Re: Location of Type 1 fonts

2004-10-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
vailable to TeX documents. It would be possible, but quite complicated, using defoma. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signatur

Re: Bug#278255: ITP: rdflib -- A python library for working with RDF

2004-10-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
the python dependency. Build-depending on python (>= 2.3) will ensure older versions of python won't be used to build the package. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
all a derivative work. Whether it is linked to it using ELF or not is irrelevant. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc

Re: My fan is out of control - Help!!

2004-11-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
or to install acpid (if you are using a 2.6 kernel), so that CPU idle calls are correctly done. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom sig

Re: many .pc files in wrong package / mass bugfiling?

2004-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
k whether any of these *had* -dev packages?! A lot > of them would be bogus bugs. If there is no -dev package, there is probably no need for a .pc file either. -- Josselin Mouette /\./\ pouet

Re: Bug#281695: ITP: pstat -- a simple parser for process status information

2004-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
. Then again, maybe it will be useful to others too. Indeed, packaging such a small script seems a bit overkill. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

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

2004-12-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
t bring value to your sayings. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=

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

2004-12-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
of libdvdcss with the cracking features disabled, only being able to read your drive's zone DVDs? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of fre

Bug#283976: ITP: simnazi -- historical city simulation game, clone of Sim City

2004-12-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: simnazi Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Chris Statzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://simnazi.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : historical city simulation game, clone of Sim City SimNazi i

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

2004-12-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 03 décembre 2004 à 01:23 +0100, Alexander Schmehl a écrit : > Did anyone mentioned "overkill" yet? Okay, it's not a FPS but it's > quite bloody (according to the package description). There is also xbill, which is quite popular - or at least used to. --

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
ng. Then maybe we could research whether this material is questionable at all. It's not as if hot-babe contained pr0n pictures. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
r these developers to have a policy-compliant changelog without having their uploads considered as NMUs is to encode the control file in UTF-8. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- D

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

2004-12-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 05 décembre 2004 à 14:23 +0100, Jonas Meurer a écrit : > > There's no excuse for censorship, ever. > > so you would even accept nazi propaganda material in debian, just > because you dislike censorship? You're being late for invoking the Godwin law. --

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
te to write the English text in latin1 and the japanese > text in euc-jp ? > Let's make it clear: 1 text file, 1 encoding. Well, it's already the case for the generated localized debconf template files. Not that I believe it is a good thing... -- .''`.

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
e included? Not necessarily. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
tainers, more work for the users, and no gain. In fact, all these drivers (including ipw2x00) should be built with our kernel, and the binary firmwares that we can ship should be included in the non-free section. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
ribute. If we distribute a package that cannot do anything without a non-free part which cannot be in Debian, it should go in contrib. If we distribute a package that mostly works, but provides added functionality when some non-free stuff is installed (e.g. read realplayer or WMV9 files), it can go int

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 13:45 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > Please continue your argument on debian-legal. NOT HERE. Why should this go on debian-legal? I think the legal status and DFSG-freeness of these firmwares is pretty clear. -- .''`. Jos

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
course it is. This is about how to deal with this situation, technically speaking. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
either by downloading it from our non-free archive, either by installing it by himself. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.as

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
icial means to move the driver from contrib to main. But this is how it should be done: it makes the life easier for users, and it doesn't compromise the social contract. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
ian on this hardware without such a compromise, this becomes completely stupid. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Des

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
> use -- which is already not something it has a fantastic reputation > for -- and thereby its popularity. If we gain popularity but lose freedom, we'll die in the end. If someone really wants to run Debian (or Linux in general), he can buy some supported hardware.

Re: Bug#285681: ITP: libxbox-dev -- Libxbox-dev provides the headers for libxbox0 and the libxbox.so symlink

2004-12-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
ITP for libxbox0 for more information about what libxbox > provides. (Bug#285617) Why do you need to make it a separate source package? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU

Are mails sent to xxxx@buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?

2004-12-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
propagate to sarge? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
ep. Why in the world would you then want to install a metapackage if its selection doesn't suit you? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of fre

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
at you spat your flames on this thread, I cannot hope to have any answer to the questions raised. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems?

