Re: cgroup mount point

2009-02-03 Thread Gustavo Noronha
but I am pretty sure they would be careful not to do that after distributions have settled on a standard path. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha
not practical. And they are didn't tested > the aptitude's resolver, which is default for Debian now and has been proved > to be more intelligent and coverable in the the most cases. Also, the test seems to use apt-rpm, which forked from Debian's for some time, if I&#x

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-17 Thread Gustavo Noronha
e possibility of consensus building taking advantage of the fact that he maintains the Python interpreter packages (and the fact that he is able to push things 100% his way into Ubuntu). See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#516351: ITP: see -- lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer

2009-02-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 20:29 +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Description : lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer Is it really Linux-specific? Thanks, -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#516351: ITP: see -- lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer

2009-02-21 Thread Gustavo Noronha
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:16 +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > Is it really Linux-specific? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Okay, that's a good one. POSIX instead of Linux? How about lightweight text file and man page viewer, only? =) See you, -- Gustavo Noronha

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Gustavo Noronha
last time FTP masters REJECTed a package because of that, > I spent more than an hour to get the list right, for a package that took > only a few minutes to update. I can hardly imagine how fun it must be > for a big package. FWIW, ~3 hours of intensive work on webkit last time I did i

Re: Proposal: Enhance requirements for General resolutions

2009-03-22 Thread Gustavo Noronha
s are references to sections in the constitution). > > PROPOSAL END Seconded. Should this be proposed as a patch for the constitution? -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#525490: ITP: fizmo -- console-based Z-Machine interpreter for playing Infocom / Inform games

2009-05-01 Thread Gustavo Noronha
at it runs in textmode and does not provide any GUI whatsoever. About > Infocom and interactive fiction in general, see the "New to IF" section > at http://www.ifarchive.org. I'd remove the sentence about where it has been successfully compiled. It doesn't really add much

Re: debconf templates: Choices displayed different to values

2009-05-01 Thread Gustavo Noronha
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 00:54 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > P.S. Please do not use a space before "?" (or "!", ":", ";", etc.) in > English strings; it's incorrect. The same goes for portuguese, by the way. =) -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Proje

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread Gustavo Noronha
we believe it may make it better, even if we do not use a specific package ourselves. You are, of course, just as free to ignore those you don't deem worthy. Does it make sense? -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread Gustavo Noronha
like, I'm not sure > you > should blame it on the software use to view the files. Then take out the option to allow you to violate it, then? -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha
cinitramfs to go with that? -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#531871: ITP: python-peak.rules -- generic functions and business rules support systems for Python

2009-06-04 Thread Gustavo Noronha
urn unusable both turbogears2 *and* turbogears 1 (which was > working in Lenny). This is the thing that replaces python-dispatch (ruledispatch source package), by the way. You may want to get rid of that one soonish (as in, ASAP). Thanks for your work! -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- T

Re: How to handle libssl support?

2004-11-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
x27;m not sure about this. Wouldn't the Provides: fetchmail-ssl on fetchmail satisfy fetchmail-common's relationship needs when upgrading and, thus, be selected for instalation? Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>

Bug#281416: ITP: debian-br-team-tools -- Tools for the Debian Brasil Packaging Team

2004-11-15 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: debian-br-team-tools Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-br-team/ * License : GPL Description : Tools for the Debian Brasil Packaging Tea

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

2004-12-04 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
d for each one actually do exist. That does not solve the problem, but makes it pretty easy to solve. See ya! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>

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

2004-12-06 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
claim that nobody else should engage in that action. Not even under > some misguided notion of "equality". Just to finish the email... yes, you cannot force people into taking actions, even more in a volunteer organization. This does not mean that some universal values should not be defende

Bug#285330: ITP: gazpacho -- GTK+ User Interface Designer

2004-12-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gazpacho Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Lorenzo Gil Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gruppy.sicem.biz/componentes#gazpacho * License : LGPL Description : GTK+ User Interface Designer Gazpacho i

Re: Print Alternative

2005-01-04 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
print enter the mix? Are there any other printing servers and clients on Debian? I know gtklp, but I guess it uses /usr/bin/lp? Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>

Re: Print Alternative

2005-01-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
nfiguring a printing daemon which no application is going to use =D. > Besides, everyone should be using CUPS anyways, right? ;-) Right! =D Using cups and conflicting with everyone else is a good way to go ;). Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/&

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
nt recorded in changelogs or bug reports, even. Thanks for bringing this up Joey, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-22 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
hould approach Goswin's comments as advice, not as 'telling one how to do things'. Maybe we just need to learn how to use a more pleasant language =D. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://couve.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/> signature.asc Description: Esta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9?= uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-01 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
t a laptop with console mode, and it would > be nice to just add an append to the kernel command line to stop it from > running... > > Any comments? I like the idea. I sometimes miss an easy way to say "don't start X", too, although most times I do want it to run. See ya!

