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

2005-06-09 Thread David Pashley
> recoding between different locales. (And that is needed, since IRC > doesn't have a charset concept and there are still loads and loads of > users out there with clients which interpret everything as Latin1.) > One of the new features of irssi 0.8.10 (when it gets released) is

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-09 Thread David Nusinow
Org, in the future. I share Daniel's ambition to have up to date X packages in Debian, and I plan to work to make this a reality so that we don't have these kinds of discussions in the future. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a more thorny relationship between Debian and Ubuntu

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-09 Thread David Nusinow
27;t have that many people working on it, so you guys can't be everywhere at once, but having Daniel helping from one side and Branden from the other has been enormously beneficial to this X newbie in getting these packages moving. The fact that it's a personal touch from each, rather than just an automated BTS mail, really does go a long way, and I'm enormously grateful for it. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X.org l10n (was: Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?)

2005-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:15:39AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > David, this reminds me that the x.org packages probably need some big > push when it comes at their l10n for debconf stuff. > > Indeed, I intend to add the "whatever X thing etch will use by > default"

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

2005-06-11 Thread David Weinehall
ly. Unless there are some radical changes, there won't be more than 6-8 new kernels released 18 months from now. So we're more looking at 2.6.20. I totally agree about goes 2.6.xx full out, however. 2.6.11 is already pretty stable, 2.6.12 promise to be even more so. Regards: David

Re: Debian menu update and /usr/share/menu transition

2005-06-15 Thread David Weinehall
ople.debian.org/~ballombe/menu-snapshot> Sounds great! Do you have a list of the translations available, so that people who's language is missing can submit a translation? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread David Pashley
Can we not add this to another package under games? It is rather small and doesn't serve a significant amount of functionality. david% wc -l *.c 746 ef.c 71 shuffle.c 817 total -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

X.Org transition and xlibs-static-* issues

2005-07-02 Thread David Nusinow
ting your packages if you prefer. - David Nusinow [0] http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ [1] http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/xlibs-static-dev.txt [2] Add "deb http://people.debian.org/~dnusinow/xorg ./" to your sources.list. The sources are also available in this archive

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

2005-07-08 Thread David Pashley
rade ucf 1.18 2.000 2005-07-09 01:17:23 upgrade libavc1394-0 0.5.0-2 0.5.1-1 2005-07-09 01:17:24 upgrade ssh 1:4.1p1-5 1:4.1p1-6 What else am I missing? Does apt-history hook into /etc/apt/apt.conf or just a wrapper around dpkg.log? -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stul

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

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
n my opinion this should be so easy as > possible to everyone. Not everybody is familiar with grep > etc. but apt-history show should be no problem. > > Regards Nico function apt-history () { grep " $1 " /var/log/dpkg.log } -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de

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

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:22, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: > Hallo David, > > * David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-09 13:20]: > > On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: > > > > Coreutils is required. Why is the abil

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

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
n their package. People are against creating yet another package when > the functionality clearly belongs inside an existing one. > I'm wondering if this wouldn't be better added as a feature to aptitude/synaptic, as people who would use apt-get or dpkg would probably know grep.

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

2005-07-10 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 10, 2005 at 07:01, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm wondering if this wouldn't be better added as a feature to > > aptitude/synaptic, as people who would use apt-get or dpkg would >

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

2005-07-10 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 10, 2005 at 12:26, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: > David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The backend does have it. It logs the information. Higher level tools just > > need to read the file in and display it. Why add grep functiona

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread David Nusinow
th your name by it! Let's use this page to show people what's actually happening in Debian, so they don't have to trawl through a zillion bug reports, mailing lists, and irc channels just to hear what we plan to do. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-07-31 Thread David Nusinow
r and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for serious work. In terms of failed tools, yada seems to generate a lot of dislike. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ir-kbd-gpio.ko missing from kernel images

2006-07-31 Thread David Shepherd
Hi All I'm trying to get the infra-red remote control working on my MythTV box and can't find the correct module (ir-kbd-gpio) So, can anyone tell me where I can find, or how I can compile the ir-kbd-gpio.ko module. The module is part of the bttv video4linux driver but the ir-kbd-gpio.c source

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:08:06PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Aug 01, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Also, pbuilder and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for > >

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:44:19PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.01.0005 +0100]: > > Subversion, in conjunction with alioth, has risen dramatically in > > Debian to accomodate team-based maintainance. There are of

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:56:44PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * David Nusinow [Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:37:23 +]: > > > (I'm seriously > > interested in setting up git.debian.org for XSF work, for example*), > > > * If anyone else is interested in this, contact

Re: Two versions of pan in etch?