2005-01-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
; MUA.) Mail-Followup-To is not part of any of the standards defining e-mail protocols. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
unately, I don't have such a machine, and I don't know of an available i386 project machine. Are there some people here who'd be interested, or who could point me to available resources? If not, do you have other ideas to make debugging packages easily available? -- .'

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
a lot of benefits, and that's why dh_strip now supports it, but I'm afraid this is irrelevant to the issue I'm talking about. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Font problem - Nimbus Sans L

2005-02-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
C-ing the fontconfig developers, in case they have a clue. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Font problem - Nimbus Sans L

2005-02-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
(Also note that Mr Dodds' mail server is on crack and refused mail from my SMTP for a mysterious reason; that's why you didn't receive my reply in private.) -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: Font problem - Nimbus Sans L

2005-02-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
ISP's mailserver; or because your mailserver allows forwarding. I'm not using my ISP's mail server, and I am the sole user of this server for outgoing mail. Please fix this. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `&

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Greg Folkert wrote: What about the Packages for mplayer that Christian Marillat has been providing for years? Have you even discussed this with him? Hrm, you don't know him, do you? Otherwise you wouldn't be suggesting to discuss with him. -- .''`.

Re: Bug#295233: ITP: pigeonair -- scalable and modular email services

2005-02-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
d, scalable and modular > email services, targetted to satisfy all ISP needs. Does it comply with RFC 1149? Also, having "open", "free", and "GPL" in the description seems a bit redundant. On the other side, what "email services"

Re: Bug#286214: ITP: kwin-style-asteroid -- Pixel-for-pixel clone of Win2000 GUI style for KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
nd install it in a few seconds. If you don't know what theme you want, you'll have to install all of them and test them. That's when a single package becomes handy. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: libpng evil setjmp 'fixes'

2005-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
ure that nothing will break, so I'd like some more opinions. Cc-ing the lists, maybe someone will have more clues. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 08:37 -0600, Steve Greenland a Ãcrit : > No where in the Debconf note does it say which is "the upstream way". This has nothing to do in a debconf note. > And does it default to "one big file"? Yes. -- .'

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 février 2005 à 14:15 -0600, Steve Greenland a écrit : > On 18-Feb-05, 09:06 (CST), Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le vendredi 18 f??vrier 2005 ?? 08:37 -0600, Steve Greenland a ??crit : > > > No where in the Debconf note does it say wh

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
ly thinks of his own needs, thus a correct wording would be "pick A if you don't care". However the current wording is even better; the question isn't even asked at high priority, and the single file method is silently chosen. -- .''`.

Re: Debian "Sarge" Support

2005-02-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 28 fÃvrier 2005 Ã 13:47 -0800, Hans Reiser a Ãcrit : > Can you folks at Debian tell me whether we are supported in Sarge? As far as I know, there is no reiser4 support in the Debian stock kernel. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Re: Example for use of dh_strip --dbg-package=... and CDBS?

2005-03-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
in advance! I'm using it with fontconfig, just have a look at the rules file. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom s

Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
ng in various and random problems. To avoid that, shouldn't the kernel-image packages for 2.6 depend on alsa-base? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux --

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 04 mars 2005 à 15:29 +0100, Thomas Viehmann a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > 2.6 kernel, alsa-base doesn't end up being installed. The result is that > > for most sound cards, both OSS and ALSA modules end up installed, > > resulting in various and rand

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
feel we shouldn't release in this state after having spent so much efforts in hardware detection. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of fr

Re: Bug#298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
gt; windows. Describing how the code is small si sure some fun, but is this package really useful for something? As described, it sounds just like one more random window manager nobody cares for. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 06 mars 2005 Ã 11:53 +0100, Thomas Hood a Ãcrit : > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:20:10 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > As long as the linux26 installation ends up with both sound modules > > loaded, that's a bug that needs to be fixed, though. Another option > >

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 07 mars 2005 à 00:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig a écrit : > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:41:27PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > When you install an alsa-modules package for the 2.4 kernel, you get > > alsa-base per the dependencies. However, when you install sarge with a

