Re: A hack to alleviate transitions in Britney; now what?

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Atterer
dy" to testing without recompilation. I can't say I'm too much of an expert with these issues, so there may be problems with this scheme. For example, it is possible that "mouldy" would end up containing everything and testing would be empty, which would buy you

Re: BDF Considered Harmful?

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Atterer
built. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: dbus and initscripts

2008-06-02 Thread Richard Atterer
g all of dbus. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-18 Thread Richard Atterer
Hmm, a FastCGI solution would also be possible for serving the files via HTTP (but not BitTorrent). I'm tempted... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ &#x

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Atterer
e to build the package twice and then to compare whether the created .debs are identical between the first and second run. (Of course, file timestamps would have to be ignored when comparing.) Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Atterer
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:40:49PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Thank you for this very cool effort! Might we see checklib packaged for > Debian soon? Hmm, maybe the functionality could be included in lintian? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | Gnu

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:30:17PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > I'd rather prefer if you don't overexegerate. Yes, please restrict yourself to the levels of exaggeration which are appropriate for Debian mailing lists. ;-) SCNR, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer

Re: How to automatically update files on alioth from svn

2005-11-29 Thread Richard Atterer
. BTW, it's not necessary to add locking to the script, AFAIK runs of the postcommit script will be serialized by SVN (at least for my libdb repos, dunno about FSFS!). Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ 

Re: curl status update

2005-09-30 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:19:18PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:27:30PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:37:35PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Why is openssl the default? > > > I think everybody agrees t

Re: curl status update

2005-09-29 Thread Richard Atterer
rary should be the default. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Richard Atterer
erent files are 100% in sync, I think it'll get close enough for practical usage. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: curl situation is intolerable

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Atterer
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:05:23PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 12, Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, *please* consider to help with the implementation of the real > > solution for libcurl4, i.e. several SSL backends to just one libcurl.s

Re: curl situation is intolerable

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Atterer
. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread Richard Atterer
Just fix the program that generates our HTML mailing list archives, and make it output for mails which contain any of the Forbidden Words! Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: libcurl and moc

2005-09-04 Thread Richard Atterer
FWIW, I've started work on implementing the solution outlined in <http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html>. However, my spare time is very limited, so I can't promise anything about when (or even whether) I can finish this. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atte

Re: libcurl and moc

2005-09-02 Thread Richard Atterer
that_moment_ it might be necessary to increase the .so version. That's because programs are then required to link explicitly against one of the SSL-enabling "backend libs", called "lib2" on the page above. You don't suddenly want your old libcurl3-using programs to

Re: long long support on all archs?

2005-08-30 Thread Richard Atterer
> doesn't have this check and use long long by default. ...I recommend you use int64_t from instead of long long, this is more portable. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBS

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-21 Thread Richard Atterer
s, not the sources provided by the packager. See this page: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-sponsoring Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: [OT] TeX font of Debian Logo?

2005-07-07 Thread Richard Atterer
a far more promising plan is to embed the PostScript version of the logo as a picture. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: CD Pages

2005-06-30 Thread Richard Atterer
t block of > > the front page... > > Isn't there any further discussion for this? I'm making the change > unless somebody comes up with something different about it. I'm all for this change - when I created /CD/, it was intended to be linked directly from the front pa

Re: A way _not_ to handle bugs

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Atterer
gs often do very valuable work, e.g. by identifying "upgrade bugs" which are waiting to happen the moment we release. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Bug#288497: ITP: libsnowball-swedish-perl -- Stemming algorithm for Swedish

2005-01-04 Thread Richard Atterer
as the maintainer, the package pool contains examples of both re-tarred sources and tar.gz-inside-tar.gz. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-07 Thread Richard Atterer
by more than one char. This means that you need to use a different strlen function, take care only to chop strings of char at character boundaries, ensure that input strings are actually valid UTF-8, etc. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-21 Thread Richard Atterer
ly released images. Once you start executing mkisofs on the user's machine, this becomes difficult to achieve, so jigdo leaves creating the iso9660 filesystem to other tools. Have a look at the debian-cd scripts and imagine doing all this on the user's machine - not trivial! Cheers, R

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-21 Thread Richard Atterer
al" and "Server" variants of other Linux distros. OTOH, offering such variants will increase the number of available Debian images yet again. We already offer images for different arches, different sizes (business-card/netinst/CD/DVD/DLDVD) and different distributions (sid/sarge/

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Richard Atterer
the 3.0 API can then happen as a subsequent step - and if it doesn't happen by release time, we still have spamassassin 3 in stable... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Converting configure.in for use with new auto* tools - what a mess!

2003-09-27 Thread Richard Atterer
x27;ll upload the package like that... Thanks again for your help! Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Converting configure.in for use with new auto* tools - what a mess!

