Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-31 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > Moore's Law governs the rate at which the speed of hardware (at a given > price-point) doubles. It says nothing about the speed at which current > software will *run* on current machines; and it certainly has nothing to say > about the speed at which s

Re: Debian as "Google summer of code" mentor?

2005-06-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > Hey, > > as you've probably heard, Google has a "summer of code" initiative to > stimulate open source coding. They are looking for mentors to support the > coders. Shouldn't Debian be on that list? > > Matthijs http://groups-beta.google.com/group/su

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:39:33PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > > 3 Future > > > > * fix the Debian Java Policy; > > * update the Debian Java FAQ; > > * more packages to pkg-java; > > * every packages to cdbs; > > > Why cdbs?

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:39:33PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > > > > 3 Future > > > > > > * fix the Debian Java Policy; > > > * upd

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-04 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 03 juin 2005 à 18:41 -0500, Adam Heath a écrit : > > > I agree. A java policy should talk about how java packages should > > > interact > > > once installed. But stay the hell away from how they ar

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:38:13 -0500 (CDT), > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:39:33PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >>

Re: baz and tla

2005-06-07 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:40:47AM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > > > > > > > That sounds very nice indeed. If that pans out, and you also fix the UI > > > > issues (by which I mean I have to type approximately three times as many > > > > charac

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:42:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I don't understand what would be wrong with having a symlink in /bin ... > > Because this applies to most of the programs in /sbin. It would be easier > to just merge both directorie

Re: cogito no longer conflicts with git or cgvg

2005-06-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > The new cogito package (0.11.3+20050610-1) is on its way into sid. > It does not install /usr/bin/git or /usr/bin/cg, and so it does not > conflict with git or with cgvg. > > I made a note about this in /usr/share/doc/cogito/README.Debian, and I >

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-13 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:25 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > >why is there a link to logs in /etc? > > > >/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to > > /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log > > > >/etc is supposed to be for configuration fi

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-13 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 6/13/05, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's a stupid argument. > > It's not that stupid. But it is. > If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that. Use just a

Re: AMD64 CDs and DVDs released

2005-06-13 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Hi! > > A little later than the rest of the architectures, we are now ready to > announce the availability of CDs (businesscard, netinst and full) and > DVDs for AMD64. > > As AMD64 is unofficial, the URL for downloading the images is slightly

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi! > > Erik Steffl [2005-06-12 16:25 -0700]: > > why is there a link to logs in /etc? > > > > /etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to > > /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log > > The basic idea of the new cluster system was to have the comple

Re: ~ in package versions

2005-06-15 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:00:43AM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > > I just wanted to confirm my recollection that now that stable has been > > released > > with support for ~ in package versions in dpkg and apt, we can now use ~ in > > package vers

Re: ~ in package versions

2005-06-15 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Well and then what is pending for it? > > - DAK support for it; > - APT support? apt already supports it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing package installation, upgrading, and removal

2005-06-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > > I think this can not quite do it, since the chroot will need to be a > > > woody chroot but get at least partially upgraded in each test to allow > > > installation of the sarge and sid packages. It looks like piuparts is > > > otherwise clo

Re: problem with unstable -> testing package migration?

2005-06-27 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, sean finney wrote: > hey, > > about a week ago i uploaded a package with priority=high to unstable > to fix a security-related bug. for some reason, that package hasn't > yet made it into unstable: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cacti.html > > anyone know more about this

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, David Pashley wrote: > On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: > > Hallo Matthew, > > > > > > Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an > > > advantage? > > > > You can do almost every thing with with tools like, grep, >

master/murphy downtime

2006-05-16 Thread Adam Heath
Master and murphy are changing colos. This entails a shutdown, de-rack, move across town(not far, tho), and power back up. Est. time is 2 hours. Nat rules will be installed, so that access can continue at the old addresses. DNS will be updated after the move. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Status of package Xen

2005-01-15 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > what is the status of the xen package ? > > Where can I help you out if you need help on Xen 2.0 (bug #280773) ? I'm the maintainer, not Raphael. I've got xen 2.0.1(need to upgrade to .3), but can't upload, until kernel-source-2.4.28 en

DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread Adam Heath
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Scheduling downtime for master, to do hardware maintance.