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
not easy enough for you ? Easy enough for me in my system. It would be nice to have a standard way of telling the system to not start X on any Debian system while keeping X start up being the default without the need of messing with /etc/rc?.d/ and/or /etc/inittab. Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#299024: ITP: dh-zope -- debhelper script for zope packaging

2005-03-11 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sex, 2005-03-11 Ãs 09:48 +0100, Fabio Tranchitella escreveu: > The package contains the dh_installzope debhelper script used > for zope packaging tasks. Any specific reason to not include this script in debhelper instead? Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http:/

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ething, but there's much more that we should think about. This is just the top of the iceberg. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
n this issue: we should try to reach them and tell them what our needs and wishes are, and estabilish links where possible. See you, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
is quite good, I still have to look for patches manually sometimes, like David Nusinow mentioned, and I have found patches that improved debian's gksu this way at least twice. It would have been much better to have them filed to the BTS. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha

Re: [Fwd: Re: status of the DDTP project?]

2005-01-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
rojects using the 'Debian' group. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Debian Developers photo gallery (was: Re: apply to NM? ha!)

2005-01-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
e DD's LDAP and then integrate it if the idea is well-accepted later on. Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Important l10n notification for maintainers

2005-05-26 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
dates, please do contact me in private and I'll be able to help reviewing. Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2005-06-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
rk around in a somewhat easy way. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian concordance

2005-06-21 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
th non-sensical, almost bizarre in some cases, Depends. Nevertheless, they would install pretty well on a stable system and with some difficulty and manual intervention to fix conflicts in unstable, at the time. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> De

Re: Testing package installation, upgrading, and removal

2005-06-21 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
going to have some standardized control file teaching the scripts what and how to test. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
h version <= ${Source-Version} of both, if icewmcp has a greater version than both. I guess you'll need to use an epoch if not. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
m same source as icewmcp. If he wants to > avoid epoching he could just create dummy source package... (At least I > think so :-). Looks even more elegant, indeed. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org&g

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
l -- aptitude will handle this very elegantly, maybe bringing its expanded package states to libapt itself would be nice -- rather than using this kind of trick. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <htt

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
o take a look at apache's docs from your workstation while working on a server over ssh and there are many other examples of use for the doc case. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-30 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
n make them one package and be done with it. I may be missing something obvious, but I don't see the point of having a -commong package in this case. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-07-04 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
erf 1:1.2-3 Simply by having a Version field for the binary package on debian/control? I'd like to see an example of that being handled, could you be so kind as to point a concrete example so I can learn this better? Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.or

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
> > If we recommend against setting the priority to low, why bother with it? Enabling debconf pre-seeding for customized installs is a good enough justification IMO. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org>

Re: RFS: libssh - SSH and SCP library

2005-07-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
you add this? See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
and simple. > > Don't debconf questions need to be translated? s/Don't// s/need to/can/ s/\?/\!/ It's possible to translate debconf questions and it's great that we who have languages !english as first language have this possibility, but we'd probably set a low

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ttp://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/ > The post-reboot (debootstrap) stage asks way too many questions. > This is a pity because the pre-reboot (d-i) stage is excellent. So let's make it better! See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ppening as fast as ubuntunization of Debian stuff. I enjoy having update-{manager,notifier}, even though I use aptitude myself, it means my mother has a simpler way of updating her Debian system at home. =) See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ys feel free to > upload an NMU. > > How many Debian maintainers think the same? I'm sure there are a > lot of them who do not soffer of the "this is my package, go away" > syndrome. I do. I think there was a list being built listing the people who think alike in thi

New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
. For coolness effect, here's the first time I saw a Debian CD being detected in my desktop: http://kov.eti.br/~kov/update-notifier-debian-cd.png See you, [0]: http://people.debian.org/~kov/stuff/ -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ -- To

Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
there would be no real need for update-notifier to be even installed, so I'd like to focus here on end-user desktops, only. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:38:20 +0200 "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:29:13PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > update-notifier is a program made by the Ubuntu guys which puts a > > notification icon in the notif

Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:31:50 +0200 Michal Politowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:29:13 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > [...] > > a Ubuntu CD; I patched the program to also look for Debian CDs, and > > to avoid messing with translations,

Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
e done by packages. Since no packages run the 'notify-reboot-required' script today, the message would never show up. We could adopt the policy of only displaying the message on kernel upgrades, for example. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://peopl

Re: Bug#382531: ITP: furl -- a small utility for displaying the HTTP headers returned by Web servers

2006-08-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
nd thus should not need anything other than libc6, so could be a nice thing to have on very small installs, along with a small libc and busybox. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
upgraded and > provide security or stability improvements. The easiest way to > make these improvements take effect is to reboot your system. > However, you may alternatively manually restart any services > that use these packages without a reboot." Sounds

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the wrong ideas (was: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier)

2006-08-17 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
lutely messy for > languages that have different declension for both. And I doubt that > replacing Ubuntu with Debian at run time comes from Ubuntu... /me points at himself It comes from some @debian.org, who should know better. -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://peo

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
on, or a solution for dak that detects that the target distribution changed and requests a confirmation by signed email, for instance. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
t; shutdown from sysvinit. This approach is a no-go imho. The alternatives system is quite mature; it suffered from leaving dangling alternatives, but that was ages ago... The various commands you said could be provided as slaves to the /sbin/init alternative, which will make them be swit

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
es. I guess the alternatives solution would be implemented in etch+1 only, not needing changes to to-be-release-in-Etch packages. I'd say let's experiment with it in experimental =). See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/ | http://

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
wn command for the running init, not for the > chosen-for-next-boot one. I see... maybe upstart's shutdown could be hacked to detect it is running in a sysvinit booted system, and call its binary, if so. Something along these lines is what module-init-tools have been doing for sometime n

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

2006-10-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
e Progeny contribution that Osamu 'utnubued': http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.html It's not very translated, granted, but it could become =D See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/ | http://kov.

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ould break the ABI, it would increment the soversion, so you'd have libgtkdatabox.so.8, and the package libgtkdatabox8, which is much saner. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Bug#366372: ITP: python-configobj -- a simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python

2006-05-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-configobj Version : 4.3.1 Upstream Author : Michael Foord & Nicola Larosa * URL : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html * License

Bug#366786: ITP: python-nose -- test discovery and running for Python's unittest

2006-05-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-nose Version : 0.8.7 Upstream Author : Jason Pellerin * URL : http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/ * License : LGPL Programmin

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hope that helps on your understanding =) See ya, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Bug#367285: ITP: python-turbojson -- TurboGears template plugin that supports json

2006-05-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-turbojson Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Elvelind Grandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/docs/plugins/template.ht

Bug#367283: ITP: python-turbokid -- TurboGears template plugin that supports Kid templates

2006-05-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-turbokid Version : 0.9.6 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/docs/plugins/template.html * License : MIT Programmin

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
into Debian, why not?). I do care about Free Software principles, but my time for working on Debian is very limited these days, and porting my packages to an "unsupported" architecture is not very high in my priorities list. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
or instance, although it apparently built without a problem in Nexenta. Go figure. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: BTS tag proposal "faq"

2006-07-03 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
t; we tag them as "faq". I like the idea... it would be like building a knowledge base in the BTS. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: Could there be a arch build test befre upload?

2006-07-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ge be installed on them. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
reason for much more delay. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
delay in having python2.4 become the default has no good reasoning, but then again, it seems like you're just trolling away. I even gave you two packages for you to look at as examples... Also, please do not CC me, I'm reading the list =). Thanks, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAI

Re: PHP application packaging policy/best practice?

2005-01-11 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
to > me that gathering the 3p-people (perl/python/php) is really a vain > hope... Begin with what you have, post it to this list and let people more knowlegeable on the other technologies help where you're missing stuff. Might work. Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <htt

Re: Bug#271567: Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
FWIW After reading your e-mail, I think that sounds like a sensible proposal. I'll wait for some input from the involved maintainers and do the change, if noone has a problem with it. Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Re: Bug#271567: Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ome-using application maintainers unhappy, maybe Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Re: Bug#271567: Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
indow appears, in this case only. I think gksu should not enter the session, but I still could not find a way of doing that without adding a dependency on libgnomeui. Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Re: Bug#271567: Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-17 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
es/conf-file.diff It worked alright with a simple test config file: $ cat /etc/gksu.conf # isso à um comentÃrio disable-grab = yes # isso à outro comentÃrio # mais comentÃrio Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Re: Bug#271567: Can you disables the "locking" of the keyboard, mouse, ...

