ewing up their systems. There are plenty of
> other ways to do so too.
Heck, just let them get a recent kernel and be much better off!
Put the kernel and the swsusp patch into "volatile".
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e your way.
Hmm... I could be evil(tm) and just file an important bug against
your package. Being incompatible with usb-built-into-kernel is
certainly that severe. Breaks unrelated stuff would be even higher (it
completely trashes my firewire apps!)
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Erich Schubert
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o "defomize" my font packages. It
tooke hours to install these packages due to defoma.
best regards,
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You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: //\
we
"pending" when fixed upstream?
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To understand recursion you first need to understand recursion. //\
Ein Freund ist ein Geschenk, das man sich selbst macht. V_/_
://www.73lab.com/ -- unfortunately i don't know if it is DFSG-free.
using the debian logos it probably isn't. ;)
Greetings,
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but probably only because there are a few single
persons pushing the stuff for the distributions they use themselves.
best regards,
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The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet. //\
D
investigate the new Ubuntu efforts that Reinhard
pointed out. It would be best to join efforts here. Caleb Case is using
a tresys email address, that is where refpolicy upstream lives.
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volved.
But as long as you are around and updating the packages it's not at all
important - you're doing the job, so you get to decide. EOD.
P.S. If anyone wants to adopt the "selinux-basics" package, go ahead.
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* Package name: stereo
Version : 2.0 beta
* URL : http://www.mono-project.com/Stereo
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Programming Lang: C#
Description : Mono (.NET) extension for running mu
ions in separate modules will of course be kept.
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To understand recursion you first need to understand recursion. //\
Denken ist oft schwerer, als man denkt. V_/_
t; don't want to have the module changed at all, it should be easy enough
> to implement a configuration file which sets a blacklist variable.
And it would be a very easy to understand behavior, nicer than the
version numbers. But I still wouldn't skip the version checking.
best
nstalled modules or for packages.
But I'd suggest to add an option to "semodule" like --stat or so that we
can use to query the version number of a .pp file. That should be
doable.
best regards,
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c), common mail and web
server setups with little effort (well, lets say 'without cgi and
complex PHP things' because that is an endless field then).
Maybe propose them for a maintainance release even.
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refpolicy is already very tight on permissions; I don't
think you'll really want to further narrow down permissions for Emdebian
(though you e.g. could put perl into a separate domain and then prevent
some domains from executing perl... right now, any process that can
run /usr/bin/less can
kages, whereas your library is working with
metadata on the packages, mostly for finding them.
Maybe something along libipkg or libinfopkg is more appropriate?
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To understand recursion you firs
ME types that statement accepts ...)
A solution covering 90% might still be very nice to have.
I believe that a "semantic shell" might need to be based around the
command line interface of the applications.
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f:" as a prefix of the output
parameter (which happens to not just be a plain filename!) or having a
full perl program there that does the gif generation?
Except that you can cover one with a regexp I guess, and the other not.
You have to make compromises somewhere.
P.S. autocompletio
others don't.
- structure is becoming to deep IMHO. but if you want to keep the
number-of-results low you need such a deep structure.
Gruss,
Erich Schubert
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The best things in life are free: Friendship and Love.
der version, or it
might build-conflict with a particular version of a package.
All we would need is to teach autobuilders not to use a certain version
of a package any more. At minimum a package maintainer should undo the
dependency as soon as all architectures are fixed.
Greetings,
Erich Schuber
. The output of
pstree is really fancy. ;-) Minit seems to be able to do most of this
without using that many processes.
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A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. //\
Die kÃrzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Menschen ist ein LÃcheln. V_/_
td
â âârunsvâââcron
Greetings,
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Die StÃrke eines Menschen kann man daran messen, V_/_
wie er mit seinen
part will be an intuitive user interface. But i think
that a user interface doesn't need to implement all features directly.
(for example these weights could be in some extended selection menu
only, and influence only the sorting by default)
Gruss,
Erich Schubert
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> Now would be a really good time for people to email authors of decent
> TrueType freeware fonts to see if they can be convinced to put their fonts
> under a DFSG-free license if anyone is interested in doing that.
For the author of ttf-larabie-*, i tried that when i made these
packages. The lice
it seems like people still don't get that bugtraq is subscribed to
debian-security-announce...