2006-08-03 Thread David Weinehall
at least add a postinst script that does the migration), then I'm all for a switch to the new version. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-09 Thread David Nusinow
loyed in Debian. Admittedly, I do few NMU's though, so I could be missing things. But I did investigate a large number of patch systems for use with xorg and they all had this in common. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#382994: ITP: rebase -- The restriction enzyme database, from New England Biolabs

2006-08-14 Thread David Nusinow
somewhere in your distribution, that's fine." First off, I'm excited about this package. But does this actually allow for modification and redistribution? By "use the data however they'd like", does that include modification, or is it just reading the data? - David

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:28:58PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:56:44PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > * David Nusinow [Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:37:23 +]: > > > > > > > (I'

Why no /usr/local/etc in Debian?

2006-08-15 Thread David Bruce
mply go ahead and create /usr/local/etc? 2. Shouldn't Debian systems already have this directory to be FHS-compliant? -- David Bruce

Re: Bug#382994: ITP: rebase -- The restriction enzyme database, from New England Biolabs

2006-08-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:39:36PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:44:59PM +0000, David Nusinow a écrit : > > > > First off, I'm excited about this package. But does this actually allow for > > modification and redistribution? By "u

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread David Goodenough
n to another. One option that has occurred to me is to establish a group which is allowed to edit /etc/network/interfaces. The obvious problem with this is the up and down commands, which allow any program to be run as root. Fortunately there is an answer, which is to use the "macro"

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-22 Thread David Nusinow
is what I'd consider the appropriate fix. Just do another upload straight away and you don't even need to bother an ftpmaster. It's what I would have done if I'd been awake. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-22 Thread David Nusinow
he upload of > xorg-server (xserver-xorg-core) 1:1.1.1-3, accidentally uploaded to > unstable instead of experimental. An easy enough mistake, it's only > one little field in a changelog file. Crap. Sorry everyone. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-24 Thread David Goodenough
robably the most likely to use complicated connection setups, they typically have multiple interfaces and are using them all at once. David > > -Miles > -- > `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so > comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
Even if we don't autodetect and download the non-free X drivers, Debian will support people's video cards on newer hardware when it's released. This, along with providing SATA support out of the box, should go a long way towards solving this issue in the short term. - David Nusinow

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread David Nusinow
e. Deferring to Ubuntu for this work is the worst sort of defeatist nonsense and I will not to bow to it. I like collaborating with the Ubuntu people, but I refuse to compromise my own work or Debian as a project just so that they can excel. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks for the work

2006-09-03 Thread David Barker
ch are all things that I struggled to do under Linux before. In fact to be honest I was just testing the new version to see what it was like but its so good I have no problems at all sticking with it and ditching windows completely on my PC! Thanks again, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Extended partition creation policy ?

2006-09-07 Thread David Balazic
s) As we see, the "small extended partition" is a debianism. Notes : "entire disk" means "entire disk minus the part used by the primary partition" "only used part of disk" means "the space used by the logical partition" Regards, David

RE: Extended partition creation policy ?

2006-09-07 Thread David Balazic
say so. Regards, David > -Original Message- > From: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:53 PM > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Cc: David Balazic > Subject: Re: Extended partition creation policy ? > > > Hello

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-24 Thread David Nusinow
ll probably end up following the same pattern as is decided for libc. I'd rather not diverge, especially if the solution used for libc is the correct one. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread David Goodenough
us far is my Locale issues...but I can't see > that causing this issue. Well it might be relevant (the Locale bit that is) as I too get endless messages about locale not being set so using default C locale. I have set LC_ALL to "en_GB" and locale -a lists en_GB as an a

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-08 Thread David Nusinow
es. The feature is named 'XACE' and will ship with 7.2. We'll be shipping 7.1 with etch, but this is something we should exploit when 7.2 hits unstable. - David "I know nothing about SELinux" Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-13 Thread David Nusinow
worked better for me than positron since day 1, and it does continue to see updates. It'd be nice to have NDBM packaged for Debian and in the archive (though not critical, since jar files are easy enough to deal with) if someone with java skillz is interested. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBS

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-17 Thread David Nusinow
on mechanisms so that this doesn't happen. One of my target goals is to work on this post-etch, and happily upstream is working hard on it as well. If people want to help with this issue, please follow up to debian-x. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-17 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:27:46PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:56:00PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:36:42AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > What's really needed is better help for newbies dumped une

New source package

2006-10-19 Thread David Moore
Hi, I have developed some new software, an audioscrobbler client for last.fm, which I would like to see included, probably under Multimedia. It consists of two simple C source files - how do I go about getting it included in Debian? Cheers, David. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http

Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

2006-10-28 Thread David Nusinow
svn repo, although shawn hasn't finished packaging emerald yet, which appears to be the missing piece. > As for cgwd, I presume that also became something in the beryl > packages (beryl-manager?) and so is being packaged as part of the > beryl packaging. I don't know what cgwd

Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

2006-10-28 Thread David Nusinow
have to be? I just installed the packages from the XSF svn repo and beryl worked out of the box, once I enabled composite. This is pretty minimal. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

2006-10-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:27:47PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:50:13PM -0400, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 02:30:19PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > If we're going to ship xorg wit

Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

2006-10-29 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:43:07PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Samstag 28 Oktober 2006 20:30 schrieb David Nusinow: > > For etch+1, I'm planning on making it enabled by default and doing away > > with most of the debconf stuff anyway though. > > AFAIK this can b

Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

2006-10-29 Thread David Nusinow
hese new functionalities are really ready to be enabled by > default. > > > Btw, i like the debconf suggestion too. > > Only if the question is only asked at lower debconf priorities and still > have sensible defaults. Definitely. - David Nusinow [0] I'd love some fe

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-31 Thread David Weinehall
gram. Isn't there a risk of causing double work? Person A reports spam, Blars removes it Person B reports the same spam, Blars checks again - no spam found Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~

Re: libXft1 for xorg...

2006-10-31 Thread David Nusinow
ream. You'll probably have to do the modularization yourself if you want to have it done though. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-12 Thread David Weinehall
ain including dependencies) and speed of execution. For all of these, dash is a far better choice than bash. I wouldn't give up bash bash on any of my desktop systems - it's a really nice shell to do work in - but all scripts I write can be run using any of the SuSv3-compliant shells ava

Re: Status of IPW3945 (Was: IPW3945)

2006-11-12 Thread David Weinehall
the next firmware version is out; that way we'll avoid the binary only regulatory daemon. See the following post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=116226285115407&w=1 Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-13 Thread David Weinehall
the GFDL debacle a manual I could easily refer to, ... The SuSv3 is to be considered as POSIX these days, so it's available for free (and even packaged in Debian...) PS: The equality operator is =. RegardS: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-13 Thread David Weinehall
ably a 3rd > > alternative]". > > busybox? Such a requirement would at least be wonderful for us embedded developers... Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-whit

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:11:27PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 14, David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > busybox? > > Such a requirement would at least be wonderful for us embedded developers... > But hardly practical, IIRC there ar

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
p of people that caused it to fail... > Before this there was a widely agree definition of what > /bin/sh needs to support and almost no bugs related to this. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
guess, as long as we get rid of crap like [[ ]], <, >, -nt, -ot, -ef, $RANDOM, $"...", read -e, declare, typeset, function (augh, I cannot understand why bash even introduced that one), let, source (again, completely pointless), pushd, popd, &>, {}... I can probably come up wit

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
d help to be reminded that I can't really > depend on very much of the semantics of local from any specific > implementation. > > fname () { > local a # keep it simple > a='' # initialize the variable > .... use a ... > } > is the only s

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-15 Thread David Weinehall
a sort of > blessing to using an absolute path in this situation, since coreutils test > is not quite "any other program that one would expect to be on the PATH" > simply because in this case the shell isn't going to *look* at the PA

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-15 Thread David Weinehall
ing "debconf" is *also* not allowed, because it is *also* not a > "POSIX feature". The point is that "POSIX feature" is *not* a > specification of anything, given the way that POSIX deals with builtins. Sorry, but that's a strawman, for two reasons. First, POSI

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread David Weinehall
ds: on." This proposal has some merit, as long as we do s/POSIX/SuSv3/. Also, we probably want to make exceptions for find/xargs (to get -0). [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-19 Thread David Weinehall
ure it's provided by anything in Debian), the FR-extensions (Fortran Runtime), most (all?) of the utilities marked as DEVELOPMENT (things such as compilers, sccs-related commands, cflow, and ctags). Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-19 Thread David Weinehall
ate: 6.1 Version table: 6.1 0 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao

Re: Question about "Depends: bash"

2006-11-22 Thread David Weinehall
ly use job-control in your shell-scripts? Interesting... Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost

Re: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch)?

