Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Carr
On 15/01/2011 23:50, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Carr writes: Is there some forum in which the choice of a default for a package or service gets made? I subscribe to debian-devel and debian-policy, but neither seems to contain discussions about the risks of replacing perfectly good defaults

Re: Skilled manpower vs. grunt work

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Carr
On 15/01/2011 22:18, Neil Williams wrote: Ben Finney wrote: Neil Williams writes: Can the rest of us now actually ask if there is anything we can do to get more people involved in helping packaging teams which are openly asking for help? […] The problem is a lack of manpower in critical t

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Carr
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 13:07 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 15 ian 11, 10:10:04, Chris Carr wrote: > > > > Is there some forum in which the choice of a default for a package or > > service gets made? I subscribe to debian-devel and debian-policy, but > > neither s

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Carr
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 01:09 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat January 15 2011 00:51:42 Neil Williams wrote: > > Mike, you missed the sarcasm completely and just went on another > > rant about two (unrelated) bugs which affect you directly. Guess what > > - I don't give two flying figs about those tw

RE: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

2010-11-08 Thread Chris Carr
> -Original Message- > From: Christian PERRIER [mailto:bubu...@debian.org] > Sent: 07 November 2010 06:44 > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support) > > Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > > > I also expressed my regret to

RE: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script todownload and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-07 Thread Chris Carr
d lay the foundations for later efforts ... Chris Carr > -Original Message- > From: Andreas Barth [mailto:a...@not.so.argh.org] > Sent: 05 September 2010 14:05 > To: Adam Borowski > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; 595...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#595427: I

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Chris Carr
On 25/05/2010 10:00, Harald Braumann wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:52PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: (4) Users need to test grub2 now. I've been using grub2 for quite some time now on several different systems with mixed success. [snip] Because of this, coupled with the many ope

Bug#576029: ITP: angband-audio -- Non-free sound files for the angband game

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Carr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Carr * Package name: angband-audio Version : 3.1.0 Upstream Author : Dubtrain * URL : http://www.dubtrain.com/angband * License : CC BY-NC-SA Programming Lang: n/a Description : Non-free sound files for