And bugtraq seems unable to add some Footer to the posts that clarifies
this...
Couldn't we
- unsubscribe bugtraq from our list
- send out security-announces to bugtraq separately?
Gr
> IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:04:76:de:b9:53:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0
> DST=255,255,255,255 LEN=328 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 PROTO=UDP SPT=68
> DPT=67 LEN=308
> on all machines.
Configure your firewall correctly.
That message is a DHCP request. Just don't log DHCP requests.
DHCP request
ould we maybe have all new libs in /usr/lib/libc6/gcc3.2/
so if this occurs again, it will easier be solved?
(hmm... i don't like these paths, either... but some stuff like this
should probably be done...)
Well, i'm not a dynamic linking insider, these are just my ideas.
There are others mu
are in a
different directory???
> And we still have the problem of external packages that don't obey the
> rule of the gcc-3.2 directory.
Depending on what other distributions do. If they follow this concept,
too, everyone will be fine. If they don't they'll have to solve
libraries.
Don't take stuff unnecessarily out of control of maintainers. Many apps
use wrappers already, why force them to use another wrapper. You'll
break LOTs of things. For example mozilla does use some wrapper to set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly... your automatic wrapper generatio
> I try to unsubscribe from this list for about a week now. I just got the
> message that I am no member of the list anymore, but still get the
> mails. I tried to unsubscribe again, but I got the message, that this is
> not possible because I am no member.
> Why do I still get the mails?
We are n
> Received: from sphinx.rz.tu-clausthal.de
> Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com
> Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.de
> Received: from bombadil.xmldesign.de ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
that obviously is the copy of the mail i sent to you directly.
it never used a debian
> I will be packaging a number of truetype fonts for inclusion in debian
> somehow, but the details are not fully worked out yet. I'll take a
> look at these for to include in that package, or in a package of just
> your fonts.
When packaging many fonts with defoma, could you please tell me if yo
> Can anyone advise why packages aren't getting though into testing?
> > + Depends: hpoj glibc
Dependencies.
glibc is holding them back.
Greetings,
Erich
dn't really intend to buy any PDA anyway).
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Su
BTW: i also remember having read that certain hardware doesn't work with
ide-scsi, so enabling ide-scsi for all IDE hardware is a bad choice.
(i think one of the boot-floppies people tried using ide-scsi by
default, and got some problem reports)
And additional drawback IMHO is the following: devfs
> well. I can also compile, install, and manage non packaged software,
> and occasionnaly find and correct some small or obvious bugs. But I
> couldn't really develop anything big, or tackle real big bugs (but
> then these are more upstream's task than debian's).
Well, actually i'm not too great a
> Why is it removing the qt3 dev packages? I checked gdk-imlib-dev,
> libpng2-dev and libgnome-dev for conflicts with the qt3 dev libraries,
> but I don't see any mentioned. So why are they being removed on this
> install? it doesn't make sense to me.
Without having looked at the dependencies:
May
Redhat seems to be going to use a common look for their desktops (GNOME
as well as KDE) in their new beta featuring a new icon set.
Check out the screenshots at
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=616&mode=&order=0
I like them and i think they are impressive...
It's one of the things App
> No, seriously, it would be less confusing for novice users. More
> experienced ones already know how to change themes and perhaps make
> everything look consistent, but it's a considerable ammount of work.
Especially since KDE asks at the beginning which style they want to use
anyway... If w
> Provided we *ONLY* muck with things like colors, icons, and root images this
> should be fine. Actually changing code like RH did to remove the About box
> would not be good.
I never look at about boxes anyway, so why remove them? ;)
This has nothing to do with common look, and all Interface
On themes.freshmeat.net there are a few Debian themes, some nice
backgrounds etc.
For example this one could go for a futuristic aqua-like look
(GnuBubbles for GTK2 for example?)
http://themes.freshmeat.net/screenshots/28071/
And sunshineinabag.co.uk already has a Debian GDM2 login screen
http://s
> Because some admins, unlike the rest of us, thinks users want's to have
> software in their local language and use local keyboard layout, then we
> indeed want's to have our software in english and us keyboard layout
> with local as an switchable option, right?
Which means *everbody* needs to an
> One simple question: how are tasks managed? what policy is there for
> creation/addition of packages to it?
