su, 2005-01-09 kello 16:52 +0100, Miguel Gea Milvaques kirjoitti:
> Then if software as xpdf could be in main, software loading firmware
> must be in main.
Without commenting on the issue otherwise: This is not a working
analogy. xpdf can load any PDF file. Device drivers can, typically, only
load
ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti:
> This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0
> and 3.2 series without any problems. This release is a big
> improvement over previous versions and features many new features,
> substantial performance improvem
ma, 2005-02-07 kello 16:50 +0100, Mike Hommey kirjoitti:
> Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying
> changes if necessary.
I completely agree with this. If changing a program makes it better,
Debian should do it even if upstream doesn't. Such changes should be
justi
to, 2005-02-10 kello 18:23 -0800, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham kirjoitti:
> hi. i want to help developing for debian.
> how should i proceed?
> i have experience with computer graphics and mathematical tools
> programming, but most interested in the computer graphics field, in
> which i'
su, 2005-02-13 kello 01:22 +0200, Jesus Climent kirjoitti:
> Having no mp3 encoder in the archive, due to possible patent problems, i
> believe it would be a wiser idea to have "music-encoder" as a virtual package
> than "mp3-encoder".
Wouldn't it be necessary for this to work for all music encode
ti, 2005-02-15 kello 10:19 +0100, Marco d'Itri kirjoitti:
> On Feb 15, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I suppose I will start filing minor bugs against packages that do
> > this. I'd like to hear other people's opinions, though. (It occurs
> > to me that help output to stderr is a
ke, 2005-02-16 kello 11:00 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen kirjoitti:
> .. as usual, please include maintainer names with package lists like
> this. (And thanks for assembling the list. :)
I seem to have written a little script for this (attached). I don't see
a similar thing in devscripts. Is that the ri
ti, 2005-03-01 kello 16:46 -0500, Michael Schultheiss kirjoitti:
> Gallery2 (G2) has been redesigned from the ground up and is database
> driven. Two years of design and development have gone into G2. It has
> customizable themes and layouts using XHTML compliant templates which
> make it much ea
ke, 2005-03-02 kello 22:45 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels kirjoitti:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > Unicode. If people want to use Unicode, this is fine;
> > Unicode and utf-8 exist to be used, after all. However,
> > restricted character sets (mainly ascii and Latin-1)
> > offer several
su, 2005-03-06 kello 19:28 +0100, Thiemo Seufer kirjoitti:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > Do *not* file 6229 bugs about the same subject. Never.
>
> Why not? As wishlist bugs with patch this seems sensible to me.
Denial of service attacks on the bug tracking system, on mailing lists,
mail ser
su, 2005-03-06 kello 20:11 +0100, Thiemo Seufer kirjoitti:
> Since preparation of the accompanying patches would take some time,
> it is unlikely to cause "denial of service" or "disruption".
If they are sent at a slow pace, then the disruption is less, it is
true. It is still detrimental to have
su, 2005-03-06 kello 21:09 +0100, Thiemo Seufer kirjoitti:
> We don't talk about automated bug filing here.
We're talking about filing over 6000 bugs for watch files. It may not be
automated, but it is mass-filing. It doesn't matter if it takes weeks or
months, it is still not a good idea. That is
ti, 2005-03-08 kello 13:00 -0800, Blunt Jackson kirjoitti:
> Does anyone know if this is an intentional decision on the part of the
> glibc/nptl crew to refuse to support static linking of the pthreads
> library (perhaps due to ongoing development)?
I don't know the answer to your exact question,
ma, 2005-03-14 kello 13:42 +, Martin Michlmayr kirjoitti:
> Anthony told me over dinner that people interested in adopting his
> packages can go ahead. So please consider this an invitation to adopt
> lilypond if you're serious about maintaining it.
In this context, I'd like to point out the
Loudly promoting my own software here...
la, 2005-11-12 kello 10:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh kirjoitti:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Besides, depends/pre-depends and conflicts should be more than enough if
> > > done right.
> >
> > Yes, this is what is meant by sup
ma, 2005-11-28 kello 19:07 +1000, Anthony Towns kirjoitti:
> Hrm, if we're writing our own thing, maybe we should do it properly:
> have a single program that can do multiple hash algorithms, have the
> default hash be secure, and update it in future, and so on.
