a 'main' package from a non-free source

2004-11-05 Thread Jon Dowland
ia licences was too strict for non-free). The trouble is, the source package has the lot of them in it. So, I'd have to split the source package too. Are there any other packages where the source package is not 'pristine' but split in this fashion that I can look at? Thanks, -- Jon Dowland

UML packages for sarge: likelyhood of making it to stable

2005-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
kages sorted out? Is an NMU a possibility? -- Jon Dowland Webteam University of Newcastle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to virtual-package-names-list.txt

2005-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist Hello, I am following the steps in virtual-package-names-list.txt[1] in order to add (or not add) the virtual package name 'x-display-manager' to the authorative list of virtual package names. The virtual package x-display-manager is desc

Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
ion for > every file, does it? Looking at the source, I think that is exactly what it does, although I've only had a cursory glance. I did notice also that it's vulnerable to a symlink attach, suggest shelling out to mktemp at line #127 in your debian diff.gz. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.do

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-22 Thread Jon Dowland
t one non-modal editor in base. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-20 Thread Jon Dowland
of what the whole distribution was: a simple meta-package with the correct dependencies was all that was missing. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-20 Thread Jon Dowland
ypto strength issue, however if the key was rotated that infrequently, the systems that perform the operation will have succumbed to a lot of bit-rot between invocations and the people doing it will be out of practise. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#351594: ITP: chocolate-doom -- Doom engine closely-compatible with vanilla doom

2006-02-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: chocolate-doom Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Simon Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ * License : GPL Description :

Bug#354732: ITP: omgifol -- python library for manipulating doom-style WAD files

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: omgifol Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Fredrik Johansson * URL : http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~frejohl/doom.html * License : MIT-style Description : python libra

Re: Bug#355488: ITP: bcpp -- C(++) beautifier

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
fucking absurd. Indeed it is: so you have two options when facing such code a) use an editor which lets you customize the tab-stop b) use a tool such as bcpp to reformat the source -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
x27;s guide > > for 2.6), where has the feature moved to this week? > > Ah, fortunately, the FreeBSD gnome maintainers believe in > documentation, so I found the answer there. For those of merely following the thread, rather than using bleeding-edge GNOME, could you share the sec

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-19 Thread Jon Dowland
most benefit from a large disk read-ahead, prior to the main services being started. If that accounted for the majority of speed-up, maybe it alone, and not a fragile parallel boot process too, would be sufficient for most people in need of a more efficient boot. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-04 Thread Jon Dowland
od reason to make it do so? The lifetime of the 2.4 kernel is undoubtably less than the GCC 3.x branch in distributions. Any attempt to port 2.4 to 4.0 would run the risk of introducing problems for no gain. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Jon Dowland
rdinated? I'm interested in helping out here, if possible. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Jon Dowland
n *does* support the hardware you are talking about. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1154609291 past the epoch, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: I use something similar, but I generate procmailrc and muttrc snippets from a master file of mailing lists using m4 and some scripts. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Jon Dowland
ke dpatch, I reckon, and that skillset is going to be more useful and applicable in other contexts as well. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pan in Sid

2006-08-08 Thread Jon Dowland
ead up on that thread (root msg id [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to understand the rationale of the decision and then take it up with the maintainer if you still disagree. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
ght even get accepted by Joerg, > as it can create makefiles for MS compilers (I know, its > not important to this list and also not to me, but it > seems to be important for Joerg). I'd consider that points /against/ it's favour. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-14 Thread Jon Dowland
am to keep an eye on what each other are doing, as some common packaging functionality might be possible. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-08-14 Thread Jon Dowland
age comes with some useful aliases, HEAD, GET, etc.: ~$ ls -lh $(readlink -f $(which HEAD)) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K 2005-02-14 00:35 /usr/bin/lwp-request ~$ HEAD -S alcopop.org HEAD http://alcopop.org --> 302 Moved Temporarily HEAD http://alcopop.org/log/ --> 200 OK Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
down is Priority: important and Section: base, meaning that it shall be frozen [2] and that redevelopment will have to target etch+1. [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ [2] (Or already is? it was to be "Next week" as of Aug 8 according to the last release update to d