2005-01-18 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
I've made a new patch I'd like you to try out: http://people.debian.org/~kov/gksu/patches/prompt-conf-file-enhancements.diff I hope I'll be uploading by the end of the week, after polishing this whole thing up. Time is scarse, but I'm moving forward. Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
s using a diferent terminal for that ;). See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://beterraba.no-ip.org/~kov/> Debian: <http://www.debian.org/> * <http://www.debian-br.org/>

Menu's 24 color policy (was: apt-listchanges output for beterraba.horta)

2003-05-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> Dúvidas sobre o Debian? Visite o Rau-Tu: http://rautu.cipsga.org.br

Re: Unofficial projects related with Debian.

2003-05-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
e a while before it shows up. (I > don't know how anal the webmaster for that page is, but I know I'd give > it a while to make sure it was a viable, active effort.) I'd instead show it around to help it being a viable, active effort =) []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo N

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
implyes an update of the upstream changelog > file so it's worth of checking: listing changes already documented would be > redundant and not so helpful. It's very helpful to read nice comments on what is fixed when apt-listchanges sends me email with the debian changelogs..

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
-user machine what newbies might want or what administrators > coping with many newbies might want. We can write stuff to support various kinds of menu layout. That's not a great problem for now, I think. First we get a nice, standardized menu system, then we write some configurat

Re: CGI:IRC on Debian

2003-06-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ons as compatible with the upstream's policies and code style as possible, as this is going to increase the possibility of he taking the patch. []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> Dúvidas sobre o Debian? Visite o Rau-Tu: http://rautu.cipsga.org.br

Passing dpkg-buildpackage options to pdebuild?

2003-08-04 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> Dúvidas sobre o Debian? Visite o Rau-Tu: http://rautu.cipsga.org.br

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
uld be used to achieve that. []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> Dúvidas sobre o Debian? Visite o Rau-Tu: http://rautu.cipsga.org.br

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
bout '*'... I actually use this stuff when I cannot use tabs... [~] [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cd /ho*/k* [/home/khaotikuz] [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ This should make the problem clearer... I actually wanted to go to '/home/kov', but my dumb sysadmin (me =P) created a khaotikuz user... []s! --

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
n't really care about /. I think path abstraction should be achieved by graphical file management utilities like Nautilus, not by messing with something that's actually working, to then cause more problems. []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> Dúvidas sobre o Debian? Visite o Rau-Tu: http://rautu.cipsga.org.br

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
t yes, I guess you're right. Let's say they're bringing 'Unix-like quality as a base' in which they build a user-friendly abstraction layer =). > Besides, I really doubt that even one tenth of the Debian developers > would be happy to switch ;-) Yes =). []s! --

Re: GDM in sid does not read /etc/environment anymore

2003-08-30 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
x27; setting from login.defs) auth required pam_env.so @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> Dúvidas sobre o Debian? Visite o Rau-Tu: http://rautu.cipsga.org.br

Re: GDM in sid does not read /etc/environment anymore

2003-08-30 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
user logs in. The greeter will > still appear without locales. (and that's the bug reported in bts). Indeed, but the problem is gdm is not reading /etc/environment anymore when the user logs in. So that also needs to be fixed. I agree with trying to find LANG in /etc/environment. []s! -- [

Re: "non-free" software included in contrib

2003-08-31 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ood place for installers, that is not a good reasoning. We did agree to respect the policy, and to agree with it on our packaging work, but it does not mean it is a holy book we cannot think about changing. []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: &l

Re: [RFC] Auto-Accept libs with just changed SONAME?

2005-07-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ing an upstream version and using an epoch, which sux terribly. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
suggestion. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
t busy handling unhelpful "ideas" or complaints from people who do not really understand what's going on. How many times more this same discussion is going to happen? See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ur release process have a sane timing; now, rehashing this kinds of non-issues doesn't help. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
for the Project. A person who does not want to do a task which has been delegated or assigned to them does not need to do it. However, they must not actively work against these rules and decisions properly made under them. -- http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/constitution.en.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
lease for such things, most of the times, either. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
trying to give you advice on what to do, anyway, I think. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
someone wanting to install Debian on a matchbox and we need an official release for that' or as 'someone is trying to remove my arch from Debian'. Stop and think. Let's all try to get positive and helpful comments in; or is everyone ok with having a release cycle just like t

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ves them the bits, and they can simply start doing it. Yep, if that's the case I see no problem, just like you. Petter got my point correctly, FWIW. See ya, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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