Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-16 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 16, 2016 1:30 AM, "gaffa" wrote: > > The firmware has a free license if you are to believe the WENCE file in the > kernel. > Ummm, just a guess but I think that would be talking about transferring ownership and not on reverse engineering (for instance).

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

2016-01-15 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 14, 2016 5:11 PM, "Zlatan Todoric" wrote: > > > > On 01/14/2016 09:11 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > > Nearly all compact Linux computers feasible for gaming are sold > > exclusively using NVIDIA graphics, and that company is hostile to libre > > software. > > > > So I think it is very

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 5 release

2016-01-10 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:39:35 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fifth alpha > release of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch". > > > Important change in this release of the installer > = > > *

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-02 Thread shawn wilson
Ok then, I stand (doubly) corrected. Thanks On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 02/10/14 17:30, shawn wilson wrote: >> I'm pretty sure dash never got a rewrite? So this just happened to be >> a "feature" that got ripped out of dash. > >

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > shawn wilson writes: > >> I hate the idea of dash. It's not more secure (see vmware cve for an >> example) and I think it was more of an accident than anything else this >> didn't hit dash too. > > Th

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 30, 2014 7:59 PM, "Russell Stuart" wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 13:08 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > You really really should be looking at replacing any > > ash variant with mksh. It’s not that much bigger (at > > least if you add -DMKSH_SMALL to CPPFLAGS and build > > with klibc or

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-26 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 25, 2014 3:18 PM, "Matthias Urlichs" wrote: > > Hi, > > Samuel Thibault: > > Sounds crazy to me. > > > Definitely. This is now out in the wild; exploits which simply replace > echo or cat-without-/bin are going to happen. :-/ > Actually, what I've seen reported in the wild have been wget a

Re: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-25 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 25, 2014 9:36 PM, "Russ Allbery" wrote: > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > Since I’m pretty sure we haven’t uncovered all of bash’s “features”, > > wouldn’t it be a good opportunity to make a release goal of killing all > > scripts with a #!/bin/bash shebang? > > That may be overkill, but

Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Wilson
atter > of fact, I might not be able to resolve it by myself and if so, I'll > point you to the correct people who will also require this information. > > > On 08/08/14 03:41, Alan Wilson wrote: > > Bluetooth seems to be behaving itself since I re-installed the > > fi

Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Wilson
Take two On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 21:58 +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote: > Hey, > > > On 10/08/14 01:38, Alan Wilson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > dpkg -s firmware-ipw2x00 | grep Version returns: > > > > 'Version: 0.36+wheezy.1' > > Ok, that is

Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-05 Thread Alan Wilson
no problem, lspci - 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801F

Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-05 Thread Alan Wilson
dmesg --- [1.005427] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [1.005432] Registering the dns_resolver key type [1.005455] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [1.00] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [1.005566] registered taskstats version 1

Bug#756947: general: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-03 Thread al wilson
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, diabling the wifi radio via hardware button or via network manager leaves radios (wifi and bt) disabled. Only means to re-enable is via BIOS - restore defaults (no BIOS setting changed by user). HP Compaq nc6230 -- System Information: Debia

Re: Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:25 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file > > Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link. ... here: h

Broken link

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
Not sure if this is the proper list, but this is broken: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/partman-crypto/README?op=file Which is from the 'Documentation for hackers' link. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Shawn Wilson
My gut reaction was that #5 or #6 are the best option (leaning to #6). However I guess I don't understand what making something a system library effects the license? Andreas Metzler wrote: >Hello, > >Debian ist still relying heavily on GnuTLS 2.12.x, and I do not think >this is sustainable for

Re: Submitting a package

2013-10-18 Thread shawn wilson
Thanks On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/18/2013 07:12 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >>> Basically, what you have to do first is getting to know how packaging >>> in Debian works in general and what standards packages have to adhere >&g

Re: Submitting a package

2013-10-18 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Shawn! > > On 10/18/2013 05:54 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >> Can someone give feadback as to anything that should be corrected in >> this package or submit it upstream? > > You might want to start with

Submitting a package

2013-10-18 Thread shawn wilson
I read through the documentation and it's a bit unclear to me how to do this - it seemed like I needed to maintain some work before being approved to be a Maintainer but I'm not sure where to do that. We have a PAM module that we're going to open source in a month or so and I would like to be able

