Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Georg Neis wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=121303 >> Elvis as the standard editor (priority 120) is not very convenient. Imagine >> a newbie thrown into elvis, and he will be lost, and cannot quit:( > > This bugreport says that the elvis package (a vi clone) uses a too >

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > Where I come from, old hardware is unreliable hardware. > > This would really only apply to disks, which have moving parts and small > tolerances. When was the last time you had a motherboard, or CPU, or > network card, or a video card die because

[OT] Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread jared jennings
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:02:09AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Just two weeks ago another newer video card fan died. Wish I had a > source for those thin pci card fans... my school got a bunch of geforce cards with fans. all the fans died, killing all the cards. now one of the criteria the math/CS

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Jul 2003 09:46:24 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 08:47, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> It really sucks to handle this if you want/need to get rid of it >> (if it is unmodified) not only on purge but on upgrades. - You'll >> need >> >> if [ "$1" = "configure"

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Jul 2003 14:07:35 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:46, Stephen Frost wrote: >> I see this as totally bogus. Either the conffile is shared or it >> isn't. If it's shared then the packages involved know this > Package foo which eliminates /etc/foo.con

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Jul 2003 15:06:59 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 14:53, Stephen Frost wrote: >> * Thomas Hood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > Package foo which eliminates /etc/foo.conf doesn't "know" that >> > there is not some other package, bar, which Depends on foo

Re: Bug#201878: ITP: salonify -- Easy, configurable, compliant, and accessible web-based image gallery system

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:02:05 -0500 (CDT), Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > How many image gallery programs do we really need in debian? Just one, the one I may package next week, Y'all can then delete all the ones you have. manoj -- You got to be very careful if you don

Re: Multi-level symlinks for default kernel

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:29:59 -0700, Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I am wondering if anyone else is having the same problems I am > with debian keeping the vmlinuz symlink in /. > I have several systems where /boot is the only filesystem accessable > by the boot loader because of

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marco d'Itri wrote: > You keep using this "flame" excuse I remember the last time this was discussed, and I believe that ESPECIALLY when emotions tend to run high, the words we use make a difference. We can't find a good solution to this problem, if indeed there is one, if all we have is two

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bob Proulx wrote: > One case of silicon death > which was also probably a moving part if you count electromigration as the > most likely cause of death there. If you do that, then _all_ deaths are the fault of moving parts... a statement which sounds rather non-useful. Computers run by smoke

GPU fans (was: Re: Future releases of Debian)

2003-07-25 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:02:09AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: | I was able to salvage the fan from the first and fix the | second with it. Just two weeks ago another newer video card fan | died. Wish I had a source for those thin pci card fans... There's a computer shop near me that sells them, bu

Re: Bug#201023: dosemu: purging doesmu wipes out all user data

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 21 Jul 2003 11:44:35 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Actually we need to notice one more type of file than Emile did in > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=debian-devel&m=105822874604492&w=2 , > namely, configuration files that aren't conffiles. Making the > distinction above we

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:59, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Umm. apt allows you to determine reverse depends. From there > there is an easy hop to sending email to ask the develoeprsa in > question; or to exaimine a package to look at its conffiles. This doesn't solve the problem of the depen

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:35:01PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > Quoting "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > But my point was the new debian-installed is not going to look like > > the current Mandrake 9.1 nor RedHat 9.0 (I've recently install

Re: Bug#201023: dosemu: purging doesmu wipes out all user data

2003-07-25 Thread Thomas Hood
Re: 1. dpkg -L 2. conffiles belonging to the package 3. configuration files other than conffiles belonging to the package 4. package's log output, cached compiled versions of conffiles, etc. 5. user data created using the package On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 09:01, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Here is my

Fwd: Incomplete upload found in Debian upload queue

2003-07-25 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
[Please Cc me on replying, I'm not on the list] Nothing better than waking up and finding 40 new mails in your inbox. Including at least 30 times the attached message. I am certainly not the uploader of these files. There is no 0.80-2 version of this package and if it would be an NMU, surely the

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 14:11, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > Is Debian aims to be unicode compatible system? IANADD - but I guess the answer definitely is yes. But it's not a very urgent task. > If yes, then should I mail a bug report against packages which are not > able to handle unicode

