Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-06-01 Thread Ken
Thanks Andrey, I stand corrected. I got kicked off #debian-mentors IRC only because I was on freenode, when the IRC is hosted really on OFTC. -Ken ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On June 1, 2018 7:33 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 03:18:53AM -0400,

Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-06-01 Thread Ken
document that makes new comers onboarding a bit easier. I offer my time to help, if someone can use me, point me in the right directions, and give me a slap on my hand when I need it. Cheerio, Ken ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On June 1, 2018 3:31 AM, Ken wrote: > > > Dear a

Re: low-hanging-fruit bug user tag for new comers first contributions

2018-05-31 Thread Ken
heir mentoring). I just haven't yet found the time to do the lurking and starting a conversation. Hope the above gives you the perspective of ONE and ONLY ONE potential new comer. Cheerio, Ken ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On May 31, 2018 9:21 PM, Chris Lamb wrote: > > > Chris Lamb

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-29 Thread Ken Barber
What are the results Michael? ken. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hello, > > In the past, we have had multiple heated discussions involving > systemd. We (the pkg-systemd-maintainers team) would like to better > understand why some people

Re: Bug#677230: ITP: adhcp -- DHCP implementation in Ada

2012-06-13 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger
Hi Steve, On 06/12/2012 04:59 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:33:00PM +0200, Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger wrote: [snip] >> If it is the latter: I believe having a simple and robust DHCP >> implementation would be beneficial for the Debian project in general. >

Re: Bug#677230: ITP: adhcp -- DHCP implementation in Ada

2012-06-12 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger
Hi, On 06/12/2012 03:45 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > k...@codelabs.ch wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: "Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger" >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> * Package

Bug#677230: ITP: adhcp -- DHCP implementation in Ada

2012-06-12 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: adhcp Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : codelabs.ch * URL : http://www.codelabs.ch/adhcp/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming

Bug#630168: ITP: m4api -- utility/library for Mini-Box M4-ATX DC-DC power supplies

2011-06-11 Thread Ken Tossell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ken Tossell * Package name: m4api Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Ken Tossell * URL : http://ram.umd.edu/wiki/Public/Software/m4api * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : utility/library for

Bug#556010: RFH: link-grammar -- Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English

2009-11-12 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I either need help with this package to have a DD who can sponsor uploads on a regular basis or I'll be forced to put link-grammar up for adoption, becuase lacking a sponsor I haven't gotten a new version into the archive in ages. (Despite the fact that I've been kee

Bug#547220: general: Lenny Upgrade Documentation Typos

2009-09-17 Thread Ken Schweigert
Package: general Severity: minor While doing my first dist-upgrade I noticed a few typos that may cause some confusion to other users. In the document referenced at: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html Section 4.3. Manually unmarking packages contains th

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Ken Bloom
amfs breaks, he can boot up without it and get to a place where he can regenerate an initramfs. That's not "a religious taboo against initramfs." That's sensible troubleshooting behavior. --Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-30 Thread Ken Bloom
transition to the new number each time a new version of JRuby is packaged that changes the library path. Furthermore, nothing in the archive currently depends on jruby1.0 or jruby1.1, so there's nothing to transition, and nothing you're breaking by fixing this now. --Ken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
y create the whole list of directories, but it would seem to want to do so on login. I'm seeing these directories recreated more intermittently than that, which means something else is triggering the creation. --Ken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: general Severity: normal Something that I ran this morning decided to pollute my home directory creating the following directories: Desktop/ Documents/ Download/ Music/ Pictures/ Public/ Templates/ Videos/ I haven't figured out what it is yet, but Debian needs to be more respectf

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-13 Thread Ken Teague
appropriate mailing list (debian-user). Again, many thanks! - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
rning SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/) to see if it has what I need. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
includes reiserfsprogs, but that's one place to start > looking. That was my first thought, but the device with the corrupt file system is multidisk. How can a LiveCD know about an md config? Thanks, - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
f stuff that is located under /usr, and those dependencies have no place to be in /sbin. I understand this is -devel and not the standard mailing list where I should ask for support, but any info on how I can recover from this would be greatly appreciated. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-23 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Francesco Poli wrote: > OK, that said, if you wanted to modify a public key (in order to obtain > something else), what form would you use for making modifications? > I think the preferred form would be the one in which the GPG public key > is distributed by keyservers or some

debian-installer: driver disk compatibility

2008-05-20 Thread Ken Teague
SE. I download either of the two, pop in the floppy disk, and Debian is able to determine whether it's designed for distribution X and loads the module. That, in itself, would be the next best thing since the "alien" package. :-) Best regards, Ken Teague -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

