Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally installed
into the archive today? Guess it wouldn't be Debian if it was on time ;-)
Daniel
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|f u cn rd ths, | Put
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:30AM +1200, Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally
> > installed
> > into the archiv
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:32:10PM -0400, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Away put your flamethrowers! I mean you no harm!
Not that there were any flamethrowers coming out, but this line was too good
to pass up.
(I think my brain has been addled from
ran but consumed essentially 100% of
my CPU time to decode a file, so doing anything else with the computer
caused breakups. I'm surprised, actually, that you don't see problems;
by that standard, shouldn't it be eating at least 50% of your CPU time?
Daniel
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is alleviated.
I think the problem is that free MP3 encoders are illegal in large areas of
the world :-(
Daniel
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|f u cn rd ths,|I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not
ating foreign characters as control characters and either
beep in protest about unbound keys or do something highly unexpected. (you can
disable this in bash, but then some other stuff (legitimate control chars)
breaks, and since I only type umlauts on the command-line very occasionally,
it wasn&#x
t?
Oh, wait, there are still people who don't use mutt. Nevermind. :)
Good luck,
Daniel
[1] actually, that's an interesting idea: GUI tools that let people embed
comments before/after specific blocks of configuration. (don't worry
about it now, but maybe eventu
f it worked.
Daniel
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| CCs of list | "So convenient a thing it is to be a|
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| welcome. |
he most naive users; the others will be able to handle the manual
configuration)
Since I'm not contributing code, though, you know what you can do with my
opinion :)
Daniel
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| This space |
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:08:17PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Erm, how many 'newbies' are going to know what a class A vs class C
> > network
> > is, or what a "gateway"
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:20:54PM +0200, Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
>
> Daniel Burrows wrote :
> > I've been thinking along these lines too, but didn't want to mention it as
> > I'm not likely to be able to help implement it.
e would include KDE when the license
changed, and are now in the process of doing that. See
http://incoming.debian.org if you don't believe me.
Actions speak louder than words (IMO), or should.
Daniel
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having to
install and configure a Web server (!!) to set up the machine, for the same
reason I object to needing a Web server to view documentation (eg, doc-central
depends on apache).
Daniel
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tes of memory"...
Daniel
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| "You see, I've already stolen the spork of wisdom |
|and the spork of courage.. together with the spork |
|of pow
timage.sourceforge.net
Dumb question: what's the distinction between this program and dd? I
assume there is one, or it wouldn't mention specific partition formats..
Daniel
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|
e. It looks like
this utility is either a dd clone or a tar clone, and I'm wondering what
the difference is between it and those programs.
Daniel
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| "You keep on using that word. I do not th
nevermind, I'm stupid. I see it on the homepage now.
Daniel, crawling into a hole in the ground for the second time in a week..
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| Hi, I'm a
when you use the standard "reply" function.
Daniel
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| "But what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a crude |
| form of natural selection. One day, a tortoise will lea
nlevel.conf.
Daniel
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| "Note that fires are not restricted to dormitories. |
| Indeed, fire can occur in off-campus residences as well." |
|
Have you tried "dpkg --remove apt-listchanges" or
"dpkg --purge apt-listchanges"?
Daniel
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| "You see, I've already stolen the spork of wisdom |
|
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> I was wondering, should I make a mass filing of bugs for those packages
> who fail to produce a proper description?
Yes, please!
Daniel
h you should be fine.
Actually, it looks like you could use ${Newline} and friends to
include multiple lines (I haven't tried this myself, though)
Daniel
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|Af
(not the problem discussed above, but still has problems
with its description)
imlib1-dev
libast2-dev
libcdaudio0-dev
libcelsius-dev
libchipcard20-dev
Daniel
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x27;s that much danger of
confusion with the alternatives system, and IMO the slight risk is
outweighed by how cumbersome the sentence above is. I think "an
alternative to GNU autoconf" is a better choice.
Daniel
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/ Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:46:19AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:15:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> >
> >>>Not all of it,
I won't be doing
any work on my Debian packages until I get back home. Please NMU them
if necessary, and don't be alarmed if I ignore non-critical bug reports
for a while!
Thanks,
Daniel
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|
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:15:10AM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> El día 30 jun 2003, Daniel Burrows escribía:
> > Just an update--
> >
> > As I mentioned previously, I am working for NASA over the summer. The
> &
r
would have better luck with that?