Bug#693342: ITP: dhrystone -- a popular benchmark for CPU/compiler performance measurement

2012-11-15 Thread Chris Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Wilson * Package name: dhrystone Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Reinhold P. Weicker * URL : www.netlib.org/benchmark/dhry-c * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: C Description : a popular benchmark

Bug#690693: ITP: thin-provisioning-tools -- Tools to manage thinly provisioned volume metadata in LVM

2012-10-16 Thread Neil Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Wilson * Package name: thin-provisioning-tools Version : 0.1.5 Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: C++ Description

Bug#684467: ITP: TuxFight -- Fighting game between tuxes in the style of Street Fighter/King of Fighters

2012-08-10 Thread Wilson Foo Yu Kang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wilson Foo Yu Kang * Package name: TuxFight Version : 0.1a Upstream Author : Wilson Foo * URL : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tuxfight * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Fighting game

Bug#635462: general: Update manager freezes when started

2011-07-25 Thread Eric Wilson
Package: general Severity: normal Update manager opens then freezes while checking for updates -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

2011-05-24 Thread Drake Wilson
s a web form for users to submit bugs. Just to link this to a Place of Community Patterns: you and some of the others seem to be describing a PricklyHedge. http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/PricklyHedge > Ian. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Re: Debian x86 32-bits built for i586 !?

2011-05-15 Thread Drake Wilson
fpu tsc msr cx8 cmov mmx | clflush size: 32 So it does have TSC, CMPXCHG8, and CMOV support. I'm not sure where that places it exactly on the ix86 processor chart; supposedly those are the main architectural differences that can actually break things compiled for i586? ---> Dr

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-02 Thread Drake Wilson
rtd, portmap. (Many of these are local system services rather than major applications on their own.) ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Drake Wilson
ntainer could forward first, but then _if_ at least N messages need to be forwarded between upstream and user, request that the user take control of the upstream bug to streamline the rest of the flow. N could be 1 or 2, for instance. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Drake Wilson
econd time after having already expended the context switch effort to report it once. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110112012933.ga3...@drache.begriffli.ch

Re: Bug#581434: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-15 Thread Drake Wilson
bserved with both lenny and current sid. I kind of doubt testing numeric ID equivalence between those two namespaces is a good idea. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-10 Thread Drake Wilson
k to 0077 because I find accidentally creating files that other users can snoop on to be more dangerous than having to chmod files after the fact. Conversely, setting default ACLs is one of the first things I do when setting up collaboration directories. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNS

Bug#547006: ITP: libiterator-simple-perl -- Simple iterator and utilities

2009-09-16 Thread Dusty Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dusty Wilson * Package name: libiterator-simple-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Rintaro Ishizaki * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Iterator-Simple/ * License : Perl (GPL-1+|Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#546941: ITP: libclass-accessor-children-perl -- Automated child-class/accessor generation

2009-09-16 Thread Dusty Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dusty Wilson * Package name: libclass-accessor-children-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Yusuke Kawasaki * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Accessor-Children/ * License : Perl (Artistic|GPL1+) Programming

Bug#546895: ITP: libwww-freshbooks-api-perl -- Perl Interface to the Freshbooks API

2009-09-16 Thread Dusty Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dusty Wilson * Package name: libwww-freshbooks-api-perl Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Anthony Decena * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-FreshBooks-API/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Drake Wilson
like to accentuate that I seek an informative discussion, > not a holy war. Yet I see practical issues being raised, and responses mainly accusing them of "completely misunderstanding" and "shallow thinking". ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-12 Thread Drake Wilson
ms to comply with the Debian naming scheme > creates new problems: Not being well-acquainted with this bit, I can't comment very well on what Debian policy would say, but wouldn't using the upstream name plus a non-extensioned symlink solve several of these cases? > Ansgar

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Drake Wilson
le: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-games/gnome-games_2.22.3-3/gnome-games.copyright > Miry ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-23 Thread Drake Wilson
Quoth Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-07-24 00:33:01 +0200: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:14AM -0500, Drake Wilson wrote: > > One data point: a screenshot with no window decorations loses a small > > amount of information, primarily the captio

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-23 Thread Drake Wilson
ndow. Interesting ways of working around this might involve storing the caption as metadata, or storing the screenshot with decorations and then storing the rectangle corresponding to the client area as metadata. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Bug#490805: ITP: txtreader -- text reader, mainly used for reading text originally novels