2006-11-22 Thread David Weinehall
6070D3A1 2006-11-20 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key > (4.0/etch) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 2 signatures not checked due to missing keys ^^^ Those signatures are: sig 2A4E3EAA 2006-11-20 Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig 29982E5A 2006-1

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
> > Guess what? I used bash on that old hardware when it was shiny and new > also. Didn't seem to have any problems. Somehow I doubt that you used today's version of bash (which I bet is a lot bigger and more memory-consuming due to new features). Regards: David -- /) David

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:09:49PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:37:52PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > Somehow I doubt that you used today's version of bash (which I bet > > is a lot bigger and more memory-consuming due to new features).

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:54:46PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:41:08PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > > > And compared to dash, the difference is vast: > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80200 2006-11-21 16:36 /bin/dash > > > >

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
e *much* > easier. Isn't that enough? If you just want to avoid things breaking, it's enough. If you want to be able to use the scripts on an embedded platform, or to take advantage of the performance boost of using dash instead of bash, it isn't. Regards: David -- /) David We

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
ntial to use only SuSv3 compliant features. I think rewriting *all* scripts to use only SuSv3 features would be too big of an ordeal, but just fixing the initscripts, plus all scripts in essential should be doable. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my windo

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
for most users. That doesn't mean we should limit ourselves to using bash for non-interactive use though. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:56:48AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:46 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > Well, let's hope people don't use any of the non-SuSv3 features of cat > > in their shell scripts... > > Why? Who cares? Well,

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:48:31PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Weinehall: > > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] > >> > ...and where is SuSv3 in

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-24 Thread David Weinehall
from bashisms. You can use whatever bashisms you like when you're working interactively, that won't hinder dash from executing shells on boot and elsewhere. Using bashisms in scripts does however cause a problem. Oh, and there *are* other suitable interactive shells than bash. tcsh, ksh,

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread David Weinehall
ing-things. > > It's easier to eyeball packages that explicitly announce "bash". > Those could be put to a stress test through: > > /bin/dash > /bin/posh > ... > > If someone feels up to. I don't really see the point. If the ma

Re: Question about "Depends: bash"

2006-11-26 Thread David Weinehall
comes down to bad software design on the automake side rather than bad makefiles). [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~

Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-17 Thread David Weinehall
il very recently (sometimes between Nov 19th > and Nov 27h). > > > Regards, > Frederic > > [1] http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-2.16-status.html Some entries seem to list newer Debian-versions than upstream versions... Some watch-fil

New dpkg-buildpackage error

2006-03-17 Thread David Jarvie
stall' (successfully) into the debian/kalarm-upgrade/ directory. These messages followed: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src/kalarm-upgrade-1.3.9' dh_installdirs -pkalarm-upgrade dh_installdocs -pkalarm-upgrade ./Changelog ./README ./README.libical ./AUTHORS ./COPYING ./INSTALL

Re: New dpkg-buildpackage error

2006-03-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Friday 17 March 2006 22:39, Michael Banck wrote: > Your question rather belongs on the debian-mentors list. > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:21:25PM +0000, David Jarvie wrote: > > cp: cannot stat `./debian/tmp/usr/bin/kalarm': No such file or directory > > dh_install: c

automatically install -dev packages

2006-03-20 Thread David Griffith
Is there a setting somewhere I can set to cause apt-get and aptitude to always install corresponding -dev packages? The default behavior of not installing them is particularly annoying when dealing with libraries that are installed when the OS itself is installed. -- David Griffith [EMAIL

