s[1] and
executes it. The language is a mixture of declarative and iterative
programming. It clearly falls in the remit of scripts for compilation.
Your paragraph appears to make python a non-scripting language.
[0] make(1)
[1] Makefile
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break your .cshrc file. I would suggest filing a bug against the package
that contais the file that has moved, explaining that there is a
regression.
Please file bugs in our BTS as it is the only way maintainers can
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for AMD64 for both
> Debian and for Fedora Core 5.
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>
Can you file bugs about both these issues using the reportbug tool so
the maintainers are made aware of the problems.
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e software we ship, we disclaim any warranty what so ever.
Can we not just disclaim all warranty on Sun's java like we do with the
rest of our software, or is there something in the license that forces
us to give a warranty?
[0] I'm going by MJ's comments. I haven't had
. This provides support for
> programs such as emacs.
>
Why would I want to use this? I now know how to use it, but I am still
none the wiser as to what I could do with it.
You might want to rewrite the description to include some use cases for
multixterm.
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ution would be something that ldopened liblame, so a user
could install liblame if they wanted and get the functionality that they
would have done if it was compiled in now. I believe that would be
allowed in Debian, as we wouldn't be distributing anything
patent-encumbered.
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(Oh and to who ever processed irssi, thank you. Was a nice surprise to wake up
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> > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google.
>
> If these people read the messages they find with their searches they
> wouldn't post here. The
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> > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google.
>
> That is exactly the point.
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> > I believe it is far more useful to follow up to these emails providing
> > useful information how to remove themselves and in particular link to the
> > rather informative email fr
ies.
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should work out from the box for most users.
>
> The scripts may be used independently - within command lines - or
> automatically by Samba (like smbldap-tools), to handle POSIX information
> within accounts before adding Samba information.
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> grep'ing for Depends: libstdc++ would probably do it (although I have
> recently found that some, like libgmp3, only Recommend: libstdc++ as it
> is a c library with c++ bindings).
Shouldn't the C++ bindings be split out and depend on libgmp3 and
libstdc++?
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> > The backend does have it. It logs the information. Higher level tools just
> > need to read the file in and display it. Why add grep functiona
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> > I'm wondering if this wouldn't be better added as a feature to
> > aptitude/synaptic, as people who would use apt-get or dpkg would
>
n their package. People are against creating yet another package when
> the functionality clearly belongs inside an existing one.
>
I'm wondering if this wouldn't be better added as a feature to
aptitude/synaptic, as people who would use apt-get or dpkg would
probably know grep.
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> Hallo David,
>
> * David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-09 13:20]:
> > On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying:
> > > > Coreutils is required. Why is the abil
n my opinion this should be so easy as
> possible to everyone. Not everybody is familiar with grep
> etc. but apt-history show should be no problem.
>
> Regards Nico
function apt-history () {
grep " $1 " /var/log/dpkg.log
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rade ucf 1.18 2.000
2005-07-09 01:17:23 upgrade libavc1394-0 0.5.0-2 0.5.1-1
2005-07-09 01:17:24 upgrade ssh 1:4.1p1-5 1:4.1p1-6
What else am I missing? Does apt-history hook into /etc/apt/apt.conf or
just a wrapper around dpkg.log?
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Can we not add this to another
package under games? It is rather small and doesn't serve a significant
amount of functionality.
david% wc -l *.c
746 ef.c
71 shuffle.c
817 total
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> recoding between different locales. (And that is needed, since IRC
> doesn't have a charset concept and there are still loads and loads of
> users out there with clients which interpret everything as Latin1.)
>
One of the new features of irssi 0.8.10 (when it gets released) is
> log or drop you to a login prompt.
>
> I don't know if this functionality is from the X packages or from gdm
> etc. but it is a much better solution than the band aid offered by
> run-levels...
>
Plus you can always boot at runlevel 1 if you really don't want to
a
ey entertain the user. What is the purpose of
> > sdate?
>
> Entertain the user, of course, in a things-were-better-back-in-
> the-good-old-days kind of way.
>
> Sort of like Edith and Archie singing "Those Were The Days".
>
I suspect most games entertain the
CTED]>
> * URL : http://cycle.sf.net/
> * License : GPL
> Description : calendar program for women
>
Does cycle have any features over mencal[0] or periodic-calendar[1]?