2008-07-18 Thread Drake Wilson
: text viewer, mainly used for reading text of original novels I would more expect "text viewer, originally used for reading novels". "text viewer, mainly used for reading text" seems fairly redundant to me. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: unifont - consensus on dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Drake Wilson
source_ size if you reduce it to only the information needed to build the TrueType fonts, or is most of the information shared? I would tend to imagine the latter for a package of this nature. > Paul Hardy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Key ID: E6E6E390 ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unifont - consensus on dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Drake Wilson
g TrueType fonts and the other containing PCF fonts would be reasonable. Just a thought. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#487317: perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree sets symlink target permissions to 0777

2008-06-21 Thread Drake Wilson
= 0x68b000 brk(0x68bf10) = 0x68bf10 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x68b850) = 0 brk(0x6acf10) = 0x6acf10 brk(0x6ad000) = 0x6ad000 exit_group(-1) = ? Process 16730 d

Re: Bug#487317: perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree sets symlink target permissions to 0777

2008-06-20 Thread Drake Wilson
y an automated check for bad permissions on files that exist in Debian packages would be another improvement (I searched the Web for an existing program that does that, but didn't find anything). ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Box Backup] Bug#416605: ITP: boxbackup -- Server and Clients for the BoxBackup remote backup system

2007-03-29 Thread Chris Wilson
27;m filing this ITP. Help with this package is highly appreciated. Please could you send the patch, so that I review it for inclusion in my tree at least? Cheers, Chris. -- _ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson < at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Securit

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-06 Thread Marc Wilson
hat still fails the DFSG, as you can't convey the right to distribute, but what do I know? Wow... you've collected a lot more patches to it than I have. Fixes, too. -- Marc Wilson | Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average [EMAIL PROTECTED] | American: All t

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-06 Thread Marc Wilson
to say. -- Marc Wilson | In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven [EMAIL PROTECTED] | by the Grateful Dead. -- Egyptian Book of the Dead signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-05 Thread Marc Wilson
no tool quite like xv, that wraps so many useful things into one binary. -- Marc Wilson | What soon grows old? Gratitude. -- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

2006-09-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:23:35PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:04:14PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: > > Because of recent changes in my Real Life, I cannot spend enough time on > > libtorrent and rtorrent as I would like. Whoever want to adopt are >

Re: RFA libtorrent and rtorrent

2006-09-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:04:14PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: > Because of recent changes in my Real Life, I cannot spend enough time on > libtorrent and rtorrent as I would like. Whoever want to adopt are > welcome to take over their maintenance. I would recommend them be > adopted together, bec

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:52:58PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > I have to my annoyance noticed that several of the doc packages > > (especially development packages) contains files that are gzipped. That > > is either example

Re: not running depmod at boot time

2006-05-28 Thread Marc Wilson
do it, I need to make sure I do it myself or change how I install kernels. -- Marc Wilson | Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no [EMAIL PROTECTED] | angles to the wind. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system

2006-04-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > J?rg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Package name: xindy > > Version : 2.2-beta2-1 > > Upstream Author : Joachim Schrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://xindy.sourceforge.net/ > > * License

Re: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded

2006-03-28 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:35:23PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For now I suggest you contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > OK, thanks; I considered that, but wasn't sure it was focused enou

Re: Re: ?????????? ????????!

2006-03-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:33:35AM -0800, Hex Star wrote: > boredom :P Please don't spam next time your bored. Some of us have better things to do. -- gram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attractive platform for Debian people interested in ARM: NSLU2

2006-03-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:01:46AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > One reason why few people are working on ARM is probably the lack of > a cheap platform that can be used for development. Fortunately, this > problem has now been addressed. Over the last few months, I worked > (in collaboration

Re: Preparing the m68k port for the future.

