Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

2007-02-05 Thread Joey Schulze
GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers wrote: > Hello, Debian world! Hello Anonymous, This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the list

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

2007-02-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Joey Schulze a écrit : > GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers wrote: >> Hello, Debian world! > > Hello Anonymous, > > This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. > | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers *I* have sent this message. I have choosen this From: line because I am not *the* GNU/k

Message header fields (was: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters)

2007-02-05 Thread Ben Finney
Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Schulze a écrit : > > This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. > > | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers > > *I* have sent this message. Then your name, and your email address, belongs in the From field. > I have choosen thi

Re: Message header fields (was: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters)

2007-02-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-02-05 at 20:46 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Then your name, and your email address, belongs in the From field. I agree with this. (And this AOL is the main point of this message. The titbit below is just filler.) > Meanwhile, the message header is about the message *as an email > messag

Re: Message header fields (was: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters)

2007-02-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:46:54PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joey Schulze a écrit : > > > This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. > > > | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers > > > > *I* have sent this message. > > Then your nam

Re: Message header fields

2007-02-05 Thread Miles Bader
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Meanwhile, the message header is about the message *as an email > message*, and the From field is supposed to be about the individual > who sent the message. ... unless there's a "Sender:" header, in which case _that's_ the person who send the email, and th

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

2007-02-05 Thread Joey Schulze
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Joey Schulze a écrit : > > GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers wrote: > >> Hello, Debian world! > > > > Hello Anonymous, > > > > This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. > > | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers > > *I* have sent this message. I have choosen th

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 04 February 2007 19:48, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  It is one way of seeing it, however you've got to see it from the other >  way as well: how is it possible to integrate a new type of lookup >  (mDNS) on desktop machines which want RendezVous / UPnP / mDNS to work? It cou

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007, Russell Coker wrote: > >  It is one way of seeing it, however you've got to see it from the other > >  way as well: how is it possible to integrate a new type of lookup > >  (mDNS) on desktop machines which want RendezVous / UPnP / mDNS to work? > It could ask via Debconf. Y

Re: Bug#409640: ITP: mafft -- Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences

2007-02-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:05:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson a écrit : > On 02/04/07 08:27, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment program for unix-like operating > > systems. It offers a range of multiple alignment methods, L-INS-i > > (accurate; recommended for <200 seque

debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread Bruno Buys
Just count one more happy debian user! Reinstalled yesterday, to switch from x86 sarge to amd64 etch. Everything went flawlessly. Downloaded last netinst, booted it, hardware detected smoothly. The machine has two sound cards, both worked as before. I chose manual disk editing, reformatted both

Re: debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread paddy
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:34:10AM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Just count one more happy debian user! Reinstalled yesterday, to switch > from x86 sarge to amd64 etch. Everything went flawlessly. > Downloaded last netinst, booted it, hardware detected smoothly. The > machine has two sound cards, bo

use "Sender:", please (Re: Message header fields)

2007-02-05 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Miles Bader > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.general > Subject: Re: Message header fields > Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:08:09 +0900 > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Meanwhile, the message header is about the message *as an email >> message*, and the From field is supposed to

Re: debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread Luca Brivio
Il giorno Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:34:10 -0200 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > skipped tasksel completely That's bad! No idea about related efforts, but I guess one day tasksel will not be for unexperienced users only. > So, for now I can only thank the project for such a solid system. I

Re: debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread Shobhit Jindal
a damm happy user here too :) On 2/5/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just count one more happy debian user! Reinstalled yesterday, to switch from x86 sarge to amd64 etch. Everything went flawlessly. Downloaded last netinst, booted it, hardware detected smoothly. The machine has two so

Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-05 Thread Maarten Verwijs
hi, I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch. This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of users. In totall there are 62 Debian Desktops here. Most of the Sarge-machines recently upgraded were installed almost 2 years ago. All machines are Pen

Sponsor needed?

2007-02-05 Thread Rasmus Bøg Hansen
Hi I am a Debian user for 5 years and have fiddled a bit with Debian packaging, though I have mostly only used my packages on my own systems. I have contributed (though not a lot) to Debian with bug reports, sometimes with patches. I'd like to help Debian with a few packages (at first, at least),

Re: Sponsor needed?

