Re: gfreeamp playlist inquiry

2004-10-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:35:19AM +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > On Saturday 23 October 2004 05:42, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Your ability to > > ask for features in the software programs that you use is one of the > > advantages of libre/free software. > > Errm, can&#x

what is /var/backup for?

2004-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folks, just a simple question. Is there a policy for /var/backup and what is it for or how should it be used? If there is a URL, google didnt show anything. TIA -Kev -- (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ "Have you mooed today?"... signature.asc D

any comments on diagram?

2004-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folks, i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png TIA -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /--\

Re: any comments on diagram?

2004-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:55:45PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > Kevin Mark [u] wrote on 09/11/2004 18:29: > > >i made a diagram in xfig of what I think is the debian development > >model. Could folks give me a few comments on what's not correct. > >http://kmark

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

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:57:56PM +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:17:37PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > However, I'd be *highly* agitated if someone gave my daughter a > > CD-ROM with *any* nudy cartoons. > > I'd rather live with this risk than with less freedom. only

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

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:04:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think that the best solution to many of the worlds problems would be to > > provide really cheap laptops and good net access (including satellite net > > access). The idea is

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

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:45:25AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:53:41 +0100, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > Quoting Fernanda Giroleti Weiden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Hi all, I read all the thread and I

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

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:36:56AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 01:54 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:57:56PM +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:17:37PM -0600,

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

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:04:06PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 10.36, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:04:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > >

package rejection

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi fellow debianista, the package in question has not yet been accepted. For a pacakge to be accepted, here is conditions some have mentioned: 1) dfsg-free 2) can not be sexist 3) has to be able to be mirrored by all mirrors based on the laws of the location of the server 4) can not offend someone'

Re: Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:19:44PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >Would country/region-specific jigdo files be a reasonable > >solution? > > > > > I don't think we've enumerated all of the data paths that can generate > problems. I guess jigdo means the general category of

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:07:59PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It shows that sexual harassment in the workplace is one of their big > > concerns. And rightly so. Awards have been as large as $30 >

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:24:19AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:08 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A legal opinion on this matter would be a good idea... > > > > Keep in

Re: package rejection

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:51:23PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 2) can not be sexist > > Bad idea. We should avoid subjective criteria. >

updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Folks, I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments appreciated! Also, the source is *.fig. Can anyone point to a similar .deb of a graphic document so that I can see what documents a graphics file needs so that I can make a GPL & DFSG compliant package. I exported

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:47:02AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Folks, > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > It's "volatile", not "

Re: RFS tag?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:30:21PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > hi, > * Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 12:43]: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:50, Nico Golde wrote: > > > Hi, > > > what about an RFS tag for ITPs or and RFS bug report for > > > wnpp. So debian developers who li

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:16:44PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:04:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:08:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > >> Ken Bloom wrote: > >> > http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the > >> > ReleaseProposals topic

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:56:13AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi Kevin! > > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050103 07:08]: > > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > What is the target grou

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:38:46PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Kevin Mark dijo [Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:08:49AM -0500]: > > Hi Folks, > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > Very nice! I expect to use it at s

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:52:22PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 19:46]: > > > Yes, a legend for the acronyms would be fine. > > Oh, I just saw, that your diagramm has a legend. I'm wondering, why I > didn't noticed it the other day.. > > > Y

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:14:56PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > || On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:08:49 -0500 > || Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > km> Hi Folks, > km> I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > km> appre

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:47:50AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005, Holger Levsen wrote: > > unstable is described as suited for "...laptops and desktops on > > non-critical > > systems..." > > testing is described as "... can be used for desktop systems that need

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:46:03PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2005-02-03 03:15:41, schrieb Sam Watkins: > > > > > 1. People (including children) will get a nasty surprise when they > > >choose to download all the comics

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

2005-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Martin, On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:47:27PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Based on the work of Kevin Mark (URL not available, sorry), I have http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.fig > made a graph of the life cycle of a Debian packa

Re: RFC: graph of Debian package cycle

2005-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:08:49PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * martin f. krafft: > > > Based on the work of Kevin Mark (URL not available, sorry), I have > > made a graph of the life cycle of a Debian package for inclusion in > > my forthcoming book (http://debianbook

all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-14 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi debianista, after my initial work on a diagram, and the comments and the work of madduck, I had some time to redo my diagram to produce a totally new concept. any comment appreciated. http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/newdebian.png http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/newdebian.dia cherio, Kev ps.

