I'll be busy

1999-09-24 Thread Darren O. Benham
Ok, people... I'm moving to a new job in a new city in a new state (same country, though). I'm not sure how much connectivity I'll have until I get settled. So, for the next week or two, I will be slow to respond and sorta (possibly) outta touch. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, als

Re: Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Darren O. Benham
Personally, I was looking forward to this program... On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:21:52PM +0900, Keita Maehara wrote: > There might be a strong objection from others too, so I'll withdraw > this ITP for now, not because it's useless but I have much more work > (not so much as you though) to do for D

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-27 Thread Darren O. Benham
I've been saying the same thing now for a while... I get peeved at some of the > normal bugs I've seen reported.. On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:33:39AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities talks about bug severities: > > critical > makes unrelated softwar

Re: /usr/share/doc?

1999-09-28 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:19:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 03:35:12PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > >package itself due to problems with dpkg. One reasonable way to > > accomplish > >this is to put the following in the package's postinst: > >

Bug Reports and Upstream Authors

2000-03-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 100 16:41:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "Darren O. Benham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" at Mar 17, 0 01:06:06

[dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
Here is one more response that I got from the gentleman - Forwarded message from "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dar

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:42:16PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I'm cross-posting to debian-gtk-gnome since we are trying to organize > an effort to update GNOME for slink. > > > > It'd also be nice to get GNOME for slink out too. All that really > > > needs to be done is to b

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:06:24PM -0700, David Bristel wrote: > It seems to me that since there will always be patches and updates to packages > between releases, and since we have the "proposed" updates, perhaps we could > add an "updates" area, in addition to the non-free, contrib, and main > s

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-16 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did that, the 2.2.7 and > > 2.2.8 would never have come out because work had already begun on the 2.3

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine > are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. > Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): > > conf > gtkic

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give > out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs > on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary > as fr

Re: How to handle the jargon file?

1999-05-26 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:43:11PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Eric S. Raymond has released version 4.1.2 of the jargon file, but it is not > released in info format. The text version is broken, it does not work > correctly with Volks-hypertext browser and the spacing is messed up. > > ESR's perf

Re: How to handle the jargon file?

1999-05-26 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:16:37PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > The main thing I don't want to see change is the current "jargon" command. > I'm used to being able to type "jargon foo" and get to the definition of > foo. I don't really care if it continues to use info, or some other viewer, > just so

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:18:54PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All @bugs.debian.org will accept PGP/GPG clearsigned and most forms of > > > > mime > > > > formated email. Most? Let me put it this way, I havn't found one that > > > > it > > > > b

Expired Bugs

1999-09-20 Thread Darren O. Benham
Well.. as of the past few days.. expired bugs are archived instead of deleted. Now... from the main bug page... you can request these bugs by either the bug number, or by package name. For the time being, there is also a list of packages with entries into the archive.. also linked from the ma