Re: Alioth Project Denied

2004-11-05 Thread Roland Mas
de a "pkg-" prefix in your project name. [...] > a) I couldn't find a policy in the website Used to be there. Should be restored sometime. > b) It's very rude to reply anonymously, someone care to put a name > behind this email? This message was sent aut

Re: Hot-Babe non-controversial images

2004-12-04 Thread Roland Mas
are for objectification of women. Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the tachyon cross the road? Because it was on the other side.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Roland Mas
eats space, which disrupts all Alioth projects using CVS (for a start). Roland. -- Roland Mas C c ee lm re q j l a l l iè e . -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°1, partie 3/3. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Roland Mas
is ability to represent the diversity of [...] interests that make up our project) is really scary to me. That, and the "I din't answer *that* question, you can't hold it against me" weaseling-out (I don't like the term, but I can't find one more suited). I hope Debia

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Roland Mas
hack so it actually corresponds to my needs (or just to fix bugs). That means either a free tool or an NDA. Additionally, hacking a tool locally is easier than getting the central tool administrator to apply a patch that may or may not please everyone. Roland. -- Roland Mas Twenty thousand

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Roland Mas
d time. Good workflows don't have big blockers, they allow the flow to go around small blockers locally. Roland. -- Roland Mas Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale. -- Adam, in Good Omens (T. Pratchett and

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-02-28 Thread Roland Mas
r. Question though: will the SQL support be enabled at some point? I think that would open up a lot of possibilities (gateways with other apps, for instance). Thanks, visible evolution coming from Gnucash is a relief, I was starting to wonder whether I'd have to switch to something else.

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-03-02 Thread Roland Mas
a set of i386 packages to http://roland.mas.free.fr/debian/experimental/. Straight from Thomas's source packages, built in an up-to-date pbuilder chroot. Roland. -- Roland Mas [...] ou une dent pourrie [...] -- in Variations sur un thème imposé -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°2, partie 2/3.

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-02 Thread Roland Mas
able to bribe buxy to provide HTTP access when he comes > back, though. ;-) I just enabled HTTP access for bzr: $ bzr get http://arch.debian.org/bzr/pkg-xiph/vorbis-tools Branched 22 revision(s). bzr.debian.org doesn't exist, so I chose arch.d.o instead. Roland. -- Roland Mas [...] ou

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-08 Thread Roland Mas
Nikolaus Schulz, 2006-08-08 11:50:08 +0200 : > ... which is something I'd expect to find in ~/bin, but not as the > single functionality of a Debian package. moreutils then? Roland. -- Roland Mas If you're ever confused as to which mode you're in, keep entering the key

Re: gdm/Gnome/KDE and device permissions

2006-10-11 Thread Roland Mas
e, maintenance would probably be a nightmare, unless there's a way to share ACLs between files that I'm not aware of. Roland. -- Roland Mas Ace of clubs? Let's see that. European Juggling Convention -- Carvin, France. http://ejc2004.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: First draft of review of policy must usage

2006-10-25 Thread Roland Mas
uot;now" happens to be (presented as) close to release time. Roland. -- Roland Mas LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rolandmas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alioth upgrade -- done

2006-10-28 Thread Roland Mas
he hosting facility. The admins have been contacted. In the meantime, use svn+ssh:// if you can. We apologise for the inconvenience. Roland. -- Roland Mas When I eat a biscuit, it stays eaten! -- Arthur Dent, in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Douglas Adams) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: New dpkg-buildpackage error

2006-03-18 Thread Roland Mas
default compatibility level. Roland. -- Roland Mas Such compressed poems / With seventeen syllables / Can't have much meaning... -- in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Roland Mas
of a hundredth of a second). I've had one box kept at Debian unstable for two rollovers in a row, though it wasn't a production server at all -- its final uptime was like 10 days, after having been up for more than three years. Roland. -- Roland Mas C r ' s d a

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-24 Thread Roland Mas
'm hopelessly out of touch with reality. Roland. -- Roland Mas Just because you're dead doesn't mean they aren't still out to get you. -- Virgil, in Ye Gods! (Tom Holt) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alioth Tracker: no correspondence to BTS?

2006-07-09 Thread Roland Mas
3600 tracker items in the database. But since we have a few cases of upstream development hosted on Alioth, it makes sense to offer an alternative to the Debian BTS that not everyone likes. Roland. -- Roland Mas Bonjour, je suis un virus de signature. Propagez-moi dans la vôtre !

