Re: Accepted emacs 1:26.1+1-3.2 (source amd64 all) into unstable, unstable

2019-02-10 Thread Rob Browning
esn't cost us much, and is something we can drop in the not too distant future if/when we like -- and after we do, I suspect we'll be a lot less likely to see random bugs filed about strange breakages caused by old vestigial packages, and we can be a lot more confident when we deci

Bug#762116: general: Some packages depend on a particular init system

2014-09-18 Thread Rob Owens
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This bug applies to many desktop applications, and runs counter to Debian's goals of supporting multiple init systems. I classified this bug as normal, but I think consideration should be given to classifying it as serious. An example: 'apt-ge

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning writes: > I agree (as far as emacsXY and guile-X.Y are concerned). Anyone should > feel free to reassign them to emacs24 (or guile-2.0 respectively). > > Otherwise, I'll plan to do it. And I hope it goes without saying, but I'm always happy to have help

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Browning
stgresql migration work. I agree (as far as emacsXY and guile-X.Y are concerned). Anyone should feel free to reassign them to emacs24 (or guile-2.0 respectively). Otherwise, I'll plan to do it. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1

Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing

2014-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
evant bugs for the remaining work. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Tool to sort package list in dependency order

2011-04-16 Thread Rob Browning
Do we have a tool that will sort a list of packages in dependency order? I ask because if we have one, I'd like to use it to replace the tsort mess in emacsen-common. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377

RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements

2010-07-05 Thread Rob Browning
, if not all of the separate foo-el helper packages. Thoughts? -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-03 Thread Rob Browning
Daniel Pittman writes: > 403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access > /~rlb/tmp/emacs23/emacs23_23.1+1-2_i386.changes on this server. OK, that should be fixed now, though I may just take the packages down since it looks like they've made it to unstable. Thanks --

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-02 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning writes: > Daniel Moerner writes: > >> Thanks for packaging this, I think you mean: >> >> http://alioth.debian.org/~rlb/tmp/emacs23/ >> >> Daniel > > Yes, and thanks. I've just uploaded 23.1+1-2 which fixes some significant probl

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Browning
Daniel Moerner writes: > Thanks for packaging this, I think you mean: > > http://alioth.debian.org/~rlb/tmp/emacs23/ > > Daniel Yes, and thanks. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0

Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Browning
lb/public_html/tmp/emacs23/ Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

emacs23 uploaded to unstable

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Browning
I've uploaded the first emacs23 packages (23.1+1-1) to unstable. Please file bugs as appropriate. Note that we have also begun the process of removing emacs21 from unstable/testing. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG as of 2002-

toscane-vakantiehuis.nl linkt nu naar uw site

2008-10-05 Thread Rob Helweg
="_blank"> Vakantiehuis Toscane Alvast bedankt! Met vriendelijke groet, Rob Helweg http://www.toscane-vakantiehuis.nl PS: Uw wilt een andere omschrijving voor uw link? Laat het ons weten. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#484982: ITP: libdlna -- A reference DLNA implementation for Linux

2008-06-07 Thread Rob Andrews
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rob Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdlna Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Benjamin Zores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libdlna.geexbox.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Re: liblockfile L_PID behavior and use of stat atime

2008-02-23 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After further investigation, it looks like a lockfile created on a > noatime (or relatime?) filesystem, without specifying L_PID, can > never go stale. The problem is in lockfile_check(). It looks like procmail's lockfile doesn

Re: liblockfile L_PID behavior and use of stat atime

2008-02-21 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone reported a bug against lockfile-progs, and while > investigating I noticed a couple of things about liblockfile that > didn't seem quite right. After further investigation, it looks like a lockfile created on a noatime (or r

liblockfile L_PID behavior and use of stat atime

2008-02-19 Thread Rob Browning
t time, to the modification time in order to determine whether or not the lock file is stale. I'm not sure why it does that, but on a filesystem mounted with noatime I don't think that lock files created without L_PID will ever be considered stale. Does the above seem reas

Bug#450520: ITP: ushare -- A free uPnP & DNLA media server

2007-11-07 Thread Rob Andrews
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rob Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ushare Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Benjamin Zores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ushare.geexbox.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descrip

Mad promo!

