Re: Suggestion

2024-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 31 May 2024 18:35:53 +, nino He?i wrote: >My suggestion is regarding locales. Currently we get to chose locale based >on choices of language and keyboard layout and here in lies the problem. >Rather than offer locales based on our selections don't,just list all of >them in installer

Re: Suggestion

2024-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 06:35:53PM +, nino Heđi wrote: > My suggestion is regarding locales. Currently we get to chose locale based > on choices of language and keyboard layout and here in lies the problem. > Rather than offer locales based on our selections don't,just list all of > them in ins

Re: Suggestion for db.debian.org/machines.cgi page

2022-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 07:12 -0500, Steven Robbins wrote: > NOTE for whoever is maintaining the very nice > db.debian.org/machines.cgi page: https://salsa.debian.org/dsa-team/mirror/userdir-ldap-cgi/ > I guess that one should really be searching in the Description field > rather than Architecture

Re: Suggestion for the DontBreakDebian wiki page section "Dont 'make install'"

2015-11-02 Thread koanhead
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:10:03 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > El 20 oct. 2015 5:15 p. m., "Francisco José Fernández Naranjo" < > fjfnara...@gmail.com> escribió: >> >> I was considering myself adding a quick note to the section, but I am >> not an English native speaker and I am concerned wi

Re: Suggestion for the DontBreakDebian wiki page section "Dont 'make install'"

2015-10-20 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
El 20 oct. 2015 5:15 p. m., "Francisco José Fernández Naranjo" < fjfnara...@gmail.com> escribió: > > I was considering myself adding a quick note to the section, but I am > not an English native speaker and I am concerned with the quality of > my contribution. In fact, your english level seems goo

Re: pro-active removals (was: Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD)

2015-09-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:55:58AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: this, I think it would be a *service* to our users if we removed this (and many other packages in similar situation) from the archive so that we don't fool users into using (or wasting time even looking at) long-deprecated softwa

pro-active removals (was: Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD)

2015-09-17 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello all. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 09:10:15PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: [...] > Why? The vlan package is not needed since at least Wheezy to configure > VLANs on devices since the program "ip" can do everything the same or > even better. > > Also ifupdown was changed to be able to configure VLAN

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? > It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without > Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to download and install > it manually. Hi Josef. In case you really need it, you can build you own live & ins

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Pascal Giard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Josef Masek wrote: >>> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? >>> It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without >>> Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to do

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 15:26 -0400, Pascal Giard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Josef Masek wrote: > > > >> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? > >> It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without > >> Internet wi

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Pascal Giard
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Josef Masek wrote: > >> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? >> It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without >> Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to download and install >> it m

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Josef Masek wrote: > it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? > It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without > Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to download and install > it manually. Why? The vlan package is not needed since at least

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/27/2015 03:26 AM, Stephan Dörner wrote: > Dear Debian developers, > > I just installed Debian 8 (testing) on a PC of mine with the graphical > installer and the setup ran really smooth - with one exception: It was a big > hassle to find and download the unfree firmware for my Wifi adapter,

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Riley Baird
On 27/01/15 19:19, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) >> That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of >> the firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular >> basis[1]. >> >> Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem wou

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) > That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of the > firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular basis[1]. > > Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem would be to have the > installer tell the user where these

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-26 Thread Riley Baird
> I just installed Debian 8 (testing) on a PC of mine with the > graphical installer and the setup ran really smooth - with one > exception: It was a big hassle to find and download the unfree > firmware for my Wifi adapter, which I needed for the installation. Generally, you shouldn't need a netw

Re: Suggestion about minor improvements to default bashrc

2013-01-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 06:19:02PM +0100, Simon Johnsson a écrit : > Hello, this is my first minor contribution to Debian, but as it's my > Linux distribution of choise and the only one I chose to work with I > have found minor improvements that perhaps can be of use. Dear Simon, thank you for tr

Re: Suggestion about minor improvements to default bashrc

2013-01-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 06:19:02PM +0100, Simon Johnsson wrote: > Hello, this is my first minor contribution to Debian, but as it's my > Linux distribution of choise and the only one I chose to work with I > have found minor improvements that perhaps can be of use. > > The first one I will mail ab