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
installed when ALSA modules are present. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 07 mars 2005 Ã 12:53 -0600, Steve Greenland a Ãcrit : > On 07-Mar-05, 11:06 (CST), Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And the workaround we use for this bug is to blacklist one module when > > two of them provide the same functionality. The blacklist

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
ly against between -Wl,-Bstatic and -Wl,-Bdynamic: gcc -o something foo.o bar.o -lsystemlib -Wl,-Bstatic -lownlib -lthirdpartylib -Wl,-Bdynamic -lpthread -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAI

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
good solution. The questions now are whether the kernel maintainers want to do this, and whether this is feasible before the release. Kernel maintainers, could you say a word about that issue? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `.

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 10 mars 2005 Ã 00:12 +0100, Thomas Hood a Ãcrit : > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:40:40 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Actually, the proposed solution that raised some approval was to split > > out the ALSA modules, just like the pcmcia modules. > > > I raised thi

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 10 mars 2005 à 08:17 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > The kernel could blacklist alsa modules by default and the alsa-base > would divert that to blacklist oss. That sounds the simplest. It isn't possible to divert files in /etc. -- .''`.

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

2005-03-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
iped within debhelper > for such reasons And other scripts, like dh_python, that are shipped within debhelper despite of needing extra build dependencies. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EM

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
rectly into the > presentation. The package has been based on the prosper class > but offers a lot of new possibilities and some bug fixes. Is it compatible with prosper? If it is, maybe it would be better to simply replace the prosper package with this version. -- .''`. J

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
r me, a bit > > too much and I have no strong motivation for xscreensaver. > > Just asking, since somebody would have to do it. Don't take this as a promise to take it over, but I'll see what I can do. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :'

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
d0503&L=ha-prosper&F=&S=&P=777 > > So in my opinion it would be useful to provide a debian package of > ha-prosper. If TeXciting isn't likely to be released soon, that makes the point of making a separate package from prosper moot, doesn't it? -- .&#

Packages still shipping schemas in /etc

2005-11-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Sennerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> planner James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gramps Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rcalc Debian QOF packaging team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnotime Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: Bug#276871: acknowledged by developer (Bug#276871: fixed in gdm 2.8.0.6-1)

2005-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
ay I recall that you have received numerous help proposals for this package during the last two years and that you ignored all of them? Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
es, which aren't easily distinguishable from others. I've seen users not understanding why installing gnome-session doesn't bring a complete, working, GNOME "session", and I'm afraid your naming scheme will lead to similar issues. Regards, -- .

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
internals know whether he has to install tetex-base, texlive-latex-base or texlive-foobar-stuff ? Worse, how can he know what Debian package to install when a .sty is missing? Will it be in texlive-math-extra, texlive-latex-recommended or texlive-formats-extra? -- .''

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
to rely on such tools instead of increasing it. Most issues of regular Debian users can be solved by installing the right package. But the problem is how they can know which package to install. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
gt; That sounds pretty reasonable to me. It sounds to me more like they are trying to keep both texlive and tetex in the archive, even in the long term. And *that* doesn't look reasonable. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
rchive. And this isn't valid only for tetex. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
> What can the people on such a mailing list do about buildd issues? Set up an alternate buildd network. This may be the only option is the only buildd administrator isn't able to process requests and still isn't willing to accept help. -- .''`. Josselin

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
s of these libraries? That would be even cooler ;) -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

buildd administration [was Re: StrongARM tactics]

2005-12-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
was suggested on these topics haven't lead to any result, because these same people have simply ignored the suggestions. Can someone tell me when this nightmare is going to end? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
ecause release managers said the same thing just before the expected sarge release, which was delayed several extra weeks because the security buildd network wasn't ready? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
e observer > > would come to. > > Where should I best complain for your NM application to be cancelled? On what grounds? Oh, and this kind of threat makes me sick. It just feels like, for you, non-DD contributions are second-class contributions. -- .''`. Jossel

