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2005-09-13 Thread Marcelo
Como consigo lista de mails de uruguay y/o del mundo? Como te lo pago? Soy de paysandu uruguay  

Re: [Re: Orphaned packages?]

1999-10-04 Thread Marcelo Magallon
soundserver, though. Is that | okay with you? Yes, please. I'm already in Stuttgart, but I don't think I'll get my hands on a Debian box very soon... I'm in the middle of a Silicon sea :-) (perhaps it's time to give that MIPS port a second look :) Thanks,

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
e architecture hasn't buildd support for t-p-u, the buildd support for t-p-u is as good as missing. You could do builds by hand, but then again, how many developers actually do that? And it "only" takes a mail to the admin team ("please install build dependencies for foo in bar"). Marcelo

Re: Package names don't matter too much

2004-10-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
hat can > easily be recognized and memorized, and the wish to have a name that, > if it isn't unique, at least makes it possible to distinguish the > program from others: Not only in a technical sense, but in human > language. Yes, that's fine and that's what .app and .bundle are for. Marcelo

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
be OK to move to FHS 2.3 in > Etch. Isn't the configuration file used by the X.org server called something else? (It's rather silly to hardcode the name of a configuration file used by a specific vendor) Marcelo

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
CPU) resources for a few dozen > rsyncs. And shouldn't this be left as a decision for the mirror administrators? It's not like setting up a mirror _automatically_ allows rsync access to it, isn't it? Marcelo

Re: $HOME/.dotfiles and FHS 2.3

2004-10-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
to take into account to that ~/ is not unusually a shared resource. Marcelo

Re: $HOME/.dotfiles and FHS 2.3 (was: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1)

2004-10-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
k: if test -z "$GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT" ; then if test -d "$HOME/GNUstep" ; then GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT="$HOME/GNUstep" else GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT="$HOME/.GNUstep" fi but I have the same interoperatibility problem again. This deviates from the upstream default behaviour. Marcelo

Re: Alioth Project Denied

2004-11-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
hat's what it takes. This project is making a custom out of threating developers like crap. Marcelo

Re: Duelling banjos or how a sane community goes crazy

2004-12-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
bad? > 3. Go to debian-curiosity with mails which do not belong to > debian-devel. debian-curiosa is neither a garbage dump nor a place where you can badmouth other people, as some folks seem to think, and the hot-babe thread really has no place there. Marcelo [0] Completely OT: I

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
se there's no direct visual feedback. The other problem with aptitude is touted as a design feature: it tends to be all-or-nothing. Either you use it always or you don't (automatic removal thingie). This becomes a problem when multiple persons use different interfaces for adding and removing packages to the system. Marcelo

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
tiple > > persons use different interfaces for adding and removing packages > > to the system. > > You exaggerate. I do not. I've seen aptitude remove "unwanted" packages more than a couple of times because of this. It's a cool feature, yes. It's also a design bug. Marcelo

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ne , being a BIOS, a certain chipset, a certain controller, a certain graphics card, or whatever else you wish. Darn! That's all of them. IMO we have to draw the line at some point that's *useful* and *practical*. Committing suicide is neither of those. I think the proposal that spawned this subthread is both. Marcelo

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
. (And no "we will release in two years time" is not a release schedule in this context). Marcelo

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
point people to. Ride on that wave. Debian's problem, seen from the inside (you don't have to give a damn about what the Slashdot crowd says), is that we let that wave break, and there isn't another one coming behind it. Marcelo [0] Besides learning that there is still p

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
es not give *developers* this. And users get frustrated each time they see a Debian 3.0rX come out, but no sarge in sight. I do get your point and I'm not saying that it is easy (or even possible!) to stick to a faster release schedule, but refusing it upfromt without trying does not help. Marcelo

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ht to hear the jokes I get to hear once a month on the local LUG meetings. Oh dear, next meeting is this saturday. Marcelo

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
t for some people (and I still want to know about concrete examples where this is true and why), how about 9 months? How about 1 year? My point is: set a goal and try to accomplish it. Marcelo