Re: suggestion

2012-10-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Wise, le Sun 28 Oct 2012 11:34:33 +0800, a écrit : > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > When somebody implements it. > > Someone already did: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/unstable/win32-loader.txt Wubi is not only about installing from windows,

Re: suggestion

2012-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > When somebody implements it. Someone already did: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/unstable/win32-loader.txt -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: suggestion

2012-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ricardo Obando, le Fri 26 Oct 2012 21:29:37 -0300, a écrit : > When will there be in debian installer for Debian and wubi as Ubuntu? When somebody implements it. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: suggestion

2012-10-26 Thread William Vera
Take a look: http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ Cheers! On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ricardo Obando wrote: > When will there be in debian installer for Debian and wubi as Ubuntu? > > Attentively Ricardo Obando, from Chile. > -- William Vera | bi...@billy.mx Systems Engineer / Consultant IT /

Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-12-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russell Coker] > Why not have software which wants to have the dependencies of a > package look at the dependencies line as well as the > build-dependencies? > > It seems to me that the package maintainers are already providing the > necessary information and the people who maintain autobuilder

Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-12-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, peter green wrote: > Some packages have runtime dependencies on packages that they do not > have corresponding build-dependencies for. This leads to the building of > uninstallable packages which in turn leads to problems with testing > transition of packages. > > Currently t

Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-12-01 Thread Jakub Wilk
* peter green , 2011-11-29, 19:23: Some packages have runtime dependencies on packages that they do not have corresponding build-dependencies for. This leads to the building of uninstallable packages which in turn leads to problems with testing transition of packages. Currently there are two

Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
peter green wrote: [...] > This leads to the building of > uninstallable packages which in turn leads to problems with testing > transition of packages. > > Currently there are two workarounds for this situation > > 1: manually alter the package's architecture list to limit building to those > arc

Re: Suggestion to remove (eventually) libtar from Debian

2011-03-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Magnus Holmgren writes: > libtar popped up on wnpp-alert, so I ITAd it, but now I'm having second > thoughts. I've done one upload now though. > > - No new releases since 2003. Upstream hasn't bothered building a dynamic > library, that's a Debian patch (and a corresponding patch in other distr

RE: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-10 Thread j jj
asn't been started yet, so don't hold your breath :)     :( best wishes, j > Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:53:09 +0800 > Subject: Re: suggestion about debian devel extension > From: p...@debian.org > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, j jj wrote: >   The open source analysis website runs on free host space. So the storage > and the performance are limited,  the website is also unstable.  Would you > still  kindly sponsor  me a  domain ( osa.debian.net) ? I was going to add it but I note the s

RE: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-08 Thread j jj
soon, and I will try my best to make it better. Keep going! best wishes J > Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:23:08 +0800 > Subject: Re: suggestion about debian devel extension > From: p...@debian.org > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > On Thu

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > 1) Maybe you wanted to have your software packaged and available on > Debian mirrors, so developers everywhere could install it to > cross-reference their codebases, for local use or for a corporate > intranet.  (Do people still use the wor

RE: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread j jj
You are very smart! Could you or somebody else give me the yes/no answer for the 5 methods?  If it depends, depends what? Thanks! > Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:57:31 -0500 > From: pe...@p12n.org > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org >

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
> > Do you mean "at debian.org"? [j jj] > Is there any difference between "debian" and "debian.org"? > The ultimate goal is benefits all developers. You could have meant several things: 1) Maybe you wanted to have your software packaged and available on Debian mirrors, so developers everywhere

RE: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread j jj
net > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: suggestion about debian devel extension > > On 07/07/2010 03:51 AM, j jj wrote: >> >> Dear Asheesh. >> >> It is very glad to disscuss with you. >> >> >>> That looks pretty cool! What do you mea

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/07/2010 03:51 AM, j jj wrote: Dear Asheesh. It is very glad to disscuss with you. That looks pretty cool! What do you mean by "put it under debian"? I want to host the website under debian. Because the number of packages in debian is huge, it is beyond my capibility to

RE: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread j jj
, they link to the same positiion of  the same file. best wishes, milkway_3     > Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 00:25:34 -0400 > From: ashe...@asheesh.org > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: suggestion about debian devel exte

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, milkwa...@hotmail.com wrote: As a programmer under debian, I really appriciate the rich debian packages. However, it is not convenient to read and analysis source code, even with emacs and scsope. A litte progress has been acheived after fighting for years. You can test