As it happens, I've been wanting a
ma, 2005-11-28 kello 18:20 -0600, Adam Heath kirjoitti:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>
> > File: foo%20bar/hellurei.txt
> > Size: 12345
> > MD5: 012345667
> > SHA-256: 0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a
> > Mode: 06
la, 2005-12-10 kello 10:39 +0100, Daniel Baumann kirjoitti:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> > We (Debian developers and contributors) certainly all agree on this
> > (or, at least, the vast majority of us).
>
> Why then being so complicated? If there is a candidate in a country
> doomed by US export
su, 2005-12-18 kello 13:38 -0500, Joey Hess kirjoitti:
> One argument I can think of for keeping nvi in base is that it is the
> closest to bug-compatible with the original vi. However, I don't think
> that will prevent hardcore vi users from easily using vim-tiny if
> it's in base.
I'm one of the
su, 2005-12-18 kello 20:17 +0100, Norbert Tretkowski kirjoitti:
> * Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > In fact, given that it's good for base to be small, I'd like to
> > suggest that we don't have more than one editor there.
>
> We already have two editors in the b
su, 2005-12-18 kello 20:18 +0100, Marco d'Itri kirjoitti:
> > Sounds it sounds to me like it is a bad idea to use it.
> Only because you have no clue of what you are talking about.
Marco, would please keep the discussion technical, and not attack the
people taking part, even if you think they're
su, 2005-12-18 kello 14:57 -0500, Joey Hess kirjoitti:
> Yeah, I understand the feeling (coming at it from the exact opposite
> side). It would be helpful if there were an analysis of the major differences
> somewhere; the ones I am most aware of incude:
I'm not personally very interested in this.
ma, 2005-12-19 kello 10:21 -0500, Theodore Ts'o kirjoitti:
> Specifically, what I would propose is /etc/localtime.conf contain
> something like "US/Eastern", and let /etc/zoneinfo be a copy of the
> file /usr/share/zoneinfo/`cat /etc/zoneinfo`.
>
> Does anyone have any objections with this proposa
Subject: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing
[ I'm subscribed to -devel, no Cc required. I apologize for the
length, but it's only a bit over 3000 words. I hope the
section titles help, if you want to skip parts. ]
For some time now I have been thinking about ways to make
ke, 2005-12-21 kello 10:28 +, Roger Leigh kirjoitti:
> For this task, you might find schroot(1) useful. It's a means of
> accessing chroot environments, but it supports LVM snapshots as one
> method.
Does this require the user to set up LVM somehow before using schroot?
> This is a very qu
ke, 2005-12-21 kello 14:19 +, Roger Leigh kirjoitti:
> The difference for a minimal chroot is not too great. The main
> advantage of schroot LVM snapshotting is that the time is constant
> irrespective of the size of the LV (it's copy-on-write), whereas for
> tar it is linear. For slow machin
to, 2005-12-22 kello 10:20 +, Jon Dowland kirjoitti:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:29:24PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > su, 2005-12-18 kello 20:17 +0100, Norbert Tretkowski kirjoitti:
> > > We already have two editors in the base system, nvi and nano.
> >
> &g
ti, 2005-12-27 kello 20:56 +0100, Florian Ludwig kirjoitti:
> Hello,...
>
> a short question:
> has there to be a space between each dependes in the control field?
>
> i thought so and field in a bugreport [1] and didnt get an answer jet...
>
> florian ludwig
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
ke, 2005-12-28 kello 10:59 +0100, Florian Ludwig kirjoitti:
> There are some other packets with the same 'bug' - so i can fill a
> wishlist report?
Since it is not really a bug, I'd rather you didn't file bugs about it.
The constructive thing would be to write a new test for lintian and/or
linda
ke, 2005-12-28 kello 13:48 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt kirjoitti:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ke, 2005-12-28 kello 10:59 +0100, Florian Ludwig kirjoitti:
> >> There are some other packets with the same 'bug' - so i can fill a
>
to, 2005-12-29 kello 11:01 +0100, Toni Mueller kirjoitti:
> I'm not used to nano, but the editor in base expected to be used for
> working on system config files is imho required to respect tabs and eg.
> *not* convert them to spaces unless told to do so, and also provide
> means to enter new tabs.
to, 2005-12-29 kello 13:39 +0100, Marco d'Itri kirjoitti:
> To prepare for the eventual removal of makedev, I propose that packages
> currently depending on it will add an alternative dependency to udev.
> Also, policy should be amended accordingly.