2007-10-11 Thread Rob Pool
Our X X X Network for FREE today! www madpromo dot cn elaborates tridepside Epstein comanagers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacs22 uploaded to experimental

2007-05-13 Thread Rob Browning
that it's possible there might be some incompatible changes before emacs22 moves to unstable, but if so, I expect them to be minor. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7

Re: Building i386 binaries on ia64.

2007-04-14 Thread Rob Andrews
d replaced with emulation instead. I'm giving up on the thought of building i386 binaries on ia64 in that case! Thanks for the heads up. rob. -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Building i386 binaries on ia64.

2007-04-13 Thread Rob Andrews
/gcc/ia64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/32/, so I don't think it works on ia64. Are you an ia64 user? Does -m32 definitely generate i386 binaries? Thanks for any information you can provide, rob. -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Building i386 binaries on ia64.

2007-04-12 Thread Rob Andrews
there isn't a gcc with target i386 on ia64, why is there an ia32-libs-dev package? I'm quite curious! thanks, rob -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Correct fate for emacs20 bugs?

2006-12-03 Thread Rob Browning
then they should be reassigned (or cloned). Otherwise, emacs20 is a very, very low priority. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
5/01/msg00893.html > > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alvaro?entry=why_i_do_think_opensolaris > > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alvaro?anchor=debian_with_opensolaris_a_broken > > World is changed since then, and today we have Nexenta OS. This forces We do? Where c

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
ars? While slightly degrading performance for > the 99.9% of x86 users who have Pentium/Athlon/or > better? I don't know if they're still made or not, but they are certainly still being put into new devices (I've not seen one running Debian, though). -rob -- That's

Re: Alacarte - GNOME menu editor

2005-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:54:52AM +1100, Rob Weir said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: alacarte > Version : 0.8 > * Upstream Author : Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.realistanew.com/pro

Re: Please help me with this script!

2005-10-12 Thread Rob Weir
grep ^Version|cut -f2 -d":" ' "), "; \ > done > > but this does not work or maybe I don't know how to use it . > > So please help me with this issue , maybe you could give an advice where to > find such a script or what I have to modify to make this work. Perhaps try asking on the debian-mentors mailing list? -rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#333438: ITP: gtk2hs -- A GUI library for Haskell based on GTK

2005-10-12 Thread Rob Weir
> Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.example.org/ > * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) > Description : A GUI library for Haskell based on GTK Don't forget to find this out before upl

Re: Is gcc-3.4 in the unstable chroot on crest.debian.org OK?

2005-09-26 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:20:30PM -0700, Rob Browning wrote: >> > If I compile a trivial foo.c in the unstable chroot with gcc-3.4, and >> > then immediately try to run it, it segfaults. >> >> You've h

Re: lyx

2005-09-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:39:34PM +1000, Rob Weir said > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said > > > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU po

Re: lyx

2005-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
? I will sponsor lyx quite gladly, as long as the thing is not as > hideous to understand as the current one in unstable. The source is at http://crumbs.ertius.org/~rob/debian/lyx/, feel free to upload it if you think it's ok. -rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
to use debhelper (though debian/rules is still kinda gross, patches welcome). -rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
ending upload" for nearly two > weeks now. I don't recall getting any emails from you, but it's been pending upload due to #328684. -rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
tainer and tried to have it uploaded last week, but it FTBFS for my sponsor due to #328684. That bug's been fixed in unstable for a few days now, and I've added a build-dep on the fixed g++ version (as suggested by a buildd maintainer), so it should be ready to go once I finish this test bui

Re: Bug#329425: RFA: psutils -- A collection of PostScript document handling utilities

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Browning
kely, if there might be any people who would want to contact the current author about continuing development themselves.) -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#329425: RFA: psutils -- A collection of PostScript document handling utilities

2005-09-21 Thread Rob Browning
le, can similar functionality be provided by convenience wrappers around ghostscript, as suggested in #159888? I don't know, but I thought perhaps someone else might. thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
n that would be just fine, but I was under the perhaps mistaken impression that an LDAP approach wouldn't be that transparent. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 7

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
oblem is that I want a solution that handles all users and groups, and I want tools like adduser to continue to work correctly. So far I haven't been able to tell if the behavior of adduser and the related tools is configurable. I can see how to authenticate against other sources via lipam, but not

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
ould tell the system to use a separate directory for the db files and bind mount that directory among all the chroots, then perhaps that would fix the locking problem (presuming the default setup uses fs locks). Thanks again -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utex

Is gcc-3.4 in the unstable chroot on crest.debian.org OK?