2000-03-17 Thread Adam Heath
local to master). BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67

Re: ITP: eog

2000-03-20 Thread Adam Heath
P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-20 Thread Adam Heath
t extract into - directly. So, I decided to do something about that finally. Below is an example dsc format that I have come up with. === Source: xawtv Format: 2.0 Version: 3.07-2 Binary: xawtv, fbtv, radio, streamer, webcam, xawtv-tools Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: a

Re: ITP: eog

2000-03-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:12:45AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote: > > > > > Description: The Eye of Gnome graphics viewer and cataloging program > > > Gnome is the &qu

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Adam Heath wrote: > > > You'll note the addition of 3 fields(Format, Patches, and Tarballs), and the > > different files specified for the files field. The existance of a Format > > Having

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Adam Heath wrote: > > However, it has its drawbacks, the 2 most glaring that it hides the > > source in subtrees, all packed up, and that it doesn't extract into > > - directly. > > You conveniently ignore

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Heath
as broken. Sorry everyone. :( BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyI

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Heath
+ P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Heath
On 21 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How would you create these diffs? Please reread the mails. I said it only extracts. I've said nothing about building anything yet. > Also, have you

Re: ITA: netscape4

2000-08-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Ryan Murray wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:56:04PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > netscape4.08 (slink) (parts exist in woody, but not in potato) > > netscape4.72 > > netscape4.73 > > netscape4.base > > I intend to adopt all of the nets

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Adam Heath
- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
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Re: Feature Request: BTS

2000-12-27 Thread Adam Heath
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Re: Rambling apt-get ideas

2000-12-28 Thread Adam Heath
inary, I just moved the code into the internal library it uses. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL

Re: Rambling apt-get ideas

2000-12-28 Thread Adam Heath
K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- ----BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8B

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > severity 80842 serious > severity 80843 serious > thanks > > gcc won't build on arm, so XFree86 won't build on arm, so XFree86 can't go > into testing, so LOTS of things can't go into testing. > >

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-30 Thread Adam Heath
z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 12:02:53PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > > Adam Heath, please consider helping the gcc maintainer do some DBS > > > surgery, > > > because it is DBS that is keeping gcc from building. > > &

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-30 Thread Adam Heath
DBS cannot. I wasn't putting it down. Each system has evolved to perform what the users have desired of it. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK-

Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
LOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
!O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489

Re: Problem with start-stop-daemon and pidfile

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
ssion denied Touch the file first, then chown it, before calling s-s-d. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[

Re: Problem with start-stop-daemon and pidfile

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
f it is running sh is the executable, not /usr/sbin/debian-mirror. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2001-01-03 Thread Adam Heath
EEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Adam Heath
a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C

Re: Question/comment re:incoming.debian.org/REPORT

2001-01-03 Thread Adam Heath
2.97-001230_i386.changes > NEW to experimental Unless you actually see an INSTALL, it hasn't been installed. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Adam Heath
nt to see an upgrade of this package kill a working configuration. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-05 Thread Adam Heath
s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- ----BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
e current maintainer of lilo. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- ----BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print

Re: Fatal problems with dpkg<->dpkg-deb communication in 1.8.1

2001-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
an you give any more details, so that I can try to track it down? BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMA

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
EK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO- ps: I did the above during the bo<->ham

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
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Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Jan 08, Adam Heath scribbled: > > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > > > > Yes, it took me about a year's wait also. > > > > I created my pgp key on Dec. 27, 1997. 2 weeks later, I was a >

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF

WARNING: dpkg-source from 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.1.1 is bad [was Re: Installed dpkg 1.8.1.2 (i386 all source)]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed-By: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description: > dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian > dpkg-dev - Package building tools for Debian > dpkg-doc - Dpkg Internals Documentation > Changes: > dpkg (1.8.1.2) unstable;

Re: ITU: freeswan 1.8

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
ripts, including adduser) NEEDS TO NOT BREAK PERIOD. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
out this? I did, I only bcc'd it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that replies wouldn't spam the bts. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK-