Daniel
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| Will the last person to leave the Universe please |
| turn off the lights and close the door?|
\-E
See debian/rules. You might also want to look at
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html, especially
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules .
[there should be better documentation, but I'm not sure what it would be]
Daniel
when case has
an agreed-upon meaning, as in Unix filenames, there may be some
justification, but when it's just haphazard, as in menu files, it should
be ignored]
There is probably an argument for consistent capitalization on
aesthetic grounds, but I'll let someone e
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-08
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: musiclibrarian
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : file:///home/daniel/programming/musiclibrarian
[will get a
, I asked for a solution in debian
> policy, without needing to edit a file, what -snapshot allowed.
> But maybe there is no other solution ?
Well, you could always make the snapshot's version larger than the
non-snapshot version. I think some packages use stuff like 1.4+cvs0.0.date.
virus?
Um, those are line counts, not byte counts. 1889 lines is about 140k
on the one I just received.
Daniel
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:44:50PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows dijo [Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:10:57PM -0400]:
> > > And I insist... Do you want to stop every mail which is (peeking at my
> > > inbox) between 1887 and 2183
w about anyone else, but if we manage to end up 14 days
behind, I'd say that the new approach to release schedules is a
resounding success. Woody was pushed back by how many months?
(which isn't to say we can't try to do better, just injecting a bit of
perspective)
Daniel
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mandations mean. It does not install Suggestions because
Suggestions are not meant to be installed by default. If you are
installing packages from contrib (which can Recommend and even Depend on
stuff in non-free), you should expect to get non-free stuff on your system.
Daniel
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/
haven't found it yet.
(d) It might be possible to make the info screen better by making it
something other than a tree. I'm not sure; this is something to
think about for a while before doing anything.
(e) I've heard about a "debtags" database sys
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:59:58PM -0500, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:09:16PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:10:21PM -0500, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > was heard to say:
>
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:34:29PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Op vr 03-10-2003, om 04:59 schreef Daniel Burrows:
> > In most cases, the garbage collection should operate without you
> > needing to know about it. (the increasing preval
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:53:33AM -0500, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On 02-Oct-03, 21:59 (CDT), Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The Users Manual starts with a section on the non-interactive interface.
> > > Huh?
>
does (assuming "unwanted" means "will
be removed when nothing depends on it")
Daniel
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| Genius may have its limitations, |
|
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:48:13PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:52:02PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > This is exactly what aptitude does (assuming "unwanted" means "will
> > be removed when noth
hing. It will be updated ~once/day.
I think you need to take virtual packages into account; apt-based stuff is
showing up in Level 1, which AIUI is wrong.
Daniel
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|"Is it
On Monday 18 July 2005 11:23 am, Mike Furr wrote:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I think you need to take virtual packages into account; apt-based stuff
> > is showing up in Level 1, which AIUI is wrong.
>
> Well, it does the best it can. It resolves all of the informati
matters for a library. Better would be
"libBar is a C library..."
...the difference being that a library can provide a C API without being
implemented in C.
Daniel
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| "Since TeX
you-know-what :P.
Daniel
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| "This is too absurd! The world can't end this stupidly!" |
| "Oh, sure it can. Have some faith."
xlibs-dev
Daniel
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pgp8CRCPSLKLB.pgp
Description: PGP signature
cluded in an update of the 2.6.8 kernel (which is being
> prepared at the moment).
I think you could resolve the packaging issue with diverts if necessary.
Daniel
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| "But what *does* kil
Daniel
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| -- Terry Pratchett
On Saturday 20 August 2005 02:20 pm, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> How does their extensive use of it explain why they would reimplement
> it?
Is there anyone who's used CVS extensively and HASN'T thought about
reimplementing it?
Daniel
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one address, and squid
> reverse proxy on another, both listening on the same port.
As I understand Brian's idea, this would just be a way of allowing daemons
to cohabitat in their default configuration. The administrator would be free
to override the defaults in any way he
case the program would not even be fit for non-free.
Doesn't "this software may be copied and distributed freely" do that? I
don't see any permission to modify the software, though...
Daniel
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n.org/debian";};
I would expect that removing the braces would do the right thing.
APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/
"http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian";;
Daniel
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|
e. :)
(I suppose a lot of it would be appropriate for aptitude-devel, but last
time I checked that had about two subscribers and one of them was me)
Daniel
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| There's nothing remarkable about it. A
anges relative to 0.2 (unstable) are:
- UTF-8 support
- A new dependency resolution algorithm
- Threading (downloads run in the background to keep the program responsive)
Daniel
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/--- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --\
| "This is
On Saturday 01 October 2005 05:57 pm, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 05:48:14PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I've just uploaded aptitude 0.3.4 to experimental. This is basically a
> > release candidate for 0.4 -- if no nasty bugs crop up, it wil
On Saturday 01 October 2005 07:07 pm, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 05:48:14PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I've just uploaded aptitude 0.3.4 to experimental. This is basically a
> > release candidate for 0.4 -- if no nasty bugs crop up, it will be
&g
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:50:26PM -0400, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> "Eduard Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >Hehe, it was my first thought about a possible solution, howerver:
> >You also need the Conflicts string. And while the dependencies/conflicts
> >are
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:10:42PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * Josselin Mouette [Tue, Oct 04 2005, 10:10:22AM]:
>
> > > Far too often people (read: newbies) get confused when they can't get
> > > *insert favorite package manager* to install the .deb's they've just
> > > downloaded.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:47:52PM -0500, Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Monday 10 October 2005 01:37 pm, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In Sid, apt-get wants to remove hotplug.
> >
> > Is udev replacing it for good or this is just b0rken?
> >
> > .Alejandro
>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:33:50AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> "Arthur H. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > First, we don't play the games, but they are inventoried, and they can't
> > be there. Second, I can, indeed, remove gnome and re-install in
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:35PM +0200, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
> > I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I
> > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to re
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:30AM +0200, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> As mentioned in [1], we've been considering switching to Recommends
> for KDE metapackges, and mention in the description about the use of
> --with-recommends.
>
> What perhaps would be really
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:25:05PM +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:30AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > Do not forget, though, that with aptitude becoming the prefered tool
> > for package management (over plain apt-get), this is no l
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:48:54AM +0200, David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Well, the problem is the widespread misuse of Recommends and Depends.
> People have a tendency to use Depends where a Recommends would be
> enough, and a Recommends where a Suggests would do the trick
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:44:32PM +0200, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> > In other words recommendations mean: "This package does not actually
> > NEED the listed packages, but it is unlikely you will want to install
> > this package without the listed package."
>
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:26:04AM -0400, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:34:21PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:35PM +0200, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> was hea
As I'm sure everyone knows, pure virtual entries in a Depends line are
strongly deprecated, due to the fact that frontends have a tendency to pick
a random provider of the package. What I'm not sure is if this is just "ugly"
or actually considered a bug. In particular, I can't remember and woul
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:55:18PM -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> As I'm sure everyone knows, pure virtual entries in a Depends line are
> strongly deprecated, due to the fact that frontends have a tendency to pick
> a random provider of the pa
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:31:00PM -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008 4:31:51 pm Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On mar, 2008-01-29 at 15:47 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > I notice, for instance, that the latest cups
> > > requires avahi. Can we
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:35:35PM +0200, Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>heroes-common
Whoops. The package started out binary-indep, then changed to binary-dep.
I remembered to start invoking dh_shlibdeps on it .
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:43:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote:
> > *** apache.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y
> > Installing new version of config file /etc/twiki/apache.conf ...
>
> > Is there a
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:53:20PM -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Wed February 20 2008 3:43:18 pm Ben Finney wrote:
> > Who other than the bug reporter would you suggest should try
> > reproducing the bug?
> >
> > Suggesting "put that effort into fixing the bugs" is
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:54:20PM +0100, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300
> Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
>
> > As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_.
