Re: How not to be a nice person (Was: Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality)

1999-10-02 Thread David Bristel
a PERSON on the list, rather than keeping it off the list. If you feel the need to insult someone, then PLEASE, do it in private e-mails so it doesn't get out of hand. David Bristel

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-05 Thread David Bristel
apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade These two lines should be run after you update your /etc/apt/source.list to point to unstable. Dave Bristel On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Staffan Hämälä wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:44:48 +020

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread David Coe
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no Adam> tomorrow. [...] Adam> Cease and desist at all costs. Adam> I have just been informed on irc that a fixed menu is in Adam> incoming. So, it should all b

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-05 Thread David Bristel
s gated which install themselves in /etc as the default also drive me crazy. Now, back on topic, if you need to share a file NIS/NIS+ will work. Someone else may have a better solution, such as Samba. David Bristel > Apart from /etc/mtab (which ca

Splitting debian-user (was Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO...)

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could we have a potato mailing lists? > > That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another > list for it? Ben answered on _debian-devel_, but not on _debian-user_; I hope he doesn't min

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-06 Thread David Weinehall
;t influence the possibility to edit the file in another program, however. > - just curious: what other times do you need to change this file type? The time is stored in the resource-fork on the Mac, and sometimes it gets screwed (programs that can't transfer dual/multi

Re: A new axis for bugs?

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:34:20AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: [...] > > unreproduced > > reproduced > > possible fix > > known fix > > > > Basically I see bug fixing as proceeding sequentially down this list. > > There's a state above "unrepr

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 3, 2000

2000-03-09 Thread David Starner
If no, I download the sources and make a new > packages... If you look in woody, you'll find this version of fetchmail. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread David Starner
27;re not the same, then you have a problem. I don't see how this fits with what you're saying. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread David Bristel
The solution to this is that we ignore woody for the moment, and begin an all out effort to get the 2.4 kernel, XF4.0, and Apache 2.0 into Debian as STABLE. The work for these things can also incorporate the work needed to re-add the packages that were removed because of bugs. I know people LOVE t

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread David Bristel
I agree, we shouldn't care about "keeping up with the other dists" when stability may suffer because of it. At the same time, as you have noticed, there are a number of commercial packages out there that may require the newer kernel versions, or apps. We do NOT want people to choose Redhat over D

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread David Bristel
Do you remember GNOME 0.30? I do because it was in stable after 1.0 was released. What would YOU call the more stable version? Just because something makes it into stable doesn't mean it's really a fully stable package. And just because something is NEWER doesn't mean it's not stable, or even "

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread David Bristel
8:25 -0800 > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger! > > David Bristel wrote: > > The solution to this is that we ignore woody for the moment, and

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-16 Thread David Webb
ble is set correctly. - Dave -- +--+-------+ | David Webb | The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Hungarian Proverb | +--+---+

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-16 Thread David Webb
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:36:49AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > David Webb wrote: >> I had the same problem. Installing libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 fixed it on my >> system. > > I cannot reproduce this. Works fine for me without that library installed. > >> You also have to

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-20 Thread David Starner
would guess it's something on your side. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: SuSe proxy suite

2000-03-21 Thread David Coe
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What happened to the ITP for it? I didn't see a package yet. I started working on it, but didn't get very far (due to lack of time, not any particular problem). If you'd like to take it over I'll pass what I've done to you; otherwise I will get back t

Bug#60988: general: problem with ssh install due to lack of gmp2 package in frozen

2000-03-23 Thread David Croxford
Package: general Version: 2323 Severity: important Partial output of apt-get install ssh Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: ssh: Depends: gmp2 (>= 2.0.2) E: Sorry, broken packages There appears to be a libgmp2 package which replaces gmp2. Apt-get does not substitut

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread David Starner
nd of PGP output --] GnuPG bug or local configuration problem? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:08:10AM -0600, David Starner wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:32:13PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > Did this message mess with GnuPG on any one else's system? > I had to kill gpg (1.0.1-2) to get mutt to continue, and then > I got >

Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-27 Thread David Bristel
This is one of the reasons why I've been happy I bought a Smart-UPS, not only does it provide more information(ammount of battery power and UPS load as well as other information), but the apcd package for APC monitoring worked on it out of the box for slink.

Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-28 Thread David Bristel
wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 08:45:41 +0200 (CEST) > From: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Debian Development liste > Subject: Re: UPS setup problems (ap

Re: Paradise

2000-03-29 Thread David Starner
ask this list for someone to sponsor it into Debian. Assuming that it has a DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) compliant license and it's packaged right, someone should be willing to do that. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with s

Re: [PROPOSAL] update-binfmts - manages the binfmt_misc kernel module

2000-04-02 Thread David Starner
ing, a lot of admins may not like the arbitrary enabling of executable formats in the kernel. This is true especially in its experimental phase (sort of like debconf is now.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that&

Re: Pgcc in Deb

2000-04-02 Thread David Starner
can be recompiled locally, it wasn't worth the archive space or the manpower or extra trouble. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: Pgcc in Deb

2000-04-03 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:35:08AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: > On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 20:28:41 David Starner wrote: > > > Um, that's not what I've heard. Since optimizing for the Pentium > > will sometimes pessimize the Pentium (Pro, II, III), and the > > spee

Orphaning Tcl/Tk Packages

2000-08-20 Thread David Engel
to take these over, please drop me a note in the next few days. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

2000-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:34:01PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > So, is there any plan to use them (like recompiling the package on the user's > machine)? Yes, that is the plan. No, there is no other plan. (Why can't we have cool undying threads like, I don't know,

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-03 Thread David Starner
ed enough usage through other channels to be raised to standard. Speed reasons - gzip is significantly faster than bzip2, which matters for old ix86 (x=3,4) and m68k machines which run Debian. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.net.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night t

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-03 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:06:34PM +0600, Sergey I. Golod wrote: > David Starner wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 03:15:10PM +0600, Sergey I. Golod wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > > > Why apt/dpkg doesn't use bzip2 for Packages file? > > > &g

Re: RFC: moving packages to project/orphaned

2000-09-03 Thread David Starner
se the only bug on it, if any one wants to upload it, or sponsor me (I am in new-maintainers now.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye.

Re: ITP: penguin command

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
problem with the music: it is free distributable but the author > does not want it to be changed. Is there any license that conforms > to DFSG but does not allow modification of code (=artwork in this > case) ? Huh? No, definetly not. Such would, without question, go against the spirt

Re: libgd1 vs. libgd1g

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
re > October 15th or so. Please. Um, then can someone do an NMU? It should be a recompile. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye. -

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
didn't see if it was installed. I was wondering what happened to it? It didn't appear in the archives, it wasn't moved to REJECT or DONE, it just disappeared. I was wondering if there was some long flame war on debian-private that I was missing. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Beware helix packages) Re: [CrackMonkey] The right to bare legs

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > packages into unstable. Helix is too stable for unstable, and too unstable > for stable. Not exactly true, as Helix Gnome is usually more cutting-edge than unstable Gnome. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
er science lab. Regularly too, I might add. I take it this is LART-worthy incident, as I don't think I can load my .xsession in under 6 seconds. Since *dm requires you get a username and password (bwahaahaa!), use it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was sta

Re: Qt2.2 released under the GPL

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
hed over to the GTK plugin, not because it looked better (because it doesn't), but because QT is 5 MB in memory, more than GTK + Glib + Gnome libs. At least we can stop the idelogical arguments. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:21:02AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:05:27PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > > > I guess RevKrusty may want to put his packages into Debian? > > > > > > He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it w

Re: build question

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
nstable libraries. If you want to build them so that potato users can use them, do so and store them in a directory on master or a private machine and tell people how to get them. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried

Re: ITP lame

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
t. > We have pandora for that, and I remember Wichert agreed to this use. > What still needs to be done to have a debian section for software > covered by software patents? The problem is not "patents", it's that this particular patent also applies in Germany, meaning we ca

Re: ITP enhydra

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
would want to regenerate them, not edit the > unwieldy auto-generated code. Then it could go into contrib. It's free, but depends on something outside of Debian to build. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org I knew all of the floors in my high school, and none of

Re: ITP: Sword, GnomeSword

2000-09-09 Thread David Starner
hat downloads them & installs them. (Or > both.) If the program needs one to run, then at least one should be packaged. I'd prefer not to see a lot of installers that download free software - the one's that download non-free stuff are annoying and cause enough problems as it is. -

Re: gettextized console-apt

2000-09-11 Thread David Starner
bugreport. http://bugs.debian.org has complete instructions on how to do that, or you can run bug if it is installed. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning.

