Re: d-i using kexec

2004-10-28 Thread Darren Salt
dev/hda1 to be mounted as /boot if you want to do this from Linux. In the MBR, there's no loader program to worry about ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www

Re: Which 2.6 kernel for Sarge on a Via C3?

2004-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ron Johnson may or may not have written... [snip] > But really, does the kernel use MMX? Here, at least: linux/arch/i386/lib/memcpy.c -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Darren Salt
b? AIUI, main. I'd only say contrib if *all* of the hardware with which it works requires a firmware upload in order to be useful. [1] Go on, use gxine. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Darren Salt
as ARM7 code, and generally > "thumb" (the 8-bit ARM instructions). No. THUMB is a 16-bit instruction set. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Josh Triplett may or may not have written... [snip] > This criteria covers "These criteria cover", surely - unless you mean "criterion" :-\ -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
time-based charges on a dial-up account I'd say that a local cache is needed, though whether it's used should be up to the local admin. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got Shearer, you haven't Since you're going to die anyway, can we use you as a shield?

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:42:07PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >>> Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> Tha

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
bad as a bad > equipped mail server. Thus, Rumsfeld's words are applicable here, as Thomas > want to do. No. I think that his words were about a badly equipped army (relatively speaking), not a bad, equipped army... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, s

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
None at all, but you may want to tweak things in /etc/modprobe.d/ instead. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... rm -rf /

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] >> Fetch every time and fetch once. That looks like a difference to me... > How could

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:22:20PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] >>>&

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Darren Salt
be, without thinking much about it at all). > Considering that the line above says "to access the real /dev > directory", I think that the message is very clear. I also say s/remove/unmount and remove/. [1] There's a RISC OS *command "remove" which will delete

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-16 Thread Darren Salt
ardware was in use - all SA110. "All" that it needs is somebody with an Iyonix http://www.iyonix.com/> or some other XScale-based machine to step forward... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | T

Re: Dropping testing (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-16 Thread Darren Salt
sting. Updating an installation from unstable over a dial-up connection isn't /quite/ what I want...) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon

Re: about Nybbles : how to keep all those archs releasable complying with the Vancouver Project

2005-03-16 Thread Darren Salt
be quite likely to set it up as a dual-boot machine. Perhaps one day, when I can get hold of one second-hand to replace this Risc PC... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army |

Re: Dropping testing (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-16 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Adrian Bunk may or may not have written... > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Adrian Bunk may or may not have written... >> [snip] >>> And without testing, all these transition problems wouldn't exist. >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-18 Thread Darren Salt
to bootstrap > them trivially. Desktop ARM-based machines: http://www.iyonix.com/> Will run Debian: http://www.iyonix.com/linux.html> [snip] > I'm speaking only for myself; please, cure my naivety. The above links should help :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | lin

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Darren Salt
This, however, is a small system with 10 email >> How do you define dialup systems and tell dialup systems from other >> systems? > There is a database where ISPs can register the ranges they assign for > dialup users. Isn't that for dynamic-IP dial-up only?

Re: question towards "freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages"

2005-12-11 Thread Darren Salt
his where supported in order to avoid unnecessary direct linkage against libatk etc. (pulled in through libgtk2.0-dev's pkgconfig file), although since I added this after 0.4.8, the current official .debs have those unnecessary dependencies. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashi

Re: ldd -u (Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages)

2005-12-11 Thread Darren Salt
ng to Henning Makholm's "libneeded" lintian check: [snip] A link would have been nice, although this happens to be trivially findable. For the record, it's the subject of http://bugs.debian.org/340934>. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| y

udev event completion order (was: Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting))

2005-12-17 Thread Darren Salt
oaded could help? I think that ordering by bus address or kernel device name could help here. Of course, adding some modules may trigger another round of events, causing more modules to be loaded, but this shouldn't be a problem - it should be just another batch of events to be buffe