2007-02-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rasmus Bøg Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.05.1622 +]: > I'd like to help Debian with a few packages (at first, at least), > though I would need a sponsor to do so. Please read http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html and file proper RFS requests to debian-ment

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

2007-02-05 Thread Yavor Doganov
Instead of arguing about the "From" header and generating traffic that might be interesting, but not important at all, why don't we express our warm gratitude and congratulate the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD team for the *great* work they have done by making yet another variant of GNU a reality? Their wor

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Maarten Verwijs wrote: There are 2 things that require me to do some manual labour: * Opera. If opera is installed, upgrading from XFree86 to Xorg fails. Xorg wants to remove a folder that Opera still has a symlink in. No biggy: remove opera prior to upgrading. Luckily for Debian, t

Re: Bug#409367: ITP: iceape-locales -- language packs for Iceape

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Luberda
On 2 Feb 2007 at 20:53, Daniel Baumann wrote: Hi, > > please use iceape-l10n-* naming scheme like iceweasel locales do. Yeah, it seems we have in Debian three different ways of naming translation packages: *-l10n-* used for iceweasel and openoffice.org locales. *-locale-*used fo

Re: Bug#409367: ITP: iceape-locales -- language packs for Iceape

2007-02-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Robert Luberda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 2 Feb 2007 at 20:53, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > please use iceape-l10n-* naming scheme like iceweasel locales do. > > Yeah, it seems we have in Debian three different ways of naming > translation packages: > *-l10n-*used for

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

2007-02-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Aurelien Jarno may or may not have written... > Joey Schulze a écrit : >> GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers wrote: >>> Hello, Debian world! >> Hello Anonymous, >> This is a *very* strange from line that you surely should not use. >> | From: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers > *I* have sent this mess

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-05 Thread Luis Matos
Seg, 2007-02-05 às 17:23 +0100, Maarten Verwijs escreveu: > hi, > > I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch. > This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of > users. > In totall there are 62 Debian Desktops here. Most of the Sarge-machines > rec

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:23:28PM +0100, Maarten Verwijs wrote: > * Opera. If opera is installed, upgrading from XFree86 to Xorg fails. Xorg > wants to remove a folder that Opera still has a symlink in. No biggy: > remove opera prior to upgrading. > Luckily for Debian, this is not their

Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Seems you have still missed replying to this. The 2006 key expires on the 7th and is still being used to sign the archive. If this is being used as an empirical way to find out what breakas, fine. So far all I know of is debmirror << 20070123. But I wish you could at least answer my mails about i

Re: Bug#409367: ITP: iceape-locales -- language packs for Iceape

2007-02-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Robert Luberda wrote: > Yeah, it seems we have in Debian three different ways of naming > translation packages: > *-l10n-*used for iceweasel and openoffice.org locales. > *-locale-* used for icedove and enigmail translations. > *-i18n-*used by kde packages. afaik, there are only i

Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 05 February 2007 22:14, Joey Hess wrote: > If this is being used as an empirical way to find out what breakas, > fine. So far all I know of is debmirror << 20070123. Which means all Sarge and Etch boxes running debmirror This includes my (partial) local mirror. Let's just say that this

Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-02-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:14:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Seems you have still missed replying to this. > The 2006 key expires on the 7th and is still being used to sign the > archive. > If this is being used as an empirical way to find out what breakas, fine. > So far all I know of is debmirr

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:45:49 +0100 Nico Golde wrote: > >> Acpid doesn't load modules, it only listens to events and >> executes programs. > > But the init-script does: > > # As the name says. If the kernel supports modules, it'll try to load > # the

Re: Bug#409367: ITP: iceape-locales -- language packs for Iceape

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:20:06PM +0100, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Luberda wrote: > > Yeah, it seems we have in Debian three different ways of naming > > translation packages: > > *-l10n-* used for iceweasel and openoffice.org locales. > > *-locale-*used fo

Bug#409849: ITP: afni -- toolkit for analyzing and visualizing functional MRI data

2007-02-05 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: afni Version : 2006.12.22.0933 Upstream Author : Robert Cox et al. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/ * License : GPL (sources might contain some OCL lic

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

2007-02-05 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 2/5/07, GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers wrote: Hello, Debian world! This is a status update for the Debian GNU/FreeBSD port[1]. This port consists of two architectures: kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64. (...) Do you know if there is a way to build Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Live cd images using live-pac

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Loïc Minier wrote: > Yes, but it would need to be of low priority and the default would need > to be to add the entries in nsswitch.conf. I think it would be more I think I'd rather have it medium or high, with a default to *disabled*. Yes, the normal would be "Low", but I

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, a default of enabled for something that is going to be pulled > in in most systems If mDNS is going to be pulled in on most systems, that is itself a potential problem. What's pulling it in? If it's a desktop task or the like, t

Re: nsswitch.conf

2007-02-05 Thread Brian May
> "Loïc" == Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Loïc> #406198 is about reverting the changes it does to Loïc> nsswitch.conf on removal, not about not updating Loïc> nsswitch.conf, but yes, libnss-mdns edits the conffile of Loïc> another package. Packages shouldn't be edit

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-05 Thread Frank Küster
Maarten Verwijs farwise.org> writes: > A small list of software installed (before upgrade): [...] > - Tetex You could give texlive a try. It's more up-to-date than teTeX, it's more comprehensive, and it's going to be the default for lenny, anyway. Unfortunately, there are still a couple of pa