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
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Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
S-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- ----BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -END PGP INFO-

Re: resolution of the tar -I issue

2001-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
P+ L !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- ----BEGIN PGP INFO Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Adam Heath
/mail/.forward-mailerrors /dev/null It's just a matter of having the new system be in the correct .forward files. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -END GEEK C

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Adam Heath
The old way, we had one kernel, optimized for the lowest denonimation of ia32 machine. Ie, i386. We then modified the drivers that were compiled into the kernel. Now, using an initrd, we no longer need to compile different variations of drivers and modules into and out of the kernel. We can co

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The script can't even get everything a Debian Developer does for Debian. > While most, if not all, active Debian Developers do packaging work, > there's other stuff to be done -- such as taking care of autobuilders, > being a sysadmin, ftp-master, list

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > "Oh no, the Collins family has 2 acres per child...those poor kids! Uh, > you say that 3.5 acres of your yard is a lake?" Dredging. With a snorkel.

Re: Bug#194515: ITP: debdivert -- Debian packaging aid to create patch packages

2003-05-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Masato Taruishi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-24 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: debdivert > * URL : http://www.some.org/ > License : GPL > Description : Debian packaging aid to create patch packages >

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:48:02PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sat, 24 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > > The script can't even get everything a Debian Developer does for Debian. > > > While most, i

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

2003-06-01 Thread Adam Heath
On 31 May 2003, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > [snip] HAHAHAHAHAHA. I needed that. Thanks for the laugh. Made my day.

Re: Proposal: a generic dpkg event hook broker

2003-06-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Jarno Elonen wrote: Already being planned for dpkg 2.0. Note, this has to be tied in with the status of the package being hooked, as the status changes state, so it really needs to be done in dpkg.

Re: not modified modifications

2003-06-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:36:49AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > i am very sure, I did never have touched this file, so why is dpkg always > > asking me if i want to overwrite it? IS this a dpkg problem, is it a > > packaging problem, or is is a s

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:26:08PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > > >1918space and are masqueraded to the outside internet by a firewall/gateway > > >running Debian on a 486 or low end pentium. I believe this to be a fairly > > >significant pro

Re: Dueling Banjoes

2003-06-22 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Kevin Edwards wrote: > I was wondering if you would send me the sheet music for dueling banjoes - > I want to transpose it for other instruments - Sorry, can't help you there. I can give you the byte codes for dueling flamewars, however.

Re: package descriptions dummy/transitional

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed a few transitional and dummy packages on my system, but there was > no common way to identify them. I think the following packages exist: > > a) dummy packages which depend on the new name of a package for >1 - automatic update

Re: [mass bug filing?] Short descriptions being used as long descriptions and other policy violations

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Neil Spring wrote: > > However I've found a number of packages which use a long > > description which is more or less the _same_ as the short > > description. > > This is just a thought, but perhaps the control file could > incorporate a mechanism for common description of pac

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > > > Nobody has even explained WHY we have this issue. The summary posted on the > > bug report just said that there is a problem with atomicity.h, not what the > > problem is or why it exists. > > Just look at the file for your

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Fellas, looking in the Packages files, some big packages have little > descriptions, some little packages have big descriptions, but on the average, > 11938 packages > avg size 510963 > avg description 7.70431 lines > avg. bytes per description lines 6632

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: debbackup > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dsto

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-25 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I have also been thinking about creating a complimentary program that > would help "cleanup" the system by finding unused packages, seldom used > packages, cruft, unnessisary files... As with debbackup, there are things > to do some of the functons

Re: apt ignores -o DPkg::Options ?