Re: adoption - gdict

2000-12-26 Thread Roland Mas
oss, and it Replaces: gdict (since it includes it). So, you could either contact the maintainer and get him to re-split what was previously merged, or adopt the whole package, or help him maintain it. Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, il y a des borgnes à ne pas dépasser. -- in Soeur Ma

Re: adoption - gdict

2000-12-26 Thread Roland Mas
and I am almost completely done (I'm waiting for the Debian account manager to create my account), but it takes longer for some other people. Roland. -- Roland Mas Chaos always defeats order, because it is better organized. -- Ly Tin Wheedle, in Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Re: Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Roland Mas
ght just work. Prefer the "set -x" one, though. Oh, an idea just struck me: you wouldn't have another user with UID 0, would you? Or two users by the name of root? Like, with another nsswitch method or something... Roland. -- Roland Mas Et c'est tellement plus mignon de s

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Roland Mas
27;t do the same error again. I haven't, for three years. Then one day I compiled IDE as a module. Boom again! Call me stupid if you like, but I think "all goes into modules" won't work. Roland. -- Roland Mas Mou ichido ! Hayaku ! Ookii koede ! -- Atsuko Sasaki

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Roland Mas
as possible. I envision a global Makefile somewhere, and a ports/ directory, and a make-world.sh, and... And then Debian GNU/BSD! Yay! Seriously though, I think Craig's idea of a kernel-helper is cool. Roland. -- Roland Mas Plus on en fout, plus y'en a du riz. -- Proverbe chinois.

Re: Help wanted for packaging postgresql application

2003-05-26 Thread Roland Mas
/) does it. Basically, prepare a new pg_hba.conf, and ask the user whether to replace the existing one. Default to "no", of course. Roland. -- Roland Mas Ace of clubs? Let's see that. European Juggling Convention -- Svendborg, Denmark. http://ejc2003.dk

Re: debian-exim mailing list?

2003-05-26 Thread Roland Mas
a list on Alioth, or on lists.debian.org, or not at all. Roland. -- Roland Mas Êtes vous sûr ? (O/N) -- Derniers mots d'un ordinateur

Re: Alioth docs? Renaming a project possible?

2003-06-19 Thread Roland Mas
o at some point, promise. Of course, any help is welcome to make that happen sooner :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas - Ogenki desuka, yau de poêle ? - Genki desu, ture en zinc.

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Roland Mas
o apt-get install all the GNU > versions of everything? I humbly suggest "apt-get install task-gnu-only". Of course, someone will have to make and maintain that task package, but once done, there you are. Or you could start a Debian-GNU-Only subproject. Roland. -- Roland Mas Au

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-22 Thread Roland Mas
t over the years :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas S'agirait pas d'atteindre la sublime transcendance du supramental sans se bouger le fion un minimum... -- in Sri Raoul le petit yogi (Gaudelette)

Re: [Debconf] Re: The slides for my talk

2003-07-22 Thread Roland Mas
e hits), but it could become so, and would make it tremendously easier to find material to borrow from for future talks :-) Cc:ed and Mail-Followup-To:ed to debian-devel. Roland. -- Roland Mas You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say. -- Aziraphale, in Good Omens (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman)

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Roland Mas
r its advanced and experimental management methods" column, I suppose :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Despite rumour, Death isn't cruel - merely terribly, terribly good at his job. -- in Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Roland Mas
. (Note I'm not saying it doesn't work.) Roland. -- Roland Mas ar c t e l l ièu ai ia mi. -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°1, partie 2/3.

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Roland Mas
the boot-floppies system (and in taking one more year to release). Don't let's repeat the past mistakes. Besides, sticking with b-f means we're on our own. Switching to d-i for real means we can get help from Skolelinux and Linex and probably many other "custom Debian"

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-29 Thread Roland Mas
ted) thing I can't upload a fixed package even though the bugs are fixed in the CVS. Roland. -- Roland Mas A man walks into a bar. Bang.