See debian-policy...
Excerpt from the changelog:
* we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
special field in the control file (and these should be added onl
> Then the policy document is wrong? Shouldn't it be bugged?
I guess the policy document describes how this is to be done _now_.
(That is after woody ;)
Whereas the override file was they way this was handled for woody.
Maybe ask on debian-policy on this issue?
Greetings,
Erich
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I just updated my "packagebrowser" to a completely rewritten version.
http://debian.vitavonni.de/packagebrowser/
I converted the groups data from "aptitude" to a keyword-oriented
system; this system is much more flexible.
Unfortunately the UI is quite slow (especially at the top level, i
mp, but i probably won't come to DebConf now. )
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Go away or i'll replace you with a very small shell script. //\
Jemanden zu lieben heißt glücklich zu sein, ihn glücklich zu sehen. V_/_
g the term "tag" to avoid confusion ;)
- the whole world uses tags! *gg*
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Erich Schubert
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Go away or i'll replace you with a very small shell script. //\
Jemanden zu lieben heißt glücklich zu sein, ihn glücklich zu sehen. V_/_
> > - policy should require that tags are added
>
> This is going to be problematic. I think it would be better to have an
> override system where missing tags can be added by a central authority,
> rather than trying to force all maintainers to add tags or be NMUed.
Of course. they can be overr
> The code simply won't load levels, as it stands, unless it has loaded
> the game data. Even if that protection feature was disabled (trivial,
> certainly) it still wouldn't work: all such free levels require some
> stuff from the commercial data, the weapons, the models, the textures,
> etc.
Ar
At least the Source _is_ useful for novice programmers that are
interested in 3d game programming.
So at least the source should go into "main".
Maybe there is no complete free dataset available right now; but there
should be enough "free" models and textures to make a one-room game with
this engin
> > At least the Source _is_ useful for novice programmers that are
> > interested in 3d game programming.
>
> How does Quake differ from any other projects in contrib in this way?
Software in contrib needs non-free software to run.
But the source of quake2 certainly is useful without the commerc
> I wonder how many people in either of these threads have actually downloaded
> this source and looked at it?
i have. I even got it to compile...
and i think it'll need quite some work to get useful...
it has inline asm gcc doesn't like; the ref_glx driver is missing; it
currently requires svgali
---
- Frontends should be kept in unstable until a good amount of packages has
GNU-Trove categories
- two releases after Sections are no longer required by any tool, "Sections"
can be dropped
-
That's it,
Erich Schubert
pgpMBwBb2cf1N.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: robotournament
Version : x.y.z
Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.some.org/
* License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
Description : Game where pla
> No, it doesn't apply, because quake2 is an engine for a game, not an
> interpreter for a language.
Actually the quake2 engine IS.
It's a runtime environment (you might call it interpreter) for the graphics
files and the gamei386.so (or whatever it was called)
These graphics files and the gamei38
> > - Frontends should be kept in unstable until a good amount of
> > packages has GNU-Trove categories
>
> I don't understand this comment. Do you think frontends won't be able
> to handle packages that don't have Trove categories?
well, people might be confused if such a frontend comes into
> Seriously, for who want to test the game it might be downloaded from
> http://robotournament.sourceforge.net, the latest tarball is at:
or just check the bug report, http://bugs.debian.org/126317
where i added the correct url...
or get the debian package from
http://www.fachschaften.uni-muenchen
what about making a package called "libpng-inconsistency", which
versioned-conflicts with those packages not yet recompiled;
libqt, libgd, imlib etc. then only have to depend on this one package,
so the conflicts list of them doesn't get too big ;)
This would allow us to delay the upgrade of libqt
> I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get
> that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system.
> I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;)
> I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package installed ...
well, if
> I am just wondering if guppi has every worked properly in sid.
well, it does right now.
at least for me and on this machine running sid.
i think it was the first time i tried, though ;)
i usually don't need a spreadsheet, and i usually prefer gnuplot...
Greetings,
Erich
P.S. No, Branden, plase
> I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want
> mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the
> mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim
> to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about
> finding the
We really should add some gs-fonts-virtual package, gs is depending upon.
LOTs of People (even some Debian Developers) wonder why their printer
does not work, just because they forgot to install some gs fonts.