RFS: link-grammar 4.3.2

2008-04-09 Thread Ken Bloom
Could someone sponsor the latest version of link-grammar, version 4.3.2, for which I have uploaded at http://lingcog.iit.edu/~bloom/link-grammar/ Thanks in advance. --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute

Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-18 Thread Ken Spath
Proposal regarding future packaging: Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no binary in a package that is the same as the package name.

Bug#434794: ITP: assogiate -- an editor for the GNOME file types database

2007-07-26 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: assogiate Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Daughtridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kdau.com/projects/assogiate/ * License : GPL Program

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-25 Thread Ken Bloom
ct byhand builds? Do they restrict sourceful uploads accompanied by binaries from the offending archs? -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ pgpTg1xg9HOI5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the experimental autobuilder team (or: For Those Who Care About Experimental...)

2006-04-18 Thread Ken Bloom
cessary version even if it's not the top choice, but only if the priority is higher than a given threshold (say 50). Then normal users get experimental pinned at 1 as it is now, but the experimental autobuilders get experimental pinned at 51 using /etc/apt/preferences. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.

Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-18 Thread Ken Bloom
to fix this problem now that we are stuck with this > random, unmotivated, undocumented, likely-to-break-things change. Oh, and > I'd like the head of whoever changed it while I'm at it. :-) Yes, it would have been nice to have been told. Actually, we were told on debain-devel

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-17 Thread Ken Bloom
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:53:04PM -0600, Adam M. wrote: > >>Ken Bloom wrote: >> >>>I noticed that glabels is broken on i386 because it's not binary NMU >>>safe, and someone did a binary NMU. > > >>>After poking

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Ken Bloom
Ken Bloom wrote: > Peter Samuelson wrote: > >>[Ken Bloom] >> >> >>>$substvar{'Source-Version'}= $fi{"L Version"}; >>>+#Indep-Version is for supporting binary NMUs when a strict >>>+#version dependancy is requir

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Ken Bloom
Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Ken Bloom] > >> $substvar{'Source-Version'}= $fi{"L Version"}; >>+#Indep-Version is for supporting binary NMUs when a strict >>+#version dependancy is required against an arch independant package >&

making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-15 Thread Ken Bloom
/\+b[0-9]+$//; } This patch adds the Indep-Version substitution variable, which will be the version number on the arch-independant packages corresponding to the current verision of the other binary packages. I'm not sure where to submit this, or whether there's a bug open for i

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-09 Thread Ken Bloom
Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:16:36PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > >>Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Maybe the one-true-stable-key idea is the way to go after all... > > >>One key by distribution? > > > Well, I meant a different one for each stab

cdbs borked by new version of make

2005-12-11 Thread Ken Bloom
patch the brokenness, submit the patch to bug 342892. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Remove

2005-11-25 Thread Ken Bloom
ng for "callwave remove" we get a page on lists.debian.org: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Bloom
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:13:23AM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: > >>Why not accept the AMD64 binaries, then dump the AMD64 binaries because >>you don't know what to do with them, but accept the arch:all debs from >>that upload? > > >

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Bloom
cally > there are problems. I sure hope patches would be welcome though. Why not accept the AMD64 binaries, then dump the AMD64 binaries because you don't know what to do with them, but accept the arch:all debs from that upload? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as

Re: Azureus magnet-link functionality

2005-11-14 Thread Ken Bloom
Shaun Jackman wrote: > In the following email Chris suggests that I add support for bit > torrent magnet:// URLs under Gnome2 in the Azureus package by setting > the gconftool-2 parameter /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command > to call Azureus. This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do,

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Ken Bloom
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 06, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>So I'll ask again. What would be the process for rename i386 to x86 or ia32? > > Complex enough that it will never happen, so please do not waste more > time over this. Thanks fo

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Ken Bloom
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Ken Bloom wrote: > > >>Bastian Venthur wrote: >> >>>Nick Jacobs wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>>You mean, it's seriously been proposed