Re: udev event completion order

2005-12-21 Thread Darren Salt
arallel > (i.e., since linux-2.6.??) because device ordering will be random. Please > create an initramfs that mounts the root device using some stable > attribute, like label or UUID. That'd be "stable and duplicatable", and I fully expect somebody to run into that sooner or late

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-29 Thread Darren Salt
are as stable as they have always been. Which is, in itself, good. > ONLY rules using %e (the /dev/cdrom-like aliases) are unreliable. I remember them being reliable. Sacrificing their reliability at the altar of boot speed (AIUI) wasn't really a good idea... [snip] -- | Darren Sal

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-29 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Benjamin Seidenberg may or may not have written... [snip] > I read 120.000 as 120 dollars, I'm not used to the European '.' as the > seperator, but the US ','. Hmm? You'd better file a bug against locales wrt en_GB, then ;-) -- | Darren Salt

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-30 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written... > On Dec 29, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I remember [%e etc.] being reliable. Sacrificing their reliability at the >> altar of boot speed (AIUI) wasn't really a good idea... > No reliabilit

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-30 Thread Darren Salt
software" is not. The same goes for *anything* else which has some sort of sequential numbering as part of its device name. I've mentioned sound devices a few times; yes, that's more annoying than critical, but the cause (AIUI) is the same. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920

2006-01-12 Thread Darren Salt
.org, email > received automatically notifies the sender of the above info. That /may/ be useful, but it's also another potential black hole, whether the messages are sent to a person ("not enough time") or to a list. And, as we know, lists can easily become SEP generators: just ad

Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

2006-03-02 Thread Darren Salt
needed=yes, ac_cv_ld_asneeded=no) AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_ld_asneeded]) test x"$ac_cv_ld_asneeded" = xyes || LDFLAGS="$ac_SAVE_LDFLAGS" (I've not looked at the package, though.) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmu

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Andreas Tille may or may not have written... > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Gustavo Franco wrote: >> What's wrong with us ? > It is wrong that somebody who would like to work is stopped to do his work > by others. You mean "stopped from doing". (Common non-na

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Darren Salt
>> and that we should all be friends? > If I were a crazier man I would say something like: >"The end is neigh!" Careful. You might shout yourself horse. ;-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,d

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Darren Salt
uess this is really the wrong place to ask for "we use these machines" > answers instead of "we develop for these machines", but hey. I don't think that there's any need to *guess*... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmus

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... > Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... >>> Put them behind a firewall on a trusted LAN, use them to develop software >>> for arm chips, and then just follow unsta

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Bill Gatliff may or may not have written... > Not my preference to jump in the middle of something, but... It's not my preference to be Cc'd, particularly when I'd set the Mail-Followup-To header accordingly... :-\ [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, |

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread Darren Salt
the new source package format couldn't be used in etch > already? Back-porting to sarge using tools in sarge? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | T

Re: Bits from the DAMs ( & Co)

2005-04-02 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ritesh Raj Sarraf may or may not have written... > April Fool! Presumably self-referential for top-posting and quoting the whole text... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-03 Thread Darren Salt
via xine-devel that he's busy). I'll prepare an NMU if somebody will sponsor it, preferably uploading it to some suitable DELAYED queue. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-03 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Andreas Barth may or may not have written... [snip] > perhaps replacing maintainers with bugs is a good idea). I'm not so sure. What do the bugs know about package maintenance? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmust

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
SCId=4202&articleId=218626> That says "early 2005", yet the date is 1/28/2005 == 1/4/2007 - hmm, it must be a future April Fool... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS

Bug#305106: gxine: 0.4.3 available (fixes RC bug)

2005-04-17 Thread Darren Salt
Package: gxine Version: 0.4.1-1 gxine 0.4.3 contains fixes for several bugs, most of which are not in the Debian BTS; most importantly, I believe that it fixes the RC bug (no. 289412). I'd quite like this to be in sarge. Siggi, are you too busy to upload it? -- | Darren Salt | linux (

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Darren Salt
ss-often used architectures we event dont need to care, since one or two > mirrors can easyly hold a stable archive and serve it. Two or three, with sufficient geographical separation? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoki

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-16 Thread Darren Salt
nk should go into sarge - tell me and I'll (probably) tell you why it should :-) (It's probably still safe to assume that the maintainer doesn't have enough time to prepare and upload the package.) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberl

Re: Linux / Debian / Ubuntu

2005-05-31 Thread Darren Salt
GMT; also see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm>. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys)

Re: Linux / Debian / Ubuntu

2005-06-01 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephen Birch may or may not have written... > Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49: >> For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one more >> at 01:05 GMT; also see >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Darren Salt
quot;Mako" Hill) > And for the record, the extent of my cabalistic work so far has been > limited to editorial, ahem, *grammatical* changes to a couple DPL reports. > ;) You mean "a couple _of_ DPL reports". ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarg

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Darren Salt
one S3 ViRGE), that's VESA driver territory. (No lockup problems, though - at least, not that I recall...) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the poun

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-13 Thread Darren Salt
ts (older macs, >> probably m68k too). > Looks like they should use floppy + netboot then. An install on a Risc PC can be done without any removable installation media, although it's possible that the newer or less common Ethernet cards aren't supported. -- | Darren

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-13 Thread Darren Salt
ause too many problems? [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Say NO to software patents Academy: A modern school where football is taught. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-20 Thread Darren Salt
w minutes. You don't want to run with a wrong clock for hours > or even days. Maybe ntp, ntpdate etc. should recommend adjtimex? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Arm

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-21 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Andrew Suffield may or may not have written... > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:22:08PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Florian Weimer may or may not have written... >>> * Olaf van der Spek: >>>>> You should set the clock using NTP *b

Re: (Re)Build problem with g++ 4.0

2005-07-07 Thread Darren Salt
eturn a > value in a non-void function. Not in this case: pthread_exit has the "noreturn" attribute, so gcc/g++ won't complain. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-10 Thread Darren Salt
ed down to switch to a text console though... You want Alt-SysRq-R (after which you should be able to switch to a text VT) or a serial or network console. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | d

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
HAHAHAHA! > Easily. Heh. You should be a comedian. Actually, yes, it *should* be easy: "debian/rules patch". Bwahahaha, as they say. :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | A

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written... > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:52:09PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written... >>> I've given up on this thread, but I just have to say one thing: >>> On

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Salt
Fortran compilers, etc. etc. etc. even for pure C projects. > This is a libtool bug. I'm using the following workaround for gxine (due to the browser plugin): m4_undefine([AC_PROG_CXX]) m4_defun([AC_PROG_CXX],[]) m4_undefine([AC_PROG_F77]) m4_defun([AC_PROG_F77],[]) before invokin

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Hendrik Sattler may or may not have written... [snip] > 64bit kernels are not available in the i386 archive. That makes the 64bit > libs rather useless, doesn't it? No - you could be using a locally-built 64-bit kernel. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at

Re: Status of IPW3945 (Was: IPW3945)

2006-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
too late already :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Exam is a four-letter word for torture... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
e newsgroup mirror, particularly when the list address Just Works and extra configuration is required for the newsgroup. Of course, if you're using mail software which doesn't know about Followup-To or has separate mail and news followup commands, this isn't a problem... [snip] --

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-13 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... [snip] > So again I propose that instead of listing features, policy should just > say "maintainer scripts must work with bash, dash [and probably a 3rd > alternative]". busybox? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds a

Re: default ext3 options

2006-11-14 Thread Darren Salt
ck -D on it afterwards. No problems as a result. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. If you can put Wi

Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?

