kernel comes with a very long list of subsystem maintainers who are presumably authors or copyright holders. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSU

Re: Bug#508829: ITP: surefire -- Surefire test framework for Java

2008-12-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Torsten Werner writes: > * Package name: surefire > Version : 2.4.3 > Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation > * URL : http://maven.apache.org/surefire/ > * License : Apache-2.0 > Programming Lang: Java > Description : Surefire test framework for

Re: canonical list of port-specific CPP symbols

2008-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a canonical list of symbols defined by each of the > Debian architectures, e.g. do I test for Sparc using > __sparc or __sparc__ ? How about m68k, hppa, etc? It's not Debian-specific, but the website at http://predef.sourceforge.

Re: Bug#500671: ITP: pgtap -- Unit testing framework for PostgreSQL

2008-09-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
ons. Please state briefly what a TAP is somewhere in the description. (To me, a TAP is a virtual Ethernet device, but I think that that is not what is meant here.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ddpo-by-mail sends monthly emails (one per maintainer), containing a > list of issues in the package that person maintain: How long has this been going on? I don't recall receiving any of these mails, and I don't recall unsubsc

Re: autoconf AC_FUNC_MKTIME breaks with gcc 4.3

2008-03-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
eel free to file a bug against the autoconf package. I do my best to fix important problems as soon as I can. It's easy in a case like this where an upstream fix has already been committed. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
ependent of the capabilities of the machine downloading it. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#467217: RFP: python-pypdf -- Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit

2008-02-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description : pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit Very odd phrasing. Sounds backward: "PDF toolkit built as a pure-Python library" makes more sense to me. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
o POSIX doesn't allow you to use just any numbers. It specifically lets >> you use numbers for HUP, INT, QUIT, ABRT, KILL, ALRM, and TERM and nothing >> else. I think that's fairly portable. >> > > So should I only ignore those specifying a signal number in the 1-15

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
SUSv3 does not say that numeric signal numbers are interpreted in a system-specific way. It is very specific that numeric 1 is SIGHUP, 2 is SIGINT, 3 is SIGQUIT, 6 is SIGABRT, 9 is SIGKILL, 14 is SIGALRM, and 15 is SIGTERM: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.ht

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
that even posh supports. Is there a good reason that we do not in general accept XSI extensions? The ones that I've noticed while reading SUSv3 are features that I expect a normal Unix system to have. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
this a "possible bashism". It's not a bashism (at most, it's an XSI-ism) and it's so pervasively supported that even Autoconf uses it. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dependencies for autoconf

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
ws any one of them to satisfy the dependency, but of course this is no guarantee that this is the correct version for the package being autoreconf'd. I would appreciate some guidance on this issue from debian-devel. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#461234: ITP: kml -- C++ Kernel Machine Library

2008-01-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
l as in practice. The library is > known to work with a recent C++ compiler on GNU/Linux, on Mac OS, and on > several flavours of Windows. The description should include a definition of "kernel machine". I assumed it was some kind of virtual machine like KVM or QEMU, but it'

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:09:36PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:34:10 -0800, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > I use "time" in benchmarking scripts. >> I do not

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:34:10 -0800, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I use "time" in benchmarking scripts. > > I do not find the built in time to be a substitute for the good > old f

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
time is only used in interactive shells, so this might not be > that important. IMHO it could be relegated to optional. I use "time" in benchmarking scripts. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux stuck when serial cable is disconnected

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
o my PC everything is > OK and I can see the outputs in the terminal. > When I disconnect the serial cable my Linux get stuck. Even my telnet > connection doesnt responds. My guess is that syslogd is blocking on a write to the serial port, and other software is blocking on sending a log mes

Re: [Help] Autoconf problems when trying to build WordNet 3.0 package

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
into why. Quite possibly there's another missing substitution. (By the way, it also appears that AC_LANGINFO_CODESET in configure.ac should actually be AM_LANGINFO_CODESET although I'm not 100% certain.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Help] Autoconf problems when trying to build WordNet 3.0 package