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Bloom
y if > someone asks you for the sources. > > If you keep the binary to yourself, you don't have to release anything. And you don't have to tell the original developers about your improvements either, even if you are distributing the code. You can let them search the *whole* i

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Bloom
64) would suppress discussions like this > in the future? We should either rename i386, or resupport i386, or both. We know what steps it takes ot resupport i386. What kind of work would be needed to rename i386 to x86 or ia32? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Ken Bloom
27;ed (and is indeed more permissive to developers than the GPL) we needed some guidelines for what could be accepted and what couldn't. Hence, the DFSG. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital

Bug#337277: ITP: link-grammar -- Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser

2005-11-03 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: link-grammar Version : 4.1b Upstream Author : Daniel Sleator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Davy Temperley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Lafferty

Versioned BTS question:

2005-10-23 Thread Ken Bloom
I'm tracking through some old bugs I submitted, cleaning up. I'd like to close bug 256715, because jpilot and gtk-engines-smooth no longer interact (because jpilot uses GTK+2 now). What's the appropriate version to specify to the BTS? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG di

Re: bugs.d.o: usertags and user categories

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Bloom
s, some internal support > to make cookies plausible, a couple of new members to the BTS team, > maybe some other stuff I've forgotten... The only new stuff that seems to be documented in the help files for BTS is the version tracking stuff. Everything else (bug subscriptions, user tag

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Ken Bloom
ty. Firefox is probably the most important piece of Linux software that actually has name recognition out there in the rest of the world, and I don't think that we can drop it *or* rebrand it. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://w

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

2005-04-01 Thread Ken Bloom
Too bad it is only an April fool joke... > > Cheers, Look again at bugs.debian.org/release-critical, or the automatic mail of release-critical bugs that gets sent out every Friday. At the very least, this last part is true. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-01 Thread Ken Bloom
r by just running linux 2 (assuming linux was the name of your normal stanza) --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-14 Thread Ken Bloom
o decode encrypted dvd; > ffmpeg and OpenDivx code to en/decode MPEG4. > > Solution: > the DeCSS is deleted from the package proposed for Debian What functionality do we lose by doing this? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http:/

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Ken Bloom
ots immediately in your postinst. When do the other 11 postinst's run? Besides the philosophical problems with rebooting without permission, the administrator action that you're trying to avoid will be necessary *anyway* when he has to apt-get -f install or dpkg --configure -a the other

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-15 Thread Ken Bloom
ody should backport a package in such a way that it is buildable with woody's build-essential. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug #267273: cdrecord and 2.6.x bug possibly fixed

2005-01-11 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:18:49 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-01-11 Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just upgraded to cdrecord version 2.01+01a01-2.[1] I found that with >> permissions -rwsr-xr-- on /usr/bin/cdrecord [2] that I was able to >> record a

Bug #267273: cdrecord and 2.6.x bug possibly fixed

2005-01-10 Thread Ken Bloom
I just upgraded to cdrecord version 2.01+01a01-2.[1] I found that with permissions -rwsr-xr-- on /usr/bin/cdrecord [2] that I was able to record a CD without having to become root first using dev=/dev/hdc and kernel 2.6.10 [3]. Do any others still have problems burning CD's as non-root with kerne

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:16:49 -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: >> Hello, >> >> One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it >> takes for a new stable version. > > I guess one man's meat is another man's poison. > > Sinc

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-05 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:04:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:08:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >> Ken Bloom wrote: >> > http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the >> > ReleaseProposals topic on wiki.debian.net) discusses the conc

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-04 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:36:11 +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:16:27AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: >> http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the ReleaseProposals >> topic on wiki.debian.net) discusses the concept of speeding up the >> relea

RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-04 Thread Ken Bloom
release Sarge (barring any unforseen consequences). Would it be possible to start testing this proposal out now by increasing the frequency of dinstall, perhaps to once every 6 hours until release? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-03 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If Mr Wontshare's client doesn't work without your software, this is > what I call a derivative work. Whether it is linked to it using ELF or > not is irrelevant. So anything that runs on Windows is a derivative work of Windows? This might not impact

GPM to 1.20.1?

2003-11-08 Thread Ken Bloom
Is it possible to upgrade GPM in unstable to 1.20.1 (at least) which has been out for a long time now. It would fix a lot of brokenness in GPM. There was a previous discussion in March about this topic, nothing ever came of it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg0074