2003-06-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hmm... > > Seems that apt-get ignores -o DPkg::Options. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /tmp/xxx > #!/bin/sh > echo dpkg $* > exit 1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> LANG=C apt-get -o 'Dir::Bin::dpkg=/tmp/xxx' -o > 'DPkg::Options={"--xxx";}' install nvi > R

Re: [proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Michael Banck wrote: > Also, please note that at least half of the dpkg-maintainers don't read > -devel, you probably want to post this to -dpkg. Incidently, there is a > proposal and patch by Gerhard Tonn for handling lib64 under > discussion[2]. Well, considering there are

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-27 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > The patch has been already written: http://lwn.net/Articles/8634/ I'm > > sure theere's a better link, but that's the best I could extract out of > > google without resorting to bribery :-) > > This patch is insuff

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-28 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > I dunno, but I am working on expanding uqm-content's 6 lines to > something more appropriate to its number of files (11.5 thousand). Maybe > .. 600 lines? > > Now I'm really glad uqm-voice (100+ mb) is not going into the archive > anytime soon. I have more i

Re: Bug#198479: general: perlapi-5.6.1 missing in sarge since perl 5.8.0 rollout

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Mark Hedges wrote: > Package: general > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-28 > Followup-For: Bug #198479 > > There needs to be a backwards-compatible perlapi-5.6.1 module > which apt-file and other depend on to install. Since rolling > out perl 5.8.0, many packages that

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Millis Miller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: email > Version : 1.9.0 > Upstream Author : Dean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/email > * License

Re: Mass bug filing: Build-Depends on libgdbmg1-dev and/or imlib-dev

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I don't know why my previous message on this topic didn't get > through, so let me try again... murphy has been having load issues, amoung other things. > I'm planning to file bugs against source packages which currently > don't build in unstable bec

Re: [Stefano =)] Bug#198619: Could not perform configuration on libpam0g

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:15:37PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Vel?zquez wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > > > [Please cc me; I'm very behind on -devel] > > > > > > > > > I'm very confused by this bug and am su

Re: perlapi-5.6.1

2003-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Mark Hedges wrote: > > I apologize for filing multiple bug reports about this > before seeking consensus on the list. > > Is someone going to put perlapi-5.6.1 back into sarge? > Lots of packages indirectly depend on this and cannot > be installed now. Should there be a dummy

Re: Bug#197886: make still broken after 12 days

2003-06-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Samium Gromoff wrote: > I`ll proceed in the time order of events: > > Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:52:38 +0400: > I`ve produced a testcase for make which causes it to bail out > with a > *** Virtual memory exhausted. Stop > message on a perfectly valid, sane

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Millis Miller wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: email > Version : 1.9.0 > Upstream Author : Dean Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cleancode.org/email > * License

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Millis Miller wrote: > What other package would you suggest that does the same functionality then > insteard? I specifically was interested in this one because of the mime > encoding of the signature/encryption functionality. apt-cache show bash

Re: Bug#199518: ITP: libcommons-lang-java -- Extension of the java.lang package

2003-07-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Description : Extension of the java.lang package And?

Re: Bug#199524: ITP: libcommons-validator-java -- Ease and speed development and maintenance of validation rules

2003-07-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Description : Ease and speed development and maintenance of validation > rules And?

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Julien LEMOINE wrote: > Hello, > > I received a bug report on stunnel package from an user [1] that > complained > about the fact that I didn't warning about the new /etc/default/stunnel file > introduced in package (thereis a note in README.Debian and in changelog). > >

Re: Debootstrap, Sid, and console-tools-libs

2003-07-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:57:43PM -0400, Matthew P. McGuire wrote: > | > | For the curious, the upgrade route failed as well, but on libpam0g not > | console-tools-libs. Any work around would be appreciated. > | > > dpkg -i libpam0g*.deb and its depend

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > software >n : (computer science) written programs or procedures or >rules and associated documentation pertaining to the >operation of a computer system and that are stored in >read/w

Re: logging for package installs

2003-07-04 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > #!/bin/sh > if [ "$1" = configure ] && grep -q evil /etc/myconfig; then > dpkg-log --priority=critical \ >--warning=$"/etc/myconfig has evil in it! See README.Debian!" > elsif [ "$phase_of_moon" = full ]; then > dpkg-log --priority

Re: A success story with apt and rsync

2003-07-05 Thread Adam Heath
On 6 Jul 2003, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Doogie is thinking about extending the Bittorrent protocol for use as > apt-get method. I talked with him on irc about some design ideas and > so far it looks realy good if he can get some mirrors to host it. My plans are to require no additional software

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