On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > * Package name: funpidgin
> > Version : 2.4.1
> > Upstream Auth
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:00:12PM +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I'd like to ask you guys for some help.
>
> Here in Moscow State University there is a course "Software
> maintenance in Linux Distribution." It is dedicated to general question
> of software packaging. As exam
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:44:18PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>
>
> While I like the "source + trow away" solution, I'd also like to ask
> you to please consider some methods to allow the "throw away" step on
> the developer machine, for example having dput/dupload not upload the
> .debs (so .chang
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:54:24PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:38:29 +0100
> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > At the very least, if we're going to translate log messages, then there
> > should be an easy swi
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:35:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> ... I mean, getting ones
> status reverted is an inconvenience, but surely an active DD should
> not be afraid of passing something we ask of every new developer?
IIUC if A is the number of people expelled from Debian and if B
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Amaya wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > So what is your oh-so-elegant solution to the MIA account problem?
>
> Humans problems have no technical solution.
As I understand it, the 'MIA account problem' is not about finding a
solution to the 'humans pro
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:41:23AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:10:44 +0100, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> >> But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping'
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:37:39AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:28:45PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> > So maybe asking for help on debian-kde, where there's people around who
> > might be convinced to pitch in a little time and effort once or twice would
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:12:52AM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > message to its intended target is a hard thing. How about having 'text
> > ads' on the pages of the Debian site that showcase a 'request for help
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:43:39PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> It will likely be one of my last post on that matter because I feel
> that valuable contributors left it long ago.
Would it be useful to personally email those people and 'ask them why' as
a way to address the issue?
>
> You
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:07:00PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello
>
> My name is Lara Thynne and I am a PhD candidate at Deakin University
> Australia. I am currently researching the boundary between work and
> leisure activities directly related to the open source community and
> open s
Hi,
this is the opening of the bts page for subversion:
===
Debian Bug report logs: package subversion in unstable (version
1.4.2dfsg1-2)
Maintainer for subversion is Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
You may want to refer to the followin
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 02:19 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Since folks visit this page to learn about Debian bugs, I thought why
> > not add a pointer to places where they can help fix the bugs (and make
> > othe
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:24:32AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Fri, March 9, 2007 22:09, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Mar 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> >
> >> I have seen the PTS and I see info like: info about the stable,
> >> testing, unstable packag
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> quoting http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSystem#systemadministration
>
> "Debian has been qualified as a OMG operating system for administrators,
> primarily because of its ease of use, security and straight-forward
> co
Hi,
I was mulling over a 3-tiered Debian contributer system:
Debian contributer(non-software contributer)
Debian maintainer(software contributer with limited upload rights)
Debian developer(software contributer with full upload rights)
where a a DC and DM would not have access to debian.org machine
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:02:27PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 05:41 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > And if its large, then could this be reduced in some way by having the
> > more common tasks be replaced by a we
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:17:23AM -0400, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
>
> My distro is Debian Etch.
> kernel is 2.6.18
> I have post it to pthread mailing list,They said me that i reinstall
> libc6-dev package,i reinstalled it,But i see given errors.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:43:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> >> The maintainer is not MIA, but does not actively develop anymore.
>
> > Packages like this should have a message to the current maintaine
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:51:52AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:13:47AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > >Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > >So, here's a possibly weird proposal.
> > > >
> > > >What
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:57:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> If anyone has any mysterious contacts at Sun that they could talk to about
> this, that'd be great.
isn't there this new guy at Sun called 'ian murdoch' ;-)
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On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:22:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Francois-Denis Gonthier wrote:
>
> >>Beware that in (at least fr_FR) french, "gastro" is also a shortcut
> >>for "gastroenteritis" and is strongly associated with its symptoms!
> >>It may really hamper your succe
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:55:40PM +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> Ask somebody, what distro would he install at desktop for novice or M$
> refugee? Why many are choosing Ubuntu instead of Debian, and even
> worse, abandon Debian in favor of Ubuntu? Why do most people consider
> Debian to be u
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> > > Do you realize Debian's stable is classified as this:
> > >
> > > Stable means stable package list. No changes in API and ABI
> > > names or versi
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:24:07PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:50, Neil Williams wrote:
> > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload?
>
> For me "pending" is a signal to users saying "issue has been conf
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:01:54AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > would it be useful for some process to periodically poll the bts for
> > 'pending' tags that are unusually old [ say
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:29:16AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what I am really missing in the current dependency scheme is WHY some
> packages
> define Recommends and Suggests on specific other packages.