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6/27/07, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The puzzling thing to me about this situation is what is expected >> to set TK_PREFIX. "grep TK_PREFIX" in the wordnet directory >> shows TK_

Re: [Help] Autoconf problems when trying to build WordNet 3.0 package

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
ows no hits at all. Ditto for TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC. What do you expect to set TK_PREFIX and TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
package maintainer to implement a pair of build-time options. The most obvious trouble I can see with it is packages that invoke tools through absolute paths or reset $PATH themselves. (I haven't followed previous discussion of these options. If this approach has already been considered and

Re: Bug#427248: ITP: promethee -- a productive numeric working space

2007-06-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
"lambda (sbrice)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description : A productive numeric working space > > promethee is an all-inclusive education project (called numeric > working space) which support school managing and What is a numeric working space? You don't say, and the URL that you poin

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
he only ballot I recall containing non-ASCII characters, which could be the cause. So then I sent in a signed and encrypted ballot. This caused the whole ballot to be base64-encoded. Presumably this sidestepped the quoted-printable problem, because it was accepted. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.o

Re: debian-private and Gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
he discretion of Stanford University and subject to applicable laws. If we're going to disallow getting developers' debian-private mail delivered to gmail, then we're going to have to disallow it getting delivered to Stanford, too, at least if the developer ever uses the webmail system

Re: Bug#386706: ITP: hellanzb -- Nzb downloader and post processor

2006-09-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description : Nzb downloader and post processor > > Python application designed for *nix environments that > retrieves nzb files and fully processes them. The goal being to > make getting files from Usenet as hands-free as possible. Once >

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
o distinguish between "this is what the language > says it will do" and "works for me". Use of gnulib can help with this. It provides a number of useful abstractions that can help to avoid #ifdefs in some common situations: http://savannah.gnu.org/p/gnulib -- Ben Pfa

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
rce packages based on an installation tarball > (a la java-package). How will its output differ from "alien --to-deb --scripts" based on the VMware .rpm? -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

2006-08-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 04 August 2006 09:57, Wouter Verhelst took the opportunity to say: >> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:21:28AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: >> > In short, it's a mess. Lots of improvements can be made, to MUAs, MLMs, >> > as well as MTAs. An RFC s

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Advancement of the strong chess engine fruit, it is > even stronger, and will be further developed. Please work on the phrasing. It doesn't make much sense as written. Perhaps "Advanced chess engine under active development.&

Re: Build failure with autoconf 2.60: "requires autoconf 2.53 or newer"

2006-07-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Half of KDE and a number of other applications currently fail to build > with a message similar to: > > | *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. > | *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer > > Before I file bugs on these packages, I wanted to

Re: Bug#379196: ITP: beaglefs -- implements a filesystem representing a live Beagle query

2006-07-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Andrew Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Description : implements a filesystem representing a live >>> Beagle query >>> >>> beaglefs implements a

Re: Bug#379196: ITP: beaglefs -- implements a filesystem representing a live Beagle query

2006-07-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
t would helpful to include a sentence explaining what "Beagle" is and how or why one queries it. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netatalk and SSL

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > >>> Except, they *are* loaded together. > >>> Making "shim" libraries does not change the licensing rules at all, >>> which for the GPL, apply to the comp

Re: Bug#368309: ITP: pcf2bdf -- convert X11 font from PCF to BDF format

2006-05-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
ible values. I don't think that "irresponsible" is the word you are looking for. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the > contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before > you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily > check the CD at any time: just comp

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
sion compatible of the DFSG. How about adding a file named, e.g., README.dfsg or README.changes-from-upstream to the modified .orig.tar.gz version pointing out what has been done? A version number or a package name is easy to misinterpret, but adding a file with an explanation should be unambiguous (altho

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
conf to drop the documentation, I added a suffix to the version number. In retrospect I would have chosen a suffix different from the one I did choose, but I didn't think then that it was an unethical thing to do, nor do I think so now. It's confusing and undesirable, but not, in my