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

2006-03-26 Thread David Weinehall
up with the right > search terms even when you supposedly know the right ones. Wouldn't it be enough to have something like "Dzongkha, a language spoken in Bhutan" in the long package description? apt-cache search will pick that up. regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread David Nusinow
ystem-core Note that this metapackage, as well as the x-window-system one, has just been replaced by a single metapackage named "xorg". - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-13 Thread David Nusinow
ck the .la files on request from the release team, who I should definitely have coordinated with beforehand. Note that I would have done so if I'd realized the magnitude of the problem, and not doing so was entirely my error. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-16 Thread David Nusinow
kages that I've affected because I haven't had time. This is a serious problem, but I have hundreds of packages to actively look after during this transition and I'd appreciate any sort of help that can be offered. Anyway, I'm going to continue to work hard on this. If you wa

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-17 Thread David Weinehall
>>is a Bug in Debian System ?? > >> > >> > > > >I assume that you're installing XFree86 4.5 by yourself, since it wasn't > >packaged for Debian. In that case, local installation conflicts are > >your problem to sort out. > > > >

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread David Nusinow
ge uses alias files in /etc/X11/fonts/, it needs to > move to /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/, and will need debhelper 5.0.31. 5.0.31 > also passes --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands, which seems to be > needed to get it to look in the new fonts locations. There's a bug report open agai

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread David A.
worked fine, a good-looking gdm-prompt greeted me at reboot. And booting windows XP still worked. Good work. No problems. Sure - other OS'es has a more graphical appealing installation process, but I believe work is already on the way with that. regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread David Nusinow
Given the RC bugs we're still battling with Xorg 7, and with 7.1 on the horizon, I don't think there's any way I'll be able to fix this for Etch, but my goal for Etch+1 is to make all this go away and much more. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 07:40:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > I think a fundamental problem is that we're seeing is that tasksel hasn't > > generally been sold very well to anyone. I've tried myself to push it > > towards users in #debia

Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread David McGiven
produced no relevant results. Best Regards, David McGiven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread David McGiven
n like" to me. But I'm so far not an expert on debian-policy so I might be totally wrong! Regards, David ----- Original Message - > On Apr 26, David McGiven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Having a look on /etc/init.d/nfs-common and /etc/default/nfs-common (On >

Re: Specifying TCP/UDP port for lockd under /etc/default/nfs-common

2006-04-26 Thread David McGiven
Dear Steinar, I'm not an expert on NFS/SunRPC so I cannot say it would be good or bad to assign fixed port numbers on debian BY DEFAULT. Regards, David - Original Message - > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:36:59AM -0500, David McGiven wrote: > > The newer 2.6 series k

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread David Weinehall
want to fix certain bugs, you're really out on thin ice. They might, however, disagree with your opinion that a certain behaviour is a bug at all... Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread David Nusinow
of time to respond, and no one spoke up, so I dropped it. Everyone has been informed. I'd be surprised if xaw3d couldn't just change back to xaw7, unless it truly needs the xprint support. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-02 Thread David Nusinow
x27;d rather not keep additional detrius around the archive if I don't have to. If you want to keep it around despite all this, that's your problem. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easy way to incorporate Ubuntu improvements back into Debian?

2006-05-05 Thread David Nusinow
n a reality, I'd love the help, but right now it's not looking very likely any time soon. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dist-upgrade dependency problem with xlibmesa-glu vs libglu1-mesa

2006-05-07 Thread David Nusinow
s deprecated in favor of libglu1-mesa. xserver-common is a dead package as of Xorg 7.0, so it's fine that it gets removed. This is all assuming you're on unstable though, but even if it's on testing I think it'll be solved by the migration of Xorg 7.0 to testing. Is there anything besides the removal of xserver-common that you think is an issue? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dist-upgrade dependency problem with xlibmesa-glu vs libglu1-mesa

2006-05-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 09:10:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This doesn't appear to be a bug at all, but instead everything looks > > good. xlibmesa-glu is deprecated in favor of > > libglu1-mesa. xserver-comm

Re: dist-upgrade dependency problem with xlibmesa-glu vs libglu1-mesa

2006-05-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:15:28AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 09:10:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This doesn't appear to be a bug at all, but instead everything looks > &g

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread David Nusinow
ebian while working on Xorg, and I still get it almost daily. There's no shame in doing so, and Jose should take advantage of it to become a stronger maintainer. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-05-14 Thread David Weinehall
d hack which tries to compensate for a shortcoming > in dpkg, one that I have been waiting to be fixed since I started > using Debian nearly ten years ago. I begin to lose my hope. Did you remember to submit a patch to the bugreport you filed? Regards: David -- /) David Weineh

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