>
> My problem with the current situation that you either do the policy of alw
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 11:58, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Package: mutt
> > Suggests: ispell [adds spell cheking while composing emails]
> > Suggests: urlview [extracts urls from email and can lanuch a web browser]
&g
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:04:24AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > The description should not explain what the other package is but
> > _what_ it does to the selected package.
>
> In order to explain what the recommended package does to the
> recommedi
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:04:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> A desktop user is perhaps not the best example, since recommends might
> as well be depends to such a user -- they're both things that aptitude
> installs when the software is selected. Such a
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:01:18AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:08:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Now as for the need for re-classification of 'recommends' to say
> > 'suggests' to trim (mega|giga)bytes from the basic install sou
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:15:28PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > On ti, 2007-05-22 at 13:30 +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > > 1. The GPLv3: the latest draft did not raise major objections from
> > > -legal and despite its concerns with the strategies
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > >Because software under the GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2-only
> > > software, while "GPLv2 or above" software is compatible with both.
> > Coul
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but
> >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that
> >for a webdesign professional even a redesign wo
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2007 11:13, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > By the way, does anybody knows if it is possible for non-DDs to get
> > write acces ?
>
> Yes it is. The procedure to request commit access describes the difference
> between DDs an
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:44:36PM +0200, Tobias Nadler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a program (called "MyUniverse") that has reached a
> point, where it can show its very basic abilities, but still needs
> much programming effort to fullfill its aims. It is a platform for
> strategy/simula
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:20:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 12:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > This is only my (ill-informed) opinion - I am neither a German, nor a
> > > German lawyer :)
> >
> >
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:04:44PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to teach myself to package up a program for debian, but can't get
> the manpage I have written to work properly.
> It has the line '.TH CAJUN 1 "June 10, 2007"' near the top of the file and is
> named cajun.1 in t
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:46:08PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote:
> I personally have 6 or 7 U320 73GB 10K RPM SCSI drives that I am not using
> for
> anything interesting. Can anyone tell me if these would be useful to Debian
> or recommend another free software group to donate them?
As shipping m
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:20:17PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> I would like to ask you interested in our next release to stop and
> look at 'testing' for a while. I believe that now, during the start of
> a development cycle and during debcamp/debconf we've a interesting
> opportunity to review
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:19:00PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2007 21:52:09 Kevin Mark wrote:
> > As shipping may be a consideration, in the cost-benefit analysis, it may
> > be useful to say where in the world you are, in a general way, so that
> > som
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:20:33PM -0400, Zachary Palmer wrote:
> Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian
> package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it
> to be fr
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:24:22PM +0200, ignatius wrote:
> I have two questions that really concerned me.
>
> - Why it's Debian that fixes bugs and security holes?
There are lots of differences between:
upstream and Debian release goals
upstream and Debian build environment (debian has 10+ arch
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:11:04PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +0100, Lior Kaplan wrote:
>
> > Description : Turns on CTL support & sets Hebrew as the default CTL
> > locale
> >
> > This package installs an OO.org extention which turns on CTL support, and
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:50:44AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: sorting-hat
> Version : 1.0.0
> Upstream Author : Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL :
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:04:30PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> Em Qua, 2007-06-27 às 19:28 +0330, Amin Shali escreveu:
> > Hi :)
> > Can anyone please sign my key?
>
> No.
>
> Quoting http://www.debian.org/events/keysigning:
>
> "You should never sign a key for somebody else you hav
Hi,
I was just reading an interview[0] of someone from the 'Freetype' project
and he said:
...
Also, I still don't understand why Debian and Ubuntu keep distributing
patent-infringing code in FreeType, while they keep MP3 and DVD playback
out of their normal installs. I'm not even sure it's DFSG co
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: serious
> Justification: DFSG
>
> raff.debian.org uses a Compaq Smart 5i RAID card. A flash memory is used
> to store the firmware. While the firmware is freely downloadable (as in
> beer) on HP website
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:34:39PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > I think you completely forgot about the fact that this project is run by
> > people who aren't payed for that.
> >
> > And, yes I didn't fix any RC bug today, nor yesterday. I even have now 3 on
> > medi
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:03:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Let me explain to you the why I have decided to start the project. I
> have searched for a lightweight distribution and none of what is
> available has been what I wanted for one reason or another. I also
> have used IceWM
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:11:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I came up with nothing on Google for stem linux., and DeliLinux
> looks to be turkish so I don't know if we would even be to
> communicate. I should try talking with them, their desktop looks
> pretty nice. I have already d
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:57:52AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > I suppose that everyone are busy today, so do I. I'm a little tired
> > with sponsoring his packages and I know he could to upload his
> > packages by his own.