2006-01-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:05:10PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Enabling `-j' will probably expose concurrency problems in the build > system for lots of packages. > > What about building different packages in parallel instead? Isn't that what is done currently? -- gram -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: not getting CCs from the bugs I reported

2006-01-03 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 28 d?cembre 2005 ? 23:49 -0600, Adam Heath a ?crit : > > You'll only get mails if the sender sends to ###-submitter. Mail sent to > > just > > ### is not forwarded, and only stored. > > > > This is not a bug in the s

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:57:08AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > No, I'm not against syntax highlighting, I use it in emacs. The problem > is that the colors[1] are unreadable except on when the terminal > background is black and there are no lights on in the room. I realize a > lot of hackers wo

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:54:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:38:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > There are obviously users who will prefer nvi to vim (and others who > > prefer some other vi), but I get the impression there are rather more who > > prefer vim, it's

Re: Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts

2005-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:45:58AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 17, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After installation you should have a tmpfs mounted on /run. > > I do not remember a consensus about this. Changes in Debian are generally decided by package maintainers, not by co

Re: Stephen Frost MIA?

2005-11-30 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:48:44AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > how about sending this to Frontdesk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or MIA, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> instead of spamming debian-devel with that? Since when is a message that is on topic (or at least relevant) to Debian development spam? -- g

Re: My IP address seems listed as a spammer address by bugs.debian.org

2005-11-20 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:44:15AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > If you need to access the BTS data from a program, there is an LDAP > interface available and a copy of entire BTS database on one of the > developer accessable machines. Wouldn't it also be possible to subscribe to debian-bugs-dist

Re: Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:37:46PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > This software is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Tony Robinson > > and SoftSound under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or &g

Re: Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:31:38PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > * Package name: shorten > > Version : 3.6.0 > > Upstream Author : Tony Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL

Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Graham Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: shorten Version : 3.6.0 Upstream Author : Tony Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : non-free (see below) Description

Re: Bug#324861: ITP: pptpproxy -- a small app that forwards PPTP VPN connections through a Linux firewall

2005-08-24 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:41:10PM +0200, Michel van der Klei wrote: > * Package name: pptpproxy > Version : 2.0 > Upstream Author : Emmanuel Mogenet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.mgix.com/pptpproxy > * License : Public Domain > Description : a s

Re: libxslt1 / libxslt1.1 clean-up, comments welcome

2005-08-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > Now that no package depend on it, I am going to remove it, but that > leaves a libxslt1.1 package alone, not really respectful of the debian > standards for package naming. How is it not respectful of Debian standards for package namin

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-26 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:12:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I think overall it serves the users more to default to running missed > cronjobs on boot than not. If that causes you problems you can always > purge anarcron or fcron or protect the jobs itself. There might eb > cases where it

Re: G++ transition page revived

2005-07-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:43:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:27:34PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > I think this has proven very helpful so I set up a only slightly > > modified version for the current transition from 3.3 to 4.0. > > You can find it at http:/

Re: sphor (aka bugs.debian.org) going down twice due to power maintenance

2005-06-29 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:30:04AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > A UPS upgrade is being performed this week in the machine room that > houses sphor.debian.org (aka bugs.debian.org) hosted at the Oregon > State University's Open Source Lab. Part of this upgrade will require > 2 complete power outages

Three way link exchange with your-legal-advice.co.uk

2005-05-06 Thread James Wilson
Hi I'm offering a link from our directory at http://www.studio-103.co.uk on the most relevant page in exchange for links from your page at www.your-legal-advice.co.uk/mortgagelegaladvice and/or any other sites or pages that you may run and be relevant, to http://www.mortgagesforbusiness.co.uk.

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:45:17PM +0200, Martin Mewes wrote: > Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > You might want to obscure those a little bit. You should probably > > munge the Return-Path from those emails, and possibly the top > > Received: header. > > Munging works are in queue. The

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:30:50AM +0100, Jonas Gall wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:04:40 -0800, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently you missed the flamage when Mozilla's maintainer went insane and > > started requiring it. :) > That were the days of

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
ari unstable/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~ari unstable/ Maybe he'd take over xscreensaver. :) -- Marc Wilson | Needs are a function of what other people have. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
and OOo. > > Xprint works perfectly fine out of the box. Apparently you missed the flamage when Mozilla's maintainer went insane and started requiring it. :) -- Marc Wilson | No purchase necessary. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
to how poorly Mozilla supports non-English character sets unless you use Xprint instead of its built-in postscript support. -- Marc Wilson | But it does move! -- Galileo Galilei [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
y have to lie about what the printer supports in order to get CUPS + xprint to *not* produce either fantastically large printing, or microscopically small printing. -- Marc Wilson | This font is starting to come out very [EMAIL PROTECTED] | nicely Knghtbrd: oh dear, are you hack