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-29 Thread Tilo Schwarz
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:32:27 +0100, ceduardo wrote: Hi every body, thaks you for your suggestions. Well I am learning about C, C++ and Linux programing, jeje I am trying to be a Debian developer this is my objetive. On my practices use emacs and others tools from console. What Do you develo

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-29 Thread Stefano Canepa
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:04:08PM -0500, ceduardo wrote: > 2010/3/25 Brian Ryans : > > Quoting ceduardo on 2010-03-18 17:32:27: > >> What Do you developer tools sugges? > > If you use emacs for editing try its integration with gdb for debugging. I like it. As a way to manage your source I think

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Ryans
You mistakenly replied to me instead of to the list. I'll fix that. Quoting ceduardo on 2010-03-26 17:04:08: > Thanks, this more information to my objetive. I am from Colombia, my > native language is spanish. I don't know why I said Portuguese instead of Spanish. Brain fart on my part, likely.

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-26 Thread ceduardo
2010/3/25 Brian Ryans : > Quoting ceduardo on 2010-03-18 17:32:27: >> What Do you developer tools sugges? > > Not a piece of software proper, but I, too, am learning programming and > have found the book "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric S. Raymond to > be quite invaluable. I don't have an ISBN

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting ceduardo on 2010-03-18 17:32:27: > What Do you developer tools sugges? Not a piece of software proper, but I, too, am learning programming and have found the book "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric S. Raymond to be quite invaluable. I don't have an ISBN, as I have the PDF version, but a

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
ceduardo wrote: > The powerfull, vi, vim, gcc, g++, gdb and the others that I don't know > in this moment. Every C and C++ programmer should use Valgrind, often. Static analysis tools like cppcheck and flawfinder are also useful. All of these tools are available in debian main. Erik -- --

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-18 Thread Luke Cycon
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 22:12 -0500, ceduardo wrote: > > I wanted to know aobut the typicals develoment toolt that you use. > I mainly use eclipse or gedit or a command line text editor (Depending on my mood) I suggest you learn how to use these as well, they allow for much customization. > > I h

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-18 Thread ceduardo
2010/3/18 Luke Cycon : > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 17:32 -0500, ceduardo wrote: >> Hi every body, thaks you for your suggestions. >> >> Well I am learning about C, C++ and Linux programing, jeje I am trying >> to be a Debian developer this is my objetive. On my practices use >> emacs and others tools f

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-18 Thread Luke Cycon
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 17:32 -0500, ceduardo wrote: > Hi every body, thaks you for your suggestions. > > Well I am learning about C, C++ and Linux programing, jeje I am trying > to be a Debian developer this is my objetive. On my practices use > emacs and others tools from console. > > What Do you

Re: Suggestion to developer tools

2010-03-18 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Hi Carlos. Excerpts from ceduardo's message of Qui Mar 18 19:32:27 -0300 2010: (...) > Well I am learning about C, C++ and Linux programing, jeje I am trying > to be a Debian developer this is my objetive. On my practices use > emacs and others tools from console. > > What Do you developer tools

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-27 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I'm not sure that I'd be too excited to have reject mails > archived on the BTS when I'm on the receiving end, but I guess that's > just me. In most of the cases they would seem to add little value to the > ITP bug. Well, they would be pre

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Brian May
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: That can be easily determined by looking in the .changes for the "closes" field. If more than one, you can check to see which has "ITP" in the title. If there is no closes, then assume that there is no ITP and that's it. I would suggest you always check for which o

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about BCC'ing the reject mail to a mailing list with a public, > web-browsable archive? Yes, even publicly available report is also fine. -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debi

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1] sane does not mean > - assume that every uploader does it right and closes ITPs in > changelog (or even mention them), > - parsing wnpp bug data everytime How about BCC'ing the reject mail to a mailing list with a public, web-browsab

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Kartik Mistry wrote: > I have seen that many packages are rejected from NEW [1] due to either > licensing or poor packaging and we know the reasons [2] too. > It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it > apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix proble

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:10:38PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it > > apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem > > (packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc). > > Fine. > > If you > > -

