Re: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-03 Thread LapTop006
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:10:21PM -0500, Chris Cheney arranged a set of bits into the following: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:31:08PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:14:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Please don't do this yet, since dselect is still more self-

Re: libraries being removed from the archive

2003-08-03 Thread LapTop006
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:32:37PM -0500, Chris Cheney arranged a set of bits into the following: > Today I was reminded of something that causes apps not to migrate into > sarge. When maintainers remove old libraries from the archive! Today > for example libexif8 was removed by Christophe Barbe

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread LapTop006
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:59:49PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman arranged a set of bits into the following: > There are no mirrors of security.debian.org, and have not been for as long > as I have been aware. See the security team FAQ. FALSE. There are at least several mirrors. I myself use them as for

Non-debian running DD's (Was: Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-21 Thread LapTop006
I use both Mutt and OE to read my E-mail (mostly mutt). The one feature OE has (on both mac and windows) that NO other client I've seen matches (Mozilla 1.0 came close, haven't tried since then) is its support for offline IMAP. This e-mail comes to you via putty on my laptop being NAT'd via my debi

Re: W3C recommendations

2003-04-17 Thread LapTop006
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 07:44:35PM -0500, Thomas Bliesener arranged a set of bits into the following: > Almost the whole Debian website meets the HTML standards except some > online documentation which seems to be a problem of debiandoc2html > (#188117). > > In a quick survey I found more package

Re: Maintainers with excessive old RC bugs

2003-04-15 Thread LapTop006
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 08:31:16AM +0100, Mark Howard arranged a set of bits into the following: > On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 08:44, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > This is a sorted (worst offenders first) list of maintainers who have > > excessive numbers of old RC bugs open against their packages. > Great

Re: Database-specificisms considered harmful

2003-04-12 Thread LapTop006
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:34:00PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs arranged a set of bits into the following: > Hi, > > * Package name: exim-mysql > > Personally, I do not like all those -mysql, -pgsql, -whatever packages. > > Whatever happened to the idea of using a common database access library >