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12-Mar-06, 04:22 (CST), Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:43:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> > This is a warning and not an error, because using one's own strdup() >> > function (that would take ints) is p

Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

2006-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
nd dangerous, as it is underquoted: AC_CHECK_HEADER(stdio.h, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_STDIO_H), AC_MSG_ERROR([Sorry, can't do anything for you])) -- -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://ben

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unacknowledged NMU for > one year, either update or remove: > >Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > gccchecker Build-Depends: gcc-2.95 I recently filed a request to have this package removed. It is not maintained

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
bnoxious? I think it's a reasonable thing to do. It is what I do. Anyone have a suggestion about what to do when the maintainer can't reproduce it and the reporter can only reproduce it on one of his machines? I'm kind of stymied on #329333 for Autoconf. No idea what the problem

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
KDC to a krb5 KDC is probably necessary. I don't see how that will help users who have no control over the KDC that they use. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it time to think about removing kerberos4kth from the archive > anyway? Stanford still uses Kerberos 4. Would removing kerberos4kth be tantamount to dropping Kerberos 4 support? When I've tried to use Debian's other implementations of Kerberos in the p

Re: Bug#331287: ITP: criawips -- full featured presentation tool

2005-10-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Criawips aims to become a full featured presentation application > that offers the perfect platform both for small presentations > used to explain a few things to other people and for big > presentations used for commercial presentations. > > Thu

Re: long long support on all archs?

2005-09-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could have written this with equal validity: > long int typedef long int64_t; Not a good idea, though, because C99 says this: 6.11.5 Storage-class specifiers 1The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning o

Re: need help on #271678 (sizefo struct?)

2005-05-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Zweije) writes: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:06:37PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > || In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > || { > ||struct x25_route_struct rt; > ||struct sockaddr_x25 sx25; > || ... > ||memset((char *) &rt, 0, sizeof(struct x2

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Games serve a purpose: they entertain the user. What is the purpose of > sdate? The same. If you are not entertained by sdate, then you do not need to install it. That said, the following script is probably just as amusing, and undoubtedly simpler: #!

Re: Bug#303667: ITP: cycle -- calendar program for women

2005-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cycle is a calendar program for women. Given a cycle length or statistics > for several periods, it can calculate the days until menstruation, the days > of "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to ovulations, and define > the d.o.b. of a child. It

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing I do know is that traditional apps like df (and anything > that uses stat(), I guess) don't know about /.dev, and so return > false information: > > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda39843

Re: copyright vs. license

2005-01-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There could be if you do so in a way that could be construed as an attempt > to fraudulently extend the life of the copyright. At the moment it seems doubtful that any current copyright will ever expire. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: copyright vs. license

2005-01-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [updating copyright years] > I have a handy-dandy emacs lisp frob that will do this automagically > for you if you like. I would like this. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Bug#284219: please remove gnu-standards

2004-12-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
too much trouble for maintainers to remove FDL documents. I had time to file this bug, so it's just a matter now of whether the ftpmasters have time to remove the package. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org

Re: Bug#274957: ITP: susv3 -- Fetch and install SUSv3 documentation

2004-10-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
which makes it more important than most of those few billion others. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org

Re: Debian Mini CD bootable?

2003-12-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
ROBERT JACOBSEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have downloaded the Debian minimal install iso image and > written it to CD. The file on the CD is still in iso format (@185MB) You make it sound like you wrote a CD which contains the ISO file. This is not what you should do. Instead, the CD's im

Re: No list archives getting updated at all

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It isn't just debian-boot; none of the lists I checked at random have > been updated past that date and time. No responses have been logged in > the audit trail either, which for an 'important' severity is disturbing. If you're looking for an up-to-the-

password setting via db.debian.org working?

