On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:16:14PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> So now, the list of packages in violation of non-free font licenses:
...
> feh
> - contains 'helmetr' (Sun)[1]
>
> gozer
> - contains 'helmetr' (Sun)[1]
...
> xplanet
> - contains &#x
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:54:37PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> For the author of ttf-larabie-*, i tried that when i made these
> packages. The licence we got does NOT fulfill all DFSG requirements, but
> is already very liberate. I don't think we'll get further than that.
> So please don't press
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:35:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:16:14PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > [1] I have been told that the OpenOffice fonts are not free and were
> > pulled from CVS a short while ago. This puts ttf-op
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:36:42PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> Actually, I don't see why we should use TrueType fonts instead of Type1
> fonts. There is a set of excellent Type1 fonts from URW included in
> gsfonts package under GPL; there is an extension of these fonts with
> Cyrillic glyphs
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote:
> Download the font here:
> http://www.cheapskatefonts.com/fonts/Dustismo.zip
Hm. I tried dropping it in as a replacement for tuxpaint's current font
(simply by renaming the fonts in /usr/share/tuxpaint/fonts out of the way
and copying
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:39:13PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> BA> Portability.
>
> Can you elaborate? Which of Debian-supported platforms to not have Type1
> fonts support, and why?
You are focusing on the wrong problem. Application designers choose
TrueType for portability. SDL applica
In case Dustin doesn't pick up on this today ...
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> I'll check it out asap. Have you viewed it in linux yet?
I have viewed the font with gfontview. It looks OK in a few sizes and not
so OK in some others. So I'm guessing the hinti
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Yes, you're right about removing the free part. I simply wanted to
> make a single package of truetype fonts for ease of use. I see now
> that there are a number of ttf packages, but they seem to all be asian
> charsets. I'm trying
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:22:41PM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote:
> Making a perfectly hinted font is very, very diffecult
> (the guy who made Times New Roman has said he spent 2+
> years on the hinting alone). I chose to embed bitmaps
> for all the smaller sizes (no small chore). Is it
> possible tha
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:35:01PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Ben suggested that I make
> a package for each foundry, and then a virtual package that includes
> all of them. If Dustin agrees to gpl the rest of his fonts, I'll just
> make a ttf-cheapskate package.
Meta package. A virtual pac
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:12:41AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> That doesn't mean we have to mindlessly stick to it when packaging a 100k
> font though. We also have the example of freefont, which used uner 3 mb for
> 79 smaller type 1 fonts.
No, but neither does it mean we need to follow the freefon
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:43:06PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I think something like the LPPL would merely do the trick. Modifying the
> font would be allowed, but would also require a name change.
After looking over the LPPL, it looks like it would do the job. Do you know
of any precedent
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 03:21:42AM +1000, Ben Burton wrote:
>
> > Maybe, but I think lots of people will have to convert mp3 to vorbis if mp3
> > decoder dispear from Debian.
> > mp32ogg is the way to help us.
>
> But I still don't understand how we can have mp32ogg if mp3 decoders
> disappear fr
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:34:20PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> hey how about something much less cryptic like "forge". Nothing worse than
> having to guess what woman's name some silly coder named the program I am
> looking for.
>
> And since most of us aren't French the names mean very
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:11:26PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> The machine itself has a name already (quantz).
Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already, why
bother naming the service something obscure? Service names should be easy to
remember.
Ben
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nSLUG
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:14:50 -0400) :
> > Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already,
> > why bother naming the service something obscure? Service names
> > should be easy to remember.
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:58:18AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that someone has pseudo-hijacked
> keyserver.debian.org.com
>
> Is this supposed to be there?
> It seems to be kinda worrying that someone has registered that hostname.
> Particularly since I found it by doing a dn
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:19:33PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> BTW: Linux has a special filesystem called "umsdos" which would allow
> you to store Windows and Linux files on the same "C:" partition, but
> this is not the optimal way to run Linux, so Debian does not support
> umsdos-based install
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:42:43AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think not. Debian packages from *anywhere* are not under control of BTS
> > and as a consequence they have no quality assurance.
>
> An offhand observation: In my experience,
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 07:48:08PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2003, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > OK, thanks. Here (http://people.debian.org/~terminus/debian-lex/) is a
> > rough Web page which I have shamelessly plagiarised from your Debian-Med
> > project.
> I just builded the Debian-me
and behind-the-scenes, if the programmer
desires.
I am packaging this out of necessity, since I am adopting gltron, and
since version 0.62, gltron depends on SDL_sound.
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:10:08PM -0500, Clay Crouch wrote:
> It has become quite clear that the culture that the DD community
> shares has evolved in my absence. My absence disallowed me to
> evolve with it. The culture you now enjoy is not the one I left.
Eh? Culture? Look, your anti-spam mea
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:58:45AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why Debian Desktop subproject is on official website
> and many others[1] aren't? The Debian Desktop is a good
> initiative, but there are many others that are being
> excluded from the website.I've some ideas:
>
> - Guidel
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:51:14PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:58:45AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> > Why Debian Desktop subproject is on official website
> > and many others[1] aren't?