2006-11-30 Thread Darren Salt
ose reassigned bugs still be listed (under a "reassigned" heading)? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Say NO to UK ID cards. http://www.no2id.net/ Invention: the solar

Re: Iceweasel extensions lacking links migrating from firefox. Mass bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Darren Salt
[snip] > iceweasel-dom-inspector See bug 399631. A workaround is provided there. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DI

Re: Bug#402622: bug still not fixed

2006-12-15 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Modestas Vainius may or may not have written... [snip] > Incorrect permissions prevent a user to format removable media Hmm? Preventing a user is required for formatting? :-) s/to format/from formatting/ -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | T

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread Darren Salt
ed "the alphabet". ;-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Release Date Update

2006-03-28 Thread Darren Salt
ay indoors in the > evenings. Probably. Or maybe the rest of the day too, if you're *really* lucky. > Lets better hurry, freeze now, Were there less cloud cover here right now, probably. ;-) > release by June, and go looney during Summertime! "That's all, folks!&

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Salt
ime to do so for delta packages; cleaning out old packages immediately before update or after an upgrade (or at least after the new versions are cached) seem to be the best options and should still allow the maximum improvement. > The mirrors replication could really benefit from that though. Seem

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Salt
Of course, you need all the maintainer scripts etc in the > diffdeb, but not all the regular files. I wouldn't like to rely on the admin not having modified any of the package's files (/etc aside). Yes, this shouldn't happen, but it does :-) Of course, if you're running md5s

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-08 Thread Darren Salt
its special effects handling for linedefs with tags >= 900. OTOH, glbsp has support for OpenGL-based Doom engines such as EDGE (which depends on the library component of glbsp). Note that I have packages for etch and sid, too :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-17 Thread Darren Salt
t it seems reasonable to me that the newer one will have to include the changelog from the older one and, therefore, must have a higher version number. Otherwise, which binNMU changelog entry you get is a matter of chance, and entries may even be lost in later uploads. -- | Darren Salt| linux

Re: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?

2006-05-18 Thread Darren Salt
that package. [...] Maybe... just installing the build-depends with any necessary marking as automatically installed would be good enough - possibly regardless of whether they're explicitly mentioned as build-dependencies? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon

Re: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?

2006-05-18 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I demand that Matthias Julius may or may not have written... >> [snip] >>> I think a more elegant solution would be if aptitude had a command to >>

Bug#368221: ITP: glbsp -- nodes builder for Doom engine level files (has GL support)

2006-05-20 Thread Darren Salt
glbsp-dev. http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.sid.html> -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 => avoid massive flooding.TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. You mig

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Darren Salt
ave to buy a new passport on top of my ID card just for that. I don't even have _one_ if you discount an old student card or two. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-07 Thread Darren Salt
t; warnings can be found in 1600 packages [4]; they are: [4] >> http://people.debian.org/~tbm/logs/pointer/ > Here is a list of maintainers and their packages which exhibit such > warnings: [snip] > Darren Salt > libjsw 1:1.5.5-1 Will look at - hmm, 1.5.6 is available... [snip

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-07 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Henning Makholm may or may not have written... [snip] > But I don't think I have ever used ls from an interactive shell _without_ > the -a flag. I use -A rather than -a - it filters out "." and "..". -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... [snip] > But other sources pass a pointer as int and there you loose 32 valuable > bits and get a segfault when the int is used as pointer again. [...] And here's me thinking that you lose them. :-) -- | Darren Salt

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-10 Thread Darren Salt
o rumors I heard, it was allowed in since other applications > (xine at least, I think) already included it. So it didn't really make a > difference -- if we're infringing on patents with ffmpeg, we are with xine > as well. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/libff

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-13 Thread Darren Salt
pt* with an install-from-local-package command or adaptation of the install command? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got Shearer, you haven't I'd like

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Darren Salt
. (Closes: #178492). No argument there either from me, so long as the bug being closed is about there being a new upstream version, and the uploaded package is that or a newer version. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RIS

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Darren Salt
> information from there. That and/or search the list archive. But having a build date in the (processed) package control file would mean that the information, or at least a snapshot of it, is available off-line as well. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sa

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

2003-06-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Dan Jacobson may or may not have written... > I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the > package justice by giving an adequate description. "I have here a 20K package. Should it have a 1/3-line description?" ;-) -- | Darren Salt