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:46:00PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > We don't have to go from X.0 to (X+1).0 in 6 months. It's > > perfectly ok to go from X.0 to X.1. > > .1 Releases

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
$cfg{"d$_"}{incoming} =~ s/0(?=-day)/$_/; } foreach my $t (keys %cfg) { foreach my $d (keys %{$cfg{'defaults'}}) { $cfg{$t}{$d} = $cfg{'defaults'}{$d} unless exists $cfg{$t}{$d}; } } 1; I made this up on the spot, you can keep it if it breaks. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
eing processed? Or are we again in the usual "I'll process any package that I feel like processing" situation? Marcelo PS: "blah, blup, release, blah, sarge" ... spare it, *please*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ll have this thing called debian-devel-announce, you know? Did I miss a memo? Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
case. And I've been not following it for several years and across several releases now. Better? Marcelo PS: And just to answer your question, I get the impression that I'm "on" stuff much milder than you usually are, coffee being the strongest, and tea the usual.

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
1. 1. 1. ie the file pointed to by the --add-gnu-debuglink can be the full executable. It does not have to be a file created by the --only-keep-debug switch. -- Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-03-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
e that we wouldn't have told people about it via > debian-devel-announce, y'know? Whilst no insult was meant, it _still_ _looks like_ a silent decision. My apologies if insult was taken, Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-03-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, pardon me for the delay, I really have better things to do that getting involved all day long in discussions with purposely obtuse people. On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:30:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:21:02AM +1000

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-03-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:17:51AM +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:03:04PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > * it's not ftp-master's business to judge on _technical_ merits of > >the pacakge (bad packaging practices, missing depe

Re: Future security problem (was Re: be careful with Replaces, please)

1997-12-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
self ;-) (no, really, I want to learn package building, and it's easier to figure out the not-so-obvious-right-now problems this way) Marcelo Magallón -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
lation-architecture i386 > Is there an easy way to do this? (Also, if pentium clones also work > with the ecgs compiled packages, maybe i586 is better than pent.) I think it should be i586, although I'm not clear if ecgs supports Kx et al. It should... Marcelo

Re: Where's the SCSI support in Debian?

1997-12-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
or the FlashPoint... and I think many people on that list may be influenced by that recommendation, too. Is this going to change soon... I mean, 2.0 is still months away, and it kind of scares me to think of many users facing "way till 2.0" Marcelo -- TO UNSU

Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems

1997-12-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ask in the gtk list, where it seems to work for most people according to you, which libraries and what versions are they using? (a listing from */lib and /etc/ld.conf would help, I think) later, Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: New required base packages for Amiga, Atari, ... detection

1997-12-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
s wouldn't impact mirrors much. (Carefully = don't just compile i586 optimized code because it's possible) Marcelo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: IconPath, menu

1997-12-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
here, a good deal of which are icons. Is that policy? Gnome puts the pixmaps in /usr/share/pixmaps, and according to my interpretation of FSSTD/FHS, gnome's practice is better. Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Intend to take over wmaker, application?

1997-12-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, my name is Marcelo Magallón, and I'd like to take over the maintainance of wmaker, since there are several bugs against wmaker, in particular a mixed dependencies bug. I have tried to contact the current maintainer, Neil A. Rubin <[EMAIL P

Re: Intend to take over wmaker, application?

1997-12-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
#x27;ve been fine tunning the package, and it's usable now ;-) Be sure to read README.debian (Ok, ok, I have to work on the documentation) Marcelo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07

1998-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Neil A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > wmaker-0.6.3-1 (Mixed dependencies) > > Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on > WindowMaker packages based on wmaker-0.12.3. Yes. I have them ready, an

Re: interactive sound configuration utility

1998-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
thing is not that amazing. The patches that modulize sound are there, and seem to be a good thing, but documentation is lacking. Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07

1998-01-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
his minute, but it's going pretty slow. Anyway, I hope the packages get to master before the day's over... ;-) I've tried to contact Neil about this, but I have had no luck. Marcelo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07