> >
> > I really don't u
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:14:37PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote:
>
>> * Package name: libpuzzle
>> Description : A library to find similar pictures
>
> The lib sounds very interesting but I would ask the authors to choose
> a not so generic nam
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:38:12AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Package name: detach
> Version: 0.2.3-1
> Upstream Author: Robbert Haarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> URL: http://inglorion.net/software
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:13:11AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This mail tries to address the problem of not orphaned, poorly maintained
> or useless packages in Debian. The proposal below tries to address both
> cases, because they are often related. (useless packages tend to be poorly
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 06:05:39PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:33:41PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > If I am a user of one of these packages who may have the skill to adopt
> > it or may know someone who can, I may want to know about its orphaning.
>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:38:50PM +0200, Andrea Ferraresi wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I want to install debian lenny on a biostar p4m900 motherboard micro
> ATX on a touchscreen pc...have you ever tried it? what abuot linux
> support?
>
> Thanks AF.
>
> Please cc me i'm currently off list and sorry
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:44:30PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:15:42AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> [...]
> > I suggest that, if such a repository will be created for patented
> > codecs, that e.g. sponsored uploads will not be allowed to this
> > archive. I know t
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:08:30PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0100, SZALAY Attila wrote:
> > I couldn't upload my package into the incoming queue with dupload
> > because I could not connect to ftp-master.debian.org on port 21 and 22.
>
> ftp-master is tempo
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:23:32PM -0500, Gene Kersey wrote:
> Mr Hocevar:
>
> This is my first time communicating with anyone in the Linux
> community, so please forgive me if I have breached some sort of
> protocol. I have been a Linux dabbler, user and supporter for some
> time. One of the de
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 01:33:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ben Hutchings writes:
> > On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 12:03 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> The primary problem with using OpenSSL with OpenLDAP is NSS and PAM
> >> modules, which pull the libraries into just about any GPL'd (or
> >> oth
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:51:14PM +0200, spamfuerda...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I (and some other people) are wondering about the question:
>
> "What does .d at the end of some dirctory and filenames actually stand for?"
>
>
> It does not mean deamon or default.
>
> Does it maybe mean director
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:39:03PM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>
> Twas brillig at 17:32:51 19.04.2010 UTC+02 when
> luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be did gyre and gimble:
>
> >> Pdf "anti-features" are fake security. Don't trust on them, never.
> ML> And what do you suggest if one wants some
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:17:50PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:16:56PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:03:48AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >
> > > Assume a package would recommend grub which is only available on i386
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:51:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we had some discussion about volatile, and I'm more and more considering to
> pick this task up. I think some issues are quite obvious:
>
> - packages should only go in in c
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:00:51AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 03:01:11AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > Packages like virus checkers seem to be
> > composed of 2 parts: the app program and the data where the data in
> > this case are viru
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 10:43:05AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Kevin Mark said:
> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:00:51AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 03:01:11AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > > Pac
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 04:37:14PM +0100, paddy wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 10:43:05AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Kevin Mark said:
> > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:00:51AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Oc
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:37:06PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
Price for Commercial Software:
> > Adobe Illustrator CS - 90.00
> > Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional - 100.00
> > McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 2004 v. 5.0 - 20.00
> > Adobe Photoshop Elements 2
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:05:30PM -0400, Siqueland-Gresch wrote:
>
> Hello and good evening from Rhode Island !
>
> I do not know whether you can help me. Right up front, I am not a programmer
> at all. No clue. Not a sausage.So if I sound ignorant it is because I am.
> But here it is:
> I ha
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:46:33PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is master just hopelessly overloaded, or is popcon defunct? I get bounces
> ('warning: msg not delivered after 24h') from master.
>
> cheers
> -- vbi
>
> --
> featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro
Hi vbi,
IIRC
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 08:34:01AM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
> I'd go even further and say that the reason why people start on
> something generally in Free Software projects is to "scratch their itch"
> which in Debian could well mean packaing your favourite piece of
> software.
Has anyone quanti
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 05:32:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this isn't quite on topic and you are just the last in a long list of
> "bits from xyz" but I think it has to be said: Thanks for keeping us
> informed.
>
> I think this year has been the most informative ever, at lea
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote:
> * It can prioritize the packages based on there importance, how frequently
> they
> are used, possible security risks and manual configurations.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/debsecan
> I would really appreciate any ideas
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