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-12 Thread David Starner
;fixed" events in the Jewish calendar. > > > >Julian > > And events in the Wicca 'calendar' are based on the solstices and > equinoxes and would not be fixed either. Instead of doing this every year, why not write small programs to generate a new Wicca

New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-12 Thread David Starner
I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check, checkmp3, or all the above? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
e KDE in a matter of what, a week?). You sounded like some wild-eyed fanatic, not someone pointing out a real problem and discussing solutions. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in spa

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:12:45AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:47:22AM -0700, erik wrote: > > I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the > > unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last > > straw B

NM Page info.

2000-09-13 Thread David Brown
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:50:04PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > http://nm.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to make a suggestion for the NM pages, but I'm not sure where to send it. Would it be possible to post the dates in ISO date format -MM-DD. When my brain sees 2000-xx-x

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread David Greene
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > The problem is L4M3RZ using that broken piece of non-free shit PINE, which > doesn't appear to respect *any* conventions of netiquette. Is there a free mailer to replace "that broken piece of non-free shit PINE" that supports IMAP?

ITP: mserv

2001-01-09 Thread David Whedon
http://www.mserv.org/ License is BSD. Description: local centralised multiuser music environment Mserv is a music server designed to do a number of things better than most systems designed to play mp3s: . Supports any type of client using standard TCP protocol Stores information on mp3

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Starner
e. But I haven't, even for a speed-up that maybe as big as what the kernel will give you, and I would reckon that most of the other people that had the libc-i[56]86 packages installed haven't either. It's analogous to the kernel problem. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poi

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Starner
o break stuff manually configuring your kernel instead of going apt-get install kernel-2.8.88-i686. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Spreen
ndard kernel-image. But this thread's discussion ducks. It will point to nothing, if noone will suggest a solution. What's about the kernel images to be pseudopackages with special configs depending on patches and kernelsource to build a kernel live when

Re: ITP: dopewars

2001-04-22 Thread David Nusinow
Sweet! I'm kind of surprised no one packaged it sooner. I'm glad it's on its way though. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Spreen
s to only apply to > 2.4 at the moment. Hmm, no, but if had read th P.S. you would have seen... so long... David -- __ _ | David "netzwurm" Spreen Kiel, Germany / _|___ ___| |__ __ _ _ _ | http://www.netzwurm.cc/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _/ _

Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

2001-04-23 Thread David Whedon
Recent versions of upx can compress a linux bzImage (I've seen 13% shaved off a bzImage). debian-installer may use it to squeeze more onto the single floppy (kernel + initrd with modules). David Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:25:10PM -0700 wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, John H. Robinson,

Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

2001-04-23 Thread David Whedon
Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:52:55PM -0700 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:39:07PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > Recent versions of upx can compress a linux bzImage (I've seen 13% shaved > > off > > a bzImage). debian-installer may use it to squeeze more onto the

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread David Nusinow
7;round. We don't have to have a conference in the Northeast, after all. - David Nusinow

Re: Orphaning my packages

2003-05-25 Thread David Nusinow
he NM process > confused. Another point of note is that nascent packagers are encouraged to adopt other software that's already in the archive before packaging new items. In this case, he is merely following that advice. - David Nusinow

Re: Orphaning my packages

2003-05-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:46:45AM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Another point of note is that nascent packagers are encouraged to adopt > > other software that's already in the archive before packaging new > >

Re: Graphic program to manage alternatives

2003-05-30 Thread David Nusinow
nvoke-rc.d right now, but the next project I was planning to tackle was an update-alternatives frontend. If you're interested in collaborating on this, write me back and we can get started on it. I'd much appreciate some help. If you want to see an example of how it would work, take a look at configure-debian as it is. - David Nusinow

Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-05-30 Thread David Nusinow
e on the web, but there was debate about whether or not a list should be included in one of the debconf packages, or perhaps some other package. I'd like to hear some comments on this whole idea. It'd help integrate Debian more tightly, and would provide even more incentive to totally standardize on debconf for certain tasks. It would be appropriate for this bug as well, allowing integration of location based data. - David Nusinow

Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-05-30 Thread David Nusinow
mprovement: > I'd suggest /etc/mailname management as an example of something that's > ad-hoc at the moment. debconf-doc seems like the correct package in > which to put a registry. Works for me. Of course, the debconf maintainer should weigh in on the idea of adding to his package. - David Nusinow

Re: Packages file under version control

2003-06-03 Thread David Weinehall
the arse. Having it only rsync the changes would be so nice. /David -- o/~ It would be so nice, it would be so nice o/~ o/~ It would be so nice to meet some time o/~ Five brownie points to the first to guess the artist...