2005-09-14 Thread Rob Browning
ion fault (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ logout (base)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dchroot unstable Executing shell in chroot: /org/chroots/user/sid (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd test (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ ./a.out (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ -- Rob Browning rlb @default

Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-14 Thread Rob Browning
safely? For this to work right, in addition to everything else, I assume that Debian policy would also have to guarantee that no package will ever remove a user/group when purged, and no package will balk if the user/group it needs already exists. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-08-15 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:08:58PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > I'd like to have a debian-planet list that would receive blog postings > from planet.debian.org. Please don't introduce any more namespace confusion. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford - http://robster.org.uk --

Re: I need to know how to create and use Driver Update Disks

2005-08-02 Thread Rob Taylor
ed in an update of the 2.6.8 kernel (which is being > prepared at the moment). If he produces a new kernel module to add support for this hardware, there's absolutely no reason why it should conflict with linux-kernel. Given that it's not a security fix, would he really have much luck g

Re: I need to know how to create and use Driver Update Disks

2005-08-02 Thread Rob Taylor
ule-assistant (can someone else help with a good example?) Thanks, Rob Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-18 Thread Rob Sims
gt; reassign 1234567 example-package 2.0-1 How is a bug that's fixed in more than one version handled? For example, a security bug fixed in foo 1.1-sarge1 and foo 1.3. Assume 1.1 and 1.2 have the bug. -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

failed to set 0600 permissions on password file /etc/samba/smbpasswd

2005-07-11 Thread Rob Kayzer
Got rid of this message by setting SELinux samba options "Allow samba users to share home directories"and "Disable SELunix protection for smbd daemon".   Rob K.

Re: [Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

2005-07-05 Thread Rob Taylor
gt; Oh, Masayuki who maintains gs packages and I had thought same idea. > It's very nice to have a place to collaborate together. I'd certainly be interested in joining in on the printing love-fest. Rob Taylor (libgnomeprint "maintainer") -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Received: lines in email from Debian servers

2005-06-23 Thread Rob Sims
ient handled by gluck? I've noticed that servers that insert the "for" tag will only do so if there is one envelope recipient. If this happens with a single gluck recipient, never mind me... -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#312236: ITP: ackertodo -- A lightweight todo list manager

2005-06-06 Thread Rob Hensley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rob Hensley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ackertodo Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Rob Hensley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ackertodo.sf.net/ * License : (GPL) Description : A lightweig

Re: Bug#305000: ITP: alltray -- Dock any program into the systemtray

2005-04-18 Thread Rob Bradford
some situations. As the author you of course feel that i'm making a personal insult against you, that is far from my intention. I just wonder what the sensibility is of including a package where the infrastructure it relies on may well enter a state of flux in the forseeable future. Cheer

Re: Bug#305000: ITP: alltray -- Dock any program into the system tray

2005-04-18 Thread Rob Bradford
;, thats a 'orrible 'orrible thing to do. This is an even more 'orrible thing to do. Arrggh. Now where are my green frog pills. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to define a release architecture

2005-03-25 Thread Rob Browning
certainly prefer to run Debian on it if I could. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Rob Taylor
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:44 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:06:19PM +0000, Rob Taylor wrote: > > Yes, that makes total sense. Would there likely be major objections to > > this? > > > > Even less (likely zero) testing of packages by the main

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Rob Taylor
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:27 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Rob Taylor wrote: > > > Do you think it might be better have a trusted builder keyring, with > > strict rules on what makes a trusted builder (it seems rather a > > different set of issues to that addre

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Rob Taylor
ight be better have a trusted builder keyring, with strict rules on what makes a trusted builder (it seems rather a different set of issues to that addressed by the DD criterion)? Thanks, Rob Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Rob Taylor
I do not > have the time required to be a good DPL. I feel the need point out that the current DPL and one DPL candidate, Matthew Garrett, havn't expressed support for this proposal in its current form. Rob Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#298354: ITP: gtk2-engines-clearlooks -- An attractive gtk engine with a focus on usability.

