Re: Annoyances of aptitude

2003-10-03 Thread Michał Politowski
ough the packages and hope > to stumble on the broken ones. Usually I just press l~b Limited views are (together with GC, and command-line search) probably the three features of aptitude I couldn't live without. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking has been known to lead to communication if practised carelessly.

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-07 Thread Michał Politowski
a few scripts to fix. > > In general, no. If the contents of $var are a test operator, you'll get > a syntax error. Not in a POSIX-compliant sh. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking has been known to lead to communication if practised carelessly.

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Michał Politowski
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:29:30 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > However, gcc-2.95 needs to install /usr/bin/gcc or it isn't much use. Actually... What exactly does gcc-2.95 need it for? /usr/bin/gcc is a straight link to gcc-3.3 after all. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warni

Re: Bug#203820: Incorrect expanding [] glob

2003-08-02 Thread Michał Politowski
t on Artur's example, though I suppose you are right saying that in principle it could. And I'll repeat, I would consider matching lowercase b,c,e and h by [A-Z] under pl_PL collating order reasonable, thus correct, so yes, this bug should be closed. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message pgp0hnHFf9rK5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#203820: Incorrect expanding [] glob

2003-08-01 Thread Michał Politowski
OTECTED] Another question is if the collating order for pl_PL placing lowercase letters before corresponding uppercase letters is correct. I'm not sure. Actually I'd do the opposite but it's not based on reading of any actual standards. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Michał Politowski
ull; then dpkg-statoverride --update --add root uml-net 04750 \ /usr/lib/uml/uml_net fi -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message pgpBNKpOPbVPj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Michał Politowski
l the ones that use whatever that tool was > (suidmanager?) that was used by some packages before we had > dpkg-statoverride. As well as the ones using dpkg-statoverride in their postinsts now. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message

Re: default MTA for sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Michał Politowski
there. > > What about inetd (which is IMHO the current default)? No listeners by default on desktop systems, IMHO. Only local delivery, and /usr/sbin/sendmail submission. If the admin wants more they should know how to set it up. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message

Re: default MTA for sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Michał Politowski
27;one of' choice > of things like exim3 exim4 and postfix. If not, maybe we can keep exim = exim3 for some time, for the sake of upgrades, but install exim4 by default on new systems? -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message

Re: Package Moscow ML and HOL

2003-07-03 Thread Michał Politowski
incompatibility - so no distribution would be possible at all, b) even if not, no paying distribution means non-free IMHO. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message pgpIcRtc2oNch.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: appropriate use of /etc/alternatives

2003-05-31 Thread Michał Politowski
reciate if somebody could explain me how this is policy-compliant in the context of the first paragraph of 11.1 -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-16 Thread Michał Politowski
On Fri, 16 May 2003 12:05:17 +0200, mcINEK wrote: > Next is replacement for update-mime script to use 'new' format. It > generates full compatible mailcap file, but inserts just one application > (x and non x) for each mime type. You obviously haven't read man ma

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Michał Politowski
s the way to go, as has been already suggested. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this is a memetically modified message

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Michał Politowski
of those > three. Not strictly true in the current menu system, though you have to duplicate complete entries. Currently eg. mozilla-browser package includes menu entries under: Apps/Net(mozilla) Apps/Net/Mozilla Components (mozilla and mozilla -edit) -- Michał Politows