On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Whether CIPE and Windows driver development "count" isn't a fact, it's
> an opinion. Since they're both thoroughly pointless, I don't think they do.
The fact is it doesn't matter whether they 'count'. They exist, and that
is enough
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
> * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 07:51]:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > > Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This info
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Hi everybody,
given the size of the project, it's very difficult for any of us to
evaluate the popularity of random ideas/opinions in a short time frame.
Jeroen (jvw) recently conducted two informal polls (vi-tiny vs elvis, and
maintainer field for ubuntu) and I liked
Hi,
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 09:24]:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 07:51]:
> > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to mark a particular message to
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>there was added a 'button' on all bug-number pages to 'mark as spam' on
>near the bottom but IIRC it was marked as an experimental project to
>only collect data for future use. If this has been implemented and
>affect filtering, I guess the
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
> * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 07:51]:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > > Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This info
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> [ Reply-to debian-project ]
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> given the size of the project, it's very difficult for any of us to
> evaluate the popularity of random ideas/opinions in a short time frame.
> Jeroen (jvw) recently conducted two
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:35:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The only instance when it's usable without any non-free code is when
> you're better off using a native driver anyway.
The only instance where wine is serving a purpose without requiring the
use of non-free code is when you're better
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:11:50PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > The reality is that we can't imagine all the uses our users might have for
> > this software,
>
> You don't have to imagine all the uses, just the realistic ones, whi
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:43:39PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:11:50PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > > The reality is that we can't imagine all the uses our users might have for
> > > this software,
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:29:25PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:35:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > The only instance when it's usable without any non-free code is when
> > you're better off using a native driver anyway.
> The only instance where wine is serving a
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:05:23AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Whether CIPE and Windows driver development "count" isn't a fact, it's
> > an opinion. Since they're both thoroughly pointless, I don't think they do.
> The fact is it
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:52:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:43:39PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > What makes 'running free windows drivers for stuff' so much more
> > unrealistic than 'running free windows software for stuff'? Especially
> > seen as how no Windo
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 12:52 schrieb Anthony Towns:
> Anyway, despite it's acronym, I'd put Wine under the same heading as
> emulators.
Wine reads a different binary format than elf and also provides the libs in
the other format. Is the linux kernel on sparc an emulator if it can run
sola
I'm currently using Haskore (http://www.haskell.org/haskore) for a
course I teach at the local university. I'm interested in packaging it
so that it works both with Hugs and GHC. Are there any specific
documents regarding the appropriate way to package Haskell modules?
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> [ Reply-to debian-project ]
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> given the size of the project, it's very difficult for any of us to
> evaluate the popularity of random ideas/opinions in a short time frame.
> Jeroen (jvw) recently conducted two
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:03:09PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > [ Reply-to debian-project ]
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > given the size of the project, it's very difficult for any of us to
> > evaluate the popularity of random i
Hi Lars,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:24:53AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>
> * Creating /usr/local/lib/foo in postinst, but not removing it
> in postrm.
I don't think that is a problem at all; the administrator ought to feel
free to be able to put things in (say) /usr/local/lib/f
* Anand Kumria [Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:26:43 +1100]:
Hi,
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:24:53AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > * Creating /usr/local/lib/foo in postinst, but not removing it
> > in postrm.
> I don't think that is a problem at all; the administrator ought to feel
> f
( CC:'ing debian-devel as a heads-up for a new transition. )
Ok, this is a status update for openal/freealut and a question for
advice.
OpenAL Upstream has decided to introduce proper library versioning and
will start with an SONAME of libopenal.so.1 in their next upstream
release.
Currently,
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
>
> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo
That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be mounted ro, and
therefore the command may fail even if the directory is empty.
rmdir --ignore-fail-on
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> [ Reply-to debian-project ]
reply-to, ignored since I feel this is important enough that both lists
should see this reponse.
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> In the light of recent events, those polls could be used to give a physical
> rea
On 2/21/06, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You probably missed this question, which I also wanted to ask:
>
Frank forwarded it to me, and I replied to him in person -- here's the reply.
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:55:23PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> > "Scott James Remnant" <[EMA
to, 2006-02-23 kello 02:26 +1100, Anand Kumria kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:24:53AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >
> > * Creating /usr/local/lib/foo in postinst, but not removing it
> > in postrm.
>
> I don't think that is a problem at all; the administrator ought to
On 22 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek verbalised:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:43:39PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:11:50PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
The reality is that we can't imagine all the uses o
On 2/22/06, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
> >
> > rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo
>
> That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be mounted ro, and
> therefore the comman
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:32:26PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Well, yeah, I am, since I'm both on ftpmaster and on the tech ctte, the
> latter of which is considering a resolution to move it right now. I'm
> not sure why you'd rather continue making bald assertions I've already
> indicated I don
It's yours.
Gregory
PS: xnc is still up for grabs.
+++ Johannes Honkasalo [22/02/06 19:23 +0200]:
> I'd like to adopt pimppa, if no-one has yet requested it.