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it > apply) so, that anyone can look at actual reason and fix problem > (packaging, contacting upstream for license issues etc). Fine. If you - get a uniform (and not too hard) way to know which ITP(s) belong to the package

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen that many packages are rejected from NEW [1] due to either > licensing or poor packaging and we know the reasons [2] too. > > It will be very helpful if Rejection is also mailed to ITP (where it > apply) so, th

Re: Suggestion: Set up web pages with as much info about Debian machines as possible

2007-07-02 Thread Joey Schulze
e2xbegqsdyt21hfc wrote: > I believe that the Debian project can further help > its users by setting web pages with as much details on > its servers as possible. Uh? > In particular, I refer to the contents of the > configuration files of the software used by its > servers, and their version.

Re: Suggestion: Set up web pages with as much info about Debian machines as possible

2007-07-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * e2xbegqsdyt21hfc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-01 16:27]: > I believe that the Debian project can further help > its users by setting web pages with as much details on > its servers as possible. > In particular, I refer to the contents of the > configuration files of the software used by its

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ola Lundqvist wrote: >Ahh it already exists! Cool. Well then it is a bug on the www pages. >Missing here ... >http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities It was at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags when I looked today... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:22:10PM +0100, Peter Mathiasson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:45:01PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > +> the "help" tag already present and exactly for this purpose: > > > > > > Ola> Ahh it already exists! Cool. Well then it is a bug on the www > > > pages.

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:45:01PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > +> the "help" tag already present and exactly for this purpose: > > > > Ola> Ahh it already exists! Cool. Well then it is a bug on the www pages. > > Ola> Missing here ... http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities > >

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:42:27AM -0500, Chris Danis wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, "Ola" == Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > Ola> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > +> the "help" tag already present and exactly for this purpose: > > Ola> Ahh it already exist

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Chris Danis
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, "Ola" == Ola Lundqvist wrote: Ola> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: +> the "help" tag already present and exactly for this purpose: Ola> Ahh it already exists! Cool. Well then it is a bug on the www pages. Ola> Missing here ... http

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi Ola, Hi again > the "help" tag already present and exactly for this purpose: > >help > The maintainer is requesting help with dealing with this bug. Ahh it already exists! Cool. Well then it is a bug on the www page

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:24:12PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > [3] "tries to fix" means that he looks into the bug. I do expect a > > maintainer to be able to fix a "missing build dependency on xyz" bug > > or to forward the bug to upstream. OT

Re: Suggestion to change how bugs get closed

2001-04-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:11:41AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think we have a new problem with the closing of bugs since there is > > testing: Currently, bugs get closed when a package goes into unstable. > > When we'll freeze testing we'l

Re: Suggestion to change how bugs get closed

2001-04-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:11:41AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > When a package was only uploaded to stable the bugs aren't closed but > tagged "woody" instead. When the package goes into testing the bugs get > closed. You're cordially invited to work on enhancing the BTS to make this sort of thing

Re: Suggestion to change how bugs get closed

2001-04-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:11:41AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi, > > I think we have a new problem with the closing of bugs since there is > testing: Currently, bugs get closed when a package goes into unstable. > When we'll freeze testing we'll have to check whether the packages that > closed t

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-04 Thread Brian May
>> 2. Suggestion: Would it be possible to somehow integrate this with >> /etc/mailcap, which already has good support in packages? There are >> different ways you could do this, eg have in the config file lines that >> look like: >> >> :Java:M::\xca\xfe\xba\xbe::application/x-java: >> :JPEG:M::0xf

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Brian May was heard to say: > > Packages such as Wine, Kaffe, dosemu, and perhaps Frotz would drop a file > >into this directory announcing their support of a binary format. The files > >wouldn't actually be interpreted unless this init.d script is instal

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Basically what you can do is create a directory called /etc/binfmt_misc and >put a bunch of files in it; each file should be a series of lines where each >line is a directive for the binfmt_misc registration file in /proc. So the >incantation for Java i

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:30:04AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say: > On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > [ as I understand it, a security 'breach' could only occur with this > > system if a user had execute permissions but *not* read permissions > > on a file th

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > [ as I understand it, a security 'breach' could only occur with this > system if a user had execute permissions but *not* read permissions > on a file that wasn't of a normal executable format; in other words: > rwx--x--x /usr/bin/ha