Re: NEWS.Debian support is here

2003-07-08 Thread Darren Salt
>> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured to >> only display news, if the user wants (more useful for stable users). > Kick ASS. What has that poor donkey done to you to deserve such a kicking? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington

Re: ITA: yadex -- WAD file editor for doom-style WADs

2003-07-25 Thread Darren Salt
do this but mumble...) > I've packaged it, changed changelog, and closed the remaining bug > (#138072). 1.6.0? If not, now's as good a time as any :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephen Frost may or may not have written... [snip] > and a consensus reached which approves of the application and it's > needs. ? Almost: s/'// :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
s setgid games, though it could equally well have its own uid and be run setuid. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
27;talks SMTP') are generally not very useful. How about "acts as an SMTP client, acts as an SMTP server, queues mail for local delivery or for forwarding to another server"? Or /something/ like that... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbe

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... [snip] > PS: a hot day or what? If you call 20°C hot, then yes, it has been a hot day ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | de

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-07 Thread Darren Salt
ssary > functionality. > For most people, disks are cheap. Time isn't. Just out of interest, what are your assumptions wrt costs associated with downloading? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northum

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-08 Thread Darren Salt
, though there's one /small/ problem wrt portability: it's in ARM assembly language... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.u

Re: [Fwd: False Representation at Google.com]

2003-09-08 Thread Darren Salt
ld have noticed the gravitational effects by now... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... As the dyslexic Jedi said, "Sith happens."

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... [snip] > I would have suggested using > kernel-hurt-image ^ Ouch. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon

Re: New appearance of bugs on BTS web pages

2005-08-13 Thread Darren Salt
owsers need the space in "" (for example) else they'll fail to recognise it. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Kill all extremists! I'd like to, but I&

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Darren Salt
n > README. README isn't unreasonable, but I see that there is some usage of BUGS for this. A few packages differ here, using different names: groff-base (BUG-REPORT) and apsfilter (HOWTO-BUGREPORTS). [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumb

Re: To Linux or not to Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Darren Salt
aining references to "GNU/Linux". > We'd also have to rename packages that use the term "Linux" in a > non-descriptive way (linuxsampler, linuxtrade, and probably a few more). "leenookssampler", "leenookstrade" etc.? :-) -- | Darren Salt | nr

Re: [libsmjs-dev]: Missing files

2005-09-18 Thread Darren Salt
got build failure reports about this when I deprecated gxine's internal copy.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... The sur

Bug#329833: BTS "fixed" tag: RC-buggy packages may end up in testing due to NMU

2005-09-23 Thread Darren Salt
cepted and these bugs were tagged by 'katie' as "fixed" on 9 Sept, 13:47 -0700. Later, 0.4.1-1 made its way into testing. It looks like this simple tagging as "fixed" is insufficient (version information is needed) or is occurring too early. -- | Darren Salt

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-20 Thread Darren Salt
s of other distributions... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Retrocomputing: a PC card in a Risc PC Would it help if I got out and pushed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: pbuilder help (bug 334877)

2005-10-21 Thread Darren Salt
consumed with tracing > fonts, not compiling C code. :( A uuencoded tarball of the generated files would appear to be useful here. (You'll probably want tar's -m option when unpacking.) Or have you already tried this? [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. As

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:15:28AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I can see potential problems with that last part regarding upstream >> developers whose software happens to depend on packages for which >> pkg-config s

/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib etc. in various packages [bug 336698]

2005-10-31 Thread Darren Salt
obert Jordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ardour-gtk-dbg Sebastien Bacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libglib2.0-0-dbg libgtk2.0-0-dbg Takuo KITAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libnautilus-extension1-dbg nautilus-dbg -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashin

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-06 Thread Darren Salt
tered while testing another > piece of Debian software. ARgghh! > Using apt-cacher... # pbuilder update Wait for a few seconds, press Ctrl-Z # nano /var/cache/pbuilder/build/*/etc/apt/sources.list # fg Where's the problem? :-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or d

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