Re: mozilla 0.9.7 <-> galeon

2001-12-26 Thread Shaya Potter
I've updated my unstable galeon package with a pull from the cvs that compiles against mozilla 0.9.7 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/galeon_1.1-1_i386.deb wget it, dpkg -i it it seems to work fine for me. Note that this is a cvs pull from 11am'ish EST on Dec 25th, so it could be unstable.

Re: Bug#126434: ITP: super-sed -- An enhanced version of sed

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On 26 Dec 2001, Ganesan R wrote: > 1. The source tarball is still called sed (the latest version is >sed-3.52.tar.gz). What are my options of dealing with this other than >asking upstream to change the source tarball? You can rename the source tarball when uploading to debian. No problem

Re: Bug#126434: ITP: super-sed -- An enhanced version of sed

2001-12-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > What you want is dpkg-divert. But I vote against diverting /usr/bin/sed. I have to agree with Adam, diverting sed might be dangerous. HOWEVER, nothing forbids you to package it simply as ssed for now, then run very comprehensive regression tests to make s

An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread ahzz-debate
First, i'd like to apologise to the developers that witnessed me "spazzing"(as one person described it) over the current state of debian and it's stability/buggyness. Ok, as a one-time debian tier-1 mirror server admin, and a 4 year user of debian i'd like to make an observation

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some time now there has been an increasing trend in people that > I know who use debian. It is the view that debian is becoming > increasingly "old"/outdated, and that developers either a: dont' > have the time to properly

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "ahzz-debate" == ahzz-debate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I see an increasing trend of two critical problems in the way > debian operates. #1 package age. Let me talk about this one > first. There has been a relatively (year or two) explosion in > the package c

Re: Bug#125904: ITP: fungetty, a fun new getty for Linux framebuffers

2001-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 25/12/01, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:36:52AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty, a > > > replacement for the standard Linux getty that can display > > > full-color graphics above the

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Olsen
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:38:24AM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > Nice bait I'll bite, but if you want to read it you'll have to > subscribe... It's not fair to throw the rock and hide the hand > > 1) learn how to properly format a mail message (i.e. fold at 75th >column) > > 2) lear

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
Duly chastined. :) I discovered a few minutes ago (thanks to a friend that is d-d) that I can in fact join the debian-devel list. So I am now lurking to read and reply. :) I'll reply in a few minutes to the other email. :) Brian

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
Heh, I was not aware that a non-developer could subscribe to d-d. On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 08:41:54AM +, David Graham wrote: > > > Nice bait I'll bite, but if you want to read it you'll have to > subscribe... It's not fair to throw the rock and hide the hand > > 1) learn how to

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread David D. W. Downey
* Pierfrancesco Caci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Nice bait I'll bite, but if you want to read it you'll have to > subscribe... It's not fair to throw the rock and hide the hand > > 1) learn how to properly format a mail message (i.e. fold at 75th >column) Quit pickin at the measly st

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 08:40:52AM +, David Graham wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For some time now there has been an increasing trend in people that > > I know who use debian. It is the view that debian is becoming > > increasingly "old"/outdated, and

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:38:53AM -0800, David D. W. Downey wrote: > * Pierfrancesco Caci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Nice bait I'll bite, but if you want to read it you'll have to > > subscribe... It's not fair to throw the rock and hide the hand > > > > 1) learn how to properly for

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
Damn, I didn't want to post here anymore, but looks like I need to add some points. :-( On 26/12/01, Brian Wolfe wrote: > Heh, I was not aware that a non-developer could subscribe to d-d. Looking at http://lists.debian.org and reading the list description would have told you that before. >

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
So, that's hopefully my last post for quite a long time. On 26/12/01, David D. W. Downey wrote: > * Pierfrancesco Caci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 1) learn how to properly format a mail message (i.e. fold at 75th > >column) > Quit pickin at the measly stuff and pay attention to the content

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 06:34:16AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 'Thank you for all the fishes, do come back when you have the proper skill > level and/or amount of spare time to actually maintain your Debian packages' That's all very well (personally I find it a bit insulting and co

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread David N. Welton
Brian, I understand your complaints. It bugs me, too, to find software not maintained well. We are volunteers, though, and as you realize, it takes a lot of time to do this, and so it happens, on occasion that someone just can't keep up. I don't think it's really fair of people to tell you "hey

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > As was stated elsewhere, the best way you can make a meaningful > contribution is to file bugs that are "higher level" than "normal", in > order to draw attention to broken packages. Oh god no. Please no. Inflating bug severeties

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Rune Broberg
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > Brian, I understand your complaints. It bugs me, too, to find > software not maintained well. We are volunteers, though, and as you > realize, it takes a lot of time to do this, and so it happens, on > occasion that someone jus

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread David N. Welton
Anthony Towns writes: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > As was stated elsewhere, the best way you can make a meaningful > > contribution is to file bugs that are "higher level" than > > "normal", in order to draw attention to broken packages. > Oh god no. Pl

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:26:50PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > > As was stated elsewhere, the best way you can make a meaningful > > > contribution is to file bugs that are "higher level" than > > >

Re: latest gnome packages not in sid?