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:29:37AM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > Hi Kev, list! > > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:27, Kevin Mark wrote: > > after my initial work on a diagram, and the comments and the work of > > madduck,  I had some time to redo my diagram to produce a to

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:24:18AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Great work! I am glad to see you got down with dia; I love that > tool. Here are some comments: Its cool that it exports to xfig as a way to use both tools. > > a. I am not sure what the "process realm" is. ACK. r

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:11:33PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > h. There are more rules as to when packages migrate from unstable to > >testing. > > i. You use both meanings of "priority" (changelog and control) > >without making it clear wh

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:34:38PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 02:27 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi debianista, > > > > after my initial work on a diagram, and the comments and the work of > > madduck, I had some time to redo my diagr

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:34:27AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Kevin Mark [Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:09:03 -0500]: > > > > And I've never read "ITO" as a tag for orphaning bug. Either one mails > > > to -devel (or wherever) saying that they intend to give

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:04:21AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Hi Martin, > > source package: dsc + (diff) + orig.tar.gz > binary package: deb > source upload: changes + list of files therein I added some of this to my diagram. not 100% yet. > nah, we turn software into debian packages by

Re: all new Debian diagram - now with less chaos!

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:53:28AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > although, now I am getting confused about the difference between a > > debian developer and a debian maintainer. I labeled most items with 'DD' >

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

2005-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:33:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> Clint Byrum spamaps.org> writes: > >> > Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below,

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

2005-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:30:27PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > >> Hypothetical daily KDE builds would also insanely incr

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:35:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:13:42PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > > Do the buildd people read this list? How do we get this cleaned up? > > > > As far as I can t

updated package development diagram w/new spanish translation

2005-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi tired and overworked folks, I recently got some help from a fellow in cuba(Maykel Moya) to translate my diagram into spanish. I have added some bits about the autobuild network but have not reconciled it with my original bits. On the far right is the unincorperated bits. Its now at: http://deb

Re: Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 05:21:46PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > >> I can do the analyzing, but what should I do with the results? > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be a black

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:07:10PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12.23, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > I don't think that it is ridiculous to require that every package have a > > team behind it---i.e., at least two maintainers. First, if someone can't > > find ONE oth

Re: bug tracking for non-RC architectures

2005-12-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:26:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > For architectures that are not release candidates, we are going to need > another way to track "release critical" bugs. The whole point of having > architecture criteria is so the project can give higher priority to i

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 01:03:21AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:11:57AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > > The difference is who does the work. > > I a well-team-maintained package, the work is actually done by "the > > team", and decisions are made after finding a consen

Re: Maintaining a debian package

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:59:12PM +0100, Andi Drebes wrote: > Hi there! > I'm currently developing an application for library management (real books, > CDs, etc). I'd like to distribute it over the internet, because I think it > could be useful to other users. As I'm using debian and like it prett

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:20:07PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > we need to promote the easy entry points to contributing to debian > > more prominently and should hide the "how to become a DD" in > > comparison. > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > What on earth for? > > And

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:03:24PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Having said that, I'd also like to have non-ubuntu-specific patches be > fed to our BTS; that would really make me feel there's a strong policy > of giving back. While my relationship with people at ubuntu working on > gksu is

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:03:14PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/13/06, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Please stop trying to twist my words around. Canonical didn't contribute > > > back. An individual who happened to work for

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:34:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can't agree. From the sound of this and other threads, there are a number > > of folks who are unlikely to be satisfied with any behavior on the part of > > the Ubuntu project

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:42:22AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Um, I have said nothing against crediting maintainers in the > > packages. I have only said that I would like Ubuntu to clearly label > > which is the Debian maintainer and which

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:36:43PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > would it be usefull if the Ubuntu Maintainer would add a > > 'ubuntu-specific' usertag to those bugs in the Ubuntu BTS as a way of > > telli

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:47:15PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 1/17/06, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As it is, to me, Ubuntu is just a group of people, some of which might > > have names[1]. I find it hard to work with such a

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:26:05AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:01 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-17 11:36]: > > > Kennedy wasn't a citizen of Berlin, either, not literally. T

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

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:47:18PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:23:30PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-1

Re: A great weekend for Debian

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:56:56PM +0100, Amaya wrote: #include and thanks for your time to write such a useful note about how you and others are keeping Debian great! > > It leads me to think Debian accounts should expire in a year of no > activity and packages be automatically orphaned, but it

