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On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:54 +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
> [Please CC me in all replies, or reply only to me]
>
> We've had bits from the DPL[1][2], bits from the release team[3], bits
> from the listmasters[4] and bits from other people and groups within
> Debia
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:19 -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote:
> Hi debian-devel,
>
> I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2]
Private conversation ?
> for several
> bugs
I don't see "several bugs".
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=xchat-xsys
> and many new upstream
Karl Chen wrote:
> Good points, I also discovered Synaptic works well for manually
> looking for removed packages. Notifying PTS subscribers by email
> also sounds very useful. Still, I worry about the people who
> don't know to check for removed packages - and aren't watching
> the packages that
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Or use the aptitude frontend for package management which will show such
> packages under the header "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages".
Thanks for reminding this very obvious feature which helped me
removing about 20 obsolete packages from my laptop
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:19 -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote:
> I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] for several
> bugs and many new upstream releases hold back on Debian, and he
> communicated me that he is not longer interested on maintaining it any
> more.
Tell him to orphan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:19:01PM -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote:
> I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] (...)
> Unfortunately, my suggestion of orphaning the pkg made no difference
> to the current maintainer, as he showed no cares at all for it.
If he showed no care at all for
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:33:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
>> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If
>> you happen to use ELinks, please test this and report any bugs etc. that
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:28:31PM +, Tim Cutts wrote:
> Just thought you might like to read that as a break from the flame wars.
Thanks, this kind of interruptions have indeed chance of breaking
flamewars :-)
However, you might be interested in http://times.debian.net, it is an
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On mar, mar 11, 2008 at 09:41:57 +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> [2] His most recent commit is 402 diff lines of stuff like this:
> -static void usage(void) {
> +void
> +usage(void)
> +{
You know what you're doing is FUD from the worst kind ?
On mar, mar 11, 2008 at 11:37:22 +, John Go
Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is?
He has not answered my mails for a month+ already.
Is everything OK with him?
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Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also,
triggers)"):
> I'd like to clarify few more things, which have been brough up the past
> few days. Even if I don't usually accept open invitations to flamefests
> (re the OP).
Guillem emerges! At last!
The key claim Guillem m
William Pitcock writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also,
triggers)"):
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:06 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge
> > long-awaited features. What positives do you see for Debian?
>
> The horse is dead. Stop
Hi,
On Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 11:39:10 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is?
>
> He has not answered my mails for a month+ already.
> Is everything OK with him?
IIRC: Broken laptop and no Internet connection somewhere in .au.
Last time a had active smoke s
Hi all,
I'd like to know the situation of fonts for MathML.
As far as I know, to display MathML it need some TeX fonts,
Symbol fonts, and fonts of Mathematica4.1 and of MathType.
(cf. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/)
Mathematica and MathType are, of course, commercial applications
> Maybe he could answer if you try and contact white@, rather than [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]
Upss.. :)
sorry the typo was only in subject.
I send my mails to him with the command 'Reply' so there' s no typos
there. :)
> Anyway, he gave away some of his packages, because of his being busy,
> which might
On 12/03/2008, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is?
>
> He has not answered my mails for a month+ already.
> Is everything OK with him?
Maybe he could answer if you try and contact white@, rather than [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
Anyway, he gave away some of his packages
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 09:39:10 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is?
>
> He has not answered my mails for a month+ already.
> Is everything OK with him?
Yes, his laptop is broken and he doesn't yet know when he will get it back.
Furthermore he can't access in
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
The history of this change is as follows:
* At some point, without any kind of discussion, Guillem
unilaterally reformats several files to 8-character indents.
...
Well, I don't want to interrupt your guys thrilling discussion
about indentation of so
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On Wed March 12 2008 02:21:24 Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>
http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=122fdc0fa5fe90a7d5f6919f2d3177fd0830c360
>
> Code has been refactored in a generic module to deal with usages and
> so on. The functions aren't static anymore, because they *do* have a
>
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Le mercredi 12 mars 2008 à 10:01 +, Ian Jackson a écrit :
> Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also,
> triggers)"):
> > I'd like to clarify few more things, which have been brough up the past
> > few days. Even if I don't usually accept open invitations to flamefest
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Hi Martin,
* Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-12 11:52]:
> On Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 11:39:10 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> > Does anybody know where Steffen Joeris is?
> >
> > He has not answered my mails for a month+ already.
> > Is everything OK with him?
>
> IIRC: Broken la
Hi all!
> I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] for several
> bugs and many new upstream releases hold back on Debian, and he
> communicated me that he is not longer interested on maintaining it any
> more.
> Unfortunately, my suggestion of orphaning the pkg made no differ
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> And most importantly, you wouldn't contemplate deploying somewhere else an
> implementation of triggers that hasn't been accepted in dpkg, because of the
> danger of creating (and maintaining) a sustained incompatibility.
Oh wait,
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:01:35AM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:42:48 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Against the wishes of, afaict, Guillem and Raphael, Ian's made applying
> > > his triggers patch dependent on:
> > >
> > > - reversion to two space indenting
>
> The
On Tue March 11 2008 10:45:43 pm Guillem Jover wrote:
> Anyway, after the freeze was announced it was clear that Ian was not
> going to fix the branch, and because having this feature for lenny is
> highly desirable I was just going to have to fix it myself and review
> during that process, but got
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On Mon 10 Mar 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 11320 March 1977, José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez wrote:
>
> > Description : Free fonts for education and institutions
> Please keep the "free" out of the description(s). Thats already pretty
> clear thanks to the archive it should be uploaded to.
On 12-Mar-08, 04:21 (CDT), Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yay for portability: many compilers don't support forward static prototypes
> properly. And then we hear about using (char *)0 instead of NULL for
> portability reasons,
As has been explained, the problem is not replacing "0"
Ian Jackson wrote:
> William Pitcock writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also,
> triggers)"):
>> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:06 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
>>> It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge
>>> long-awaited features. What positives do you see for Debian?
>> Th
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:33:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> >> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If
> >> you
On 12 Mar 2008, at 8:15 am, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:28:31PM +, Tim Cutts wrote:
Just thought you might like to read that as a break from the flame
wars.
Thanks, this kind of interruptions have indeed chance of breaking
flamewars :-)
However, you might be in
On Wed March 12 2008 10:26:52 Luk Claes wrote:
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > It would be flogging a dead horse if we didn't have the core packaging
> > software maintained by an obstructive and naive programmer supported
> > by someone who is more interested in pretty revision logs than good
> > code.
>
Hi,
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:16 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> Ian appears to have chosen to speak truth to power rather than
> forking. Do you have a constructive alternative to suggest?
$ echo ":/dpkg/i" >> ~/.killfile
William
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* John Goerzen:
> What is it that people don't get from git-rebase(1)?
>
>When you rebase a branch, you are changing its history in a way that
>will cause problems for anyone who already has a copy of the branch in
>their repository and tries to pull updates from you. You s
[Robert and Todd please read below about some issues about muscle]
Everybody: PLease keep the debian-med mailing list in CC. We would like
to build reasonable Debian packages out of a uniform source that contains
all features that are needed and as less bugs as possible. The Debian-Med
mailing l
Was this intended for me? If so, I'm not clear why...
Robert.
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 12-Mar-08, 04:21 (CDT), Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yay for portability: many compilers don't support forward static prototypes
> > properly. And then we hear about using (char *)0 instead of NULL for
> > port
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