Re: cdrtools

2006-07-13 Thread David Pashley
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 -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-13 Thread David Pashley
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 reliably discover problems in the distribution. A large number of developers do n

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread David Pashley
for AMD64 for both > Debian and for Fedora Core 5. > > Can you file bugs about both these issues using the reportbug tool so the maintainers are made aware of the problems. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-08 Thread David Pashley
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

Re: Bug#353777: ITP: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-21 Thread David Pashley
. 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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL P

Re: Packaging swftools for Debian

2005-12-18 Thread David Pashley
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. -- David Pashley [

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-14 Thread David Pashley
Installer ( 0) irssi_0.8.10-1_multi.changes ACCEPTED 5.5 hours for a package to make it through NEW. I think you owe some people an apology. (Oh and to who ever processed irssi, thank you. Was a nice surprise to wake up to. :) ) -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stu

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 18:33, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley writes: > > 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

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 18:14, Bob Proulx praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley wrote: > > > Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. > > > > No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. > > That is exactly the point.

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 17:13, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley writes: > > 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

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
ies. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REMOVE ME FROM CALL WAVE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
t;512 Kings Row >Yazoo City, MS 39194 > This list is for developers of Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) and are not related to Callwave in any way. Please view http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html for information on how to remove yourself from Callwav

Re: Bug#324296: ITP: ldapscripts -- Add and remove user and groups stored (using ldap)

2005-08-22 Thread David Pashley
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. > -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Procedure reminders on updating a lib package for a C++ ABI change

2005-07-16 Thread David Pashley
> 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++? -- David Pashle

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-10 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 10, 2005 at 12:26, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-10 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 10, 2005 at 07:01, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 >

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
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.

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:22, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: > 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

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
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 } -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-08 Thread David Pashley
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? -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stul

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread David Pashley
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 -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread David Pashley
> 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

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread David Pashley
> 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

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

2005-04-12 Thread David Pashley
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

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

2005-04-08 Thread David Pashley
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 -- Da

Re: Bug#301892: ITP: cuetools -- tools for manipulating CUE/TOC files

2005-03-30 Thread David Pashley
On Mar 30, 2005 at 12:38, Frank Küster praised the llamas by saying: > Alban Browaeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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

Re: Bug#301892: ITP: cuetools -- tools for manipulating CUE/TOC files

2005-03-29 Thread David Pashley
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

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-08 Thread David Pashley
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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil c

Re: UK Meetings

2005-03-08 Thread David Pashley
to join #debian-uk on OFTC too, which is where most of us hang out. > -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294209: ITP: reminiscence -- REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software

2005-02-08 Thread David Pashley
tware's FlashBack engine > 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? -- David Pa

Re: Bug#293561: ITP: player -- music player and organizer for GNOME

2005-02-04 Thread David Pashley
ploaded.) > > 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

Re: Bug#292831: udev: udev prevents X from beeing started

2005-01-31 Thread David Pashley
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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292831: udev: udev prevents X from beeing started

2005-01-31 Thread David Pashley
m yet to submit a report; my bad. > Surely the solution is for hotplug/discover to load it during bootup. Could hotplug use mdetect? -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread David Pashley
On Jan 26, 2005 at 09:59, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh praised the llamas by saying: > 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

Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files

2005-01-26 Thread David Pashley
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

Re: Bug#292183: ITP: gtkpizza -- Pizza takeaway managment program written in gtk

2005-01-26 Thread David Pashley
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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread David Pashley
bcomic downloader / archiver" isn't really appropriate. > It appears that this is what the program does, so why is it an inaccurate description? -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Bug#292026: ITP: libapache2-mod-hash2 -- apache2 module which provides a good way to hash servername

2005-01-24 Thread David Pashley
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

Re: Bug#291964: ITP: ocurl -- OCaml bindings for libcurl

2005-01-24 Thread David Pashley
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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debianized ndiswrapper-source is better on SourceForge

2005-01-10 Thread David Pashley
you hvae the bug 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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua s

Re: Serious problem with the tty terminal - HELP!

2005-01-10 Thread David Pashley
-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 >

Re: Debianized ndiswrapper-source is better on SourceForge

2005-01-10 Thread David Pashley
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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua

Re: OSPF and distance vector routing source code

2004-12-17 Thread David Pashley
On Dec 17, 2004 at 09:44, j.s.dhilip praised the llamas by saying: >hello, > Would you please told me how can I get source code for OSPF? > Makes a nice change from dualling banjos. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-10 Thread David Pashley
it is an acceptable thing to ship as it has no use. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread David Pashley
dly. People work on Debian because they want to. Having people shout at them isn't the best incentive to get them to do voluntary work. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

Re: Bug#213897: ITP: libclass-dbi-abstractsearch-perl -- Abstract Class::DBI's SQL with SQL::Abstract

2003-10-03 Thread David Pashley
#1 Thu Aug 28 16:46:35 BST 2003 i686 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. pgpuRPTS5y8Vc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread David Pashley
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. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpEdYXqG1nKo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why do system users have shells?

2002-11-26 Thread David Pashley
(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? - -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta supe

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread David Pashley
nip] 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. - -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTE

exim vs. exim-tiny (was: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL)

2002-08-21 Thread David Pashley
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. - -

Re: Bug#156617: general: Kde K menu is confusing

2002-08-14 Thread David Pashley
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,