2003-09-27 Thread Richard Atterer
;http://atterer.net/debian/configure.in> - could some autoconf-knowledgeable person please have a look at getting it to work with the w3c-libwww sources, or give me some hints what I need to fix? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: music sheet

2003-09-09 Thread Richard Atterer
Maybe I should start a Dueling Banjos Fan Club. :-) If debian-news carried an item which explains that we're not that musical after all, I'm sure that would make it to the top of Google's list... BCCd. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key:

Future of Libwww Survey by W3C

2003-09-03 Thread Richard Atterer
/cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/Public - End forwarded message - -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: debian archive disk space requirements.

2003-08-30 Thread Richard Atterer
ackages. ;-) Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Richard Atterer
to be included in the archive. IMHO it must be left to the user to decide whether they're worth the trouble or not - Debian has no business making such decisions on behalf of the user. Cheers, Richard (who, also hates c-r systems, but that's irrelevant) -- __ _ |_) /|

Re: Bug#200163: ITP: png2ico -- command-line PNG to ICO converter

2003-07-09 Thread Richard Atterer
to create .ico files for some cross-platform development (GTK+ on Windows). There's already xpm2wico, but png is a nicer source format. Support for .ico in convert or gimp would be nicer still, though. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: steambox ripper

2003-05-19 Thread Richard Atterer
e can work on your request. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Richard Atterer
verwrite_ support for NTFS now works, to allow precisely the sort of loopback installation we're talking about! Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-12-02 Thread Richard Atterer
e CDs say they're unofficial, but they're not. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Atterer
ded e.g. by cdrecord, so better try the alternative: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1k count=# | md5sum where the # is the "1k-blocks" value from the output of "df /cdrom". HTH, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Tech

Re: woody CD not bootable with adaptec + scsi-cdrom

2002-09-01 Thread Richard Atterer
e first CD, the other CDs use the same method as potato. The few machines on which it fails are either old or have a SCSI CD-ROM, booting from one of the later CDs should work for them. AFAIK if the woody release multiboot CD fails, it even prints a message which tells you to do that. Cheers,

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Richard Atterer
oticed until now. Thomson tolerate violations against their license are far as *de*coders are concerned. That's what the Thomson PR person probably talked about... However, such a statement is not enough for us to keep MP3 decoders in the distribution, I'm afraid. Richard -- __ _

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Richard Atterer
'6167407'.WKU.&OS=PN/6167407&RS=PN/6167407 Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ - Forwarded message from Clifford Heath <[

Re: Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
heers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-01 Thread Richard Atterer
r another big font package. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Richard Atterer
daemon. It is possible to tell the admin to edit the init.d script, changing some variable assignment to "chroot=yes", but somehow I don't think this is very clean, either... Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Richard Atterer
ether it takes place. So: - If I were to put together a "chroot-helper" package, would people be interested in using it for their package? - Any chance of getting a recommendation for this into policy? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS stud

Re: OCELOT SQL DBMS is now free open source (fwd)

2001-09-18 Thread Richard Atterer
(Sorry, I haven't got the time.) SAP-DB is being actively developed by ~100 people in Berlin. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯

Re: Bug#112020: ITP: keychain -- An OpenSSH key manager

2001-09-13 Thread Richard Atterer
ing but run that one command. This doesn't provide an awful lot of security, and a determined attacker might find a way to circumvent it, but it's already a lot better than a completely open account. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Te

Re: Bug#112020: ITP: keychain -- An OpenSSH key manager

2001-09-12 Thread Richard Atterer
ioned on -private at the time, so no details.) What's really needed is a little work on ssh-agent so that - when ssh asks for a DSA passphrase, it also sends it to ssh-agent - ssh-agent can expire keys after some time of inactivity Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard At

Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-07 Thread Richard Atterer
he encoding problem as well! The only place where it isn't 100% suited for our purposes is the Descriptions-XX.po, because the English text is duplicated. Would it make sense to hack gettext to make it allow checksums instead of the English descriptions? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |

Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-06 Thread Richard Atterer
x27;m all for at least _supplying_ the translations in UTF-8, even if they're not stored on the user's machine like that for now. Note that this does not even mean that the translators need to produce translations in UTF-8 - the DDTS can recode their work into UTF-8. Comments? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯ pgp16ClvZnD3o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new proposal: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-04 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:55:32PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:59:47PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > > > 2.) get the .po/.mo files on the system > > [snip] > > >If we don't like this process on the client all the time, w

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-04 Thread Richard Atterer
the package. However, Adam, I think you overreact a bit. As noted by others, this "spam" is actually the result of someone spending some time on improving your package. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯

Re: new proposal: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-04 Thread Richard Atterer
Descriptions-XX.mo files downloaded by apt, and only then at the .po file in the package. Would that be a problem? >2.) Put the translation in the control.tar.gz of the deb. [snip] >3.) Add the desc-trans.tar.gz in the deb ar as a own new element. [snip] Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:31:40AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > Furthermore, as mentioned before, translation packages have the > > disadvantage that new Descriptions, i.e. _the_ones_you_are_most_likely > &g

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-05 Thread Richard Atterer
u use at(1); you always get a mail with the error message. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-27 Thread Richard Atterer
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