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
lsewhere (backports perhaps?) an unrelated security update will stop it working. Personally I think the DS team have enough work making sure security updates are a smooth process for packages *in the OS*: being expected to test random-external-package-x on top of that is asking too much. --

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
these, and I don't know if they made 2.6.18. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-27 Thread Jon Dowland
could be modified so that on installation it would look at the tasksel choices and interpret that as if you had installed it yourself via aptitude (that is, mark any dependencies as automatically installed). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
perhaps that's a suitably trivial program to bundle with menu, and perhaps extend the menu spec so that you can specify "This is an X program but I want console output displayed and preserved on termination"? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Sylvain Beucler wrote: Or to put it the other way, why isn't the developer's reference a wiki? :) I think it's more likely to evolve that way. Just as a side note, I am very interested in the possibilities of wiki software being used to collaboratively develop more structure documentation (l

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
ulator. What about the suggestion to support this sort-of task within the menu system itself? Eg. by perhaps adding a different argument to the menu syntax. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Jonas Meurer wrote: I don't use any acceleration at all. I run the mga matrox Xserver, which doesn't support any kind of 3d acceleration. (my graphics controller is a Matrox MGA G400) At this point it would be useful to see your Xorg.conf (but not to the list, perhaps better to the bug) Your

Re: Simpleminded members better than abusive members

2006-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
much more appropriate than the one that was received in the BTS. Insulting the reporter achieves nothing. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
on, that's great: it can be made so! But Marga is not obliged to have done so from the start. Indeed, highlighting the ease with which someone can public something on the wiki vs. the traditional method seems like a positive step towards improving documentation, by highlighting current defe

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
on, that's great: it can be made so! But Marga is not obliged to have done so from the start. Indeed, highlighting the ease with which someone can public something on the wiki vs. the traditional method seems like a positive step towards improving documentation, by highlighting current defe

Re: The config script in Debconf

2006-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
uestion but the first you may not. Secondly, the question may be cached. Try running dpkg-reconfigure package name>. You can add a -p argument to dpkg-reconfigure to force your debconf priority (eg. -p high to see only high questions). Default is 'low'. -- Jon Dowland -- To

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Jon Dowland
sean finney wrote: funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the users learn about looking at README.Debian :) I think users can be forgiven not reading every README.Debian in packages which are installed by default. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/

Bug#395364: ITP: wadc -- programming environment for creating doom levels

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wadc Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Wouter van Oortmerssen * URL : <http://strlen.com/wadc/> * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description :

Re: Getting package build dependencies

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:48:45PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As to your real problem. I was playing around with > building dummy packages (src-) on the fly from the > Sources file that depends on all Build-Depends. Me too! > The idea was that you would 'aptitude install src-foo' to > i

Re: Bug#396648: ITP: rt73 -- Linux device driver for Ralink RT73 a/b/g WLAN Card

2006-11-02 Thread Jon Dowland
, have they indicated if they are planning on fixing this? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-24 Thread Jon Dowland
ving the shell re-implement netcat to be a violation of "do one thing and do it well". I've never came across a script on debian or elsewhere that required this functionality enabled. Indeed I'm horrified to find this feature enabled on RHEL boxes. -- Jon Dowland -- To

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:25:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote: > > I think that having the shell re-implement netcat to be > > a violation of "do one thing and do it well". > > Hmmm. A large, complicated shell like bash brok

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
I would also second "Amateur radio"... I agree that "Ham Radio" is not too descriptive for those outside the circle (myself included). However it is consistent with the terminology in the Linux kernel's config. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144653527 past the epoch, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 10-Apr-06, 04:17 (CDT), Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I agree that "Ham Radio" is not too descriptive for > > those outside the circle (myself included). However it > > is cons

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-13 Thread Jon Dowland
t's dependencies marked "automatic"). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Jon Dowland
using the same line on sid, the error given is I have a similar problem with setting $EDITOR to something like "vim -gf": some programs pass this through to the shell, others look for a binary named 'vim -gf' in $PATH. Which is the correct behaviour and where is that defined,

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-18 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144928811 past the epoch, Eduard Bloch wrote: > As said, Gnome bloat. Use gqview or pornview. The latter has been orphaned[1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/316934 -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-21 Thread Jon Dowland
reviously, the hints system was impossible to translate). Therefore, if it is referred to predominantly as "Ham Radio" in one locale and "Amateur Radio" in another, could we not accommodate both? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sources.list