2005-03-06 Thread Rob Weir
D]> > * URL : http://maop.puntodeb.net/ Hrm, I can't seem to find anything about it at this URL...perhaps there's a more specific one? -rob -- Words of the day: BRLO AK-47 Rule Psix Crowell Noriega MDA ISEC red noise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Bug#292105: ITP: libmusepack -- Musepack (MPC) format decoder library

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, > but has vastly improved. This sounds interesting, but perhaps you could elaborate on how it is vastly improved? Better quality for the same bitrate? Less distortion? Lower bitrate/same quality? etc. -rob -- Words of the day:Kh-11 cryptographic e-c

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
iBook is very very noticable. -rob -- Words of the day: CBNRC Dateline attack SAFE Serbian Telex beanpole gamma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-25 Thread Rob Weir
x. Same with the powerbooks, but you can at least use a pcmcia card there (on the 15" and 17" ones). -rob -- Words of the day: BATF Qaddafi Noriega crypto anarchy AVN credit card FIPS140 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:38:18PM +0100, giskard said > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:01 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist &g

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
> > > > > > Hamish > hi, > > The current maintainer of lopster is MIA AFAIK (August 2004 last > action/mail). > I mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for a check (i intend to adopt it > if they will'orphan lopster). [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the list address...th

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bazaar Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Bazaar Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bazaar.canonical.com/ * License : GPL Description : arch-based distributed revision control system GNU Arch is a revisio

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
* License : GPL > Description : gtk2 filesharing client that supports many protocols > > Gtk2 version of the famous napster client atm it supports only > napster but in the future: Is this program compatible with the current napster protocol? -rob -- Words of the day:

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
nting its use seems rather pointless in the end. -rob -- Words of the day: BCCI offensive information warfare JPL undercover Mena Etacs

Re: Is membership in staff supposed to imply root access?

2004-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
so it's not a big deal. I'm not sure where I got the idea things were otherwise. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Is membership in staff supposed to imply root access?

2004-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
we changed our policies or perhaps my memory is mistaken. Also, I wonder if our handling of /usr/local isn't a bit inconsistent since it doesn't look like we include /usr/local/lib in the ld.so defaults. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.e

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Rob Weir
nable this option, which is not currently done. -rob -- Words of the day: strategic jihad argus airframe Sears Tower BLU-114/B

Re: Bug#278288: ITP: python-gtkmvc -- Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for pygtk

2004-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
). > For more information please visit <http://sra.itc.it/people/cavada/mvc/> Does look interesting, though. -rob -- Words of the day: munitions CESID supercomputer offensive information warfare

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-26 Thread Rob Browning
als here when gnu.org was compromised (for example). -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

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

2004-10-22 Thread Rob Browning
with the Debian infrastructure? Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
maintainers to solve the problem. > >>Discover should not try to load drivers for PCI devices AT ALL, we have > >>hotplug for this. > > WV> The reverse could be (and has been, on multiple occasions) said about > WV> hotplug. > > I thought hotplug was

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
quot;queue" mails and send them all at a later time > (useful for dialup connections: write your mails offline and send them when > you are online). Hah, so unlike things like exim and postfix... -rob -- Words of the day: VX nerve gas Firewalls Audiotel Cocaine Rule Psix Hacker

Re: proposal: factoids bot on #debian-devel

2004-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
;) > - i cannot get my sound working? ("-> #debian, #alsa") > [ad infinitum...] > > The /topic is used for the most important stuff, but its limited in > length, and not everybody reads it. Is this any more useful than a wiki FAQ? -rob -- Words of the day: AIMSX BCCI Reno defense information warfare Dateline PLO

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
s. > They care enough to make a driver. Yeah, what about the other companies? I don't know if ATI wrote the driver or just provided docs, but my Radeon 9200 works perfectly with Free drivers. -rob -- Words of the day: airframe ANC industrial intelligence Watergate Montenegro

Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

2004-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:51:01PM +0200, Joachim Reichel said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: core This seems a tad generic, especially since it's a library. Maybe libcoremath or libcore++? -rob -- Words of the day:NATO freedom supercomp

Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?