1998-01-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Joel Rosdahl wrote: > > I have already done that. It's not 0.6.3 but 0.12.3. This [...] > > Well, that's great! But what I intend to fix is afterstep, not > wmaker... ;) Oops... I read way too fast... Then both packages are fixed! :-) Marcelo

sp upgrade, HTML 4.0, libtool

1998-01-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
x27;d like to upload that, too. There's also an upgrade for libtool, that fixes a couple of annoying things about 1.0c. It's version 1.0h, but the GNU people have a big warning about it being alpha software (1.0c is alpha, too, I think). Is this ok for hamm, or is it better to put it

Re: HTTP site list

1998-04-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[I have tons on old mail to read, but it seems something's going on here ;-)] On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > This is a partial list of http enabled mirrors, I did the US and UK. > There are 13 sites listed here. If someone would like to go through the > rest of the mirror list then

Re: sleep contains crypto stuff?

1998-04-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
d to care. :-( Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is the BTS working properly?

1998-04-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
vg/bug = 200 MB, possibly more) Marcelo [1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/l,mmagallo,debian.org,Marcelo_E._Magallon.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sleep contains crypto stuff?

1998-04-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
Please bring it up on -policy joey> again. Ok, I'm enclosing the same message I posted to policy a while ago. It's long. It's intent is to show the behaviour of the linker. Marcelo Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:24:52 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: PW#5-7: Linking

Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
not the man. > Why not call for graphics from the web site like when we were > looking for a logo ? That's all. you may want to take a look at login.app, that just uploaded. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfont3d/xfpovray

1998-04-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > I wish to become a package maintainer, I stubbled across > several really nice applications. They are xfont3d and > xfpovray. Can you provide an URL? What do these apps do? Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: elvis package

1998-04-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ne with X, one without. Use alternatives to manage the whole thing. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 11:11:12PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I was just setting up a new install and ran into the problem of wmaker > configuring itself before /etc/X11/window-managers existed, it's postinst > bombed. This was reported as a bug, and it is fixed on 0.14.1-4, is it not?!? (I

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
y), and I better get some coffee because I'm talking non-sense. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ble because a situation like the one I just described is not desirable. Marcelo pgp1uOI4q5Z7D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: binary-CD exceeds 650 MB -- any solution?

1998-04-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
tial part of the disc that are not usable, but I don't know if that's already counted on the 650 MB figure. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ppp: how to tell the connection speed?

1998-05-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
s there a way to tell the connection speed? Once on IRC I told Manoj to use $PPP_SPEED on the ip-up/ip-down scripts, but he pointed out that that didn't report the connection speed but the maximum speed on the line. Is there a way out of this, or is this a case by case problem? Thanks,

Re: ppp: how to tell the connection speed?

1998-05-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 08:12:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marcelo E. Magallon writes: > > As you can see chat breaks the CONNECT line. Is there a way to tell > > the connection speed? > > 'ATW2' will make the modem (or at least, my modem) emit somethin

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
helpful to be able to take a quick look at the number of bugs (and how closely related they are or not) a package has. Since I already get this on my inbox, it would be nice to have it sorted by packge. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
it's uploaded as a package and that a big "THIS IS A *GUIDE*" banner be stamped on it. The last thing I want is people complaining that libfoo doesn't follow some chapter and verse of said guide under the impression that it is somehow "correct", "standard&qu

Re: library packaging doc...