Re: Incomplete upload found in Debian upload queue

2003-07-25 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Oops, I did a reread now. Forgot about UploadQueue completely, I always upload with scp anyway. :-) I found the packages, but I cannot download them. Could someone from the debadmin group on auric please send me the .diff.gz file? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/katie/UploadQueue$ zcat /home/katie/Upl

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:00:56PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Georg Neis wrote: > > This bugreport says that the elvis package (a vi clone) uses a too > > high priority for the 'editor'-alternative (or for all > > alternatives?). > > > > Which changes do you propose? > > As I read the original bug

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 25, 2003 at 09:38, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder praised the llamas by saying: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 14:11, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > > > Is Debian aims to be unicode compatible system? > > IANADD - but I guess the answer definitely is

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 25.07.03 um 09:21:47 schrieb Colin Watson: > /usr/bin/editor is not only something invoked directly. It's also > invoked by programs as the default editor. Shouldn't that be sensible-editor? Bye, Mike -- |=| Michael Piefel |=| Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |=| Tel. (+49 30) 2093 3831

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 25.07.03 um 10:04:26 schrieb David Pashley: > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem > to work out of the box. What's a "dash"? Sorry, but you have to be more specific here. There's the minu

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 25 July 2003 11:04, David Pashley wrote: > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem > to work out of the box. Fully ACK [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat ~/bin/man PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

Re: Bug#201023: dosemu: purging doesmu wipes out all user data

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 25 Jul 2003 09:32:09 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Re: > 1. dpkg -L > 2. conffiles belonging to the package > 3. configuration files other than conffiles belonging to the package > 4. package's log output, cached compiled versions of conffiles, etc. > 5. user data created usin

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:05:25AM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 25.07.03 um 09:21:47 schrieb Colin Watson: > > /usr/bin/editor is not only something invoked directly. It's also > > invoked by programs as the default editor. > > Shouldn't that be sensible-editor? Which calls editor if $VISUAL

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Matthias! Matthias Urlichs schrieb am Friday, den 25. July 2003: > > You keep using this "flame" excuse > > I remember the last time this was discussed, and I believe that ESPECIALLY > when emotions tend to run high, the words we use make a difference. There were no emotion. I just listed f

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:04:26AM +0100, David Pashley wrote: > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem > to work out of the box. In groff \- is a dash, - is a hyphen. People need to use the ri

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 25 Jul 2003 09:20:20 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Conffiles are different in one respect, which that is that they can > be locally modified. When a conffile is to be overwritten and it > has been modified, the user is asked for permission and the old > version is backed up a

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:21:47 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > /usr/bin/editor is not only something invoked directly. It's also > invoked by programs as the default editor. And, if vim is the only > editor installed on the system, it had better be the default editor > for such prog

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 25 July 2003 11:10, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 25.07.03 um 10:04:26 schrieb David Pashley: > > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or > > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem > > to work out of the box. > > What's a "dash"?

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 25.07.03 um 09:21:47 schrieb Colin Watson: >> /usr/bin/editor is not only something invoked directly. It's also >> invoked by programs as the default editor. > Shouldn't that be sensible-editor? No. see policy. sensible-editor is just for programs fo

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:20:27AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > The man (really: groff) issue is known, but AFAICT the fix is really, really > difficult since groff just doesn't know anything about encodings, and the man > page sources are in a variety of encodings. groff

Re: surfraw ultimatum

2003-07-25 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:12:44PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > Hi, > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 07:03 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > >Just don't *dare* to let anyone remove /usr/bin/google or I'll kill > >you, > >your dog and your friend's uncle's son's ex-roommate's girlfriend's > >aunt's >

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030724 22:35]: > But my point was the new debian-installed is not going to look like > the current Mandrake 9.1 nor RedHat 9.0 (I've recently installed), > at least for sarge. And my point was, that userfriendlyness and looking like Mandrake are orthogonal aspe

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:34:29PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > me too! any package that doesn't build on m68k or arm is broken and > > needs to be fixed, even if it works on x86 by chance! > > So, are you volunteering to help those of us without access to either of > the above architectures

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:37:18PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Robert Lemmen writes: > > any package that doesn't build on m68k or arm is broken and needs to be > > fixed, even if it works on x86 by chance! > > Even when it fails to build due to compiler errors or buggy libraries? in that case it

