Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Darren Salt
gt; This question could be part of the expert menu. I for one would welcome this. When I last checked, there was such a question regarding choice of boot loader (and, presumably, that's still there). -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribbon campai

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-16 Thread Darren Salt
FAIR, last time I tried that I did all in > the rules file, so nothing to be afraid here. I'd say that the only possible issues here are in losing or re-ordering palette entries and in throwing away colour data for transparent pixels, should you choose that option. In many cases, though, ne

Re: Bug#717785: ITP: python-termcolor -- ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal

2013-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Andrew Shadura may or may not have written... > Hello, > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:29:14 +0800 > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Description : ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal > So, ANSI or ASCII? :) ASCI, of course. -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Deb

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-28 Thread Darren Salt
I'd be shot of them now. And switching to kfreebsd-*, while it would lose much of that... not sure that that's a good idea for different reasons (graphics hw support etc.)... -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribbon campaign against H

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
om), but it's disabled by > default. It would make sense to have that enabled by default, and to ensure that all software in Debian which produces MIME quoted-printable does this, or at least can do this. -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | |

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Nikolaus Rath may or may not have written... > Darren Salt writes: [snip] >> The following SHOULD be 0, 1, and 2 levels of quoting, first to last. >>>From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >>>From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >>>>Fro

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
#x27; as the prefix. The following SHOULD be 0, 1, and 2 levels of quoting, first to last. >From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >>From quux Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) |

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which makes testing of this useless – gpg handles any â€ÿóÿýFrom ” lines itself in a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
ails, I'll use raw SMTP. Of course, this is subject to MXes and list servers not modifying the content...! - From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >>From quux Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 - -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Andr

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-22 Thread Darren Salt
hardware, I'd consider it ‘modern’¹). Granted, there's a dependency on what's installed and what's required to bring it up.. [1] Weasel words ☺ -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail | / \ | h

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-22 Thread Darren Salt
27;t something silly and I know what should be mounted where; even so, if it does something like that now, all the better). [snip] -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail | / \ | http://www.asciiribbon.org/ How apt the

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-23 Thread Darren Salt
d MIME types may vary depending on which xine-lib packages are installed. > What should we do with these? Unfortunately I didn't find a policy > reference that forbids this ... If you have better ideas concerning these, I'm listening... -- | _ | Darren Salt, using D

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-09-01 Thread Darren Salt
> there really is no downside to the user from making this switch. For me, the presence of an initramfs is a downside when I've been able to do without without problem for so long. -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-09-01 Thread Darren Salt
er packages? (Are all of those features appropriate?) -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail | / \ | http://www.asciiribbon.org/ Become a programmer and never see the world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-16 Thread Darren Salt
ad shape soon as nobody who /could/ upload > feels responsible for it and those who care /can't/ upload. Packages get left to rot. DMs don't bother with them because they've been (effectively) ignored before; some may create external repositories for the packages instead... [sn

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-28 Thread Darren Salt
ht solution? > Are there other options I haven't seen? Of those listed above, I'd agree with option 3 or some optimisation of it – option 2, modified to do the migration at runtime if /etc /default/foo has been modified since last seen, would cover that, I think. [snip] -- | _ | Dar

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
he *BSD's ports systems, > specifically their 'distinfo' files. SHA1 is not enough, imho. For *xine* releases, I use MD5, SHA1 and SHA256. The hashes are then signed using gpg. That's mainly for others, though; I Don't Need to check them when doing packaging work for

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-18 Thread Darren Salt
initramfs/initrd. I *may* decide to stop using a separate /usr should I need to replace hardware – but probably not before then. I will NOT use an initramfs just to have /usr mounted early enough. [snip] -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and Android) | ( ) | | X | ASCII Ribb

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-11 Thread Darren Salt
keep it this way... / (without /usr) is often enough for rescue purposes (and if it isn't, it's enough to get /usr mounted). And if / is broken, then you have larger problems anyway. This mount-/usr/-in-initramfs looks to me like a means of reducing choice. -- | _ | Darren Salt, u

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-20 Thread Darren Salt
still sufficiently cleanly applicable, at least, and still seems to do the job. It's worth mentioning that man-db has had xz support since March last year (upstream). This is available in testing. -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | _ ASCII ribbon | using Debian | y