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
*shrug*. Oh right, there is no problem with waiting for 2 months for a keyring update. "Tout va très bien, Madame la marquise." Haven't you noticed that while there can be obnoxious persons, most people start to complain only when things become really unbearable? And believe me or not, but the way some buildd administrators are treating email requests is not something acceptable, even for volunteers. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
ease manager, and you deserve credits for doing it instead of letting things rot. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 10 décembre 2005 à 11:51 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:56:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > How many developer resignations will you need to understand inaction > > from people at key positions sucks the fun out of things in a worse

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
s ready here, this is a social issue, not a technical one. > -probably tons of details which, alone, aren't a big deal...but will > make the difference at the end. The real work would be to index all these issues and to find where to fix them. Each problem isn't that hard to solv

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
ebian specific either. Some desktop tools doing that exist, but they seriously lack integration in Debian. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
rse. But if that happened there would be no reason to keep > > /dev/shm mounted; you would need to use an alternate location. > There is no reason why it should be moved. How could anyone know that today? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
couldn't remove it if the shared memory implementation is changed. Then we'd have to stick with a stupid filesystem that would require a transition to get rid of. Following your line of reasoning, we could put all files in the root directory. After all, do we real

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
i is almost as crappy as the standard PHUX editor be a reason to drop it instead? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc D

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 20:12 +0100, Thomas Hood a écrit : > Any other defenders of /lib/run? Of /run? Please go ahead with /run. This has to the right place as no other proposed location makes sense. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Bug#345638: ITP: python-support -- automated rebuilding support for python modules

2006-01-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-support Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : None yet * License : LGPL Description : automated rebuil

Re: No 2.6 kernels for 586 in Sarge and up

2006-01-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
provement of a 586 image over a 486 one being marginal, they aren't built anymore. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom s

Re: Bug#344417: ITP: freebsd6-buildutils -- Utilities for building FreeBSD 6.x sources

2006-01-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
ybe it's a dumb question, but isn't there a way to patch these tools and/or the freebsd sources so that we can build them with the standard tools in Debian? Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: not getting CCs from the bugs I reported

2006-01-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
this a bug in the software. It's awkward not to receive some communications on a bug you submitted. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: dependencies on makedev

2006-01-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
ns of a device that can be plugged or unplugged? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Bug#345160: ITP: libgpod -- a library to read and write songs and artwork to an iPod

2006-01-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
nk we need more packages maintained by Christian Marillat. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: dependencies on makedev

2006-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
to load your modules by hand, udev won't prevent you from doing so. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
ch and every single package uploaded to unstable should be of release quality. Otherwise, it should go to experimental. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
ng them. You can now thank pkg-config and libtool. I'm going to fix this right away, thanks for the report. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linu

Re: [no subject]

2006-01-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
ailingLists/ we don't remove emails from our archives. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci

Re: Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 08 janvier 2006 à 23:58 +0100, Daniel Knabl a écrit : > @Adrian: already done. In which case you could have posted the bug number. > @Marc: the packaging was done with source prepared by dh_make. Have you actually read Marc's email? -- .''`.

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
times integrated to Ubuntu in an amazingly short amount of time. This is fair. After all, that's what Free software is about. But I know for sure that "contributing back to Debian" stuff is 100% talk and 0% reality. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
ependencies in Recommends:. A more elegant solution would be to make a separate package for gconf-sanity-check, but it is only 11K. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
to include headers from most of their dependencies, it isn't possible to move them to private dependencies. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
don't get your point. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
OME headers have a spurious tendency to include headers from most of their dependencies, it isn't possible to move them to private dependencies. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
lar dependencies cases I have met were fixable. At first, some of them looked necessary and they required quite some work, but they were fixable. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL P

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
on. However, looking at the list, a vast majority of circular dependencies come from the same source package. This could be checked e.g. by lintian. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
sh > > debconf-i18n > > These are all necessary, and debconf is an essential package which is > not subject to the circular dependency postinst ordering problems afaik. Looking at them, I fail to see why debconf-i18n has to depend on debconf. Wouldn't it possible to just r

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
o expensive IMHO. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
ow Ubuntu > helps the free desktop evolve by leaps and bounds. I would like to know which GNOME improvements you are talking about. To my knowledge, there are much more improvements going from Debian to Ubuntu than the other way around. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ :

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