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread David Weinehall
f binutils/gcc/etc, it becomes less likely that libc5 will work properly without serious tinkering). Regards: David Weinehall -- /> David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander <\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread David Goodenough
tting embedded processors, many of which - in current product - are 486, 586 or at best 686 (some are Via C3 which is sort of 686). So while conventional PCs may have moved on, there are a lot of potential users out there who have not - this way thay do not need fans, do not need lots of power,

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread David Weinehall
. Afaik it still has quite some race conditions in the v2.4, and there are still things left that need to be solved in a nice manner (just ask Alexander Viro...) [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread David Weinehall
't fix the bug. > > 3. bump the supported processor, and rename the port > > 4. like 3, and also add an i386 distribution which does not support > >C++ at all > > 5. like 4, but support C++ in a way incompatible with other Linux > >distributions in the

Bug#198479: general: package coming to sarge before their dependencies : breaks them.

2003-06-23 Thread Erwan David
Package: general Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-23 Severity: normal Tags: sarge Several packages like html2ps or apt-file are broken in sarge because they were put from sid before their dependencies. The coming to sarge of a package should not be done if it makes it uninstallable. -- Syst

Bug#198479: general: package coming to sarge before their dependencies : breaks them.

2003-06-23 Thread Erwan David
Le Mon 23/06/2003, Colin Watson disait > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:36:27AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > Package: general > > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-23 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: sarge > > > > Several packages like html2ps or apt-file ar

Bug#198479: general: package coming to sarge before their dependencies : breaks them.

2003-06-23 Thread Erwan David
Le Mon 23/06/2003, Colin Watson disait > I haven't looked at them in detail. But: > > html2ps is broken due to perlmagick, which is still at a perl 5.6 > version in testing. This was temporarily necessary because getting perl > 5.8 was more important than waiting for all of perlmagick's > depende

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-23 Thread David Roundy
the only ones to suffer from this wait, it seems like a good tradeoff. If we require a separate package for each compiler, I imagine many library packagers would opt for just packaging their library for ghc, which would be a shame as far as portability goes. -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org

Re: C++ & Java IDE

2003-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
as part of KDE, Eclipse is only available in unstable at the moment (I don't think it has made it into testing yet but I may be wrong). David

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-23 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:00:21PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > > > static inline _Atomic_word > > __attribute__ ((__unused__)) > > __exchange_and_add (volatile _Atomic_word *__mem, int __val) > > { > >register _Atomic_word __result; > >__asm_

Re: CGI:IRC on Debian

2003-06-24 Thread David Leadbeater
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:28, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > Hello people! =) > > I became a maintainer recently, when I took the prozilla package from Gustavo > Noronha Silva (kov), a few days ago. I am now trying to finish my second > Debian Package: cgiirc. > > Unfortunately, the program pu

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-25 Thread David Goodenough
d systems have too little memory to run Debian) but loosing 486 and 586 would mean that Debian was no longer an option for embedded systems which would be a great loss. David

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:00, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:57:57AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > and remember that many embedded processors still use 486 and 586 > > based chips, and some 386. Lossing 386 might be acceptable in the > >

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread David Weinehall
for 80386. There is afaik. Not in widespread use though, and the Linux kernel hasn't been ported to that hardware. I think we can safely ignore this hardware without stepping on anyone's toes... /David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-03 Thread David Weinehall
thank you very much. > > > > Happily, the noninteractive debconf frontend exists. > > And getting hundreds of emails after a mass upgrade? No thanks. man 5 procmailrc Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-03 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:53:55AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:34:56PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > | The Debian Social Contract says "Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software". > | If there are things "in Debian" that are "not free" or "not software", > | then we

Re: [VAC] June 9 - August 30 [UPDATE]

2003-07-07 Thread David Weinehall
ad continues to take place in L.A. because the local authorities purchased their quotas (of course, L.A. might be a bad example, because I know that they _are_ doing their best to reduce pollution even though it's a tough struggle.) Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Full colour fire (/

Re: Bug#199917 - A consensus on handling Mozilla plugins?