2003-12-13 Thread Rob Weir
ot sure what the long-term plans are, but /sysfs can't replace /proc right now. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: revolution security Saddam Hussein Consul Ermes tempest CDMA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 and GCC 3.3 (not a good mix)

2003-12-07 Thread Rob Weir
st two local root holes, one of which is not stopped by grsecurity. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: enforcers enforcers tempest investigation Defcon Peking MDA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
dding an entirely new kernel source package for a patch that "takes less time to apply the patch to the Debian kernel than the time that is wasted on this discussion" seems silly. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
dn't use unstable", they're not (generally) being elitist, it's shorthand for "newbies won't know about the tools they need to fix their systems when unstable goes bad". -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words o

Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-02 Thread Rob Bradford
well replace dselect as the recommended method. Expect a RFC to d-d-a soon regarding release notes. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#213638: ITP: wallpaper-tray -- A wallpaper changing utility for your GNOME Notification Area

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Bradford
er is happy. Cheers, Rob

Bug#199864: ITP: kahakai -- a highly customisable and scriptable window manager

2003-07-03 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: kahakai Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : The Kahakai Team * URL : http://kahakai.sf.net/ * License : GPL, v2 or later Description : a highly customisable and script

Re: Bug#190922: ITP: gnome-randr-applet -- Simple gnome-panel front end to the xrandr extension

2003-04-27 Thread Rob Bradford
etc)" And then include further explanation of everything it can do with XRandr in the description. I think you might be right about the naming of hardware-monitor, it is a very generic name. Cheers, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/

Bug#188608: ITP: xmms-speex -- Speex speech codec - XMMS input plugin

2003-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
ook at the `speex' package. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux thebox 2.4.20ck3+skas #1 Tue Feb 25 01:23:43 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ertius.org

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-11 Thread Rob Browning
otal evidence that libfoo can actually end up with access to a mixture of symbols from both versions of libbaz. If true, this would make it extremely difficult to actually use a "version check" function to make sure you loaded and were calling functions from the version you exp

Re: Sponsorship request: tsclient-0.56

2002-12-01 Thread Rob Bradford
> debian-menu xpm as having too many colours even though I've followed > the menu instructions for running it through ImageMagick's > mogrify. Here are the relevant details: Please see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/debian-mentors-200211/msg00276.html I'll upl

Re: debian-installer status 2002-11-22

2002-11-24 Thread Rob Bradford
e manager with 2.4 but in the longer term this can be quickly and easily adapted to LVM2 + EVMS frontend. Reducing the overall code needed to be written! Woot! Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/

Re: PHP4 + Oracle

2002-08-27 Thread Rob Bradford
as to why there are two packages called libphp-adodb and libphp-phplot. Which seems to break with the php4- naming scheme that the majority or packages used. Hence i have CC'ed the maintainers. Of course there is merit in maintaining upstream namers, but inconsistency isnt half confusing :(

Security notification script

2002-08-26 Thread Rob Bradford
changes and package this up later this week :) Cheers Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
like MPEG-2 And then we can play it in applications which are allowed to distribute Moo -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
d only managed to get to level 45 :( I had to stop as my hand was hurting too much and i physically couldn't play any more =) -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
made less addictive or it should be removed until after woody is released. The fate of the woody lies in your hands. =) -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Bradford
> I think the proposed way of providing diff's for certain "common" > versions is much nicer. Sending a request for > Packages-diff-mymd5sum.gz I like the sound of this way, as you say rsync could cause load problems on the servers. Now someone just needs to hack apt =)

Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Bradford
wmany of our mirrors are rsyncable? Is there *really* a benefit? What is the phase of the moon? I know this has come up before but lets come to a conclusion. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Uplink release with Debian

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
ch has surplus bandwidth and cpu cycles =) Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
her settings. Ooh nice, maybe you could integrate with apt-spy or something to find the fastest for the user? Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: BSP?

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
has happened, so lets hope this time i'm around. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ITP: vls -- the VideoLAN MPEG broadcasting server

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
rk has been going on recently. So maybe i will be able to stream dvds across my network. Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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