>
> The affected packages are:
This is the same
ke, 2005-12-28 kello 02:00 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff kirjoitti:
> Why don't we add a status field into the PTS, where a maintainer
> can denote her "NMU policy" for a given source package? E.g.
> a selection box, ranging from "Don't dare to touch this, I bite"
> to "Feel free to 0d-NMU for every se
pe, 2005-12-30 kello 09:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst kirjoitti:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:31:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:40:37AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > > > Indeed. Editing plain text configuration files has never been the Unix
> > > > way, and vi certainly
ma, 2006-01-02 kello 09:03 +0100, Andreas Fester kirjoitti:
> You are already a Maintainer as soon as you have a package
> in the archive. Speaking of an "official title" as you suggested,
> maybe something like the following stages could be reasonable:
I find your title unambitious and suggest im
ma, 2006-01-02 kello 22:16 -0500, Benjamin Mesing kirjoitti:
> I admit I was imprecise, often it are conflicts (usually through library
> stuff) that prevent packages from being installable when you have
> certain other installed, even though you would want both.
> But as mentioned I am only repeat
ti, 2006-01-03 kello 21:06 +0100, Josselin Mouette kirjoitti:
> Le vendredi 30 décembre 2005 à 17:55 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> > Something troubles me. You make unofficial packages while waiting for
> > official
> > packages. Aren't you DD ? Wouldn't uploading these unofficial packages
> > in
pe, 2006-01-06 kello 18:38 +0100, Christian Perrier kirjoitti:
> From: Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> There are several things in the package that one might
> want to run from one of the maintainer scripts from
> debconf, like useradd, groupadd, userdel, ...
Is there a problem with packages
ma, 2006-01-09 kello 21:15 +, Simon Huggins kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:20:46PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > xfce4-mixer
> > xfce4-mixer-alsa
> > xfce4-mixer-oss
>
> Can you remind me why circular dependencies are so t
su, 2006-01-15 kello 20:21 +, Mark Brown kirjoitti:
> Deploying Wig & Pen would also help, of course.
Speaking of which: what needs to happen for Wig & Pen (the new source
format) to be usable? Is it possible to get it to happen within etch?
What can we do to help with this?
--
Those who do,
su, 2006-01-29 kello 04:35 +0100, Josselin Mouette kirjoitti:
> Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
> > God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or
> > an exercise in jejune mud slinging.
>
> Deliberate use of words a non-native English sp
Thomas,
how does responding to a flamey thread that had already died a week and
a half earlier make anything better? (It doesn't even matter that the
point had already been made.)
Debian has a tendency to have many or most of its mailing list
discussion turn into flame wars, and this is bad, beca
pe, 2006-02-10 kello 07:36 -0500, Neil Roeth kirjoitti:
> On Feb 10, Hendrik Sattler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I about packaging a library that ships an API reference in docbook SGML
> and
> > provides manual build targets for PDF, PS and HTML.
> >
> > Is there any preference on which t
la, 2006-02-11 kello 13:30 +0900, Osamu Aoki kirjoitti:
> GSynaptics is a configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver
> of X server. Before you use this package, please read
> /usr/share/doc/gsynaptics/README and configure X server properly.
"Properly" is a bad word to use in this context,
ma, 2006-02-13 kello 23:00 +0100, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti:
> * Adeodato Simó [Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:58:24 +0100]:
>
> > And it may fall under the "too buggy that we refuse to support it"
>
> Ah, forgot to say that the code is, at least, full of malloc(FIXED_NUM),
> that afterwards get used w
ti, 2006-02-14 kello 16:28 +0100, Henning Makholm kirjoitti:
> Does anybody have a better idea than trying (in vain) to keep myself
> informed about the supply of image viewers in unstable and adjust the
> dependencies appropriately?
Something similar to sensible-browser or such would sort of sugg
ke, 2006-02-15 kello 04:00 +0500, Victor Porton kirjoitti:
> Here is my plan how to reduce Debian servers load and users Debian packages
> download bandwidth:
>
> 1. Package in .zip (or a similar format) instead of .tar.{gz,bz2}
Picking a random package:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 liw liw 18113820 Mar 18 2
pe, 2006-02-17 kello 01:10 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
kirjoitti:
> Docbook/XML or SGML conversion to HTML is easy. Proper PS / PDF generation is
> not that easy (depends on toolchain and local configuration) and that's
> what your average user typically asks for when handling large docum
pe, 2006-02-17 kello 10:58 +0900, Miles Bader kirjoitti:
> "Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > actual topic of the discussion, just shut up.
