Re: Bug#309241: ITP: dguitar -- Guitar Pro 3/4 tabs viewer and player

2005-05-17 Thread David Schleef
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Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread David Schleef
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:03:42AM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Yes, you are being absurd. Since you are presumably not understanding the > point, let me explain more clearly: > > Pornography is widely regarded as being demeaning and insulting to women. Is this among people who are associated

Re: mozilla-firebird in testing

2003-10-10 Thread David Schleef
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:22:49PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:00:01PM +0900, Takuo KITAME wrote: > > According to buildd.d.o, mozilla-firebird fails to build on arm. > > From the build log: > > Linux2.4_arm_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/shlibsign -v -i > /buil

Re: where to install additional kernel modules?

2003-08-24 Thread David Schleef
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:19:16PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.08.24.1806 +0200]: > > the right place is /lib/modules/${kver}/${package} > > says who? It's always been this way. However, before 2.4, modutils had a set list of directorie

Re: Bug#199917 - A consensus on handling Mozilla plugins?

2003-07-10 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:36:55AM +1000, Andrew Lau wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:15:58PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > There are currently 5 packages in unstable that dump plugins under > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, not to mention several more contrib/non-free > installers that do the same t

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-03 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:53:55AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:34:56PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > | The Debian Social Contract says "Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software". > | If there are things "in Debian" that are "not free" or "not software", > | then we

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-23 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:00:21PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > > > static inline _Atomic_word > > __attribute__ ((__unused__)) > > __exchange_and_add (volatile _Atomic_word *__mem, int __val) > > { > >register _Atomic_word __result; > >__asm_

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-18 Thread David Schleef
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 12:20:04AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:21:17 -0500 > > > >> I have an impression that such Policy understanding prevents sane > > >>

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:05:35PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > > #87667 gstreamerfiled: 546, changed 546 > > > > As an example, this package was uploaded to experimental on friday, > > and has been packaged upstream for about a year. It was last changed > > 62 da

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:30:13PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > At te moment, there are a lot of old ITP's hanging around in the WNPP, > with (seemingly) nothing happening to them. In order to clean out the > WNPP, I intend to rename the ITP's that have been open longer than 1 year > to RFP's. T

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:27:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:03:48PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Steve Langasek writes: > > > * In these cases, having a package whose soname is compatible with the > > > rest of the world is considered more important than provi

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-06 Thread David Schleef
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:44:16AM +0900, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > > Yes, for embedded platforms with limited resources cross compling is > quite important, especially when you want to build a large set of > software such as Debian distrubution. > > But as you know we currently have much troubul

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-06 Thread David Schleef
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote: > > But the whole discussion here is folly. The whole thing has been discussed > on linux-kernel by people far more knowlegable in this things than the > average debian developer. I think we should follow the conclusions > from that d

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-29 Thread David Schleef
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:32:59AM +0530, Viral wrote: > > As long as it isn't too bothersome for you, would you mind explaining why > > the kernel doesn't activate it by default? Or why it isn't a `make config' > > option? And why is a daemon needed for it? > > No, its not bothersome to explain.

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:00:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:19:56AM -0700, David Schleef wrote: > It could also be useful as a hardware tester at install time: > > "Would you like to test your hardware (and get a kernel custom > > build for yo

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-26 Thread David Schleef
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:13:01PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > So a 386 compiled kernel can still support MMX, 3DNow! and MTRR? In that > case we only need a 386 kernel, but it might be nice to have a PentiumMMX > compiled kernel as well (that should give better performance on all brands of >

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-26 Thread David Schleef
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:15:15PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2001 09:05, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > _Afair_ it is necessary to run a k6 (or athlon) "optimized" kernel to > > use 3DNow! in applications like xmms or lame. This probably applys to > > ISSE, MTTR and MMX, too.

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread David Schleef
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:30:47PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:47:44AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > > what is the DIFFERENCE between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and all the other > > 2.4.2 kernel headers packages? > > Kernel-headers-2.4.2 is built with the default config f