2001-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:47:47PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Creating a bug report has the advantage of sharing the status of the issue > with other users and developers, but the disadvantage of annoying > developers who are oversensitive about bug reports. How about make a blacklist in the b

Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: spambouncer Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Catherine A. Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.spambouncer.org * License : GPL Description : a powerful user-based a

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:57:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As debian "caught up" on versions, CDRToaster became > increasingly buggy. The last modification that I saw to it over > a year ago was to let it support > 8x CDR drives. I personaly > took the time to pat

Fidonet support on dial-in

2001-12-26 Thread Russell Coker
How popular is Fidonet support in Debian? Of the people who use it, is it most desired to have a Fido program be spawned with stdin/stdout/stderr pointing to a serial port or is it more desired that the Fido software be accessed by rsh/ssh connection to a Fido server machine? I'm going to add

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:47:46PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > My prophet, we are really glade to hear your non-constructive, needless and > useless critism. Go away and use RedHat where you allways get working > solutions, for more plattforms, better code, hotdogs falling from the sky, > etc. etc

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread Craig Dickson
martin f krafft wrote: > The SpamBouncer is a set of procmail recipes, or instructions, which > search the headers and text of your incoming email for indications of > spam. If spam is identified, there is a plethora of actions you can > take, ranging from tagging, deletion, to complaining to upst

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1724 +0100]: > Maybe the answer is obvious to experienced package developers, but what > is the "easy way" you plan to handle SpamBouncer's frequent updates? i was simply thinking of a cronjob that received ftp updates and installs them...

New alpha package of slash-2.2.0 available

2001-12-26 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Hi, I'm currently packaging slash-2.2.0 the weblog code that run Slashdot. Since our current stable version is 2.2, I build the package for Potato. I made the files available at http://debian.org/~ericvb/potato Since this package depends on a lot of perl libraries that aren't currently availab

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:57:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some time now there has been an increasing trend in people > that I know who use debian. It is the view that debian is becoming > increasingly "old"/outdated, and that developers either a: dont' have > the time to proper

orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Olsen
In response to the thread about old packages, I have a specific suggestion. How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news? That way the community is kept very aware of where they can help. And if somebody gets annoyed by seeing the same package from week to week, well, by that

Re: Installed dtaus 0.5.1-1 (i386 source)

2001-12-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Martin Schulze wrote: > > Do I have to use brackets for you? > > Well, jokes aside, a somewhat more clear description would be > helpful, I couldn't figure out what it really was immediately. I'm happy to receive an improved description. Regards, Joe

Re: Why isn't apt internationalized?

2001-12-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 21.12.01 um 16:01:08 schrieb Gregor Hoffleit: > > This is to say: In some instances, even no translation is better than a > > bad translation. > > Quite right, but this was just a quick hack. BTW, why should the > translation be better than the original? ;-) Quite simp

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:08:34PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Robinsonitis seems to be a contagious disease... grr, i'm _always_ nice, and *never* rude. -john -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http W

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:53:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news? not every week! news is for _new_ stuff, not the same-old from the previous week. perhaps a monthly/biweekly post to #debian-devel, or some other (moderated) list set up

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 08:24:52AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > but how is this going to work in a stable release? A badly-outdated copy > of SpamBouncer isn't terribly useful, and is even mildly dangerous if > you have it configured to automatically send complaints. Fortunately, the program has

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:41:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1724 +0100]: > > Maybe the answer is obvious to experienced package developers, but what > > is the "easy way" you plan to handle SpamBouncer's frequent updates? > i was si

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Olsen
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:53:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > > How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news? > > not every week! news is for _new_ stuff, not the same-old from the > previous week. If the

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns writes: > Oh god no. Please no. Inflating bug severeties just makes it harder to > do releases; if there's a problem with normal bugs being ignored (and, > IMO, there is), it needs to be addressed directly, not worked around by > filing everything as important or higher. But I thin

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Sean Neakums
begin Adam Olsen quotation: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few >> of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DWN as a forum for _this_ >> purpose i believe is bad. > > Perhaps. Cert

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1822 +0100]: > You'd also need a method for handling systems on dialup connections. sure. /etc/ppp/ip-up.d in that case... as in: if dialup, the cron job would simply drop a file in there every week, which would delete itself after a successfu