>
> You're on crack. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/
>
> It's hard to
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> http://atari800.atari.org/
>
> is listed as the canonical source for all things atari, but a ping of this
> address simply hangs.
$ whois atari.org
...
NS1.ATARI.ORG212.73.17.43
NS2.GEMSOFT.NET 195.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:53:10AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote:
> brooks% echo $COLUMNS
> 49151
...
> purity seems to be causing this. No idea why or how, but it seems to be
> the culprit.
It would seem this is why:
diff -r purity-1/pt.c purity-1.fix/pt.c
792c792
< (void) ioctl(0,TIOCSWINSZ,&
n, so I will include that instead.
There is also a C++ map editor, but that hasn't been worked on for many months.
Hopefully once we get more users for this version, that will help spur along
development of one or both of these editors.
Ben Armstrong
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wearied by the petty bickering your innocent request has
spawned, my sincerest apologies for the manner of my colleague. I am sure
you are aware that in a volunteer organization it takes all kinds, with
diverse, and often conflicting viewpoints. While I value Jeroen's
contributions in other
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:58:20PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> Of course you can say that in the social contract says "Thus, although
> non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we support its use," but if
> I interpret that correctly, it just means the non-free software
> packages provided by D
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:48:59PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> Hmm, I knew somebody would find something to complain about in my
> second try to word my opinion. I'm not even going to try to do it a
> third time.
I'm sorry. That just doesn't wash. I read: "I knew somebody would ...
complain"
On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:56:05 +0200
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Ben Armstrong, le Sat 23 May 2009 10:38:51 -0300, a écrit :
> > Accessibility
> >
> > we understand that some users also need software synthesized
> >text-to-speech, something for which the
On 05/15/2012 02:18 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential of
> cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX
> for X = valuable hard disk.
I've wondered about that, too, when working on the relevant section of
the Debian Live Manual.
> Maybe one should advise people to first r
On 05/16/2012 06:10 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Bjørn Mork writes:
>> No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of
>> the "floppy" group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules :
>
> Yeah but you are not a member of that group by default surely?
$ debconf-sho
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 09/05/2012 02:10 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> Nothing we can do about it now.
The news posting at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/17/#amd64 could be
edited to change the
first reference to amd64 in the text to link to
http://www.debian.org
On 09/11/2012 12:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: Gnome classic mode"):
>> Can we move on now? I don’t even understand how a *one-time warning*
>> explaining a user that his desktop will look different from what he
>> might obtain on another Debian machine can even be a ser
On 09/11/2012 01:11 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> every time the live image is booted they will see this image unless they
> happen to be using
^
I meant to say "see this error message", not "see this image". ug
On 09/11/2012 02:22 PM, Wookey wrote:
> If the message tells people to select 'gnome classic' in the logon
> menu to make it go away then that seems reasonable to me.
Again, not really an option for our live images. Two obvious options are:
1. Modify the live image to silently fail over to gnome
On 28/07/13 09:51 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> It doesn't look like trolling to me... Sure, the question is a bit odd
> on a Debian forum, but it was posted in the "Offtopic" area, and I
> think it's perfectly valid to ask that question there. Some people
> might use Debian derivatives, and are on
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* Package name: ruby-parseconfig
Version : 1.0.2
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* URL : https://github.com/derks/ruby-parseconfig &
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*
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Programming Lang: Javascript
Description : A small library to
On 20/10/11 08:31 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 17:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
>>
>>> reassign 646019 cdimage.debian.org
>
> WTF? Isn't this a kernel driver bug?
my mistake. i had not read it carefully enough.
On 28/02/12 09:08 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Lars Wirzenius , 2012-02-28, 12:58:
>> Is this worth including in Debian? It's funny for several
>> microfortnights, but how many people really need to install this?
>
> Completely agreed. We should not accept any new packages in section
> games and then
Mistikos,
In spite of your trollish approach to the topic, let's try to make
something constructive of your request:
On 25/12/12 08:50 AM, Mistikos Nik wrote:
> It constantly refers to Debian versions by their nick names, and not their
> versions.
Please furnish links/references to specific pla
On 01/03/2013 02:16 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>>
>> release and lsb-base being Architecture: foreign). Patches are welcome to
>> make
>> Wheezy+1 more suitable to your needs.
>
> How about changing it from a kernel bug to tasksel fea
On 04/04/2013 12:05 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> Do you think there is any way that the relevance of posts to a bug
> report can be determined, without reference to the context in which they
> appear, *all the preceeding discussion*?
So far as I can see, nobody doubts your intentions. But y
On 04/04/13 02:28 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:55 -0300
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Just take care in future that the style of communications you used
>> triggered someone's "wetware spam filter" with a false positive.