2003-07-10 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:36:55AM +1000, Andrew Lau wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:15:58PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > There are currently 5 packages in unstable that dump plugins under > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, not to mention several more contrib/non-free > installers that do the same t

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread David Nusinow
can't say that about boot-floppies. I, for one, hope that the aim is to eventually have a very friendly installer. Even the most knowledgable people will appreciate hardware detection. - David Nusinow

Re: unicode

2003-07-25 Thread David Pashley
unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem to work out of the box. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpEdYXqG1nKo.pgp Description: PGP signature

what about ip's

2003-08-20 Thread David Smith
i've had cable connectivity with charter.net for more than 1 year. until yesterday i've never had need of an email acct there. i planned on using the address at charter when the spam at my top-10 acct became unbearable. when i finally got my log-in info for the charter acct. i logged in and

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-21 Thread David Weinehall
also upgrading to wxgtk-python (2.3) or de-installing > > wxgtk-python (2.2). > > Sure you can. dpkg --force-depends -i python_*.deb will do it for you. > > If you want something bad enough, and don't mind breaking things, anything's > possible. Please, don'

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-23 Thread David Weinehall
latter happen for the cover for their album Animals. The pig escaped though, and made it a beautiful story. http://www.myputney.co.uk/wandsworth/community-batterseapowerstation.htm http://www.floydianslip.com/discs/animals.htm /David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern li

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-24 Thread David Weinehall
package. I am pretty sure the same thing can be done here, though. And if its manual is licensed under the GFDL, we'll simply have to make due without the manual, sad but true. Or have the manual in non-free, whatever feels is most appropriate (let's not start a discussion about removing

Re: where to install additional kernel modules?

2003-08-24 Thread David Schleef
modutils had a set list of directories that it looked at in /lib/moduiles/${kvers}, which included pcmcia, mtd, and rtai, all of which were for non-kernel source module packages. Other packages (including Comedi) put their modules in misc/, rather than bother asking for another directory. I eventually asked

Re: NMUs applying sleeping wishlist bugs about translation (was something else)

2003-08-25 Thread David Weinehall
. [snip] Pah, let's require all maintainers to be able to fix all translation-bugs on their own. It should be a requirement to be fluent in all nuances of all languages to be a maintainer. Right? I mean, you must be able to fix any bug in the package just because you NMU a new tran

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Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: "non-free" software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread David Weinehall
true debian package in non-free, to benefit truly of the debian tools. Yes, some (a lot of) non-free, but gratis, software do not allow redistribution, or imposes limits on the redistribution such that it cannot be packaged even for non-free. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weine

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken (RAPNAP)

2003-09-04 Thread david nicol
g to write... David Nicol

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken (RAPNAP)

2003-09-05 Thread david nicol
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 00:16, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:32, david nicol wrote: > > I've been trying to popularize a centralized challenge-response > > database since last fall. It seems to me that becoming a debian > > package maintainer for the sof

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken (RAPNAP)

2003-09-06 Thread david nicol
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 08:32, Russell Coker wrote: > Here's how it works. Spammer creates account [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sends > their first spam to a C-R system, when the challenge comes in they > acknowledge it and from then on the C-R system does not bother them because > they keep using the

autoconf and setting prefix

2003-09-08 Thread David Meggy
Has anyone run into this before? I've already made cross compiling packages for binutils, kernel headers, and a C library, which all use /usr/arm-linux as the base for arm libraries & headers, and I'm currently trying to get the c++ and java cross compilers built. -- ~

Re: autoconf and setting prefix

2003-09-08 Thread David Meggy
Actually after saying that, I had an epiphany. Why don't I just look at the gcc debian package source. Everyone can ignore that last message David -- David Meggy Engineering Technical Solutions Inc. Unit #1 7157 Honeyman St Delta BC Canada, V4

Re: IMPORTANT: your message to html-tidy

2003-09-22 Thread david nicol
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 04:02, Craig Sanders wrote: > sorry, a system that only works sometimes (or even most of the time) is a > broken system. > > i prefer to know that my system's behaviour will be consistent and correct. Shamless plug: sign up for totally spam-free forwarding address at http:

Re: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-02 Thread David Nusinow
eems to need to do this more because it's so unintuititive. Not that dselect is bad by any means (I often recommend using it, especially to build the sources list) but for general everyday use, aptitude is gnenerally much better. - David Nusinow

Re: Bug#213897: ITP: libclass-dbi-abstractsearch-perl -- Abstract Class::DBI's SQL with SQL::Abstract

2003-10-03 Thread David Pashley
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