On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:06:30PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
[...]
> I occasionally install a program and need to know how to use it as
> quickly as possible; for example, while reading through bug reports.
> So, I run foo --help. Sometimes, the help screen is more than 25
> lines long, and it s
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:00:47PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:45:11PM +0200, Martin Braure de Calignon wrote:
> > Le lundi 06 juin 2005 à 14:28 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis a écrit :
> > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > Ummm, I think you've missed my point. The threa
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:56:59AM +0200, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:55:16PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > The follwing packages need a new maintainer:
> ...
> > mctools-lite (69638), 12 days old
> ...
> > rosegarden (68189), 33 days old
> ...
>
> My s
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:59:20AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:54:38 -0400
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Don't compile your kernel with gcc 3.3. I don't know whether the bugs lie
> > in the kernel or in gcc (or both), but this combination does not work
> > co
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:43:36AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:06:26 -0400
> "H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Did you check your compile logs to see if it actually compiled with
> > gcc-2.95 or with just gcc (==3.3) ? It happened
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:30:03AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote:
> Bug stamp-out list for Aug 8 06:00 (CST)
>
> Total number of release-critical bugs: 822
[snip]
Whoa, sounds like time for another BSP!
T
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:01:42PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Is this possible?
>
> It would be really "cool"(tm) if I didn't have to reconfigure every
> program on my laptop to use a different proxy server every time I plug
> it into a different network.
>
> Just venting my irritation for the day
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> > helps catching 95%... But the bandwidth is still used... I'm still looking
> > for
> > a pure MTA solution...
>
> A pure MTA solution would still need to scan the body and thus would still
> eat you
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:18:56PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:34:58 -0400
> "H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've resorted to blocking port 25 to subnets from which these spams
>
> What would help is to be able to block
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:46:15PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:44:50 -0400
> "H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Another major source is rr.com, which not only gives me tons of Swen, but
> > also other spam in general. I'v
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:31:22PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:34:58PM -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > I've resorted to blocking port 25 to subnets from which these spams
> > originate. Currently I have about 45 subnets (/24 and a few /16) on my
>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote:
[snip]
> a little to liberally in the past!). How can I find out the sizes of the
> packages and try to establish what I can remove without disaster. I tried
> using deborphan to do this but it didn't even put a dent in my 100% full
> v
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:40:57AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Where is a list of Asian developers' names in their original
> characters?
I don't remember entering my name in any such list...?
> The best I can do right now is e.g. grep /usr/share/edict/enamdict to guess
> from the romanization.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
[...]
> As a side note, those packages have spurious build-dependencies on
> gnome1.x libraries (and have no corresponding runtime dependencies),
> bugs will be filed soon:
[...]
Also, on a related note, while preparing glotski
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:15:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear Hwei, Uwe and John,
>
> I did not manage to contact you in private (see below), therefore by
> policy 10.1 I have to move the discussion on debian-devel (copy sent
> to debian-med). We (the members of the pkg-emboss project on
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:10:15PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Steve Kemp wrote:
>
> > The following change makes the code work as expected:
>
> Your change works as expected, but only because the file has just one line.
> It's not a general solution.
>
> The general solution is not to
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:47:34AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
[snip]
> I have a love-hate relationship with the significant whitespace.
I have a hate-hate relationship with it. I much prefer free-style syntax
where the programmer is allowed to use his best judgment on how to indent
the code. Of c
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:07:35PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:19:02PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> > For personal pet projects, I use 2 spaces per nesting level. Some people
> > think that's Pure Evil(tm),
>
> Most noteably perh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:29:52PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:19:02PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Also, as an off-topic note, blank lines that contain tabs or spaces
> > are Pure Evil(tm), especially in code. One of these days I should
> >
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:28:29AM +0800, Isaac To wrote:
> >>>>> "H" == H S Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> H> That would mean 95% of non-trivial XSLT stylesheets would need to be
> H> rewritten...
>
> Or perhaps the XSLT langu
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:14:04PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:29:52PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
[snip]
> >>Python did away with that requirement for scope in 2.x. If you want to
> >>use blank lines for code logic sepa
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:47:22PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
[snip]
> With that said let me give you the biggest hint on learning any vi
> variant: When in doubt, slap the ESC key. The commands and controls will
> come in time but all of that doesn't mean a thing if you're in edit mode
> whe
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:43:40AM +0800, Isaac To wrote:
[snip]
> H> That's because the terminal settings are b0rked. I personally delete
> H> all programs that cannot cut-n-paste without messing up tabs and
> H> spaces. Unfortunately, this happens a lot on the Winbloxe desktop at
>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:45:52AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:56:49PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> | Nevertheless, I find 8-space indentation too wasteful, 4-space
> | indentation too cumbersome to type, and 1-space indentation
> | unreadable.
&
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:34:14PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:57:46PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> > Hear, hear. Yes, 8-space indentation is a matter of pressing the Tab
> > key, but it's a bit too big.. I've always stuck with two spaces.
>
> So set your tabstop (and
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:13:46AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:00:18AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > > VIM can do autoindenting for some languages too. Works OK with Perl,
> > > and C, and badly with Tcl (but doesn't everything?).