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-20 Thread Darren Salt
wing in ~/.lessfilter adds that support (as a workaround until lesspipe has it): #! /bin/sh case "$1" in *.xz) xzcat "$1" ;; *) exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | _ ASCII ribbon | using Debian | youmustbejoking | No

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Bernd Zeimetz may or may not have written... [snip] > Please provide a proper gitweb instance or at least a proxy at that url > to the anonscm gitweb instanace. I'm still seeing directory listings instead of the expected repository pages for /hg/xine-lib/*... [snip] -

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Scott Kitterman may or may not have written... > On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 08:17:51 AM Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Carsten Hey may or may not have written... >> [snip] >>> The third example with indirections would have advantages if one l10n

Re: Conditional Recommends

2011-05-25 Thread Darren Salt
fetch translations from them, well, I don't want to know: again, no obvious way to get properly-attributed diffs. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | _ ASCII ribbon | using Debian | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | ( ) campaign against | GNU

Re: Kernel

2011-02-14 Thread Darren Salt
get the penguin(s) if the relevant module is built into the kernel image or (I assume) is loaded early enough. -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | back! | + Lobby friends, family, busin

Re: debian can be better

2010-10-27 Thread Darren Salt
kernel and mesa 7.9 (libdrm in squeeze is new enough), and things will be quite a lot better, at least with the r300 driver. (Also, setting RADEON_HYPERZ=1 for 3D-using games is likely to improve things a little; just don't set it for everything.) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-29 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Roland Mas may or may not have written... [snip] > And if I may join the bikeshedding, let me suggest we rename “testing” > to “staging”, "nextstable"? ;-) (Not "newstable", though. That could be confusing.) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| lin

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Roger Leigh may or may not have written... > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:53:02PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... >>> Churn is the problem here, IMHO. Many packages just change too fast at >>> specif

Re: [i18n]Source packages and translation templates q.

2010-09-06 Thread Darren Salt
me "translation synchronisation" commits. If the build process causes po/*.po{,t} to be regenerated, those changes are (normally) manually discarded before the next commit. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or

Re: upcoming issues with python-hulahop, python-xpcom, xulrunner-1.9.2

2010-07-15 Thread Darren Salt
ke that instead. I did try to push for something which is acceptable for upstream, but no, distribution-specific workaround... (I suppose that I could create a Ubuntu-based chroot, but I'd rather avoid that.) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | usi

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-25 Thread Darren Salt
o be > a problem if you run it with something else. I'm seeing only these for gxine, xine-lib and xine-ui, which is slightly odd because testing with dash has shown up an actual bashism in xine-lib's configure.ac (which I've just fixed upstream): use of "test x == y&qu

Re: Translations copyrights/licences

2010-05-25 Thread Darren Salt
y to collect >the names in the copyright, but a team adress is more valuable. To me, this all doesn't matter so long as who changed what is recorded and I can get (or generate) a series of diffs which I can then commit where appropriate. If I can't, then I'm not real

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

2010-05-24 Thread Darren Salt
load of a 4.00 RC to unstable or experimental (for the ext4 support), I'd have a look... -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | back! | + At least 4000 million too many people. POPUL

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

2010-05-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Julien BLACHE may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> Working fine here on i386, whether booting a stock kernel (testing with >> 2.6.33 from experimental) or a custom kernel. I've not checked a stock >> kernel on amd64 for some time now,

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

2010-05-23 Thread Darren Salt
test grub2 now. Need? I see no need... [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | back! | + I say leave it for squeeze+∞ :-) Drive must be A: or B:, 0:1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-19 Thread Darren Salt
H.264 video playback without the privacy issues of Chrome. xine-plugin, given any browser with NPAPI. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | back! | http://www.youmustbejoking

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-24 Thread Darren Salt
7;t the most widely-used in netbooks. Were I looking for a new netbook *now*, I'd probably be looking for one with an Atom N450, which is 64-bit. (Also, N450+NM10 uses less power than N270+ICH7M.) -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian G

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... > Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:40 +0000, Darren Salt a écrit : >> [snip] >>> The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too >>> deep (too many clicks/movements to reach an applicatio