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > actually i don't because i have no access to any arch except x86 and > alpha. but that is only true for non-DDs like me and (i presume) you, > DDs have access to all those architectures. Although even with access to machines dependi

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:22:42AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:21:47 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > /usr/bin/editor is not only something invoked directly. It's also > > invoked by programs as the default editor. And, if vim is the only > > editor ins

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2003 11:10, Michael Piefel wrote: > > What's a "dash"? Sorry, but you have to be more specific here. > > There's the minus sign (usually introducing options) and the hyphen > > (for hyphenatio

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Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-25 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:13:18PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Debian stable is horribly outdated but I'm not aware of any severe bugs. > Could you provide some examples of severe bugs in Debian 3.0? Bind9, as provided in woody, keeps on falling to its knees for unknown reasons. A strace might

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And my point was, that userfriendlyness and looking like Mandrake are > orthogonal aspects. As the princible user-interaction of the > bootfloppies is one of the most userfriendly around, I'd be very > supprised, if debian-installer did not look si

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 25.07.03 um 11:38:33 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > No. see policy. sensible-editor is just for programs for which "it is > very hard to adapt a program to make use of the EDITOR or PAGER > variables" Okay, so when somebody is not able to set their EDITOR variable, isn't it quite safe to assume tha

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 25.07.03 um 11:43:15 schrieb Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder: > Hmmm. This is really funny. Look at > http://fortytwo.ch/~avbidder/man-page.png. Good you mention it. File a bug against gnupg. It uses '-' in its manpage where it should use '\-'. > What I don't really get: I use the same

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:43:52PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > Okay, so when somebody is not able to set their EDITOR variable, isn't > it quite safe to assume that they are not the people who are satisfied > with vi as their editor? It could also be that they are people who only ever uses vi

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 25, Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >in that case it's the compiler or library that's buggy (as you said) and >needs to be fixed. no reason to abandon the arch As some of us are patiently trying to explain, the problem is that often there are not enough resources to quickly diagn

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 24, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This does not excuse broken, ugly x86isms in packages. The vast >majority of portability problems are NOT confined to a single oddball >architecture; they may manifest in different ways, but the bugs are >usually there on multiple architec

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 25, Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bind9, as provided in woody, keeps on falling to its knees for unknown >reasons. A strace might help, but so far i have not been able to either keep BIND 9 in woody is old and buggy, that's all. Ask upstream about this version and they will te

Opteron donation?

2003-07-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
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Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:02:09AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > tolerances. When was the last time you had a motherboard, or CPU, or > > network card, or a video card die because it was "too old"? This stuff > > isn't exactly perishable. It lasts long beyond its obsolesc

Re: Opteron donation?

2003-07-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-25 08:27]: > Back in April, AMD told us that they could not give us a machine: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01174.html > > Perhaps the situation has changed, and we should ping them again? Digital Network UK and F

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030725 13:03]: > Userfirendliness means necessarily hiding technical details IMO, without > dealing with graphical aspects. Taken this statement directly it's user-unfriendly in both the sense of newbie-unfriendly and experienced-unfriendly. (A newbie might l

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-25 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:44:39PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 25, Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Bind9, as provided in woody, keeps on falling to its knees for unknown > >reasons. A strace might help, but so far i have not been able to either keep > BIND 9 in woody is old

Re: Opteron donation?

2003-07-25 Thread Xavier Roche
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: Digital Network UK and FMS Computer have kindly agreed to donate machines to Debian. This is great news. Discussions on opteron port will be done in -devel? (especially problems like /lib+/lib64 vs /lib+/lib32, upgrading problems from i386 to optero

Re: Bug#201023: dosemu: purging doesmu wipes out all user data

2003-07-25 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:19, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Not really. Why do we need this overly micromanaging rule in > policy? As long as it understood that user data is not to be deleted, > why can't I put user data in /var/lib// if I so desire, as long > as I take care to not rm -rf that

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:20, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:04:26AM +0100, David Pashley wrote: > > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or > > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem > > to work out of the box. > > In

Re: Opteron donation?

