Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

2005-06-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am pleased to announce the availability of my new (English) book > "The Debian System", Congratulations, I'll order a copy soon! :) > The hardcover edition will be available in stores in the beginning > of July. A list of online shops stocking it i

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-11 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> If there is a reason to separate /usr from / (which so many people >>> think th

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there is a reason to separate /usr from / (which so many people > think there is, though I don't understand why, since it has no > semantic significance at all), why separate /lib from /etc? I don't see a semantic difference between /bin and /u

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are >>> under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix >>> vs /usr/libe

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are > under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix > vs /usr/libexec/postfix. > > It seems to me that /usr/libexec is a better name for such things, I disagree. Why is i

Re: Bug#271428: mapping unknown timezones

2005-04-16 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.16.1552 +0200]: >> Therefore, any actual behavior (including the existing one as well >> as the suggested alternatives) would be standard conforming. > > I don&#x

Re: Bug#271428: mapping unknown timezones

2005-04-16 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sending to debian-devel because I would like to hear other people's > opinions. It's about #271428, as the subject says. Please keep > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on CC (I assume GOTO reads -devel). > > also sprach GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.16.1

usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Dickopp
Hello, I have written and packaged a script to automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices (e.g. USB memory pens) when they are plugged in or removed. The script is invoked by udev. To solicit opinions, I posted about it to debian-mentors list last October: http://lists.debian.org