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
Oops. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc || exit 0 That maybe should be test -d ... (although the above works even on ash) Daniel -- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. --

Re: Suggestion: new "debian" archive section

1999-05-25 Thread Peter Makholm
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I propose that the distribution should have a new "debian" section > which would be the place to put all of the Debian-specific packages, This or some way to make orthogonal sections would be great. -- Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags usenet

Re: Suggestion: new "debian" archive section

1999-05-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:27:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: [snip - new "debian" section for all debian related things] > Thoughts, anyone? Personally, I think it's a great idea, but I'd like to solve lots of problems in one go. If we have hierarchal keywords added to the project then we could

Re: [Suggestion] Dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator

1999-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:33:56 -0500 (EST), Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Someone might want to package this. From > http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/: FWIW, pdf{tex,latex,jadetex} already do a pretty nice job, too, if you're just looking for hyperlinking from TeX-based systems. --

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program

1999-01-30 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:08:49PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:52:07AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > The copyright files are already available. > > The changelog and copyright file links do not seem to work for all > packages. Trying to fetch mixal's copyr

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program

1999-01-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
** Please trim the recipient list as appropriate if you reply. Please, don't CC me if you're responding to this message on this list. ** On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:52:07AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > The copyright files are already available. The changelog and copyright file links do n

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program

1999-01-30 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:13:38AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian web site > show the >packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? A few times I have been > hunting >for this because I ne

RE: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the

1999-01-30 Thread Shaleh
D'uh. The copyright file is one of those itsy bitsy links on the lower left. On 30-Jan-99 Shaleh wrote: > how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian web site show > the > packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? A few times I have been hunting > for this because I needed

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the

1999-01-30 Thread Shaleh
On 30-Jan-99 Johnie Ingram wrote: > > "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shaleh> how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian > Shaleh> web site show the packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? > Shaleh> A few times I have been hunting for this because I ne

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program

1999-01-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian web site show the packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? A few times I have been hunting for this because I needed a bsd or Sun version of a program. Downloading the orig.tar.gz an

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program

1999-01-30 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaleh> how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian Shaleh> web site show the packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? Shaleh> A few times I have been hunting for this because I needed a Shaleh> bsd or Sun version of a program.

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
FWIW, I think having McAfee .debs, even in non-free, would be a win. However, another thought occurred to me. Stephen, could you ask them to clarify the licensing of their DAT files? If they are indeed free, as http://www.nai.com/download/updates/whatdat.asp> seems to imply, someone oughta look

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 08:01:05AM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > > > installer package in

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > > installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only > > thing I'd have to

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:33:49AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > > installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only > > thing I'd have to

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 04:48:26AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote: > Just out of curiosity would anyone be interested in a mcafee virusscan > installer package in slink contrib? I have everything created, the only > thing I'd have to work on would be upstream upgrades (it currently doesn't > handle t

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-09 Thread Robert Woodcock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: >> Since when did linux get virus's You'd only get them on a really >> bad system - which debian is not (or if you did EVERYTHING as root). > >On a linux system exporting disk space to Windows machines, it is indeed >practical to have

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:18:25AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:55:19AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > I'm sure someone would be happy to package it in .deb format, but by the > > > sounds of your message neither source is included and only non-commercial > > >

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:55:19AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > I'm sure someone would be happy to package it in .deb format, but by the > > sounds of your message neither source is included and only non-commercial > > use is permitted. Either one of these would cause Debian to place you

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:00:00AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protec

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection > program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection > > program AntiVir for

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: > Since when did linux get virus's A "linux antivirus" is a linux program which detects virus in your DOS partition. (At least this is what I understood from the post). -- "59c014d91ae9e30e1552dd2a66f4f4a5" (a truly random sig)

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread warp
Before I say anything let me state that I am, currently, not even a registered Debian developer, just a user, however.. I'd suggest that you take a look at the debian web page (www.debian.org), specificly the Social Contract (http://www.debian.org/social_contract), including the DFSG (Debian Free

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection > program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Birgitt Simon wrote: > We offer you a free version from AntiVir for Linux, so that you will > deliver our program with your next distribution CD-ROM. When we (Debian) speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. To be included in our CD-ROM, every program m