2003-07-25 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 25 July 2003 14:44, Xavier Roche wrote: > This is great news. Discussions on opteron port will be done in -devel? > (especially problems like /lib+/lib64 vs /lib+/lib32, upgrading problems > from i386 to opteron without-breaking-anything, and more) No, there is another list for these iss

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:21, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 25 Jul 2003 09:20:20 +0200, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Conffiles are different in one respect, which that is that they can > > be locally modified. When a conffile is to be overwritten and it > > has been modified, the user

Re: What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:13:13 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: [...] > See groff_char(7). Technically it's Latin-1, but this is planned to > change to UTF-8 for groff 2.0 (no schedule yet); groff_char(7) advises > sticking to ASCII, and I agree. You can get everything in Latin-1 >

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Re: Bug#108587: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:07:35PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:46, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I see this as totally bogus. Either the conffile is shared or it isn't. > > If it's shared then the packages involved know this > Package foo which eliminates /etc/foo.conf doesn't

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Taken this statement directly it's user-unfriendly in both the sense of > newbie-unfriendly and experienced-unfriendly. (A newbie might like it, > but he will still suffer from it). There is a widespread tendency to consider "newbie" to mean

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:12:29PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:20, Colin Watson wrote: > > In groff \- is a dash, - is a hyphen. People need to use the right one. > > If you have other problems let me know, since I'm not aware of any in > > unstable right now. > > In unico

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
(Sorry for the dup, Dwayne, meant to send this to the list.) On 24-Jul-03, 17:56 (CDT), "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:50:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Please don't. Is there *any* reason why defaulting > > TMPDIR=/tmp/ is inferior to TMP

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Umm. apt allows you to determine reverse depends. From there > there is an easy hop to sending email to ask the develoeprsa in > question; or to exaimine a package to look at its conffiles. Slightly off-topic, is there any tool to easi

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Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Userfirendliness means necessarily hiding technical details IMO, without > dealing with graphical aspects. I think that D-i hasn't reach that > state. It seems you're not aware of the SkoleLinux distribution. SkoleLinux has taken the current d-i, made very few changes, and p

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Both a system presenting a utter mess of uneeded things and technical > terms and a system only saying "Installation successful" or > "Installation failed" are two ends of user-unfriendly behaviour. > While the first can be at least cured with a good documentation, the > l

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Michael Piefel [Fri, Jul 25 2003, 01:51:33PM]: > > What I don't really get: I use the same font for almost everything > > (lucidatypewriter), definitely so for the mail composer and the konsole. So > > while the fact that copy-pasting it 'solves' the problem hints at a font > > prob

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 25 July 2003 12:21, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On Friday 25 July 2003 11:10, Michael Piefel wrote: > > > What's a "dash"? Sorry, but you have to be more specific here. > > > There's the minus sign (usual

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:16:14PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 24, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> If nobody volunteeers to make the crap ready, > >Umm, using that word puts your mail firmly into the "flame" category, > >especially for readers who actually care about

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 25 July 2003 13:51, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 25.07.03 um 11:43:15 schrieb Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder: > > Hmmm. This is really funny. Look at > > http://fortytwo.ch/~avbidder/man-page.png. > > Good you mention it. File a bug against gnupg. It uses '-' in its > manpage where it

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:23:30PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Now you're assuming that I have access to the Debian machines. TMK, > these machines are *not* public access machines, but instead are > accessible to full DDs only. This excludes all new maintainer > applicants, myself includ

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:25:57PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:34, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > So, are you volunteering to help those of us without access to > > either of the above architectures with "bugs" found in our packages? > > I'm not saying that all arch

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:34, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:25:16PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:39:11PM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote: > > > Are we in dilemma on "should we support arch that are not used > > > widely?" or "We should support all a

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:31:36PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:23:30PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > Now you're assuming that I have access to the Debian machines. TMK, > > these machines are *not* public access machines, but instead are > > accessible to full DD

[custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
As discussed during debcamp in Oslo, all the groups/projects making debian based custom distributions should join together to find common solutions to the common problems. This is a start, with a few of the issues that Skolelinux had and solved. - Automatic installation Using the new debi

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:23, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Now you're assuming that I have access to the Debian machines. TMK, > these machines are *not* public access machines, but instead are > accessible to full DDs only. This excludes all new maintainer > applicants, myself included. > Ask the

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:40, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:25:57PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:34, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > > So, are you volunteering to help those of us without access to > > > either of the above architectures wit