>
> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 8367b943-96ac-4530-afbd-529da5fc4fd5
> [ 3 ] Choice 1: Gergely Nagy
> [ 2 ] Choice 2: Moray Allan
> [ 1 ] Choice 3: Lucas Nussbaum
> [ 4 ] Choice 4: None Of The Above
> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These
On 13/04/13 07:46 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 06:52:01AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>>> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> [...]
>
> So you're the second person that doesn't follow the hea
On 04/25/2013 09:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> There are actually users who do not "see" the system but just the
> topping.
Yes, but I don't think we should encourage any users in this skewed view
of the system.
> I would never try to blame the user about this.
Nor would I. However, I would not
Simon,
On 01/02/2014 01:52 PM, Simon Ruggier wrote:
> I'm writing to suggest that in the long term, Debian's package
> management should have a general, user-friendly way to deal with
> situations like this, such as a mechanism to remove a repository
> subscription, and all package versions that c
On 01/03/2014 07:41 AM, Виталий Филиппов wrote:
> AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Debian
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to
> official ones. At least it did in my case.
>
> For me, findin
On 03/01/14 01:39 PM, Виталий Филиппов wrote:
> If you have other 3rdparty repos, you'll also need to set 1001 for all
> of them (except DMO), that should be enough.
Simon wanted "a general, user-friendly way to deal with situations like
this". This is neither.
> And of course strictly speaking i
On 04/04/2011 10:06 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> There is only one thing that can be used without reading a manual. It
> is a breast. All the other devices (and things, substances, etc)
> required to be studied.
While this paraphrase of a familiar quote may be applicable when taken
in context (
On 04/04/2011 10:31 AM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> I do not think that reading documentation before trying to achieve
> something is that elitist. And in the case of wpa_supplicant, it is
> definitely not dozens of pages. Basically, it is just
>
> man interfaces
> man wpa_supplicant.conf
> zless
On 04/04/2011 11:03 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I think squeeze already does a lot better, but there is still work to
> do, especially with the installation process.
>
> On my personal wishlist for wheezy is d-i actually calling NM behind the
> scenes to configure the network, instead of ifupdow
On 04/05/2011 05:21 AM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:09:42PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:10:47AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>>> ]] Stanislav Maslovski
>>> d-i doesn't use ifupdown, it uses netcfg.
>>
>> Hm, okay, I was pretty sure J
On 05/06/2011 10:49 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> What's up with the hate? It's always convenient to have a package in
> Debian, instead of hunting for it upstream. If it rots in Debian, then
> it can easily be removed again (or left in Unstable).
Wrong. Every additional package costs the whol
On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Q: How many content management systems written in php does Debian need?
> A: How about zero?
>
> Not exactly helpful.
When developers are passionately opposed to a particular technology (and
not without reason here, I think,) they can be a bit
We can stop CCing the bug# now, as this subthread is apparently no
longer about the ITP itself, but about "proper" conduct in discussing an
ITP.
On 05/06/2011 01:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Strange that you read 'support' into my responses.
By support, I hope you understand I mean the De
On 05/06/2011 02:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> I was responding to someone who said I 'supported' inclusion of proposed
> package.
Ah, I misunderstood. My apologies.
> Yeah, good point. So it's not enough for packager to say he will be
> responsive to problems?
Packages, once uploaded, en
On 09/20/2011 08:43 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Package: bar
> Depends: foo
>
> Package: foo-contrib
> Provides: foo
While that neatly sidesteps the issue, 7.5 says:
To specify which of a set of real packages should be the default to
On 20/09/11 06:24 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> In my intended case I believe they always end up with foo from main,
> only if they choose foo-contrib will they get it, which is how I think
> it should be. main should not reference packages from contrib/non-free
> in any way.
If that's how it works, then
On 16/01/15 08:15 AM, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:32:41AM +1100, Riley Baird wrote:
>> (Also, in any case, don't you think that this game is going a little too
>> far? It's fine to be opposed to systemd, but don't do to Lennart
>
> Well, do you see a difference to the original
her a package is suitable to enter Debian or not. So yes,
it's a necessary part of the process.
> On 01/16/2015 03:48 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>> Do you honestly not see the difference between poking fun at an
>> upstream that is at the center of an ongoing controversy vs. poking
>
On 16/01/15 11:34 AM, Markus Koschany wrote:
> My personal opinion is that both XBill and xlennart are mildly
> entertaining and it is rather immature to depict living people as a
> "virus". The message is either silly or offensive.
While we're talking about personal opinions, and clarifying for D
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 2.2 potatoe
> 2.3 andy
> 2.4 davis
> 3.0 sergeant
> 3.1 hannah
Bo was taken, but how about "Peep"?
Ben
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff?
> >
> > The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The
> > current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of
> > things don't work. It sounds like there will pro
On 09/11/15 12:47 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> So long, and thanks for all the fish[7].
>
> Daniel
>
> [7] http://live.debian.net/project/downstream/
>
Enough bitter words have been said. I don't want to add any more. So:
I'm proud.
Indeed, that long list of downstreams does speak to the impact y
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