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Roland Mas
tuff can be maintained by a team: the HOWTO, code for a registration site, name tag templates, asking-for-sponsors letter templates, etc. And suggestion tracking via the trackers. Roland. -- Roland Mas Et c'est tellement plus mignon de se faire traiter de con en chanson... -- in En chantant (Michel Sardou)

Re: Data loss: suggestions for handling

2003-08-01 Thread Roland Mas
h an error message giving out info such as the current db-version, the SQL statement that went wrong, and so on. And he's requested to report the bug with this info :-) All this requires a transactional database, obviously, but they're a dime a dozen these days. For more det

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-23 Thread Roland Mas
is thrust (see Ginger, Mac and Rocky); 2. Debian prides itself on its web of thrust; 3. therefore the web servers in Debian do provide enough thrust. ...or am I missing something? :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Lord of the rings? Show us. European Juggling Convention -- Svendborg, Denmark. http://ejc2003.dk

Re: Update: Patch needs Sponsor - List of easily NMUed RC bugs

2003-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
very useful. Also, Joshua's patches on some (if not most) of these bugs are a treat, too. Thanks to you both. Now for the real content: people, don't start working on a bug before you've checked http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/claims.cgi for effort duplication. I've wasted eno

Re: Alioth Project Denied

2005-08-07 Thread Roland Mas
; - integrate the config option in the debconf templates Or, in order to appease the crowds quickly: - locate place to hack; - hardcode '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in there; - rebuild packages; - install packages. Alioth.debian.org is currently undergoing the last of these steps. Roland. --

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-19 Thread Roland Mas
really do the equivalent of "cvs update -j foo-branch-last-merge -j foo-branch" without having to read commit logs, extract revision numbers from there, and use these revision numbers in the command line. Roland. -- Roland Mas The cherry blossom / Tumbles from the highest tree / One need

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-20 Thread Roland Mas
yet configurable window manager. Or an FTP server. Or a tool to tag collection of MP3 files. ...or do we? Roland. -- Roland Mas Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt! -- Bellamy & Hucklebee, in The Fantasticks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Roland Mas
Florian Weimer, 2005-08-20 20:50:12 +0200 : > * Roland Mas: > >> The Berkeley DB storage backend was an enormously stupid thing, >> but that's been fixed (phew). [...] > I'm storing hundreds of millions of rows in Berkeley DB tables and > have yet to enco

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-25 Thread Roland Mas
ead of dpatch, because I >> don't think it's obvious for everybody :) > > Yes, please do so! I would like to read that. Seconded. Also, please include the "how" as well as the "why" :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas [...] ou une dent pourrie [...] -- in Variati

Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Roland Mas
t output a patch rather than try to actually commit. And while we're at it, maybe there could be a debcheckout --update option that would update the working copy to the current state of the repository. (JoeyH, Zack -- *hint*, *hint* ;-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Sauvez les castors, imprimez en

Re: How to deal with #402010?

2008-04-04 Thread Roland Mas
that: with SetEnv (not ideal) or with RequestHeader (probably better). Roland. -- Roland Mas Et c'est tellement plus mignon de se faire traiter de con en chanson... -- in En chantant (Michel Sardou) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#402010: How to deal with #402010?

2008-04-06 Thread Roland Mas
they can do that, right? :) Erm, no, I didn't. Is that supposed to happen (by design), or is it just a bug in the PHP interpreter? It sounds like a severe security problem... Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, il y a des borgnes à ne pas dépasser. -- in Soeur Marie-Thérèse des B

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-05-16 Thread Roland Mas
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov, 2008-05-16 02:10:39 +0200 : > This can happen if user has 'default-mta' package installed, and it > changes (if it is done like with 'gcc' package now). Unless default-mta Depends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent. But that's a bit ugly. Rola

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
it piuparts has been too frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my laziness, would you consider doing continuous (or regular) runs of piuparts on the whole archive, and sending the results to the PTS (probably with a new keyword)? Roland. -- Roland Mas Just a little bit o

Re: piuparts-MBF: not using invoke-rc.d

2009-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
Holger Levsen, 2009-08-06 14:44:53 +0200 : > Hi Roland, > > On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Roland Mas wrote: >> Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been too >> frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my >> laziness, would yo

New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-20 Thread Roland Mas
ugins/scm* :-) Thanks, Roland. [1] http://bzr.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/users/lolando/fusionforge/patches/scmrefactor-4.8 [2] http://bzr.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/users/lolando/fusionforge/alioth-4.8 -- Roland Mas Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. -- in Small Gods (Terry Pratchett) -

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
currently empty (I didn't even remember how to create a repository). Roland. -- Roland Mas Neko-no me-to, onna-gokoro-to, aki-no-sora. -- Proverbe japonais (« Souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s'y fie. ») -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: New SCMs on Alioth, and a call for (one-off) help

