Re: Do we need policy changes?

2003-04-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:11:48PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Maybe the maintainer just has no clue about how UTF should work in > that particular application and can't do much about it other than wait > until upstream has a clue and implements it. I'm in this position, I'm upstream and mai

Re: Debian Usability Research

2003-04-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:30:54PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > What would a Debian Usability project do? > What about looking at the new installer, and give suggestions to how > it can be made easier to understand and user for new users? Good one. As you can probably see, I'm pretty bu

mozilla address auto completion does not work anymore

2003-04-21 Thread Bastiaan Naber
Hi, I have updated my unstable box but my address auto completion does not work anymore in mozilla. Can anyone reproduce this ? It is annoying me as hell. Tnx, Bastiaan

Re: NOTICE: libcupsys2 splitting

2003-04-21 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can confirm that it does break cupsys-driver-gimpprint and > foomatic-bin because I missed this message, and my CUPS printing > system quit working on about 16 Apr. These remain broken as of 20 Apr > 2003.

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:17:15 +0200 > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > > The current texmf.cnf of Debian is completely the same as the one > > ups

Bug#190087: ITP: cl-units -- Common Lisp package providing units conversions

2003-04-21 Thread Kevin M. Rosenberg
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-04-21 Severity: wishlist * Package name: cl-units Version : 2003.04.18 Upstream Author : Gordon S. Novak Jr. * URL : http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/units.html * License : GPL Description : Common Lisp package

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:23:26 +0100 > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > So you do not understand the value

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Am I missing something? Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to decide which files Debian users may or may not edit. Policy says they can do as they like, regardless if you like it or your packages care for

Re: mozilla address auto completion does not work anymore

2003-04-21 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 8:31 am, Tuesday, April 22 2003, Bastiaan Naber mumbled: > I have updated my unstable box but my address auto completion does not work > anymore in mozilla. Can anyone reproduce this ? It is annoying me as hell. > Ditto. I did the annoying switch to mozilla-snapshot where completion works,

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > Am I missing something? > > Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to decide > which files Debian users may or may not edit. Policy says they can do as > they like,

Re: mozilla address auto completion does not work anymore

2003-04-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
> > I have updated my unstable box but my address auto completion does not > > work > > anymore in mozilla. Can anyone reproduce this ? It is annoying me as hell. > > > Ditto. I did the annoying switch to mozilla-snapshot where completion works, > and Mozilla actually keeps accepting keyboard

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this case, administrator should modify TEXINPUTS.latex in > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf and run update-texmf once. > Generated texmf.cnf should be the same as an old one. What makes you think that special casing the Debian installation

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 21 April 2003 04:24 pm, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > > Am I missing something? > > > > Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to > > decide which files Debian users

Re: NOTICE: libcupsys2 splitting

2003-04-21 Thread Donald Spoon
Roger Leigh wrote: -SNIP- < I'll be uploading new cupsys-driver-gimpprint packages in a few days, once I've rebuilt and fully tested it. In the mean-time, installing libcupsimage2 should make it work again. Regards, Roger It works as stated with the current cupsys-driver-gimpprint from SID! Tha

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 01:45:07 +0200 > >> Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In this case, administrator should modify TEXINPUTS.latex in > > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXin

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:25:11 +0400, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give > > for their actors. > > Now imagine if ls or grep wanted the list of contributors to > be s

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Steve Greenland wrote: > If you have a package that is asking only medium and lower priority > debconf questions, then debconf should not be used at all. I (apparently incorrectly) presumed that debconf was also intended to allow for the eventual automation of replicated Debia

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Brian M. Carlson
[subscribed to -legal, not to -devel; Cc: accordingly] On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op za 19-04-2003, om 22:51 schreef Lukas Geyer: > > the issue seems to be the fix of #152547. If we are not allowed to > > remove a screenful of advertising from the output of

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:03:00 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Okay, I guessed that the old /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf was a conffile but > the current one is a configuration file so it's okay only reserving > the old file as texmf.cnf.dpkg-old and explain how to migrate to the >

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Britton
Keep in mind you're talking to a bunch of people who are amoung the staunchest free software advocates around. Unlike you, most of them make $0 for all their contributions. Your implication that we're somehow profiting from the removal of credits is ludicrous. In any case, there is already a wid

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:58:10 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: > acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 > 11:23:26 +0100 >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread John Hasler
Don Armstrong writes: > I (apparently incorrectly) presumed that debconf was also intended to > allow for the eventual automation of replicated Debian installations. I distinctly remember reading exactly that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:36:01 +0200, Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wondered whether this use of ucf is safe. If postinst fails for > any reason, and package is reconfigured, the backup file is > overwritten. An alternative is to abort postinst if -old already > exists, and to remov

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 23:41, Glenn Maynard wrote: > 1. Is software licensed in the manner Hans intends DFSG-free? That is, > is it DFSG-free to require that interactive programs output a full NON-interactive programs. mkreiserfs is not interactive. It is passed arguments on the command line, mak

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Martin Pool
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:45:59 -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:54:42AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: >> It is really a question of, do you respect the authors? > > Who do you respect, Hans? Many Debian Developers are also Free > Software authors. How much respect are you sh

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:25:39PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > "We don't care what the author wants, we have the legal right to > change what we like" is not a good message to send. Even if you don't Thankfully, Debian isn't sending this message. Hans would apparently like people to believe that

Re: mozilla address auto completion does not work anymore

2003-04-21 Thread Federico Sevilla III
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > I have updated my unstable box but my address auto completion does > not work anymore in mozilla. Can anyone reproduce this ? It is > annoying me as hell. It seems that a "deeper" problem -- that of history information not being s

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