2003-12-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Following the instructions on https://db.debian.org/password.html, I have tried to get a new password. This has had no apparent effect, although I've tried it a few times now. I haven't received a bounce or a reply. Anyone else experienced this? (Not a huge deal, because I can still log in with

Re: uploading problems and massive email floods

2003-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:52:19AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > autoconf_2.58-9_i386.changes has bad PGP/GnuPG signature! > > Removing autoconf_2.58-9_i386.changes, but keeping its associated files for > > now. > &g

uploading problems and massive email floods

2003-12-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Following the suggestion in the recent message to debian-devel-announce, I tried using dupload to upload to the anonymous queue. Soon I got back this message: -- Subject: Processing of autoconf_2.58-9_i386.changes PGP/GnuPG sign

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The US government definitely is allowed to own copyrights. The restriction > > is on _enforcing_ their copyrights on works of which they are author. > > There are two ways to be the owner of a copyr

Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main

2002-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:57:53PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one of > > > which meets the DFSG. > > > > > > The first is the GNU FDL,

O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Orphaned because it's now considered non-free. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: gnu-standards > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one

Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main

2002-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: gnu-standards > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one of > which meets the DFSG. > > The first is the GNU FDL, which blatantly violat

Re: RUST - a debian package for creating red hat packages

2002-01-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Mateusz Papiernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've debianized RUST ( rust.sourceforge.net ) - a package for creating > red hat packages, in future debs too. It is tested with lintian, and > debian developer, I want to upload it. Honey advocate me, but we don't > know somethink. Can we upload thi

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:49:19PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > > You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX > > > may not exist (and I would guess that it doesn't on the HURD). > > > > If OPEN_MAX is undefined you could always

Re: Bug#125904: ITP: fungetty, a fun new getty for Linux framebuffers

2001-12-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:36:52AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty, a > > replacement for the standard Linux getty that can display > > full-color graphics above the logi

Re: Public Shell

2001-09-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
"John Salerno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm interested .. please contact me directly. You're interested in what?

Re: System spec.'s

2001-09-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jason Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PC hardware won't even POST without a videocard! It depends on the PC hardware in question. Some will, some won't.

Re: 'getenv' C function

2001-09-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pedro Zorzenon Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The upstream author uses this software for some Unix and also for DOS. > The author intends to incorporate my patch in the upstream, I'd like to > know if "getenv" will work in DOS. It's a standard ANSI C function as defined in ISO 9899-1999:

Re: ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mozilla was relicensed under the GPL... Not quite, as I understand it: Mozilla is *in process* of being relicensed under GPL. All contributors have to be contacted to verify agreement first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: RFC/ITP: everybuddy-cvs

2000-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
"michael d. ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because EB > releases tend to lag pretty far behind the code in CVS. I called my > package ebsnap, and made it conflict with everybuddy. I put it on my > site, and that was that. > > N

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
"A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could we have a potato mailing lists? That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another list for it? -- "MONO - Monochrome Emulation This field is used to store your favorite bit." --FreeVGA Attribute Controller Reference

Re: Intent to give away: gradio, troffcvt

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes: > > > gradio is a simple program suitable for a newbie maintainer, > > though I suppose we don't have any newbie maintainers given that > > we don't have any new maintainers.

Intent to give away: gradio, troffcvt

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'd like to give away gradio and troffcvt to someone who is interested in maintaining them. I am willing to maintain them both indefinitely, but I do not use them any longer, so they aren't really anything I'm excited about. Neither one has any reported bugs. They have not yet been converted to

Re: Is this a bug in grep, or is it me...

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The hyphon at the ned of hello in "hello-debhelper" isn't any of these, > > > but grep declares it to match anyway! Is this something to do with the > > > form of my expression? > > > > It's preceded by a character that isn't a letter, digit or under

Re: Is this a bug in grep, or is it me...

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ grep -w debhelper override.potato > debhelper optionaldevel > hello-debhelper optionaldevel > > In the man page, under the -w option, it says that, in order to match, the > string must be either at the beginning of the line, or pr

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For those of us who attend in multiple countries we could book plane flights > together (hopefully get a good deal), play network Quake in the plane, etc. Then we need a sponsor with a big wallet.

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