>
> Best regards,
> Johannes
>
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Bug CC dropped.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:20:42PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> A requirement for main "must be usefull in a free software only
> enviroinement" is the the beginning of the road to madness. Next
> theill come for free clients for protocols that (currently) only
> have non-free serve
"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
>> >
>> > rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo
>>
>> That's not sufficient, because
[I'm not a developer, just one of Debians users - I hope it is not
inappropriate for me to comment on this issue here.]
For starters, I'd always thought that contrib was for packages that
Depend on a package out of non-free -- basically to ensure that people
who have only DFSG-free software in the
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:20:47AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:32:26PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Well, yeah, I am, since I'm both on ftpmaster and on the tech ctte, the
> > latter of which is considering a resolution to move it right now. I'm
> > not sure why you'd
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:52:28PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:29:25PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:35:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > The only instance when it's usable without any non-free code is when
> > > you're better off usi
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:32:33PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > The only instance where wine is serving a purpose without requiring the
> > > use of non-free code is when you're better off using native Linux
> > > software anyway.
> > TurboCASH is a potential counterexample -- it's a complet
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:33:57AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
[snip]
> Hi Nico,
> I just had an interesting idea to implement a way to get spam deleted
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> simply bounce/forward a debian.org email address to this address. A
> script
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Bug #320119 is marked fixed in 1.4.1-17.1, which is only available in
unstable. In the meantime, LFS support has been broken for stable on i386
for the entire lifetime of the current stable release. Will -17.1 be
making its way into stable any time soon?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:58:38AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:32:33PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > > The only instance where wine is serving a purpose without requiring the
> > > > use of non-free code is when you're better off using native Linux
> > > > softwar
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 17:42:00 +, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Shouldn't logic like that be in one central place (dpkg or a library)
> and not spread over dozens of packages?
Something like dh_usrlocal(1)?
Cheers,
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Op wo, 22-02-2006 te 09:41 -0400, schreef Ernesto Hernández-Novich:
> I'm currently using Haskore (http://www.haskell.org/haskore) for a
> course I teach at the local university. I'm interested in packaging it
> so that it works both with Hugs and GHC. Are there any specific
> documents regarding t
Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So, if you feel a particular post was inappropriate / out-of-line bring
> it to the attention of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I suggest using a bug report if it's important enough
to track. This is mentioned as an alternative on
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#maintena
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ATI graphic card seems not to work on the system.
While running X , i have several X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window
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Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x125
And X freeze.
[Christian Pernegger]
> Judging from its documentation ndiswrapper doesn't need any non-free
> binaries, the module can be inserted even if no drivers are
> "installed". It might not be very useful like that, but "useful" is a
> very subjective thing in any case
Not *that* subjective. I think yo
[Frank Küster]
> That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be mounted ro, and
> therefore the command may fail even if the directory is empty.
U.
There are lots of things dpkg can do which fail if filesystems are
mounted read-only. I don't think this is something worth worrying
about.
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> I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find
> anyone who would consider it "useful" to print an init message to the
> kernel log, use up a bit of memory, and do absolutely nothing else.
I'd find it useful for the functionality to be the
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:20:42PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:52:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:43:39PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > What makes 'running free windows drivers for stuff' so much more
> > > unrealistic than 'running
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:41:35AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek verbalised:
> >> What makes 'running free windows drivers for stuff' so much more
> >> unrealistic than 'running free windows software for stuff'?
> >> Especially seen as how no Windows software is p
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:01:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Well, aside from not believing that anyone is going to use CIPE under
> ndiswrapper (without someone stepping forward and testifying that this is
> the case for them), I see a distinction between "wine is necessary in order
> for you
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As far as the second statement being the reason that most of us want
> ndiswrapper in main, that may be true, but it is no excuse to ignore rules
> that are very clearly laid out in the SC and DFSG.
I'm a little confused here. How does putting ndiswrapp
On 22 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek told this:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:41:35AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek verbalised:
>
What makes 'running free windows drivers for stuff' so much more
unrealistic than 'running free windows software for stuff'?
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> for the entire lifetime of the current stable release. Will -17.1 be
> making its way into stable any time soon?
I seriously doubt so. Changing the stable sysklogd requires an upload to
stable (which did not happen), and that the stable release manage
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:22:27AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> > for the entire lifetime of the current stable release. Will -17.1 be
> > making its way into stable any time soon?
> I seriously doubt so. Changing the stable sysklogd re
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:55:01PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As far as the second statement being the reason that most of us want
> > ndiswrapper in main, that may be true, but it is no excuse to ignore rules
> > that are very clearly laid o
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:40, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The mirror split's underway, see:
>
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors-announce/2006/02/msg0.html
>
> As expected, when it's complete amd64 will be added to the archive,
> see:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:29:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> The distinction between main and contrib isn't one of the freeness of the
> contents, though; it's of whether the package requires a component outside
> of Debian/main for use. Actually, let's look at what policy says:
Agreed; but
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On 2/23/06, Gregory B. Prokopsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PS: xnc is still up for grabs.
May I pick this up then, if no else has done it first?
Cheers,
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