Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-23 Thread Miros/law Baran
23.12.2007 pisze Kalle Kivimaa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why was it removed from Debian GNU/Linux in the first place!? > It's never been in Debian. The source package is in non-free, as the > license didn't permit binary distribution. See e.g. > http

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-16 Thread Miros/law Baran
16.11.2005 pisze Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Debian is staffed by volunteers who do this because they want to. > I, for one, appreciate very, very much what they do for me. Writing/maintaining software is providing a service (even when it's free). You need to listen to your customers if y

Re: does gs needs to depend on gsfonts, or could it use ttf fonts maybe?

2005-07-25 Thread Miros/law Baran
25.07.2005 pisze Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > These can be matched with the 12 DejaVu TTF fonts: No, they cannot be matched. DejaVu fonts do not provide exactly the same metrics as the standard PS fonts. Anyways, what's your problem with these standard Type1 fonts? Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Bar

Re: multiarch?

2005-07-08 Thread Miros/law Baran
8.07.2005 pisze Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If everything in main can be ported to pure64 there is little need for > multiarch on amd64. There's not only main, you know. Sometimes you need to run other applications and the ability to run these makes the difference between using the Debi

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Miros/law Baran
17.06.2005 pisze Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I think you'd best come up with a better line of argument. The "S" in > DFSG does not stand for "copyright", it stands for "software". > Software usually contains copyrighted code, and sometimes it also > contains trademarked names or images

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Miros/law Baran
15.06.2005 pisze Eric Dorland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > You're free to make /any/ modifications to firefox, as long as you > > either rename it to something else or get permission to call it firefox. > > Doesn't sound non-free to me. > Please explain to me why it's alright to get special permissio

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Miros/law Baran
9.06.2005 pisze Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > | > Again, do not mess with cultures you do not understand. > | Do you have real examples? > IRC. An example is the current irssi in Debian which doesn't do > recoding between different locales. (And that is needed, since IRC > doesn't hav

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Miros/law Baran
6.06.2005 pisze Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > You're forgetting that some people like Marco d'Itri believe the best OS > ever should integrate the latest and fullest set of non-free crap we can > find, and not that it should include all architectures we can reasonably > support. Don't y

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-05-31 Thread Miros/law Baran
31.05.2005 pisze Stephen Birch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Still looks more like a fork than a derivative . or a spoon :-) ``The question is: who cares?''. Or, better: does it really matter, what name will be used? Are you perchance a free software taxonomist? Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, bara

Re: Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family

2005-03-16 Thread Miros/law Baran
16.03.2005 pisze Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * Package name: ttf-antp > Version : 0.51 > Upstream Author : Bogus?aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk > * URL : http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/poltawski-e.html > * License : GPL > De

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Miros/law Baran
11.03.2005 pisze Joerg Friedrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: > > 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > > > proba

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Miros/law Baran
11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system > after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just > reinsert "root=/dev/hda?" into grub's me

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Miros/law Baran
10.01.2005 pisze Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 'RTFM' means "Go read the documentation, that's what it's for". I > > personally find it far more rude to go on a mailing list, ask for the > Do you *really* think that RTFM means "Go read the documentation, > that's what it's for"? If one ha

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Miros/law Baran
6.12.2004 pisze Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > Also, to the best my knowledge the kernel doesn't contain any pictures > of naked people either. I might be mistaken. It is much, much worse. There is a picture of naked animal there. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-06 Thread Miros/law Baran
5.12.2004 pisze William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:28:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > might want, and put it on non-us since it is illegal to distribute such > > things in the USA (and unlike the possibility of offending people's > > sensibilities,

Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken

2002-08-15 Thread Miros/law Baran
15.08.2002 pisze Ben Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1 > > altogether? > Portability. Portability and the quality of the Type1 rasterizer in X, I'd say. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-27 Thread Miros/law Baran
27.09.2001 pisze Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If a multi-billion dollar company whose employees have all learned > British English decide that their documentation should be in > American English, that's saying something. That's saying nothing. Debian IS NOT multi-billion dollar compan

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Miros/law Baran
3.09.2001 pisze Radovan Garabik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > well, ok, that would work, but the point is that locale is bloated > and most people use just a few parts of it, parts that could be > achieved by other ways. Locales have two big advantages: they exist and they are quite consistent. best re

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Miros/law Baran
3.09.2001 pisze Radovan Garabik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > but you have to realize one thing: they are not doing it because of > locale. They are doing it because they want to tell their > applications to pass 8-bit characters unaffected. A quite elegant _theory_. Rather untrue. Falsified by me. Jub