Bug#311371: ITP: elektra -- A framework to store configuration atoms hierarchically

2005-05-31 Thread Simon Law
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2005-05-31 Severity: wishlist * Package name: elektra Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Avi Alkalay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://elektra.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Description : A framework to store configurat

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > now, if the apt method kept a timestamp of the last successful update, > it could send as part of the ldap query filter something like > '(debTimeStamp>$lasttime)'. this would make keeping debian up to > date over dialup a much easier

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation and > i have no qualms with turning off slapd if it's getting in the > way :) If you're using OpenLDAP, there is no way that this could ever be fast. But, your idea is n

Bug#281786: ITP: xplc -- Light weight component system

2004-11-17 Thread Simon Law
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-11-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xplc Version : 0.9.10 Upstream Author : Pierre Phaneuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xplc.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL Description : Light weight component system

Re: popularity-contest

2003-12-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > I could not reach [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is mentioned > on the following page: > http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ Avery is a little busy right now. But he can probably be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon

Re: Discussion - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Law
M-F-T set to debian-project. On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:23:40PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:35:14PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > The old Open Use logo was not DFSG-free, so we really shouldn't be > > shipping it in main. > > Where are we shippi

Discussion - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-04 Thread Simon Law
Debian Open Use Logo License Copyright (c) 1999 Software in the Public Interest -This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone to refer to the -Debian project, but does not indicate endorsement by the project. +This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone, but does not +indicate

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-04 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:05:17AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:40:27AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > > Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives > > in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. T

How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-03 Thread Simon Law
Hi guys, Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. They are asking that tvtime Suggests libdscaler. I thought that the appropriate thing to do was to have libdscaler Extends tvtime. My impres

Re: Debian policy about "experimental" ?

2003-09-21 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:09:57PM +0200, jjluza wrote: > The announcement tells we should get out "-snapshot" from the name of > the package, before puting it in experimental. So there is no > difference in the package name anymore. So now, since cvs package > version is 0.0.date, apt always ask

Re: GR: Disambiguation of Section 4.1.5 of the constitution

2003-08-22 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:24:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [snip] > == > 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election > >4.1. Powers > > Together, the Developers may: > 1. Appoint or recall

Re: Bug#198682: ITP: kernel-patch-2.4-low-latency -- Reduces the latency of the Linux kernel

2003-06-25 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:43:06AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:43:34AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > It's already packaged: > [...] > > > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > apt-cache show kernel-patch-lowlatency-2.4 > > Package: kernel-patch-lowlatency-2.4 > > Oops ! Sorry

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-21 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:25:47PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > While convenient for american developers, there are rather a number of > > non-american developers who will not set foot on American soil, due in > > part to the DMCA and (I imagine) the app

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:35:58PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 18:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It would also be nice to have some blessing of /run in the policy first, > > but that doesn't seem terribly likely. > > What is more important for now is whether there is broad

Re: Non-debian running DD's (Was: Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-23 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:01:35AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 08:58, LapTop006 wrote: > > I use both Mutt and OE to read my E-mail (mostly mutt). The one feature > > OE has (on both mac and windows) that NO other client I've seen matches > > (Mozilla 1.0 came close, ha

Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

2003-04-20 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:46:03AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 20, Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How about keeping a whitelist database in which the users can add > >themselves by sending a mail in certain format to something like > >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Only after that w

Bug#183860: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs

2003-04-17 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 04:16:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:34:36PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > Debian can't legally distribute such an info document. Because the > > GFDL is incompatible with the GPL, it is prohibited to even > > create an info document from

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >At some point in the future, we will change gcc-defaults to make > >gcc-3.2 the default on all architectures. At that time, you should > >remove the setting of CXX and the e

Re: ZINF pkgs crashing dpkg - please test

2002-08-16 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:44:30PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > If i get no crash reports 'till Monday, I will upload my ZINF > packages, assuming this is a local problem. You most certainly want to test this in a chroot environment. May I suggest using debootstrap or pbuilder to do th

Re: Upcoming bug mass-filing re. non-free TrueType fonts in main

2002-08-14 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:36:45PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:45:06PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > Ben> "How am I going to deal with it when someone changes my font to > > Ben> something ugly and it reflects poorly on my skills as a > > Ben> fontographer?" > > > In

Re: Library namespace conflicts

2002-08-14 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:11:33AM +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:40:43AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > As the man page at http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/dnet.3.txt refers to the > library as "dnet - dumb networking library" how about ren

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-28 Thread Simon Law
I just got this message from debian-devel: If you are running gnome-terminal, then can we merge the two bugs together and call it fixed? Simon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:54:59 -0800 (PST) From: Michael P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-27 Thread Simon Law
On 27 Dec 2001, Bill Gribble wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:54, Simon Law wrote: > >Hrm... Could you list the output of `complete` and `set -o` for > > me? I have the same inputrc, and am unable to reproduce the problem. > > I am running libreadline4 4.2a-3 and

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-27 Thread Simon Law
On 27 Dec 2001, Bill Gribble wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:29, Simon Law wrote: > > Can we confirm whether this is a libreadline thing? It could be > > bash's programmable completion feature. Has the user defined any > > `complete`s? If so, maybe he should loo

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-27 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Matthias Klose wrote: > [CC to debian-devel, asking if report #126567 is reproduceable] > > Bill Gribble writes: > > > I simply cannot reproduce the behaviour you describe. > > > > Well, why don't you describe for me what you have tried to do. "Simply > > cannot reproduce"

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 01-May-01, 12:50 (CDT), Vince Mulhollon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/01/2001 12:40:24 PM roland wrote: > > >> Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > >> > From my poor memory, the "generally agreed best idea" is to setup two > > >> > packages, vaguely li

Dual CPU compilation.

2001-04-22 Thread Simon Law
Hello, I'm the lucky new owner of a dual Pentium Pro system. It seems, however, that compiling stuff just doesn't use my extra CPU. I know I can compile with 'make -j 2' to use the second processor; but I don't know how to convince kernel-package and dpkg-deb (apt-get source) to do that