2009-08-24 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2009-08-24 14:15:18 +0200 : > For reference, the Darcs plugin is complete (thanks to Sylvain Le > Gall), so it should be usable as a base. The Git plugin is mostly > complete, and should only be missing the parts about the repository > browser and the code to map emai

Re: Package formats and software distribution on Linux

2009-11-20 Thread Roland Mas
7;s approximately correct, then aren't these points in contradiction? I think the choice of established formats actually benefits the "smaller distros" since they can pick the one more adapted to their needs. Interesting questions nevertheless :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas [...] ou une dent

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Roland Mas
has stated that Canonical employees are encouraged to do the right thing in relation to Debian. These points cannot be swept under the carpet with handwaving or accusations of slander alone. The timing of #559206 is probably just an unfortunate coincidence, but I find it telling nevertheless. Ro

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread Roland Mas
s > type have you seen on IRC, mailing lists, Usenet? I've seen *TOO MANY*, and > that's why I drafted this DEP in the first place. > > Definitely no, I don't think this is a marginal situation not worth > doing some implementation work. (and I could help making patc

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-07 Thread Roland Mas
DPL candidates intends to work (or get people to work) on the Debian website; I suggest this page could be considered during that endeavour. Roland. -- Roland Mas With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United Stat

Re: bug closed by spam for the second times

2008-09-08 Thread Roland Mas
to OCR software... Roland, tired of the arms-race too. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est jaune, qui pèse deux cents kilos et qui chante ? Un sumotori dans sa salle de bains. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#498396: ITP: argyll -- ICC compatible color management system

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: argyll Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Graeme Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.argyllcms.com/ * License : GPLv3 Description : ICC comp

Re: Bug#504758: gforge-plugins-extra ships security issues-prone code copies

2008-11-09 Thread Roland Mas
he lenny release (real-life time constraints abound). I'm therefore soliciting advice and/or help on that problem. Roland. -- Roland Mas A lesson for you all: never fall in love during a total eclipse. -- Senex, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#504758: gforge-plugins-extra ships security issues-prone code copies

2008-11-15 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2008-11-09 14:57:52 +0100 : > The way I see it, there are three ways out: > > - prepare a new upload that doesn't contain this binary package, and > leave users with the task of getting the code from the source > package and installing it by hand; Just for r

Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-08-17 Thread Roland Mas
updated? I guess it would be useful for > the sake of deciding what to do. Maybe add a lintian/linda test? Maybe add that to Lina (http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/lina/)? Roland. -- Roland Mas Fate always wins... At least, when people stick to the rules. -- in Interesting Times (Terr

Re: Git on Alioth

2007-08-23 Thread Roland Mas
Peter Karlsson, 2007-08-23 09:50:53 +0200 : > Hi! [...] > Any pointers to the obvious documentation links I've managed to > overlook are very welcome. http://wiki.debian.org/AliothGit may be a starting point. Roland. -- Roland Mas LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.co

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Roland Mas
st trolling are entitled to vote. Others aren't. How do we know the difference? The criterion is known as the NM process. It's open to all. Roland. -- Roland Mas Death *was* hereditary. You got it from your ancestors. -- in Hogfather (Terry Pratchett) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Mas
ne box to another and be able to use it right away was precisely the goal of static linking in that case. Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes n'ont qu'un oeil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#447592: RFP: fckeditor -- text/file editor for PHP

2007-10-22 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: fckeditor Version : "recent enough" Upstream Author : Frederico Caldeira Knabben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.fckeditor.net/ * License : GPL/LGPL/MPL Description : text/file editor for PHP Nico Go

Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-11-06 Thread Roland Mas
T) in policy, then agreed on as a release goal (or fix the bugs even if they're not RC :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Indépendant en informatique libre -- Free software freelance http://www.gnurandal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Bug#566884: ITP: gnome-color-manager -- Color management integration for the Gnome desktop environment

2010-01-25 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Mas Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnome-color-manager Version : 2.29.2 Upstream Author : Richard Hughes * URL or Web page : http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/ * License : GPL-2, GFDL for the docs Description : Color

