Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

This one time, at band camp, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. The main functionality of Mutt is to read *and* send mail. > Being able to only read mail archives is not the main functionality > but a backup functionality. To be able to provide the main > functionality, an MTA i

Re: Multi-level symlinks for default kernel

> I am wondering if anyone else is having the same problems I am with debian > keeping the vmlinuz symlink in /. > > I have several systems where /boot is the only filesystem accessable by the > boot loader because of software raid, or possibly lvm (haven't done this > yet, but thinking about it).

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last year I discovered mawk sitting there until I banished it away with > apt-get install gawk. Mawk is smaller and faster, so it makes sense that it's the default awk for a base system. Even in the GNU installer packages for

Re: Orphaning my packages

This one time, at band camp, Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > None taken. And no, I am not. > > > [a DD] > > > > > > OK, then, I'm going ahead and taking fltk1.1. > > > > Does this mean that debian policy is that DD have priority over a non-DD ? > > i would hope not, though, in th

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

This one time, at band camp, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, it does not _recommend_ that, don't misrepresent it! > > > > [...] > > "It is an old tradition to acknowledge bugs fixed in non-maintainer uploads > > in the first changelog entry of the proper maintainer upload, for in

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

This one time, at band camp, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >* Acknowledge NMU (closes: #174301, #172803, #179036, #177616) > > > > > > Ugh, also this one. Do not use changelog for closing fixed bugs. > > > Do it using BTS directly. > > > > Debian Developers' Reference actual

Re: Orphaning my packages

This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Ucko) wrote: > > > fltk, fltk1.1: The Fast Light Toolkit (www.fltk.org). A C++ GUI toolkit. > > > > I'd be interested in taking these over if no one else wants to, because > > one if my ITPs (Quat) depends on these. > > No offense, but are

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

This one time, at band camp, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > >* Acknowledge NMU (closes: #174301, #172803, #179036, #177616) > > Ugh, also this one. Do not use changelog for closing fixed bugs. > Do

Re: Orphaning my packages

This one time, at band camp, Stefan Schwandter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fltk, fltk1.1: The Fast Light Toolkit (www.fltk.org). A C++ GUI toolkit. I'd be interested in taking these over if no one else wants to, because one if my ITPs (Quat) depends on these. Morgon -- You said homosexuals form

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin v. L) wrote: > I think the performance loss for applications like KDE will be > significant. I doubt that providing two versions of KDE (i386 > and i486+) would be feasible. Not starting a flamewar here, but in all honesty, who is going to try

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

This one time, at band camp, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a great tag to have (but perhaps cumbersome to add to so many > packages) would be a set of keybindings tags, which would try to indicate > the default keybindings (since that is what a novice is going to see). IMHO, th

Bug#190994: ITP: quat -- quat: a 3D quaternionic fractal generator

Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-27 Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: quat Version : 1.20 Upstream Author : Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/phy11733/index_e.html * Lic

Re: Bug#190912: ITP: konqueror-embedded -- A light version of the Konqueror web browser for use in small machines

> -snip- > > * SSL > -snip- > > This is likely illegal if it is truely one binary and doesn't do the > kpart abstraction stuff... I really wish openssl would just vanish > someday. Time to start converting the world to gnu TLS, it seems... Morgon -- You said homosexuals form a small percenta

Re: Do we need policy changes?

ertainly love to make my prospective packages as UTF-8 (and i18n in gerenal) friendly as possible. -- Morgon Kanter GPG key ID: 297CEA5B If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, there'd be peace. -- John Lennon

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

ould be something of a "standard" for configuration files, so people can know what's a good idea and what's a bad idea. -- Morgon Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.surgo.net GPG key ID: 297CEA5B Please don't CC me on mailing lists, I read them!