Re: Bug#293785: ITP: gnomebaker -- CD/DVD writer for the GNOME desktop

2005-02-14 Thread Marc Wilson
filebrowser_setup_tree () #13 0x08057d9f in filebrowser_new () #14 0x08058b09 in gnomebaker_new () #15 0x08051315 in main () -- Marc Wilson | If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#295331: O: fetchmail

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I haven't been able to take good care of the fetchmail package, and therefore I'm orphaning it. I'd like whoever adopts it to be able to spend a good amount of time with the package. Upstream has been slow lately, and the adopter would likely end up working with ups

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Wilson
to a 2.6 kernel. Not even if you're using devfs. Only people unfortunate enough to be using Gnome 2.8 are required to have udev running. Udev. Just say no. -- Marc Wilson | Those who can't write, write manuals. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: GtkMozEmbed with Firefox not Mozilla

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Wilson
ueless horde do exactly that, install Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird. And then somehow think they're superior for not simply installing Mozilla. -- Marc Wilson | Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it [EMAIL PROTECTED] | passes off and I'm a

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-01 Thread Marc Wilson
at? -- Marc Wilson | Some people say a front-engine car handles best. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. | I say a rented car handles best. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Re: Bug#286027: ITP: ms-sys -- tool for writing Microsoft compatible boot records

2004-12-16 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:24:06AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > * Package name: ms-sys > > [...] > > This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The > program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" > to a floppy or FAT partiti

Re: Bug#285234: ITP: unlzx -- unarchiver for *.lzx archives

2004-12-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:53:10PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: unlzx > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?unlzx > * License

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:37:01PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:24:11 -0600, Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The line is not as easy to draw as you might think. > > On the contrary, the line is not so arcane. Computer related stuff is

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:10:13AM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > If it is a program, it is software. And so my Python code that includes docstrings is what? What are PostScript files? The line is not as easy to draw as you might think. -- gram

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:31:51PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > Two bugs will be filed on packages that meet criteria in both 1) and > > 2). If the release managers would like, I will be happy to auto-tag > > the bugs in 1) sarg

Re: Debian menu and GNOME (request for help)

2004-11-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:43:44AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 00:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 1) Current gnome-panel do *not* support XDG menus (only KDE does). > > (Debian menu has XDG menu support through menu-xdg.) > > It's very much in the works, check out

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > > scripts and not logrotate. > > Try to convert it to logrotate and soon you will understand why it still > uses savelog. It seems

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-25 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:35:57PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Nikita V. Youshchenko [Sun, Oct 24 2004, 03:53:23PM]: > > Probably there are non-technical problems with the uncoming release. But > > There are, as described before. For example, I cannot see any life sign > of our FTP masters. How

Re: Does the Debian gpg key infrastructure support multiple sub-keys?

2004-10-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:09:53PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Rob Browning wrote: > > If I added a new sign/encrypt sub-key to my Debian key, would I be > > able to use that to sign and upload packages? Would the Debian > > Yes, mostly. Some stuff (db.d.o an

Re: Mail Delivery (failure dailyhoroscope@mailer1.astronet.com) (KMM1187634

2004-10-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:07:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > "Today will not be a good day. You will receive many snarky responses to > your message to debian-devel complaining about your missing horoscope. > More bad news to follow in other messages". Please, don't not make the spam problem wo

Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:01:44PM +0200, Michal Politowski wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and > > Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit >

Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and > > Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit > > tag

Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:45:24AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > Description: viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files > > EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing > > the ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg file

Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-18 Thread Graham Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tagtool Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Pedro Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ * License : GPL Description : tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files Audio Tag T

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:40:06PM -0800, D. Starner wrote: > > I just installed the textedit.app package; it pulled in a few GNUstep > > libraries, but not a complete desktop environment. > > Do the GNUstep libs still start a demon at startup? Last time I > checked, they did, instead of starting

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:00:56AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I said "without GNOME installed," I meant without the entire GNOME > > desktop environment installed: nautilus, gnome-session, metacity, etc. > &

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-04 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:44:12PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:27:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> I don't mind what it's called as long as I can see by its name that it > >>

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:03:00PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:44:58PM -0800, Nunya Who wrote: Oh, its our good friend Tom Ballard. Maybe you could get back to working on Debian and stop trolling now? -- gram signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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