2005-01-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
n and I'm still burned out by it. I recall vividly how I had to waste much time to convince you that there was a problem with libpng in the first place and then even more time to get you to understand what the proper solution was. I really have no intention of rehashing that chapter. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mirror-2.9 released, and hopefully DFSG compliant

1998-06-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
thing different (with added parts, and incidentally, one of them is the original thing) I got an announcement from Freshmeat that said GNU Mirror, and I thought the licence was changed over to GPL... but isn't this one the same (close) to the one Pine uses? M

Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
came up regarding the download metrics: all architectures are equal, but some are more equal than others. You can't compare 16 i386s to a single sparc with 16 processors with such a metric. -- Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ility was reported. Each time you have to wonder if it really doesn't apply to PHP3 or if noone bothered to look. -- Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: regarding gerris package

2006-04-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ver the package I'll be happy with that. Please drop me a note off-list letting me know that. Thanks, Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
y incompatible with each > > other. > > Powerpc does not define any hwcaps, too. Thanks for the help! Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
have the time, hardware and desire to do so, you can compile the mesa package (there's a debian/README.build there) and if you find any significant advantage I'll gladly include any required change. Mesa is stuck in incoming atm. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
s accessed multiple times (and it's not present, isn't that a race? what happens if the file suddenly appears in the middle of program start up? what's that file anyway, I can't find it mentioned in the documentation). Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
e a valid reason for "wanting" the file to suddenly pop up while the program is running. > I think this is safer than checking /etc/ld.so.nohwcap once in > program startup time. Safer in what way? Again, I just don't buy that "system calls are too expensive&qu

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
the strace of a process keeps readable in finite time, so do > system administrators with auditing turned on. I can understand that. I'm just not sure what's to fix in the first place. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
sn't even mention the variable! Either you *bump* into LD_DEBUG=help by chance or go RTFS, which is, quite appropriately, also badly documented. But it's fine, don't bother to reply, you certainly have better things to do than justify backward designs and weird decisions which are probably not yours to begin with. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS "feature" comments

1999-09-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
once, and *he* asked me to submit reports to the corresponding bugs and, iirc, mark them fixed. But in that situation I had permission from the maintainer, which is a good thing. Marcelo

Re: debhelper compilation on slink

1999-09-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ato on a slink system, all the dependencies are met. Marcelo

Help debugging X program (moonlight)

2000-03-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Request.1 is X_CreateWindow. X_InternAtom is XRequest.16... aggghhh! There's a XCreateWindow a few lines before the call to XInternAtom, but none of the documented reasons for a BadMatch generated by XCreateWindow are met. Help? Anyone? Marcelo

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ort as editing a text file, signing and uploading) and provide the functionality of task-packages, provided UI tools support this field. One problem here is that sooner or later someone will start thinking of such sick things as 'local overrides'. Marcelo

Re: RFP: Quadra -- a multiplayer networked smooth tetris game

2000-08-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
naive non-tetris-fan experience suggests people who like tetris would like this game. But my naive non-tetris-fan experience is turned into nothingness after seeing what tetrinet is. Cheers, Marcelo

Re: Implementing "testing" (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
o be forced to take a two week and one day vacation in order for their packages in unstable to get two weeks old. /me ducks! Marcelo

Re: WNPP now on the BTS

2000-08-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
WNPP system. Marcelo Work-Needing and Prospective Packages, WNPP for short, is a pseudo package on the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) and its intention is to track closely the real status of such things as prospective packages in Debian and packages in need of new maintainers. Si

Re: Pre-ITA: ntop

2000-08-31 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> "Oliver M . Bolzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # BTW, is there any docu on how to properly operete the new WNPP ? See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Marcelo

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ether the person *actually creating* it feels confortable enough with the tools provided. No tool is inherently wrong for a given task, and this specially true when you are talking about graphics production. I know a guy who used to sketch portraits on his computer. Using a CAD program. Che

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ed it (-: JFTR: http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/ It's GPLed. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFC: moving packages to project/orphaned

2000-09-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ares about, which in turn means bugreports won't get answered to. IMO, they *should* be removed before release. Counter-arguments for the general case are welcomed. Thanks, Marcelo [1] http://qa.debian.org/documentation/qa.html/ch-rules.html The f

Re: RFC: moving packages to project/orphaned

2000-09-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
L PROTECTED]> Package: hugs-doc Maintainer: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> please do retitle bugs 68186 and 68187 if you are taking over these packages. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Thanks, Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: RFC: moving packages to project/orphaned