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Dowland
her than -devel: see <http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/> for info and archives. Secondly, your computer's date appears to be inaccurate: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:24:27 +0430 If it were the 29th I would have been paid

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-25 Thread Jon Dowland
ws which window manager they want they're sufficiently advanced enough to go for "manual package selection". -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#365087: ITP: debcheck -- Checks whether dependencies of debian packages can be satisfied

2006-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
he front page. (it looks like a mighty-interesting program though I must say) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bsp Version : 5.1 Upstream Author : Colin Phipps * URL : http://doombsp.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : nodes builder for doom-engine levels BS

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
doombsp, although I'm be less inclined to rename the binary, the orig.tar.gz, the documentation, etc., unless (given this explanation) you still suggest it necessary. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
to package glBSP; thank you for pointing it out. I shall contact the packager to determine whether he has any ambition for glbsp to enter main. Yours, -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
efault editor for most people, which I don't think is a good idea: <http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_inst> -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148048910 past the epoch, Jon Dowland wrote: > Interesting idea, but by my reckoning that would make "ed" the default > editor for most people, which I don't think is a good idea: > <http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_inst> Eek. Of course if you

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148053588 past the epoch, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That's not an issue. First, ed doesn't install an alternatives for > "editor". Ah. Of course :) Sheepish, -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-06-07 Thread Jon Dowland
our > Debian workstations at the Department of Physics at ETH > Zurich.) One reason: wdm (really wings) has no keyboard-shortcut support. You are forced to use a mouse to operate it. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-06-17 Thread Jon Dowland
happens. > -- Text > ++ Text Tools/Utilities/Accessories... Could you give an example of what would belong there? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-08-01 Thread Jon Dowland
support of non-graphical readers, etc. If this does get packaged it'll certainly have a lot of bugs filed against it, so the maintainer needs to be aware that it may be more of a responsibility than just a political statement. -- Jon Dowland

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

2003-08-06 Thread Jon Dowland
only appropriate for your vendor to have supplied some information regarding where you may trip up from looking at conventional sources. Thus a large part of your difficulty can be attributed to them, rather than debian. -- Jon Dowland

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
list and a worklist (with the latter being the existing TODOlist) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I suggest having __two__ lists: a wishlist and a worklist (with the > > latter being the existing TODOlist) > > A decent idea, since items can be

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
stilt their creativity, hinder their intellect, and prevent the > development of a consistent style! I'm pretty sure I've come across this as a guideline in the maintainer docs, if not as a hard-and-fast rule. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 --

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:07:13AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > It's rather pathetic that the Debian mentors site doesn't run the > operating system that's the reason for its existence. It depends on the reasoning behind the OS choice. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
and makes the boot procedure generally look tidier. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
the bugs. See <http://jon.dowland.name/log/2005/05/27#voting>, where I discover that attempts to leverage voting etc. on the mozilla bts amount to nothing. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

popcon (was Re: about voting for bugs)

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
summary? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
top. As another poster has mentioned, there may have been very valid reasons for choosing Ubuntu above Debian for the primary purpose of the machine. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
point, and it appears to be one that the mozilla BTS people agree with. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: popcon (was Re: about voting for bugs)

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
at before sarge was released, but that is > life. :/ Indeed. Cheers, -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-21 Thread Jon Dowland
m written in C++ or an alternative written in Perl? (On the > other hand, which of the two programs would you expect to be available > sooner?) I think you are expecting people to say C++, and on the other hand, Perl: However, I think perl for both :-) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.nam

doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
ay or another :( ) anyone interested in progress updates should mail me. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
ase no raven code is in the engine, and the doom or heretic > plugins, only the hexen plugin is affected. I'll have to take your word for it on the engine, but surely raven code is in the heretic plugin? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNS

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:00:21PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > I gather you mean the wiki/forum for the doomsday project and not > Debian. I'm suitably out of touch that I wasn't aware doomsday was > available for GNU/Linux natively, yet - I suppose this is what the I