Re: emacs 21.4, Chinese and utf-8

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
en the developer is unable to reproduce because of the differences between a derivative and Debian 3. complaining in #debian when they should be asking on an irc channel of the derivative (eg. #knoppix) At some point in the future Debian may have similar discussion with other derivi

Re: Offline use of apt-cacher

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:23:55PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > As said bvefore, if you activate this mode manually, this should be an > easy feature to add on. How do you want to configure it? > > Eduard. Hi Eduard, I was just struck by your choice of phrase. It, in a way, expresses

Re: A great weekend for Debian

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:08:57AM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > I think you're overly optimistic :-) Most of the simple RC bugs > > (related to the xlibs-dev transition) have been fixed; there aren't 90 > > more like those. Those left are: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org

Re: Bug#350982: ITP: slimscrobbler -- SlimServer plugin that submits listening data to Last.FM

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:58:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 02 février 2006 à 09:10 -0700, dann frazier a écrit : > > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 03:05 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > [dann frazier] > > > > * Package name: slimscrobbler > > > > Description : SlimServer plug

Re: Bug#350982: ITP: slimscrobbler -- SlimServer plugin that submits listening data to Last.FM

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:16:29AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:41:55PM -0500, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Josselin, > > I have read many descriptions that made no sense to me and it was > > mentioned that you either

Re: How to contribute

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:58:09PM +, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > Hi all, > > How to I contribute an application to Debian? > > I am the developer of the application and it is released under GPL > > Regards, > Michael Rasmussen > Hi Michael, there is documentation on the debian.org website f

Re: How to contribute

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:14:04PM +0100, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On 13-02-2006 15:38:16, Kevin Mark wrote: > >there is documentation on the debian.org website for developers under > >the developers sections. The basic thing is to read about the 'ITP

Re: Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:25:07PM +0300, =?UTF-8?Q? =D0=9F=D0=BE=D1=80=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BD_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9B=D1=8C=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=B8=D1=87 ?= wrote: > First, I suggested .zip just for an example. There are other similar > archivers with bigger compression ratio. > > > One

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:13:04AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Xavier Roche dijo [Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:55:57AM +0100]: > > > > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake! > > > everything that is not hardware is software > > > > So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do I have t

Re: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:02:57AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:55:22PM +0100, Guerkan Senguen wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: freebsd-manpages > > Version : 6.0 > Wouldn't this package conflict with

Re: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:42:19AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:30:38AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:02:57AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:55:22PM +010

Re: Change .rm to mp3 or wav file

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:29:52AM -0800, Peter Khwatenge wrote: > Do you have a program that can change .rm to mp3 or wave files? If yes, how > can I get one? > > Thanks > > Peter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peter, there is software to do this but your questions should be asked on the de

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 02:11:30AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > No, the point of Java is to allow users to run Java software, which > they may or may not have written themselves, and which may or may not > be free software. Examples of all permutations of the above are really > easy to find. C

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:42:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow > >> The availability to do this is enough even if there are other > >> (possibly better) ways to do the same. One fr

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:54:59PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > it seems that even before the SC, folks had different catagories for Sorry, that should be: ...even before the GR to change the SC, Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | :

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:12:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To my understanding the only way to obtain the license information for a > > package is to actually download it (or install it) and the study the > > content of > > > /usr/share/doc//c

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:35:52AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Kevin Mark] > > would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW > > queue(ftpmasters)? > > I doubt it. They don't take the maintainer's word for stuff like that, > as I

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't > > assume its correct until someone raises an objections? > > Yes. And the

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't > > assume its correct until someone raises an objections? I'd at least > > think you could create a s

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:01:07AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > I understand the general idea of a DFSG-free license but, for example, > > if Clint uploads yet another zsh package bugfix, I'm not expecting him to > >

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:10:27PM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:58:07AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > as I just wrote to Joerge, I am not refering to the initial uplo

Re: PROPOSAL: debian/control file to include new License: field

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:34:22AM +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 02:45 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW > > queue(ftpmasters)? > > I'd assume part of the FTP masters checking is actual

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This information could be used for > filtering the web page reports, or possibly training the s

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 07:51]: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > > Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in > > &

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:20:45AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 07:51]: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > > Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in > > &

Re: More polls and social pressure

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [ Reply-to debian-project ] > > Hi everybody, > > given the size of the project, it's very difficult for any of us to > evaluate the popularity of random ideas/opinions in a short time frame. > Jeroen (jvw) recently conducted two