> >
> > apt-get install foo bar
> >
> > Is compl
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:50:37PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > "Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Then having a unique, well-defined order of packages in Depends is a
> > > good idea. If packages are
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:49:05PM +0100, Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Le Saturday 01 March 2008 19:48:50 Christian Perrier, vous avez écrit :
> > If someone cares to listen: when you think about ITPing each and every
> > piece of FLOSS that pops around: think about *help
Hi,
I'm the maintainer of libsigc++-2.0, a typesafe callback library for
C++. Upstream has just released a new version, 2.2, which preserves the
version 2.0 ABI but is not source-compatible: programs that compiled
against the 2.0 series will break with this new release. There are 114
package
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Alle 14:57, mar 11 marzo 2008, Andreas Bombe ha scritto:
> > It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all installed packages
> > that aren't in any distribution included in sources.list under "Obso
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:21:45AM -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > I guess there's an inequality like:
> >
> > images on mirrors <= images on torrents <= images via jigdo
>
> Is there any way we can construct the torr
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:38:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Le Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Joe Smith a écrit :
> > >On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > >>
> > >>apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar.
>
> > I will s
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:21:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Le Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows a écrit :
> >
> > BTW, aptitude already supports non-recursively installing Suggests, and
> > flagging them
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:17:24AM -0400, Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick
> from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1
> pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-brows
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:05:24AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> One option you have is to run "aptitude why -v imagemagick iceape-browser",
> which will show you all the possible dependency chains between those
> packages.
O
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:38:51PM -0400, Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Aha, why -v helped indeed. One note about it though:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bd] aptitude why -v imagemagick iceape-browser
> p imagemagick Dependslibmagick10
> p libmagick10 Dependsl
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to have a list which Recommends are ignored/overridden
> > the most when installing packages, to identify Recommends that need to be
> > downgraded to Suggests.
I notice that pwsafe is linked against openssl. Is it affected by the
recent debacle and if so, how? Do I need to regenerate all my
randomized passwords, or somehow re-encrypt the pwsafe database?
Thanks,
Daniel
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscri
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 03:48:03PM +0200, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> 0==0
> Info for debian-devel: we try to figure out how to package figtoipe.
> Before version 6.0pre30-1, a version of figtoipe was
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:07:04PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> A saner solution would be to only use the BTS when it's not possible
> to discuss the patch with upstream. We could do the following:
>
> - add pseudo-headers in the patches for:
> + URL of the bug
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:46:13PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I notice that pwsafe is linked against openssl. Is it affected by the
> > recent debacle and if so, how? Do I need to regenerate all my
> &g
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:17:44PM +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> James Vega wrote:
> > As of version 0.4.11, this does happen. From the NEWS file:
> > * Command-line updates in aptitude will now list packages that are
> > newly obsolete. This doesn't work when a
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:01:20PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Is this something to do with apt/dpkg?
If you recommend a pure virtual package, apt will pick an arbitrary
provider (IIRC the first one that occurs in its internal cache) to
fulfill the dependenc
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:31:22AM -0400, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Frans Pop wrote:
>
> > Dependencies should in principle be "top down", not "bottom up". And
> > defining dependencies from libs to apps is almost per definition "bottom
> > up".
>
> As a nice experim
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:16:39PM +0200, Martin Boer was
heard to say:
> On this system I installed a squeeze chroot using the following command:
>
> debootstrap squeeze /chroot/squeeze-x64-lighttpd-chroot
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
>
> This works as expected but when I stop the chroot,
I agree with Eugene: the spec as presented is flawed. All package
management tools (you forgot to list dpkg) treat Depends-satisfaction
as an invariant, and there isn't really a compelling reason for this
to change. The wording you present is a little confusing, but once
you work through it, it
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
> > The intent is to let users disable a udev rule by removing the symlink, or
> > reorder a rule to a different number by renaming the symlink. Putting a
> > rules
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:55:40PM +0200, "Mgr. Peter Tuharsky" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> Debian developers often see "Ubuntu the enemy" and are mocking it as
> inferior technology. However, they fail to see, what does the Debian
> really offer to desktop users eventually. They fai
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:29:16 +0200
> Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My problem with the current situation that you either do the policy of
> > always
> > installing such stuff or you do
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:50:06AM -0600, Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 08:03, Howard Young wrote:
> > Thank you for this link. I have read the information but it seems not to
> > have a specific option for what I want.
>
> If you use aptitude for eve
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:29:56PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
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> Howard Young escribió:
> > looking through the list I now see that may be quite possible to achieve
> > what I wanted using, some sort of
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:19:28PM -0400, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> It was really hard for me to switch to using aptitude, but now since I
> have, I get annoyed when I use apt-get, although I use apt-get regularly
> on a certain machine. I'd still like to use aptitude, b
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