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-15 Thread Darren Salt
pens to have a generic top-level "web browser" item, that ceases to be a problem. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + This comment has been censored. I'

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Salt
l watchdog to test if enough free mem is available. > The OOM killer can be disabled for precious processes by writting the > string "-17" to “/proc//oom_adj”. That sounds to me like a good thing to do by default. -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashin

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-06 Thread Darren Salt
Ses (given CONFIG_ITCO_VENDOR_SUPPORT=y): options iTCO_wdt vendorsupport=901 [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + This comment has been censored. I'd like to, but my

Re: Bug#564285: ITP: openmolar -- dental practice management software

2010-01-09 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that David Paleino may or may not have written... [snip] > * Package name: openmolar [snip] > Description : dental practice management software > Well, a long description is yet to come :) You'll be filling it in later? -- | Darren Salt| linux at y

Re: enabling software rendering in libxine

2010-01-05 Thread Darren Salt
You can use the eq2 video post-processing plugin, though. <_ds_>(That does it all in software.) And that I can do how? <_ds_>Wherever the post-plugin chains are configured. <_ds_>(Don't ask me; I don't use phonon.) I dont do anything special with it mys

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2009-12-08 Thread Darren Salt
xtra to the > actual menu. The question is who will step forward and propose the removal? Not me, given that I use, and plan to continue using, it... -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northum

rfkill (was: Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?)

2009-12-04 Thread Darren Salt
se hotplug and hotunplug of > devices. True, as we EeePC owners know quite well :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ & ht

Re: ITP: mercurial-buildpackage (for those who care about Mercurial)

2009-11-21 Thread Darren Salt
ying mercurial queues should be forced onto the user but I >> think it would be nice to support them. I'm not sure that quilt should be forced onto the user unless it's properly integrated into the VCS; and where the VCS has its own patch queue management, that should be preferred

Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

2009-07-25 Thread Darren Salt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill * Licence : BSD-style single

Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-22 Thread Darren Salt
rs such as the following in /usr/bin: #! /bin/sh -e export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/root"${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" exec /usr/lib/root/"$(basename "$0")" "$@" [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, |

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-24 Thread Darren Salt
ound for at least 10 years after squeeze is released"? Or did you mean "will have been available"? -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Travis Crump may or may not have written... [snip] > Popcon suggests only 8% of users are on dial-up [based on package ppp and > 'votes'] Use of ppp does not imply use of dial-up. -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | Debian G

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-05-04 Thread Darren Salt
uncommon case? Why *break* the uncommon case by adding/replacing (abusing) Reply-To? Anyway, reply-to-list is a followup function (or, at least, it is such in all news/mail software which I've used with mailing lists). [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington,

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Darren Salt
range to get those messages themselves (by > subscribing to the list), or they will need to rely on people manually > doing what the mailing list could do for them (sending replies individually > to them). It does still leave some people having to do that, but that's unavoidabl

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Darren Salt
e use and been found to provide some worthwhile benefit, that draft would seem to need to be revisited. Oh, and RFC5322 obsoletes RFC2822. :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread Darren Salt
MS. I > don't like this solution very much. . -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Beauty seldom recommends one to another. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Darren Salt
easonably easily... :-| -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. --

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Darren Salt
o belive it should be kept. . I for one use it, and intend to continue using it. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 => avoid massive flooding.TIME IS RUNNING OU

Re: Standardizing use of kernel hook scripts

2009-04-02 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Manoj Srivastava may or may not have written... >>> On Wed, Apr 01 2009, Frans Pop wrote: >>>> But is anyone still using it? Is there any current reason to support it >

Re: Standardizing use of kernel hook scripts

2009-04-01 Thread Darren Salt
ve not seen any indication that there usage of that option has decreased. I make use of it fairly regularly; its next use here will probably be to build kernel 2.6.29.1. I normally use the kernel-image target, but I sometimes have use for the kernel-headers target. (And I'm still not using grub.) [sni

Re: xine-lib transition: packages must depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-console, as needed

2009-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Sandro Tosi may or may not have written... > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 17:44, Darren Salt > wrote: >> Debian Python Modules Team >>   pyxine > ... >> Sandro Tosi >>   pyxine (U) > We only build-dep on "libxine-dev" and depends are b

xine-lib transition: packages must depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-console, as needed

2009-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
xine (U) vdr-plugin-xineliboutput (U) Sjoerd Simons totem (U) Sandro Tosi pyxine (U) Modestas Vainius amarok kdebase-runtime (U) kdemultimedia (U) phonon (U) Sune Vuorela kdebase-runtime (U) kdemultimedia (U) (Also xine-plugin, but I've handled that.

Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4

2009-03-09 Thread Darren Salt
being GTK-based? I can imagine that being enough for some... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. The soul wou

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-04 Thread Darren Salt
oid. It doesn't apply to Debian. Situation normal wrt cdrschillings, then... [1] <49ae61d1.hee70xnryzq1zocn%joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | representing | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | self only | + RIPA NOT

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-03 Thread Darren Salt
ther people > without reading the GPL before. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.comp.os.linux/msg/e1f32622f567ef1d "End of discussion", as far as I'm concerned. I'm saying no more. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | Absolutely *NOT*| Toon | RISC OS

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-03 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Michael Banck may or may not have written... > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:33:57PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> Strange, then, that Eben Moglen's opinion, quoted in this very thread, >> should refer explicitly to the C library and otherwise only to *system* >

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-03 Thread Darren Salt
[Mail-Followup-To set again. I note that the last one was ignored...] I demand that Joerg Schilling may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >>> In order to create a derived work, you need to add own code of a >>> sufficient creation level. The simple act of com

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-03 Thread Darren Salt
u have evidence to the contrary? Schillix, for example? :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. "cdr

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-03 Thread Darren Salt
} > > makes libc a derived work of the program "hello world"? I'd be very surprised if he does mean (not like) to tell "us" that. You're not by any chance trying to set up a static-linking strawman...? But even there, I'd still say that program Z fro

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Darren Salt
#x27;s the t1g3r section?" -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Lobby friends, family, business, government.WE'RE KILLING THE PLANET. Windows 98. Eats RAM and HD space f

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
o (but I see that that's mentioned in other follow-ups). You also want totem* and kaffeine*. *-dbg packages could go in their own section(s) (debug, or libdebug & appdebug?); otherwise, I think that they should remain with (the bulk of) the packages for which they provide debug data. [sn

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
uby? Do they stay with the > language or move to this new category? ISTM that they should stay with the language, but I can see why they might be moved. There's a good argument there for having them belong to two sections, but that's why debtags exists. -- | Darren Sal

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
hat, and leave him without an argument? Can't have that. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | again representing | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | myself, not Debian | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. Look

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
orked it out. He's an Electric Monk. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. I am Eliza of Borg. How does

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
t in to a public > archived mailing list, you may end up losing out. Hmm, so I shouldn't quote ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/? Why not? I like quoting ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/. (Muhahaha.) [snip] > "Thanks", . (Now where did I put that popcorn..

Re: LXDE doesnt support Debian Menu

2009-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
entries. There are some of us who prefer the Debian menu over the freedesktop.org one; in my case, it's down to the layout of one (used to it) _and_ content missing from the other. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | you

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-09 Thread Darren Salt
ine to be followed by a very short line. Which isn't exactly readable. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING.

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-11 Thread Darren Salt
what about giving the ability of seeing one (maybe the >>> "most popular") screenshot directly from the result page? >> Good idea. 110x80 would be a nice size for the thumbnails. > I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio. I disagree; the aspect ratio of the

Re: Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-30 Thread Darren Salt
uot;reboot" and "power off" will have obvious effects). I suggest using netconsole to log to another computer. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use le

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Darren Salt
FWIW, I use lilo, and I have no plans to change that. I'm not seeing any problems with it, but then the installed kernels are all locally built and don't use init{rd,ramfs}. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejokin

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
are/dpkg/flags.mk with: > CFLAGS += -Wall -g -O$(if $(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)),0,2) That looks reasonable to me. However, care should be taken to avoid ending up with cdbs-buildpackage ;-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
ngs: xine-lib, for example, needs more than just -O0 for disabling optimisations. Then there are the times when I find it useful to run "debian/rules build" or something similar... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | you

