Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread David Weinehall
ng. Indeed, in a society where people were more equal (and more relaxed about sexuality), the porn industry would very likely both be sanitised and less prosperous. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread David Weinehall
not. We're also not the PTA or the moral police. > right to look at cartoon tits then that's fine by me. We are trying to > build an operating system. I think. Indeed. From that point of view, hotbabe is pretty meaningless. Then again, so is quake, doom, nethack, etc. Regards:

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread David Weinehall
27;s leaves or something in the > default incarnation. While being all for that series of pictures (nature is beautiful), I find the package pretty meaningless anyway, so I don't see the point of including it in Debian in the first place. I do, however, see some relevance to the di

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-03 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:07:14PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2004-12-02 08:44:34, schrieb David Weinehall: > > > Really, she's 13, and you think it'd do any difference whatsoever to > > expose her to a pixelled image of a nude woman?! Sheesh. Either &

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-04 Thread David Weinehall
oppose it. Again, have a look at the pictures *before* making comments. I don't doubt that you have have these opinions; in fact, I suspect most people here agree with you (I do). It's not really relevant wrt these pictures, however. [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) Davi

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-07 Thread David Weinehall
images and I'd be surprised if > Tollef> you feel them degrade, abuse or exploit females. I think > Tollef> they are silly and nothing to be upset about. Not porn, > Tollef> not erotic, just silly. This part, was written by Tollef though =) [snip] Rega

Re: Debian package selection depending on user location/belief/society(was bug #283578 hot-babe (AGAIN :-)))

2004-12-11 Thread David Weinehall
is pornographic is dependant on the viewer, so most people are unlikely to be offended by the artwork in hotbabe... Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) h

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-03-19 Thread David Weinehall
res. This way, we'd both satisfy people using Debian as a base for embedded and other customised systems, and most (but not all) porters. Of course some people are never satisfied, but then again, there is no way to solve this that makes everyone happy. [1] Hopefully, I might remember incor

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-26 Thread David Weinehall
, let's not dump even more crap into /etc; it's ugly enough as it is... Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread David Weinehall
rest for Debian to do so, but since it's obvious from this discussion that different Debian developers have different opinions on this issue, it's clearly not in Debian's best interest. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-22 Thread David Weinehall
n Debian too, but if the bug is caused by the Ubuntu build environment, then the bug is purely in the package, and any bugreport would just waste the Debian developer's time, *AND* risk Ubuntu losing vital information about a bug in their build environment. Regards: David -- /)

Re: helix player package for debian?

2006-02-08 Thread David Weinehall
aptic > doesn't show up any matches for helix. apt-cache search helix-player yields: helix-player - the helix audio and video player Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Di

Re: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-18 Thread David Weinehall
o more binary packages? manpages (generic stuff for all Debian systems), manpages-linux (Linux specific things, like sysfs), manpages-linux-dev (Linux specific programming interfaces). Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~

Re: Bug#353381: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-19 Thread David Weinehall
anges are needed to address > bugs such as #295211 (upstream does not document our libc/kernel > combination). What manpages in upstream are non-free? Do we have rewritten alternatives in Debian, or are those pages simply removed without replacement? Regards: David Weinehall -- /)

Re: Bug#353381: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-21 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Weinehall: > > >> Upstream includes non-free manpages these days, so in reality, we have > >> already forked. Further Debian-specific changes are needed to address > >> bugs such as #29521

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-02-22 Thread David Weinehall
r > email and send in 'bug reports' on their @debian.org mailing lists. > Cheers, > Kev echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > .forward+debian-devel +debian-devel). Whoops goes the entire list... =) Regards: David Weinehal

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-28 Thread David Weinehall
e might even work with 4k too), but some do, thus you need to patch the kernel to provide 16k stacks (this is really bad for other reasons). Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread David Weinehall
m today's paper, and the "Fuck off!" newbies sometimes get on an IRC-channel when asking the wrong question. The problem is that to alleviate the problem completely, we'd either have to stop people from writing what they think (mind control), or have everyone convert to new speak

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-26 Thread David Weinehall
also supposed to educate their children. Can't disagree with this one though. But there's always the saying: "Do as I say, not as I do". And it's always a mistake... [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lig

Re: Required firewall support

2005-03-21 Thread David Weinehall
arameter, it would be nice if Linux did. netdev@oss.sgi.com <--- patches goes that way. linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <--- or possibly that way. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the

Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

2005-03-28 Thread David Weinehall
r this list than 95% of all flame-wars here... Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To U

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-31 Thread David Weinehall
dom is concerned, both types are equivilently bad. The choice is > either: > 1) Distribute the non-free firmware. Our users are happy. Sure, as long as we distribute it in *non-free* where it belongs. [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread David Weinehall
g flame wars by > getting offensive and doing ad hominem attacks with a very arrogant POV. So, Pot. Kettle. Black. [snip] Regards: David weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-19 Thread David Weinehall
e ownership/permission support and its filename munging... And I somehow doubt that minix is a problem either, these days. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-05-27 Thread David Weinehall
ware Operations) that work on this product consists of several DD's (myself being one), plus at least one person in the NM-queue. Some of our subcontractors are also DD's. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ /

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread David Weinehall
ing them. Well, the European Parliament is (or has at least been) strongly opposed to software patents, so it's unlikely that they will pass without some serious trickery. NOTE: I'm a Nokia employee and work on the N770 team, but this is by no means an official statement... Rega

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

2005-06-08 Thread David Weinehall
. Yup. They'll also have learned that packages are managed by rpm. We'd better change our package management system. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses

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: 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: 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: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-12 Thread David Weinehall
ilable in Debian... Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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
1-21 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])~$ > > Looks that it's signed by itself. Yes, aren't all keys self-signed? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Di

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

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: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-17 Thread David Weinehall
> > > I see, you are absolutely right. Thank you for you explanation. Just out of curiousity, any particular reason why you would want to use XFree rather than Xorg? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~

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: 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

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-18 Thread David Weinehall
> waste on small systems. Well, most of those scripts can be fixed quite easily, some require a bit more work. I hereby promise to help fixing them to the extent of my capability. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-21 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:34:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:45:46AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > Well, most of those scripts can be fixed quite easily, some require > > a bit more work. I hereby promise to help fixing them to the extent >

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-24 Thread David Weinehall
ures, such as its > support for setuid files, or its support for postinst scripts that run > arbitrary code at install time. Well, if foo depends on foo-data, and foo-data depends on foo, I find it really hard to see the point of splitting the two into distinctive packages... Regards: Dav

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-24 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:42:39AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, if foo depends on foo-data, and foo-data depends on foo, I find > > it really hard to see the point of splitting the two into distinctive > > packages...

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:34:47PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:39:24AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:32:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Steve Greenland wrote: > > > > This really seems like somet

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-16 Thread David Weinehall
ug reports over the next > | few weeks, but doing this informally first may be simpler. Or maybe not. > > I'd like time, please. Wouldn't we all? =P Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 ker

Re: changing architecture from any to all

2005-01-17 Thread David Weinehall
and similar, and *woosh* it was Architecture: all. Skip the let, and *woosh*, it's even POSIX compliant shell script... =) Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \)

Re: Useless packages (was Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-27 Thread David Weinehall
nto what it is for other OS's (that is, when Debian reaches world-domination), the main-CD would only contain X-related stuff + games... Non really the ideal distribution, eh?! /David Weinehall _ _ // David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker// Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/

mtools

1999-09-28 Thread David Weinehall
ng in xlib6g that mtools really needs, why not break it out of xlib6g and make it a separate package? Oh, and why does xlib6g depend on xfree86-common? Wouldn't it be more natural the other way around only? /David Weinehall _ _

Re: mtools

1999-09-28 Thread David Weinehall
m mtools and create an extra package with just this file, and make this file recommended by mtools, and make mtools required by the extra-package. /David Weinehall _ _ // David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern

Re: pine in other distributions?

1999-09-28 Thread David Weinehall
we are free to distribute even a patched Pine, as long as we apply an L at the end of the version#. Not too big a sacrifice, huh? We'll still have to keep it in the non-free area, of course, as it's a BSD-style license, but... I&#x

Re: pine in other distributions?

1999-09-28 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Thus we are free to distribute even a patched Pine, > > No! Anyone is allowed to _locally_ modify Pine, but there's no statement > about distributing such modified versio

Re: warning: lilo 22dev0-1 can make your system unbootable !

1999-10-01 Thread David Weinehall
e was upped; I'm not taking any unnecessary risks... /David _ _ // David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker// Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/

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: Packages file under version control

2003-06-03 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:59, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > If we put the Packages file under some sort of version control (e.g. > > cvs), bandwidth requirments would be minimised as cvs

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/

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#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: [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: 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: 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

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: GPG Key Signing

2005-07-20 Thread David Weinehall
o don't pass up on the chance to get it signed by someone just because they aren't DD's =) Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://w

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread David Weinehall
tart with our base system; hopefully it's already correct, but you never know, and fixing such bugs as early in the release cycle as possible is important. Also, branch packages (for instance perl/php/python/apache/mysql) seems more important to test at an early stage than leaf packages (ap

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-01 Thread David Weinehall
to not actively fix your packages because other things have a higher priority, but when someone else goes through the trouble of fixing your packages and submit patches, I think rejecting the patches is pretty unnecessary. Having POSIX-clean scripts also ensures tha

Re: Accepted arts 1.4.2-3 (source i386 all)

2005-08-15 Thread David Weinehall
ards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-21 Thread David Weinehall
rch has been orphaned upstream because of Tom Lord's announcement is > roughly similar to saying that Linux has been orphaned because the 2.0 > kernel series is no longer maintained... Oh, thanks for the news, I didn't know that. [snip]

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-21 Thread David Weinehall
y signed, not built, by official > Debian Developers. I don't know about others, but I never sign and upload packages built by others; I always rebuild packages when I sponsor someone. I really hope others do the same. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL

Re: removing /etc/hotplug.d/ support

2005-08-25 Thread David Weinehall
K-H is upstream for both udev and hotplug, I'd say that's probably quite unlikely... [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-26 Thread David Weinehall
r than perl. I don't know about > zsh. Well, writing scripts that use /bin/sh or perl means that the init script will run without any dependencies on optional packages. zsh is Priority: optional... And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh scripts should work with dash t

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-27 Thread David Weinehall
e can be relaxed, imho. Well, it's helpful when you might want to replace grep etc with its busybox counterparts; for instance, busybox grep doesn't support -o. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-12 Thread David Weinehall
o the trick. And until this is corrected, a lot of us won't enable default installation of Recommendations, simply because our systems get unnecessarily bloated. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-11-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh > > scripts should work with dash too. > > That's incorrect. A correctly w

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread David Weinehall
2350k 828642 2350k (+ 828642, I guess) != 8MB... The 8MB you cite is for compressing, not decompressing. [snip] regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) htt

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