So i'd suggest gs depending upon some fonts.
If a really experienced user knows that he d
> in some way. When I try to compile any program using SDL and OpenGL, the
> window/screen shows the last image, from the OpenGL program which was
> previous run.
My first guess would be that your GL Driver is somehow broken.
Memory protection should make it impossible for the next program to read
I felt oblieged to announce this package on slashdot ;)
http://slashdot.org/developers/02/04/01/162223.shtml?tid=90
We got quite some positive feedback ;)
"It's about time. As usual, Debian shows the great leadership that we
have all come to expect from the project. The addition of a r00tk1t is
Fix for these two grave bugs (my changes are in .config and .postinst)
is in incoming/DELAYED/4-day
I also added a german translation of the debconf templates as
debian/slapd.templates.de
I just noticed there might be another "db_go" missing near
"conf_exists" at the second change, so feel free t
135593)
* remove "..." from "Exit..." menu entry (Closes: #108867)
* corrected spelling in description. (Closes: #125361)
* File->Save is Ctrl+S now (Closes: #88059)
* no more lintian overrides
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I maintain the ttf-larabie-* packages, a set of 350 almost-free fonts
(free as in free beer that is ;) - in 450 ttf files.
I'd like to support defoma, but the defoma utilities for generating the
defoma hint files are unuseable for me.
1. it takes ages: i have to confirm about 20 dialogs for each f
> Some questions that need to be asked:
> Howmany of our mirrors are rsyncable?
How much load can the servers handle?
How much more load does rsync do than a fast http server like tux?
I think the proposed way of providing diff's for certain "common"
versions is much nicer. Sending a request for
P
> It's interesting how strongly these fonts are a recommendation of free
> fonts. Misnamed glyphs need to be moved, those previously mentioned
> blank glyphs need to go away, and many new characters could be created
> with little work (Berylium has the c, h, g, j, s, u, circumflex and
> breve glyph
> > galeon logtrend-httpagent rie
>
> Is there anything I can do to get galeon included in woody? Since there
> are no outstanding RC bugs, I assume there are dependency problems.
Galeon was unfortunately removed to a RC bug that did apply to a version
in sid, not in woody, t
I REALLY REALLY would like to see translated apt in woody.
And i cannot understand why apt-i18n is not installed so we could
test it. Adding apt-i18n to unstable will not break anything, but
interested developers can test this before adding it to real apt.
I've been thinking about calling to sign
> IIRC galeon is not moved to woody just because it depends on mozilla
> which has an RC bug. Since mozilla is not removed but will be fixed
> before the release (at least that's how I understood Anthony's mail) I
> wonder if galeon then can make it back in. Or did you just removev
> galeon 1.0.3 a
> As much as I like to have woody released soon, I'm quite confused
> because I don't understand why masqmail has to go:
This is "had had to go".
AJ mailed "over the past few weeks". note the plural.
Greetings,
Erich
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Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-12
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: enigma
Version : 0.38a
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Well, any suggestions? ;)
Gruss,
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e after the compression ;)
I was thinking about having the comet the form of the debian swirl.
But i'll need to find some converter to create this...
> I really should start doing PovRay animations rather than just pictures
You'll need to be good at math's to make smooth animations ;
s easy as
possible, not as secure as possible (especially at the benefit of what?).
Thus I like the idea of people authenticating using alioth, OpenID and
similar.
best regards,
Erich Schubert
years .I've even been involved in reviewing this years
submissions until I decided to instead submit an own proposal.
... so how does that fit to your conspiracy theory?
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Which is wor
currently
living in Germany, I need full cultural support for German culture,
too. Don't bother to install German language packs for applications
that have English translations, but please install culturally relevant
packages even when they are only available in German.".
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Hello all,
Prism, NSA, Guardian etc. - I assume all of you have been following
these reports, and otherwise you definitely should start reading the
news.
One thing that apparently has been happening a lot these days are
secret court orders in the U.S. For example Google apparently was
forced to in
Hello Ana,
Can you drop me from the soc-coordination list admin/moderator list?
I cannot find the list admin password anymore.
I've been rather passive the last years with respect to GSoC.
Mostly helping a bit with voting and reviewing the applications.
I'll probably help with that again, but since
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