>
> Oh get a life. It's perfectly relevant to talk about the qualities of
> the languages involved.
A comparative discussion about lan
la, 2006-02-18 kello 10:43 -0500, Michael Poole kirjoitti:
> What's the purpose of an assembler without assembly code to use it on?
It can be used, for example, to assemble code you write yourself. That
is, after all, the primary purpose of programming tools: to help
programmers develop programs.
In the past six months, I've filed about 260 bug reports based on what
piuparts has found. About 40% of those have been fixed so far. Below is
a summary of the common problems, hopefully the list will help everyone
to find and especially avoid problems in their own packages.
* The most com
I added a Cc to Manoj since I would like to hear his comment. Whoever
responds may want to remove the Cc to avoid stuffing his inbox
unnecessarily.
su, 2006-02-19 kello 23:42 -0800, Steve Langasek kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:24:53AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >
to, 2006-02-23 kello 02:26 +1100, Anand Kumria kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:24:53AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >
> > * Creating /usr/local/lib/foo in postinst, but not removing it
> > in postrm.
>
> I don't think that is a problem at
pe, 2006-02-24 kello 18:27 -0300, Gustavo Franco kirjoitti:
> What i thought in a first look to the Lars' list. I think that the
> best thing would include piuparts as a infrastructural test (oficially
> as a part of our archive code), or due to restrict admin time to do
> that, opt for something l
ma, 2006-02-27 kello 18:39 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow kirjoitti:
> I think it would be best for the buildd to run this and append the
> result to the buildd log.
I don't, because, as I said, piuparts tests often fail for reasons
completely unrelated to the package itself, and there is no point in
ti, 2006-02-28 kello 19:39 +0200, Panu Kalliokoski kirjoitti:
> I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so,
> which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it.
There is a somewhat common feeling among Debian developers that Debian
packaging should be separat
ma, 2006-03-06 kello 19:39 -0800, Mike Fogel kirjoitti:
> However, I can't seem to figure out how to resolve this error:
>
> $ dpkg -i custom-package.deb
> ... installation goes perfectly
> $ dpkg -P custom-package
> ... removal goes perfectly until this error/warning
> dpkg - warning
to, 2006-03-09 kello 19:21 +0100, Amaya kirjoitti:
> 1 - lobby (all of them)
> 2 - get promises in exchange of votes
That reminds me of something I meant to propose some time ago: someone
with a bit of time on their hands could make a wiki page,
DplPromises2006 say, and list all the promises of a
pe, 2006-03-10 kello 21:49 +0100, Adrian von Bidder kirjoitti:
> /me is trying to imagine the Debian project's members trying to agree on an
> enemy...
Open RC bugs. Go to http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php, pick one,
hate it to death. Sleep well.
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pe, 2006-03-10 kello 20:31 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh kirjoitti:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > pe, 2006-03-10 kello 21:49 +0100, Adrian von Bidder kirjoitti:
> > > /me is trying to imagine the Debian project's members trying to agree on
su, 2006-03-12 kello 12:20 +0100, Frank Küster kirjoitti:
> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Actually, in case stockholm gets elected,
>
> Sorry, where's the Wiki page describing codenames for DPL candidates?
db.debian.org lists them, though for clarity of discussion, it helps to
su, 2006-03-12 kello 15:49 +0100, Peter Kourzanov kirjoitti:
> Can anyone please explain why this architecture is named hurd-i386
> rather that i386-hurd?
I guess it just happened to seem like a good name at the time. Why, is
there a problem with the name? Does it matter? Debian architecture na
ma, 2006-03-13 kello 08:57 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst kirjoitti:
> I don't think it's useful to second-guess what they're doing, so my
> question to Nathanael: when did you post this question to them directly
> and what was their answer?
Is there a reason why the question should be made in private?
I
ma, 2006-03-13 kello 14:59 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:20:38PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > Is there a reason why the question should be made in private?
>
> It seems as if only problems and annoyances end up on mailinglists, and
&g
pe, 2006-03-17 kello 14:46 +1100, Brian May kirjoitti:
> Would the next step be to ban Sven from participating in our public
> mailing lists?
With the understanding that we're now not talking about Sven Luther but
a hypothetical highly abusive person, I wish to ask Brian the following
question: do
ti, 2005-01-25 kello 12:34 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa kirjoitti:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The problem is things/websites/etc that "many" parents don't think
> > are appropriate for their children.