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi TB, On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:07:03PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > The latest gnome (2.12.2 according to Desktop>About GNOME) has, like > all previous "up"grades, disabled my preference for emacs-style > editing in forms, etc. It used to be in the Keyboard Preferences > dialog, but a

Re: ITP: ldtp -- LDTP is the Linux Desktop Testing Project

2006-03-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:45:19PM +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: ldtp > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.example.org/ > * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X,

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-03-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:35:59AM -0800, John Gee wrote: > marc writes: > If nothing else "Joseph Smidt" at least you seem to be someone who > cares enough about Debian to spend your time contemplating about it. But > this is a meritacrosy, and you are not a developer. I refer you to your

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:43:22PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > It's sad, yes, but I think it's just the way people work. Debian is a city > now, not a village anymore - lots of people know lots of other people not > very well or not at all. This probably includes people in important > fu

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:52:53AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:27, Kevin Mark wrote: > [DPL as mediator] > > The DPL already could do that. The DPL probably in the past *did* step in > in some cases behind the scenes. There's no reas

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:49:39PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen dijo [Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:00:47AM +0100]: > > > The mirror split is a complicated endeavour. From what I understood, > > > the NEW queue was put on hold on purpose until the split is > > > complete. > > > > Ouch

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-14 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Simon, On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >If someone differentiated > >it into a simple triaged state: unseen, seem and expect to process soon > >and see

Re: [desktop] ¿Dead?

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Janez Rabzelj Zappone wrote: > Hi, the project is dead? > No, this is not an ex-project. It is sleeping! Not unlike the Norwegian blue parrot! Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |

Re: NEW queue and ftp-master approval

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:28:25PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello. > > > > Our NEW queue is quite big and time needed to get package into unstable is > > rather long. Nothing wrong with that for me, I know that ftp-masters are

debian development diagram: major rework!

2005-03-20 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi all you folks who have exercised your fingers and eyes because of 'vancouvor', In my quest to see how things work, I have made some major revision to my diagram. http://debian.home.pipeline.com/ the new diagram is newdebian2.png any comment appreciated (before the whole shebang is outdated) Als

ubuntu!

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi tired and weary folks, after such long and heated dicussions, I, ironically, think Debian needs UBUNTU (at least the african concept of humanity towards others and reconciliation)! Lets work towards a solution together and help all of our users and all of our porters and all of our maintainers,

Re: HOWTO Help (was: Debian DPL Debate Comments)

2005-03-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:24:49AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:25:51PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 22:08, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > (...) > > > AFAIK we don't have a good "What you can do to help us" documentation > > > (please

Re: debian development diagram: major rework!

2005-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:05:28PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 20 mars 2005 à 08:48 -0500, Kevin Mark a écrit : > > Hi all you folks who have exercised your fingers and eyes because of > > 'vancouvor', > > In my quest to see how things work, I h

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:46:37PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:50:23PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > For people who don't use SE Linux the support in those programs will only > > take > > a few K of disk space and will not give a performance ov

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:20:28AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 08:31 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > The reason: "I just rewrite an application because the language it is > > written in." sounds a very stupid reason to me. > > Why? When you don't know Perl, and you

Re: etch release target: SELinux?? (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:24:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Given the fact that the current standard installation installs both gcc, > > > gdb and other development packages weighting more than that (see #301138, > > > which nobody wants

www.debian.org and users information

2005-05-04 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi DD folks, Sarge is now approaching zero kelvin and folks are scrambing to get the last few bugs squashed. I was recently thinking about why the non-clued folks bash Debian with incomplete or inaccurate facts and a way to address that. I think there should be a section on the main page that conta

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:10:41AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Andrea Mennucc] > > me, I do my part of the work in Debian > > > > and nobody ever contacted me regarding the choice of the number > > What that...? Why on earth would you think you should be contacted > before this sort of d

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:02:32AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Kevin Mark] > > that would suggest that its the RM who has decided such issues in the > > past unilaterilly. > > Conventional wisdom is that release management involves so much > drudgery and so

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers

2005-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:46:43AM +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > El Martes 24 Mayo 2005 01:42, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo escribió: > > El Martes 24 Mayo 2005 01:27, Thomas Bushnell BSG escribió: > > > Cesar Martinez Izquierdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For example, the maintainer

Re: Proper use of Replaces

2005-05-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 08:35:22AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:59:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:43:26PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I am working on taking over toshutils. One of the things I would like > > > to do is i

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