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:05:25AM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > > Am 25.07.03 um 09:21:47 schrieb Colin Watson: > > > /usr/bin/editor is not only something invoked directly. It's also > > > invoked by programs as the default editor. > > > > Shouldn't that be sensible-editor

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I personally would not have had either elvis or vim supply an > > alternative for /usr/bin/editor. > > I don't mind lowering the priority of vi clones, or whatever; but please > don't try to get them removed from the editor alternative. It's quite > suffi

Re: gnupg - old bugs

2003-07-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:03:21PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 22:44, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Please send these individual pieces of commentary/feedback to the bugs > > themselves as well. > > I'll do it in those cases where my commentary is

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 25, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Could you give examples of your "nobody has enough time or interest to >fix toy architectures"? I already gave many in this thread. -- ciao, | Marco | [1008 afu6BxGoAAolg]

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-25 Thread Tore Anderson
* Petter Reinholdtsen > - Preconfigure the packages we install > > Using two different approaches: (1) Load answers into the debconf > database before the packages are installed using some home-make > scripts, and (2) rewrite/replace configuration files using > cfengine

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:11:05AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:05:25AM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > > > Shouldn't that be sensible-editor? > > > > Which calls editor if $VISUAL and $EDITOR aren't set, yes. > > Interesting that if sensible-editor

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:45:01AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >... > > There are at least two ways how you can get an account on a machine in > > such a situation: > > - ask the Debian admins for a guest account on a machine of this > > architecture > > I was not aware that this was an opti

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Discussing via emails seems to get hard again... * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030725 16:37]: > Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Both a system presenting a utter mess of uneeded things and technical > > terms and a system only saying "Installation successful" or > > "Installation failed" are two end

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:46:16PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:45:01AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > >... > > > There are at least two ways how you can get an account on a machine in > > > such a situation: > > > - ask the Debian admins for a guest account on a machine

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Mario Lang
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:21:47 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> /usr/bin/editor is not only something invoked directly. It's also >> invoked by programs as the default editor. And, if vim is the only >> editor installed on the system,

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Eduard Bloch wrote: > There were no emotion. I just listed facts; Sorry, but using the word "crap" crosses the line between fact and emotion. >> We can't find a good solution to this problem, if indeed there is one, >> if all we have is two rows of people on different sides of a long table,

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:19:24PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2003 12:21, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von > > Bidder wrote: > > > Hmmm. This is really funny. Look at > > > http://fortytwo.c

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Nick Lopez
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:40:44AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:25:57PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:34, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > If your package has a bug affecting arm, login to debussy and fix it. > > If your package has a bug a

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Nick Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I havn't offered them for general Debian machines is that there > are already (generally better) machines available on better connections. Last I checked, there weren't any public mips or mipsel machines. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alu

Re: surfraw ultimatum

2003-07-25 Thread Thomas Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, The surfraw project is up on alioth now. I'm not very experienced with CVS (i've only really used Subversion, and that not very extensively---do we want to use svn.debian.org instead of CVS? or does it interoperate? or just stick to cvs?

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:37:15PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > The reason I havn't offered them for general Debian machines is that there > > are already (generally better) machines available on better connections. > > Last I checked, there weren't any public mips or mipsel machines. You ch

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Halil Demirezen
> > You checked too long ago. Casals.debian.org is an SGI Indigo2, MIPS > R4000 CPU. > > Williams.debian.org and vaughan.debian.org will be MIPSel boxes, as soon > as Sun ships them to me, I get them online, and the sysadmin team gets > them configured. Supposedly I'll have the boxes within a w

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-25 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:28:27 +0200 Tore Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Petter Reinholdtsen > > > - Preconfigure the packages we install > > > > I believe the best option would be to extend all the packages > > we use to make it possible to configure everything we need > >

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Halil Demirezen
> > I do not know whether there is, but, what about making a architecture > archive for debian package managers to use, test, update their packages maintainers.. pgpc9w36PWV3K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Makholm
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your package has a bug affecting arm, login to debussy and fix it. > If your package has a bug affecting mips, login to casals and fix it. > If your package has a bug affecting m68k, login to kullervo and fix it. Have I missed something? I can'

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Karsten Merker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is an official mips system available to all developers (casals.d.o). Oh, cool, I must have missed that announcement. > If you need stuff tested on a mipsel system in the meantime, please send me > an email and I will try to get account on anothe

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