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Roland Mas
cing or complementing the md5sums with something stronger if it helps with security, but removing them altogether… please no. Roland. -- Roland Mas La menace de la baffe pèse plus lourd que la baffe elle-même. -- in Sri Raoul le petit yogi (Gaudelette) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-27 Thread Roland Mas
owser http://localhost:$some-port/";. AJAX to taste, then submit via local or remote SMTP. Roland. -- Roland Mas Plus on en fout, plus y'en a du riz. -- Proverbe chinois. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-23 Thread Roland Mas
ew service. Roland, Source^WGForge^WFusionForge maintainer since summer of 2000 and *still* not quite mad (or am I?). -- Roland Mas Bada, bada, ba-da-da-daaa, doudou, doudou, dou-dou-dou-dou-baaa. -- in Song without words #1 (Paul Leavitt) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Roland Mas
n. You can still > have an encrypted swap, you just can't use a random key. Indeed. My current setup is that sda1 is small, unencrypted and holds /boot only. sda2 is the whole rest of the hard disk, and it's mapped to a LUKS device used as a physical volume for LVM, and there are seve

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
ed before actually shutting down the host. Roland. -- Roland Mas Fate always wins... At least, when people stick to the rules. -- in Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-27 Thread Roland Mas
n sid or testing, that's all fine and dandy, and we get a rolling thing. But it's not official, and it's not supported, and it's not “safely used”. If the release team does it (possibly with you as part of it), with sufficient buy-in from the developers, then we have something

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-27 Thread Roland Mas
Raphael Hertzog, 2010-09-27 14:21:12 +0200 : > Hi, > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Roland Mas wrote: >> >> What do you base this on? It does not at all seem clear to me that >> >> rolling would not introduce maintainers who only care about rolling. >> > >>

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-27 Thread Roland Mas
Joey Hess, 2010-09-27 15:26:10 -0400 : > Roland Mas wrote: >> At least for some packages, it's hard enough ensuring a more-or-less >> pleasant experience in a stable release; trying to provide it on a >> moving target is *much* more work, especially if one must su

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-28 Thread Roland Mas
apshots rather than on rolling, but I agree with the general goals, as long as we keep in mind and advertise the difference in expected quality — or in the set of available packages. And if I may join the bikeshedding, let me suggest we rename “testing” to “staging”, and stick with “rolling” for t

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-12 Thread Roland Mas
the details. On the GUI client side, work is happening in Eclipse and probably others. Roland. -- Roland Mas Indépendant en informatique libre -- Free software freelance http://www.gnurandal.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: HOWTO: Source a common shell script between DEBIAN/config and DEBIAN/preinst

2011-01-18 Thread Roland Mas
art as a separate file in your source package and inline it in both files of the generated binary. A very ugly implementation of this is in the fusionforge source package, using an ad-hoc tool I called DSF-Helper (short for "Debian SourceForge helper" -- that's how old it is). Roland. --

Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Roland Mas
html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200307/msg00264.html Roland. -- Roland Mas Death *was* hereditary. You got it from your ancestors. -- in Hogfather (Terry Pratchett)

Bug#220468: RFA: sourceforge -- Integrated development project framework

2003-11-12 Thread Roland Mas
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I would like to deprecate sourceforge in favour of gforge. I believe gforge is ready to enter sarge (and it should have done so long ago were it not for problems in quite a lot of software depended upon). Gforge is an evolution of the free code that is sourceforge,

Re: perl 5.8.2-2 & mips buildd

2003-11-19 Thread Roland Mas
Domenico Andreoli, 2003-11-19 11:30:17 +0100 : > i see that perl 5.8.2-2 is marked "Not-For-Us" on mips buildd. > > why it is in this state? it blocks the build of a lot of software. I'm currently building it by hand. Roland. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est petit,

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Roland Mas
I'll suggest Offler (or Om), Foorgol (I don't like Fate) and, um, some other god coming out of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, preferably whose name starts with an N. Or something like that. Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day off.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2003-12-14 21:30:17 +0100 : [...] > I'll suggest Offler (or Om), Foorgol (I don't like Fate) and, um, > some other god coming out of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, > preferably whose name starts with an N. ...and then I found http://en.wikiped

Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Roland Mas
-- means "duck" in French). - Your idea here. Now is the time to debate and argue. There's no guarantee we'll pick what the crowd wants, but good names will be considered :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas A lesson for you all: never fall in love during a total eclipse. -- Senex, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
g obscure? Service names > should be easy to remember. Think "non-us" or "security" vs. "satie", "people" vs. "gluck", etc. Roland. -- Roland Mas Two elephants fell off a cliff. Boom, boom.

