Re: Sidux?

Daniel Baumann wrote: > they redone it properly from scratch by pulling out every unnecessary > crap (which we inherited from ubuntu). > > once we do the same in debian after lenny, at least grml.org, sidux and > debian can then use identical base live-initramfs and divert only in the > sysvinit p

Re: deb-ice -- violating the GPL since 2007-08-14

Robert Edmonds wrote: > "deb-ice" is a custom Debian distribution, described in [0] and available from > [1]. It appears to be a preseeded Debian 4.0 i386 business card ISO built > using a web-based tool called LinuxCOE[2], and the aggregator has attempted to > place the entire work under a licens

Re: packages built without optimization

Adrian Bunk wrote: > Due to upstream bugs and/or packaging mistakes some Debian packages like > Abiword [1] or Wireshark [2] are currently unintentionally built without > any compiler optimization [3]. > > This results in programs being both significantely bigger and > significantely slower than

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Joey Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Shouldn't we then remove recommends entirely and turn them into > > regular Depends? > > The sometime 'soft dependencies' called feature of Recommends and > Suggests is somet

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > We, the APT Development Team, will change apt to install recommended > > > packages by default on October 1st. This should give enough time to > > Why? What is the point? > > Fix Recommends! These are nothing more than Suggests

Re: Suggestion: Set up web pages with as much info about Debian machines as possible

e2xbegqsdyt21hfc wrote: > I believe that the Debian project can further help > its users by setting web pages with as much details on > its servers as possible. Uh? > In particular, I refer to the contents of the > configuration files of the software used by its > servers, and their version.

Re: problems with BTS?

The problem seems to be that the archive run takes some 36 hours (as Don recently mentioned) and that it still locks most of the BTS which thus is not able to process mails anymore. You're not the only one waiting for action. Regards, Joey -- If nothing changes, everything will remain

Re: Automated mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems

Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Also nice would be links to the BTS. > > Well, links in text emails use a lot of space... The BTS uses this nice abbreviation which does not use too much space compared with the bug title that often is longer. Regards, Joey -- N

Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database

Justin Emmanuel wrote: > I am brand new to this mailing list, I joined it because I had an idea > that I would like to have considered. Moving apt to a relational > database, for several reasons. Before reading on, have you considered the following: - using an RDB requires a running RDBMS - run

Re: how to handle changelogs in experimental/unstable

Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently adopted texmacs package and to fix a grave bug > I uploaded the package in experimental to unstable with > a fix but I found that changelogs of a package in experimental > and unstable are mutually independent, i.e. the one isn't a > subset of the

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Joey Schulze a écrit : > > GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers wrote: > >> Hello, Debian world! > > > > Hello Anonymous, > > > > This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. > > | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers wrote: > Hello, Debian world! Hello Anonymous, This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the list

Re: For Those Who Care About: Switzerland/Liechtenstein

Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Friday 02 February 2007 09:33, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, martin f krafft wrote: > > > PS: Almost all... as first official act, I herewith announce the > > > nomination of Mark J. Ray as an honorary member of debian.ch. > > > Honorary members have no

Re: debian-private and Gmail

Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I saw that it's possible to redirect my @debian.org email to an > address and also redirect debian-private to another email. @debian.org > is set to @gmail.com. Good. But what do I do with debian-private? > Is it possible to redirect debian-private to @people.debian.o

Re: Bug#397291: ITP: php-tidy -- tidy module for php[45]

Jan Wagner wrote: > On Monday 06 November 2006 22:31, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, Jan Wagner wrote: > > > I did split ext/tidy out of the php5 package. > > > > That doesn't sound like a good idea; did you already discuss building > > it as part of the php5 package? I could not f

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > Maybe one improvement would be to reduce the number of links in this > > > > directory to one per certificate. Currently for each certificate > > > > provided by ca-certificates the certificate has a link to /usr/share/.. > > > > and the hash has a link to the other link

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:52:03PM +0100, Joey Schulze wrote: > > > > Maybe one improvement would be to reduce the number of links in this > > directory to one per certificate. Currently for each certificate > > provided by ca-certificates the cer

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joey Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.11.04.1252 +0100]: > > Hmm. Why are the certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem used but > > not those from /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-class3.pem? > > Because I had to disable the use of CAdir an

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

martin f krafft wrote: > ca-certificates installs about 100 certificates into > /etc/ssl/certs. However, these are not actually dropped into the > directory; instead, symlinks into /usr/share are put in place: > > piper:/etc/ssl/certs# ls -la /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.org.pem > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official "update sub-release"

ciol wrote: > > Clamav is in volatile, php5 in backports, haven't checked squid3. ... squid3 is in *gosh* testing. > The problem is that Debian doesn't speak a lot about nice features like > volatile and backports, for instance in the official web site, where it's > difficult to see the links. T

Re: any comments on diagram?

Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi DD folks, > i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development > model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png Oh dear! Several remarks: . user serif-less fonts . there is no path from volatil