>
> These parents are free to install whatever traffic blocker they feel
> appropriate
la, 2005-03-26 kello 21:35 -0700, Jeremy Nickurak kirjoitti:
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:53 +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
> > Description : Music file player
> > This is a port of the Open Cubic Player to Linux.
> > .
>
> It would be nice if the description had some definition of what the
> s
su, 2005-03-27 kello 09:01 +0200, George Danchev kirjoitti:
> I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see "unpacked" and "patched"
> targets to hit Policy 4.8.
I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a
new source package format that will make tarball-within-t
su, 2005-03-27 kello 07:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh kirjoitti:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a
> > new source package format that will make tarball-within-tarball sources
>
> But
to, 2005-03-31 kello 01:06 -0600, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti:
> [martin f krafft]
> > Parts of debian/rules are Ubuntu-specific (e.g. mv README.Debian
> > README.Ubuntu) and we would love to have that removed.
>
> The DISTRIB thing can be implemented quite easily without include files
> or anything
to, 2005-03-31 kello 10:31 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen kirjoitti:
> Sounds cool.
>
>$ sudo apt-get install lsb-release
>$ lsb-release
>bash: lsb-release: command not found
>$ lsb_release
>LSB Version:n/a
>
> Hmm. Is n/a an abbreviation for debiaN/unstAble?
$ lsb_release -a
to, 2005-03-31 kello 20:45 +, Michael Ablassmeier kirjoitti:
> On 2005-03-31, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any package that uses it is going to have to build-depend on the
> > lsb-release package, which has no dependencies (it is a bash shell
> >
to, 2005-03-31 kello 21:07 +, Michael Ablassmeier kirjoitti:
> On 2005-03-31, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Given that the sysadmin can and does edit it as they wish, that is
> > pretty useless.
>
> yes, but this might happen to `/etc/lsb-r
ti, 2005-04-05 kello 13:12 -0400, Adam C Powell IV kirjoitti:
> Interesting... I just installed and tried dput, and everything seems to
> work fine. So dupload is broken.
Data point: I used dupload to anonymous-ftp-master successfully last
week.
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ke, 2005-04-06 kello 19:31 +0200, Pierre THIERRY kirjoitti:
> Scribit Steve Greenland dies 04/04/2005 hora 07:15:
> > > - what problems do thsi random order could weed?
> > Unnoted dependencies that just happen to be fulfilled due to a
> > consistent (though arbitrary) application order. By applyin
to, 2005-04-07 kello 15:10 +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard kirjoitti:
> During packaging, that is, during the installation of a package, I need to
> determine which MTA is currently installed, since I need to set certain
> permissions specific to my package, so that they match with those of the
> curr
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: soundconverter
Version : 0.7.1
Upstream Author : Gautier Portet
* URL : http://soundconverter.berlios.de/
* License : GPL v2
Description : convert sound fi
ma, 2005-04-11 kello 13:19 +0200, Emanuele Rocca kirjoitti:
> It would be very nice to add these to linda's description.
> This way, every user can decide to install linda rather than lintian if
> they need these specific features.
Given that the two tools have different sets of tests, even if man
ke, 2005-04-13 kello 14:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt kirjoitti:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:32:02PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote:
> > > Description : iSCSI Enterprise Target
> > >
> > > An iSCSI Target implementation supporti
ma, 2005-04-25 kello 23:40 +0200, Joerg Jaspert kirjoitti:
> Its a tool where everything is written in one file, and then something
> generates the debian/ out of it.
Argh. Speaking as someone who looks at lots of different packages while
fixing RC bugs, anything that is out of the ordinary is a s
su, 2005-05-01 kello 21:41 +0100, Neil McGovern kirjoitti:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I keep thinking that it should be in plural:
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to, 2005-05-05 kello 15:52 +0200, Andrea Mennucc kirjoitti:
> So why nobody did actually change the number then?
Release numbers, like release code names, are up to the release managers
to decide. Since neither is particularly important, there's really not
much point in discussing them at length:
su, 2005-05-08 kello 22:15 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky kirjoitti:
> The only lintian/linda complaints are from missing manpages. Some
> upstream folks are working on translating the existing docs from .txt
> to manpages (actually asciidoc), so it'll hopefully get cleaner soon
> without me lifting a
ma, 2005-05-09 kello 14:39 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG kirjoitti:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You asked why the GNU linker, which does not need to be 'ls' and does
> > not need to look at the list of files in any directory, scaled well
> > with the size of the directory.