[0] apt-cache show mencal
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283655
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> > Le Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:10:06 +0100, David Pashley a écrit :
> >
> >> What are CUE and TOC files? What are they used for? It would be useful
lit a large audio file into many
> small files according to a CUE or TOC, for example:
>
> cuebreakpoints disc.cue | shntool split disc.wav
>
> I've prepared packages at http://people.debian.org/~joshk/cuetools/.
>
What are CUE and TOC files? What are they used for? It woul
d copied the two directories to the
> USB device as ssh and gnupg.
>
Ideally I want to keep the disk formatted as vfat so it is usable on
other operating systems and use an ext2 loopback filesystem. Getting the
system to mount that is the hard part.
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to join #debian-uk on OFTC too, which is where most of
us hang out.
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> REminiscence is an engine capable of runing any game based on the
> FlashBackengine.
> .
> To actually make use of ScummVM, you currently need to get the orginal
> FlashBack game data-files
>
Did you mean ScummVM there?
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> Please use a less generic name. "player" alone means very little and
> is likely to cause confusion.
>
Also, what advantages does player have over muine or rhythmbox? The UI
looks identical to rhythmbox, but without some useful features, like
being able to out
at does not just work on Linux 2.4.
>
Except, I believe magicdev polls the kernel, rather than responding to
kernel event. Plus HAL provides more features than just noticing if a CD
has been inserted into a drive.
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Surely the solution is for hotplug/discover to load it during bootup.
Could hotplug use mdetect?
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> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, David Pashley wrote:
> > > Since there are at least two packages containing their own version of
> > > invoke-rc.d, having a search path policy for policy-rc.d can
oke-rc.d, having a search path policy for policy-rc.d can be
> messy and is prone to be unstructured and uncoordinated.
>
> Hence, having a dedicated package is the clean way of doing things.
>
It seems a bit excessive having a package for just one script. Is there
not another p
ry to say it uses gtk?
Could it be used to manage items other than pizzas? If so you might want
to mention that it could be adapted for all types of fast food.
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>
It appears that this is what the program does, so why is it an
inaccurate description?
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gt; hash algo libmhash2 supports.
>
> Real document root is built with the default document root,
> append the hash servername path, the servername,
> optionnaly a name of a subdirectory and the URI requested.
>
I have absolutely no idea what this package does. May I suggest
rew
ld it not be better to name the package ocaml-curl? Maybe we need a
general policy on language bindings names. It is a shame we have
libfoo-bar-perl and python-foobar.
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number?
>
> The upstream Debian package is better, and this broken would should be
> replaced with it.
>
>
It is broken possibly because it is a rc version and upstream is using a
released version.
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-reinstall install foo-package" to replace that file.
This all assumes that all your packages have md5sum files.
I'm sure you could write a bash script that took dpkg --get-selections,
and Contents.gz and checked it against the existence of files in /lib.
Failing that, reinstall
>
is horribly broken.
>
>
Unless I've got this very wrong, but the ndiswrapper source supplied in
the SF deb is different to the source provided in the Debian package in
the archive. This suggests it isn't down to the packaging.
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>hello,
> Would you please told me how can I get source code for OSPF?
>
Makes a nice change from dualling banjos.
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they want to. Having people shout at them isn't the best incentive to
get them to do voluntary work.
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> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or
less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem
to work out of the box.
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(most/some) system accounts to /bin/false and the
only thing I noticed breaking was fetchmail. Of course there may have been
others, but fetchmail persuaded me to revert to /bin/sh.
Would it be worth filing a bug about this?
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Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but my answer to this would be
pentium-builder and apt-src or apt-build.
Debian already has the infrastructure to be a source-based distribution, just
that no-one uses it.
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debbugs?). I realise
that exim does not have the sanest of build systems, but is there any chance
of getting two exim packages built? Maybe the ability to choose a different
patch to enable mysql et al support via a envvar. That way I can instruct
people to rebuild exim.
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confusing.
>
> One is for system programs, the other for system settings. What's
> redundant about that?
>
I'll prod calc later about seeing if it is possible to change K/System to
"K/System Tools".
This has been changed in kde3.1. as you now have a settings menu,
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