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Olsen
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:45:08PM +, Sean Neakums wrote: > begin Adam Olsen quotation: > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few > >> of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DW

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Sean Neakums wrote: > begin Adam Olsen quotation: > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few > >> of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DWN as a forum for _this_ > >> purpose i bel

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a > > fever." > where's that from? 'dead flag blues', by Godspeed you black emperor! Greets, Robert -- Linux Generation encrypted mail preferre

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-26 Thread Paul Duncan
* Erich Schubert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snipped] > BTW: The source has some drawbacks right now i fear: > As far as i could see it does not include the glx driver (which is the > only way to use all those nvidia graphics cards) but depends on an old > mesa version and svgalib. An patch to add

translations

2001-12-26 Thread Hanno Terveen
hi debian team i would like to contribute my part to the linux/open source comunity and ive heard that you never get enough of people who translate stuff for you. well, i speak both german and english and i thought i could be of use for you`?! im totally new to linux but im getting into it steadil

[OT] Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread Paul Duncan
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snipped] > THIS IS BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO READ. Press the little button below tab and above left shift before sending any more messages. ;) > -- > G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of > Debian GNU/Linux

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Olsen
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Sean Neakums wrote: > > begin Adam Olsen quotation: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > >> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few > > >> of our lists h

Re: translations

2001-12-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin! Hanno Terveen wrote: > i would like to contribute my part to the linux/open source comunity and ive > heard that you never get enough of people who translate stuff for you. > well, i speak both german and english and i thought i could be of use for > you`?! > im totally new to linux but im g

Re: [OT] Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:02:26PM -0500, Paul Duncan wrote: > * Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [snipped] > > THIS IS BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO READ. > > Press the little button below tab and above left shift before sending > any more messages. > > ;) It might surprise you, but I ha

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Sean Neakums wrote: > > How about listing packages that are orphaned on DWN once, when it > > happens, with a pointer to the full list of orphaned packages? > > Something like: > > > > Three packages were orphaned this wee

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-26 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> Let's promote when we have something to promote. Does this count as something to promote? http://psdoom.sourceforge.net> -- Stephen "A duck!"

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > But I think the point here is that the presence of a jillion normal > bugs, unaddressed for years, constitutes a release-critical bug While that's an interesting assertion, the real question is what it means to "address" a bug. There are package

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Olsen) writes: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-23/msg01353.html, > which says there's a lintian error/warning called > "ancient-standard-version", which I believe can detect when a debian > package is far behind the upstream version. Nope, it t

Re: Bug#126317: ITP: robotournament -- Game where players program their robots against each other

2001-12-26 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:45:05 +0100 Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.some.org/ > * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) this information is not so clear... this is bad, yo

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1922 +0100]: > > > "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a > > > fever." > > where's that from? > 'dead flag blues', by Godspeed you black emperor! i knew that, you joker :) just needed a refreshment... (ma

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:43:53PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:57:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As debian "caught up" on versions, CDRToaster became > > increasingly buggy. The last modification that I saw to it over > > a year ago was to let it s

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
It's a normal bug at the minimal. I couldn't get CDRToaster to even do a simple burn of a single directory! So I think the bug description would be more like "CDRToaster has failed to follow the evolution of mkisofs's command line parameters. As a result many fetures that CDRToaster purp

FAQ: How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?

2001-12-26 Thread Branden Robinson
I just wrote this for addition to the Debian X FAQ, and thought I would post it here since I've been getting asked about this lately. Also, it's a bit of signal to counter the noise I generated yesterday under provocation from Jack Howarth. :) Needless to say, XF86Config(7), XF86Config-v3(5), an

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
Ok, here is something to look at. How many NEW packages are there in the last 2 months? How many of them could have been saved for later due to an alternate allready existing? How many don't add a whole lot of value to debian? Instead of many new packages, why not make people pic

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:49:11PM -0600, Brian Wolfe wrote: > Instead of many new packages, why not make people pick up the orphaned > stuff, and find replacements or adopt packages that have been DOA upstream? In a volunteer organization, you can't _make_ people do anything. You can enco

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Wolfe
No, but you can do, like you said, and deny them a new package unless they take up an older one that matches thier area of expertiece. For example, (still picking on CDRToaster as an example only at this time) if I were the maintainer of mkisofs, and I updated it, thus breaking

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Seems to me that we came up with a solution for this problem a while ago: the Debian QA team. Right now it has eight people, and an overwhelming workload. I think a QA team is the right thing here; presumably it can have the discussions about whether particular packages are so stale they should

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Amaya
Anthony Towns dijo: > Bas Zoetekouw posted the results of a script in mid November that'd > help clearing up packages that've been sitting in the archive > unmaintained for ridiculously long periods, Could anyone ponit me to that script? Google can't help me this time :-) -- .''`. "No ten