Re: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

2005-07-23 Thread Jon Dowland
no data files. You will need to either install the commercial Quake data, or alternative free data files. = -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-23 Thread Jon Dowland
upport into Jdoom now - about time! (as an upstream author of freedoom, I've had to field many questions about jdoom and boom over the years) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: http://torrents.debian.org -- idea

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Dowland
like a valuable service, converted to a .org subdomain. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

2005-07-27 Thread Jon Dowland
it doesn't specify the description's length. I think < 80 chars is best for the description to be useful using command line tools such as dpkg, apt-cache search, etc. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

2005-07-27 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:13:01AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Hi, sorry to be picky, but I think the short description is too long. Oh, plenty of other people have picked up on this, sorry for the redundant message. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 --

Bug#322473: ITP: deutex -- composition tool for doom-style WAD files

2005-08-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: deutex Version : 4.4.0 Upstream Author : André Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/deutex/ * License : GNU/GPL Version 2

Re: New appearance of bugs on BTS web pages

2005-08-13 Thread Jon Dowland
quite daunting. Of course that isn't necessary for some of the improvements that could be made. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-15 Thread Jon Dowland
reements inside the team. I do not agree that this is always the case. I think that sometimes, a bug which doesn't look like fun to debug or fix can be passed over in team maintenance situations, as no one person is responsible for the package (oh, someone else in the team will pick this

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-08-15 Thread Jon Dowland
are mozilla developers, too, or would be interested in becoming involved? How many could then push our agenda? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remove ruby1.6

2005-08-15 Thread Jon Dowland
6 which are now totally broken in 1.8. I think updating code from 1.6 to 1.8 is a very non-trivial task, it appears a lot has changed. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 19, 2005

2005-08-19 Thread Jon Dowland
ugh I wouldn't object to receiving them from a different list (maybe just plain -devel). -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323923: ITP: base -- Basic Analysis and Security Engine

2005-08-19 Thread Jon Dowland
t up with the Debian base system, or base packages, or > base-config. I suggest base-security-engine, even though it's quite verbose and the latter two words redundant after the acronym. `base-engine' is better than just base, but similarly could be mistaken for something else i

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
a `quake3-data' from the quake2-data package which is very good, as the engine itself isn't going to be much use without data, then ITPing that too. Also, that implies this is going into contrib, not main. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A

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

2005-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
ppreciate this - keep it up! :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
right now it doesn't. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing /etc/hotplug.d/ support

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Dowland
easier to rename /proc to /sys and gradually move the process stuff back over :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
to archive posts which it rotates off the front page. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To Linux or not to Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
'Debian GNU/Linux'. The example you have given is (I think) one such case, where it describes "the project" not "the release". -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:47:43PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:51:12AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > What would really be useful, for more than just debian, would be for > > the aggregator software to be extended to archive posts which it >

Re: Work-needing packages report for Sep 2, 2005

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
ns for konqueror and kate These appear to match the instructions at <http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-orphaning>. This has resulted in invalid entries in the quoted list, one for each word in the subjects above. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- T

Re: Work-needing packages report for Sep 2, 2005

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:49:32AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Yes, those are the titles of those bugs *now*, after I noticed the > problem in the list. Check the original bug titles as submitted. :) Ah, I see. Thanks for pointing this out! -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
wiki under the official domain, and I haven't seen any discussion about moin-moin either. Could you please point me at the relevant discussion so I can play catch-up? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
migration is done? On the mediawiki front, I finally (as promised) setup a mediawiki installation for debian-people to play with, to evaluate it. It's up at <http://wiki.debianflame.org/>. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Bug#326813: ITP: doom-data -- Installer for doom data files

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: doom-data Version : 1 Upstream Author : Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://jon.dowland.name/code/doom/doom-data/ * License : GPL Description

a desperate request for licence metadata (was Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org))

2005-09-06 Thread Jon Dowland
ble with moin moin and I'm willing to invest time to find out but I'd need to know people were interested and supportive :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Jon Dowland
D]> > * URL : http://www.example.org/ ^^^ I think this should be changed. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
ctive cricitism would benefit me a lot here. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: time seen at top of /var/log/boot

2005-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:01:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > No its not my BIOS time. It appears to be a timezone 4 timezones east > of New Zealand, GMT+16, i.e., out of this world. How about on your > machine? I don't have a /var/log/boot, sorry. How do I get one? -- Jo

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