2000-09-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:55:16PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > mpsql (68054), 33 days old > > How on earth did this make it onto your list. I cannot remeber orphaning it > at all. please do close b

Re: RFC: moving packages to project/orphaned

2000-09-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, >> Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:55:29AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > please do close bug #68054 if the package is no longer up for ^^ > >

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ather agressive at that IMO. Amazed, Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QT-GPL

2000-09-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone checked the temperature in Hell lately? Not really, but I hope Therese enjoyed it... Marcelo, making obscure references to an endothermic hell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
d. And has been for about 7 months. The "maintainer" should be debian-qa, but it has not been reset to that. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: charities.cron

2000-12-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > http://freshmeat.net/projects/charities.cron/ > > I'll look at it and make a package, unless someone really objects... Fix the tmp security hole while you are at it, will you? Thanks, -- Marcelo

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2001-01-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ion to > > experimental until they are fixed and a new maintainer for them has been > > found? > > tetex depends on dpkg-perl. The WNPP report included backwards dependencies, until Packages-all-non-msdos-names (or whatever the name was) went poof. I haven't had the time to hook things to the new database. -- Marcelo

Re: Bug#81180: ITP: aterm -- an x terminal emulator

2001-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please close bug#81180 as appropiate. -- Marcelo

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
LEASE remove the files from *.d.o machines? Thanks, Marcelo PS: go to http://xmps.sourceforge.net/, try to find the link to these win32 codecs there.

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
because of what I think of DivX, but because such an installer is specifically designed to aid in the distribution of material that is potentially illegal and nothing else. -- Marcelo

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
distribute his package or whatever this > means. As long as mplayer doesn't *require* DivX to work, it should be safe. For example, xine can *use* the Windows DLLs, but it doesn't require them. I guess mplayer is in similar position. -- Marcelo

Re: Bugs about new upstream versions

2001-01-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
y get a friendly message thanking you for the reminder and possibly a package within 24 hours. In other words: stop pestering Myth about a new mozilla package unless you want to have a package next year. -- Marcelo

Managing package sources with subversion?

2003-05-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
sting_ CVS repository which is being managed with cvs-buildpackage to SVN, but I'd appreciate other tips. TIA, Marcelo

texmf.cnf again

2003-06-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
his high priority question if, by the look of it, only a handful of people would care? This is release-note worthy or handbook worthy, but it's not really the kind of thing Average Joe wants to see when installing Debian afresh[0], is it? Small request: please run that text thru our English l1

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
;s a thousand better things to do with your time (hint: fixing bugs) other than nitpicking at changelog entries because they don't include the last period and last comma you want them to. This changelog-policying camp is becoming very very counter-productive. Marcelo

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
al benefit of not annoying this > mailing-list. By all means. Marcelo

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
series was sent through ATI), and > they have the standing offer I mentioned above. The only thing > preventing capital-F-Free drivers being written right now is DRI > developer time constraints, AIUI. That's right. Marcelo

Re: package naming

2003-06-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
akup-cvs The epoch is necessary if you really want people to "upgrade" from the old CVS package to the new stable package. I see the package was not present in woody, so it's not a problem for people upgrading across Debian releases. Marcelo

Re: Managing package sources with subversion?

2003-06-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
ng new upstream sources? A few small attempts at this exploded in my face... but this was some months ago, so things might have changed in the meantime. Marcelo

Re: buildd failure

2003-06-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:35:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:31:42PM +0200, Attila SZALAY wrote: > > > What can I do with this (from packages.qa.debian.org): > > > > # 42 days old (needed 10 days) > > # out of date on hppa: libzorpll, libzorpll-dev (from 2.0.

Re: texmf.cnf again

2003-06-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
claiming it's perfect. It's just better than before, this time you have the chance that you don't want your local modifications overwritten at seemingly random times. My point is that given the way the question is written, its priority and default answer seem to counter its purpose. Marcelo

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
crossing t's. this is information > that is inherent to a changelog; and writing poer changelogs must be > encouraged. Sure. You are welcomed to use @packages.debian.org for that. Marcelo

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