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Darren Salt
asons. xine-config in libxine-dev, for example, started using pkg-config; Depends is correct since everything which needs xine-lib uses xine-config (or at least I've not seen any which don't). [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux |

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Darren Salt
g 472870, should anybody be interested.) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> Is this really happening? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

2008-03-24 Thread Darren Salt
or the nth time squared, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already > stopped service. How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop it... ITYM "must not fail if the service

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
urse, knowing that I do such things on occasion, I have aliased 'rm' > to 'rm -i', so it will ask unless I pass '-f' along. You have another option, "\rm", which will always give you unaliased "rm". [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-10 Thread Darren Salt
ly desirable precondition' for living", which to my (German, > after all) ears sounds a bit weird. It sounds weird to me too, at least without s/breath to/breathe to/ :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon

Bug#466866: O: libjsw -- joystick library

2008-02-21 Thread Darren Salt
and bug 458774 says that oxine needs libjsw 1.56; jscalibrator should be ported to GTK+2 sometime. This follows up discussion in -games: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2008/01/msg00247.html -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux |

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-02-02 Thread Darren Salt
gz (tip, but the changes since 1.1.9.1 don't amount > to much). ... or 10.4MB for current xine-lib-deb. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less.

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Darren Salt
discovered debcheckout(1) recently that uses the > Vcs-* headers. This is IMHO the way to go. So no need for .git.tar.gz, then - just carry on shipping .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz, and use debcheckout if you need the history. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at

Re: Problems with xine ?

2008-01-14 Thread Darren Salt
ot;file:/" prefix and, apparently, URL encoding (judging by the fact that the spaces aren't encoded as %20). This is the second such report that I've seen, and it's been reported in the KDE bug tracker as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155491. -- | Darren Salt| lin

Re: Associating suffixes, programs and icons with MIME.

2008-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Charles Plessy may or may not have written... [snip] > $needs_cache = 1 if -f and (/\.png$/ or /\.svg$/ or /\.jpg$/ or /\.xpm$/); Why not this? $needs_cache = 1 if -f and /\.(png|svg|jpg|xpm)$/; -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ron Johnson may or may not have written... [snip] > What would be much more useful (still simple, but with much more > data) is a world-wide hash table of countries and states/provinces. Are you equating states with provinces there? If so, think again... :-) [snip] -- |

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-27 Thread Darren Salt
l name is Lars Ivar > Wirzenius, and you can send me e-mail by taking my initials and putting > them in front of the at sign and iki.fi after it." But is that LIW or liw or Liw or...? :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-28 Thread Darren Salt
able named TAPE. Nor does tar --help. Nevertheless, it will write to $TAPE. (I've just checked this with 1.16.1-1.) Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | N

Re: Simplify installation of non-free?

2007-08-10 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Manoj Srivastava may or may not have written... > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:56:24 +0100, Darren Salt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> You want iwl3945. Newer firmware is needed, but you can throw away >> that user-space daemon. :-) > __> apt-cache searc

Re: Simplify installation of non-free? (was: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?)

2007-08-09 Thread Darren Salt
gt;> HAL. There's also the ipw2100/2200/3945/etc with the non-free firmware. > The firmwares are not part of the drivers, please do not taint the > reputation of perfectly free drivers. You want iwl3945. Newer firmware is needed, but you can throw away that user-space daemon. :-) --

Re: New Debian Menu & Apps/Tools

2007-07-23 Thread Darren Salt
belong within 'Window Managers', and I couldn't care less where that ends up (but "Screen" seems reasonable) - then again, that could be because I never use those submenus... :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-14 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Magnus Holmgren may or may not have written... > On Friday 13 July 2007 23:30, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Bastian Venthur may or may not have written... [snip] >>> It would be a major improvement if we would move the Apps section to the >>> ro

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-13 Thread Darren Salt
l five already are at the top level in my customised Xfce menu; for me, your proposal would increase the depth by one level for all but Apps. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Gen

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Darren Salt
It means 1024^4 bytes, no more and no less. :-þ -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> We'll get along fine as soo

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Darren Salt
ould > *always* do things the precise way. Agreed. Use 1024 rather than the imprecise and misleading 1000... (And yes, I'd prefer apt* to use 1024, not 1000.) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk |

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