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Sebastian Henschel (2002-11-28 10:08:11 -0500) : >* Added an empty postinst to prevent dh_installdocs from deprecated > linking from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc. That's an ugly hack. Please use DH_COMPAT=4 instead. Roland. -- Roland Mas Food, shelter, source code.

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:37:44 -0400) : > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: >> Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:14:50 -0400) : >> > Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already, >> > why bother naming the service somet

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Colin Watson (2002-11-28 18:40:28 +) : [...] > You need Build-Depends{,-Indep}: debhelper (>= 4.1.0) for this, not > a particular setting of DH_COMPAT. Well, to be frank, I think you need both :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chic

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread Roland Mas
Colin Walters). Could we possibly hope for a merger of those two? I'd very much like to have a pool-aware mini-dinstall... Roland. -- Roland Mas Sauvez une souris, mangez votre chat.

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread Roland Mas
Matt Ryan (2003-04-21 11:03:49 +0100) : > Again, if anyone knows of another client that supports both > requirements I'll give it a go. A good mail client that works on Windows, provides IMAP and obeys standard headers? I suggest Gnus. It does all that, and more. Roland. --

Re: experimental conffile merge for dpkg

2003-04-27 Thread Roland Mas
ryone will want to spend. Maybe make it optional. Roland. -- Roland Mas 'ALL your base? No!! One tiny base continue bravely to resist.' -- in #debian-devel

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-27 Thread Roland Mas
own-good version of each part of the system, putting all that together and hoping the whole system will work is, to say the least, idealistic. Roland. -- Roland Mas Just a little bit of you every day will surely keep the doctors away. -- Just a little bit of you (The Jackson Five)

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-20 Thread Roland Mas
ot be very welcome in the USA. That's only my personal opinion though, and I'm in no way trying to turn anyone from organising a Debconf in the USA or attending it. Roland. -- Roland Mas Fate always wins... At least, when people stick to the rules. -- in Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Re: alioth.debian.org down

2003-05-21 Thread Roland Mas
t have any slave yet.", but since I can't take the appropriate actions to make these slaves happen, that won't be of much help to you. Roland. -- Roland Mas Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it. -- Regalian, in My Hero (Tom Holt)

[Roland Mas ] ITP: elite-el -- A port of the Elite game to Emacs

2001-04-25 Thread Roland Mas
6 CEST 2001 i686 --- End Message --- -- Roland Mas C c ee lm re q j l a l l iè e . -- Signatures à collectionner, série n°1, partie 3/3.

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Roland Mas
eople to switch to UTF-8, there's no need to provide them with an excuse to stay with their own charsets. Roland. -- Roland Mas Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. -- in Small Gods (Terry Pratchett)

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Roland Mas
and meta-data are not really supported in CVS; - Symlinks are not either; - Repeated merges (when you work on branches) are a PITA. These are real-life problems of CVS, not just theoretical weaknesses. One lives with it (I've been doing so for years), but one dreams of a day when they are

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Roland Mas
in Debian, instructing the user on how to go > about downloading it. Does something like this make sense? So we'd have some sort of book-get package, like the controversial porn-get (which shares the characteristics you've described)? Roland. -- Roland Mas A lesson for you all

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-04 Thread Roland Mas
hat's probably my own settings. Nope. I get it too, as I should: the message was declaring itself as encoded in ISO-8859-1, and that means the  is a  and not a â. Or, for you non-UTF-8-enabled people: that means the "international currency sign" is a "international curren

Re: Installed postgresql 7.1.3-6 (i386 all source)

2002-01-06 Thread Roland Mas
x27;m not quite sure this is what you meant there. Bug #12166 is related to fdutils, not postgresql. Just my tuppence, of course. Roland. -- Roland Mas Plus on en fout, plus y'en a du riz. -- Proverbe chinois.

Re: Refactoring the Debtags web interface

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Mas
like going further, I (with my FusionForge upstream+maintainer and Alioth hats) would be happy to provide support, guidance and testing. Roland. -- Roland Mas Food, shelter, source code. -- Cyclic Software -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Debian has switched to FusionForge (was: "Debian is switching to EGLIBC")

2009-05-07 Thread Roland Mas
o "gforge" way back then (for pretty much the same reason, even -- to go away from a name that becomes associated to proprietary software). Okay, so this is not glibc (which is about a thousand times more popular according to popcon), but it had to be said, I guess :-) Roland. --

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