Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-23 Thread Stephen Stafford
. I suspect if you rm K09reboot in the squeeze chroot, it will fix the behaviour to what you want. As far as rebooting from inside a chroot rebooting the system I don;t know whether that's a bug or not. As far as I'm aware it has been the way it's behaved for a long while...not

Bug#415703: /etc/modules has no function/should be deleted

2007-03-21 Thread Stephen Stafford
image. It's a very handy place to put modules which should be loaded at boot. Please don't remove it. Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Stafford -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-30 Thread Stephen Stafford
Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:14:08AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Come on! The FHS regulates what normal software can/should do, partially so that package managers can work reliably. dpkg is the package manager, thus it is exempt from the FHS. In fact, I should have been even cl

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:35:12PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote: > [ Please do not send me CC's, as I have not explicitly asked for them. ] Apologies. > > * Stephen Stafford > > > Sorry, but I do NOT see how this is a grave bug. It's wishlist (at best). > >

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Stephen Stafford
[enormous snippage] Sorry, but I do NOT see how this is a grave bug. It's wishlist (at best). YOU might not agree that C-R systems are good (personally I detest them), but that does NOT mean that we shouldn't release one. If the package is in good shape and functions as advertised, then it IS f

Re: surfraw ultimatum

2003-07-25 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:12:44PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > Hi, > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 07:03 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > >Just don't *dare* to let anyone remove /usr/bin/google or I'll kill > >you, > >your dog and your friend's uncle's son's ex-roommate's girlfriend's > >aunt's >

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:59:07AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:14:45PM +0200, Ignacio Garc?a Fern?ndez wrote: > > > It would be nice that there was one design in pgn or something > > (...ponders what a T-shirt design in chess notation would look like...) > I used t

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-05 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:10:12PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Stephen Stafford] > > We have a commitment that everything in Debian main is Free. Since > > the RFC license is NOT Free, it can't be in main. This does NOT > > imply anything about the usefulness o

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-04 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:47:19PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > To require or demand that the IETF changes their copyright policy or > their publishing practices to cater to someone else's idea of what the > document should be used for is plain arogance. Respect the wishes of > the original auth

Bug#199881: ITP: rhyme -- console based rhyming dictionary

2003-07-03 Thread Stephen Stafford
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist Package name: rhyme Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Brian (tuffy) Langenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/rhyme License : GPL Description : console base

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stephen Stafford wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > What about perusing the INT 6 idea, and going all the way up to i686? > > While I su

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:26:08PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > Stephen Stafford wrote: > > >While I support the removal of 386 support, I absolutely and strenuously > >object to going to 686. 686 isn't all that old at all (1997 IIRC), and I > >use a n

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > In any case we need to make clear if we allow 486 optimisation that > > are not i386 compatible or not. > What about perusing the INT 6 idea, and going all the way up to i686? > As i686 is already like ten(?) years old, I would say

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:16:07PM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote: > > I just say the consequences of that choice, that is you're having > problems with an old version and you don't have the freedom to fix

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:25:47PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > It's your own fault. You choosed to run non-free software, now you get > > the consequences. Debian doesn't support vmware, so go somewhere else > > with your vmware

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:00AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Phillips) writes: > > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > > > As SUSv2 mandates that new nice return value is correct, > > > please use [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-19 Thread Stephen Stafford
rthern Ireland}] 2: an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales [syn: {Great Britain}] The line *does* seem rather blurry. Personally I use the two terms interchangeably. Others like to be more exact about it. - -- Stephen Stafford finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get gpg public key --

Re: extra feature for debchange

2001-09-09 Thread Stephen Stafford
utilities need to be more well ducumented. Is there a list, anywhere, > of all these obscure? utilites that I seem to only find when it's too > late? grep-available -Ps Package dpkg grep-available -Ps Package apt -- Stephen Stafford finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get gpg public key I su