Intent to package : xmem

I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less 'elementary' X package, so I'm offering to package it. Is it generated from the X sources (in which case, maybe I'll just limit myself to pestering Branden:-), or proc, or is it its own thing?

Re: Intent to package : xmem

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:01:09PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less ^ longer Sorry...:-/ -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian G

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

ld' fly! And that doesn't stop us from loving them;-) Although, personally, I think the BSD demon is way cooler than the penguin... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: > Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings. Ants with wings would look like termites. Ick... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: The Debian Logo-team

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:40:28PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > * Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * James Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, these guys are obvious... Nils has done a *great* job at getting lots of Debian press releases out there, and James is o

Re: stupid stats (was Re: xfree86_3.3.2.3a-9 (source i386 all) uploaded to master)

chulze > 347 Manoj Srivastava I think you'd "win" anyways, though:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: fixing the wnpp was ITP rx(v)p

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:29:09PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date. > > > What can we do as a group to fix this? > One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS Good idea! We just have a w

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

> RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back > pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA > Research. So, if this really bothers you, do something about it. Make a company and start marketing the hell out of Debian. That's most of what Redhat is - mar

VA Research and linux.com

Wow... Debian gets *lots* of publicity on linux.com. Very cool! -- David N. Welton< Sors immanis - et inanis - rota tu volubilis, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> status malus - vana salus - semper dissolubilis, http://www.efn.org/~davidw < obumbrata - et velata - michi quoque nit

Debian, money, marketing

On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:07:25PM +0930, Ron wrote: > Hmm.. I'd have said full time QA staff. If we are gonna have hired > guns, let em blast at the bugs, then we *all* get value for our > money... Yeah, it's probably more worth it to have hired people do the 'boring' stuff that people are les

Re: Bug o' the week

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:55:43AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote: > I've had another early-morning idea. I think a metric called a "bug > index" should be invented. It would be calculated like this: every > severity of bug would be given a weight, say: Sounds like an interesting idea - are you goin

Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:30:20PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > > Joey Hess' debhelper scripts are a good API, maybe it would be > > > > good to standardize on them to some degree. > > > No. > > > > I didn't say "make them THE standard" > What did you mean then? I think that as

Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:30:18PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:08:22PM -0500, David Welton wrote: > > I think that as many packages as reasonably possible should > > migrate towards them. They work pretty well, but I don't believe &g

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