> >
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:26:37PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:04:54PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote:
> > If you are not able to use a programmer's editor, I fail to see how you
> > can even try to argue about the usefulness of Python's whitespace
> > handling.
>
> Yay!
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:41:34PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> I swore that I wasn't going to get into the latest style war, but ...
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:55:38AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:45:52AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> &g
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:04:48AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >Yeah, 'whitespace' about sums up the value of it. Except to Python
> >programmers, of course. :-P :-P
>
> Quite the contrary. First off generally flames are from the
> u
This package:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/the.html
never shows up when you search for "the" in
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words like "the"
:-) Also, because the BTS uses the search engine to link to
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:54:17PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
[snip]
> Never underestimate the power of Google's cache. :-)
[snip]
"Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public FTP-server
and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
;-)
T
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The peace of mind--from knowin
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:23:09PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * Branden Robinson [Fri, Nov 22 2002, 10:34:21AM]:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > > (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
> >
> > Why are you blatanly misspelling "b
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote:
> I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh
> as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false.
[snip]
Possibly because otherwise, you cannot run any shell scripts as that user.
(This may also app
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:22PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:39, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote:
> > > I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh
> > >
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:42:34PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
> > (non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
> >
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:24:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins
> > (non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to
> > /
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:32:13PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[snip]
> Now that somebody mentioned it -- will /bin/true work, or is that a
> wishlist feature?
[snip]
Oops, nevermind that. That'll teach me to respond before I read. :-P
T
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MAS = Mana Ada Sistem?
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:41:21PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
[snip]
> No, it doesn't. It shows that the most frequently viewed distribution pages
> on distrowatch.com are:
>
> 1) Mandrake
> 2) Red Hat
> 3) Gentoo
> 4) Debian
>
> And the sample size is approximately 56000 page views.
[snip]
A
I've tried to contact David A. van Leeuwen via two email addresses that
are listed on BTS and db.d.o, regarding a possible NMU of his package,
dvidvi. However, both emails bounced. Should I just go ahead and upload
the NMU?
T
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Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. --
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
[snip]
> - Another idea I had was something along the lines of Debsmith or
> Iansmith, to keep both the idea of Debian and the idea of the forge.
> Unfortunately, plenty of people are called that way. Any idea to
> improve that line
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:16:13AM +0530, Ganesan R wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Has any one else noticed that testing is not getting updated. According to
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz, the last run
> was on Nov 20th. If this is intentional, I don't remember seeing any mail
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:39:30PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
[snip]
> Time will tell. I fear that some day, the only way to use email
> productively is to block all email with invalid sender adresses. And I
> don't know a way do valdiate a (not yet known) address but to try it
> and send a reply
I just noticed that 'heyu' is non-free, at least according to bug #149128.
Shouldn't this bug be upgraded to serious, at least? (We shouldn't be
shipping it in sarge if it's non-free.)
T
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Why is a river rich? 'cos it has two banks.
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:47:18PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:19:47PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > I just noticed that 'heyu' is non-free, at least according to bug #149128.
> > Shouldn't this bug be upgraded to serious, at least?
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:53:05PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
[snip]
> > When it first occurred to someone that this sort of a trick could be
> > played on people to hijack domains, an RFC came out specifying that
> > hostname resolvers should NOT append the local TLD to the requeste
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:27:07PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 23:22, Michael Banck wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:13:18PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > > Dunno how you feel about this, but dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> > > > works quite fine h
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:59:20PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
[snip]
> > Ooh, goody :) Does this mean #45943 will finally be fixed?
>
> Well, we obviously can't force anyone to do anything; but I hope that
> having the reasoning more clearly laid out will motivate people...
[snip]
Does submit
Hi Troy,
It appears that your Debian package, htget, has not been updated for a
long time, and there are some packaging issues with it. I have prepared an
NMU of this package (from version 0.94 -- I was unable to find 0.93 and I
needed a pristine upstream source to fix bug #44302).
This NMU fixe
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:13:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > Secondly, since OpenOffice seems to be GPL'd, I am wondering why it is in
> > contrib instead of main.
>
> Build-dependency on Java.
[snip]
Excuse me for butting
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:38:19PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:06:10PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[snip]
> > Excuse me for butting in here, but aren't there GPL'd Java compilers in
> > main already? Or does OpenOffice require a non-DFSG Java c
Package: grep
Severity: wishlist
Hi Robert,
I've applied some of the patches in BTS filed against grep, and have
prepared an NMU which fixes the following bugs: #158134, #127438, #93193,
#142206, #172524, #45943, #156479. The complete patch for the NMU is
attached with this mail.
Since you appe
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
[snip]
> Joost Kooij
> xbat
[snip]
FWIW, Joost responded to me last Nov (gee, has it been that long ago
already? :-/) for NMU'ing xbat. If he still fails to respond, I could take
over the package.
T
--
"Uhh, I'm still not here."
Hi all, I'm the maintainer of the libsndfile package, and I've noticed
that there's been an NMU to fix a build problem. (Sorry for being absent
... got a job and have a lot less free time now.) Anyway, there's a new
release, and I tried to update the package (from the NMU version) but now
I'm havin
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