Thomas, please read
http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-mailing-lists-rules
about not sending Cc's unless people explicitly ask to be copied.
(Mail-Followup-To is non-standard and badly supported, and also
unnecessary. Any decent mail user agent can deal with
ma, 2005-05-09 kello 14:56 -0700, Steve Langasek kirjoitti:
> There is no log; there is only the daily output of britney, telling which
> packages have been accepted in.
There is, however, qa.debian.org, that lets you see at a glance the
versions in stable, testing, and unstable. It requires polli
ke, 2005-06-08 kello 10:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri kirjoitti:
> On Jun 08, Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I do _not_ want a web server right after apt-get installing it, since
> > everybody has to move the default page and create their own content.
> _I_ do.
> If I install a daemon, it
to, 2005-06-09 kello 11:40 +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT kirjoitti:
> AFAIK, it is a debianplanet bug since the source feeds it uses *are*
> correctly escaped.
I haven't bothered to investigate it often when the ampersand problem
occurs, but on the couple of occasions I have, it has been a case of the
ma, 2005-06-13 kello 10:10 +0200, Peter Palfrader kirjoitti:
> Historically we always wanted to be able to use all the source in the
> archive with the tools available in stable. If that policy is still
> true you would be able to use the new features by the time edge releases
> with the new dpkg.
ma, 2005-06-13 kello 23:56 +0200, Olaf van der Spek kirjoitti:
> On 6/13/05, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's a stupid argument.
>
> It's not that stupid.
> If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that.
The Debian Policy does not, and cannot, have a ru
ke, 2005-06-15 kello 12:51 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt kirjoitti:
> I'm asking for guidance regarding this bug:
> #313492: xscreensaver/GLSnake has sexually inappropriate imagery
...
> 1) Is it a bug at all?
>There's no technical problem in the program per se. It's just that
>this one person m
o be uploaded to Debian unstable. It is in ../foo_1.0-2_i386.deb and
you would like to know whether it installs and uninstalls properly.
Here's what you would do:
piuparts ../foo_1.0-2_i386.deb
SEE ALSO
pbuilder(1)
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su, 2005-06-19 kello 11:28 +0200, Turbo Fredriksson kirjoitti:
> > Package: roxen3 (debian/main)
> > Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 298934 [] [X] roxen3: contains non-free fonts
>
> In one of Debian's lists (have no idea which), I/we discussed this. It was
> YEARS
la, 2005-06-18 kello 22:53 -0400, Joey Hess kirjoitti:
> I want to run a test that installs each package in woody in turn,
> upgrades them to sarge, then to sid, then purges it, then looks for
> /usr/doc and /usr/info stuff that is were produced during the package's
> install or upgrade and not rem
la, 2005-06-18 kello 22:53 -0400, Joey Hess kirjoitti:
> I want to run a test that installs each package in woody in turn,
> upgrades them to sarge, then to sid, then purges it, then looks for
> /usr/doc and /usr/info stuff that is were produced during the package's
> install or upgrade and not rem
ma, 2005-06-20 kello 16:47 +0100, Paul Brossier kirjoitti:
> how about an optional debian/package.piuparts file that would contain
> the syntax to make runtime tests? this would allow to check that
> executables can be run, and possibly that their result is consistent. it
> could even be used to de
to, 2005-06-23 kello 03:28 -0400, Kevin Mark kirjoitti:
> A simple question. You mention that you use apt-get in this new testing
> environment. Would it be useful to allow an apt-get
> workalike(dpkg/aptitude/wajig)?
Yes, that needs to be done. I haven't had trouble with it yet, so I
haven't bot
First, this sounds like an interesting piece of software, and I'm happy
to see it packaged.
su, 2005-06-26 kello 01:51 -0500, Kenneth Pronovici kirjoitti:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Kenneth J. Pronovici" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: cedar-backup2
Why the 2 in p
su, 2005-06-26 kello 11:13 -0500, Kenneth Pronovici kirjoitti:
> Perhaps you would prefer this?
>
>Description : local and remote backups to CD-R/CD-RW media
>
> It's probably more descriptive anyway.
Yep, I think that's better.
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su, 2005-06-26 kello 12:54 -0500, Ron Johnson kirjoitti:
>
> Don't forget to tell Rene Engelhard to rename OpenOffice.org2.
>
Hi, Ron. I once asked you to quote only the parts that are relevant when
you respond to someone. I did it in private since that is usually the
best and most effective fir
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