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Olsen
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:02:48PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Seems to me that we came up with a solution for this problem a while > ago: the Debian QA team. Right now it has eight people, and an > overwhelming workload. I think a QA team is the right thing here; > presumably it can

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:52:39PM -0600, Brian Wolfe wrote: [ a bunch of stuff I didn't read, because ... ] If you're going to participate on the debian mailing lists, consider doing so with a mailer that understands and honors the Mail-Followup-To: header (yes, I know it's not an "official" sta

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I HOPE that's a joke. Mentioning the X maintainer (*cough* no names > *cough) in the same sentance as "sexy" is just wrong imnsho. I dunno, he looks pretty nice in the pic on his web page. :)

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But I suspect that eight people is nowhere near enough people. Maybe > > I could join... Indeed, maybe the problem would go away if everyone who > > has posted a suggestion in this thread joined the QA team and started work. > > I'd be more than willin

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Olsen
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:37:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > But I suspect that eight people is nowhere near enough people. Maybe > > > I could join... Indeed, maybe the problem would go away if everyone who > > > has posted a suggestion

apt-move & debootstrap

2001-12-26 Thread Matthijs Melchior
Hello debian, We are using boot-floppies_3.0.18 to newly install debian on the new computer of my son. To not have to download through my slow cable connection, I have used apt-move om my own computer to convert the very big /var/cache/apt/archive to a local mirror structure. Now dbootstrap sta

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:07:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > Anyway, I did some searching and found two interesting posts, although > not the one by Bas Zoetekouw that was mentioned earlier. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2001/debian-qa-200111/msg00188.html Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[E

Re: grsecurity kernel patch ITO

2001-12-26 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:14:30AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > I have packaged the grsecurity kernel patch, but it hasn't gone into unstable > apparently because of the process of freezing for woody release. > > Now the LSM kernel patch that I maintain is getting some of the features of > grse

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:36:13AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > Oh god no. Please no. Inflating bug severeties just makes it harder to > > do releases; if there's a problem with normal bugs being ignored (and, > > IMO, there is), it needs to be addressed directly,

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns writes: > No, it's not that simple. dpkg is perfectly releasable right now, in spite > of a jillion normal bugs. Heck, now that Wichert and Adam are working on it, > it's even an example of a well maintained package. So, picking one at random, why is bug 9085 still open? > There

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > So, picking one at random, why is bug 9085 still open? Because since we started working on it again we've had lots more pressing things to look into that a bug like #9085? Wichert. -- _

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > So, picking one at random, why is bug 9085 still open? > > Because since we started working on it again we've had lots > more pressing things to look into that a bug like #9085? So I picked that bug total

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 06:39:34PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, picking one at random, why is bug 9085 still open? > > Because since we started working on it again we've had lots > > more pressing things to look into that a bug like #

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Brian Wolfe wrote: > > Where upstream is inactive or unresponsive things are a little > > different, of course. > > Yup, this is the situation that I was attempting to describe, when > upstream seems to be ignoring the package, debian can then take on some of the > small

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Brian Wolfe wrote: > It's a normal bug at the minimal. I couldn't get CDRToaster to even do > a simple burn of a single directory! So I think the bug description would be > more like "CDRToaster has failed to follow the evolution of mkisofs's command > line parameters. A

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Brian Wolfe wrote: > > > It's a normal bug at the minimal. I couldn't get CDRToaster to even do > > a simple burn of a single directory! So I think the bug description would be > > more like "CDRToaster has failed to follow the evo

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:36:13AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Anthony Towns writes: > > > Oh god no. Please no. Inflating bug severeties just makes it harder to > > > do releases; if there's a problem with normal bugs being ignored (and, > >

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course, there are hints that there is another segfault bug out there, with > the latest version in woody. It's not repeatable, however. Also, on this > note, I stand by 1.9.18, as being one of the most safest versions of dpkg, > with regard to buffer o

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On 26 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > So, picking one at random, why is bug 9085 still open? Because that's a cosmetic issue. There are more important things to work on, like fixing bugs, and implementing features that we will need down the road.

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On 26 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Um, if it doesn't work for the version of mkisofs in woody, then it is > a critical bug as far as woody is concerned. That may be true. But someone who has potato installed, and does a partial upgrade, might not have the new version of mkisofs. Seri

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 26 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > So, picking one at random, why is bug 9085 still open? > > Because that's a cosmetic issue. There are more important things to work on, > like fixing bugs, and implementing features that we will need down

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On 26 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Of course, there are hints that there is another segfault bug out there, > > with > > the latest version in woody. It's not repeatable, however. Also, on this > > note, I stand by 1.9.18, as being one of