On Tue, Mar 14, 2006, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Hi,
Hi!
> I am going through the expulsion process to have Sven Luther removed
> from the project.
Hahaha oh wow. You got it the wrong way, you should only do that
_after_ someone posts http://zoy.org/~sam/ftwcal.jpeg to d-d-a. Now I
have no ot
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> Mplayer comes with his friend mencoder. I doubt that koffeine, totem, xine,
> vlc have something to offer in that regard.
You seem rather mistaken. VLC has more encoding and streaming
features than mencoder. http://www.videolan.org/stream
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> If there's ever been a security update for the library, or it's likely
> that a buffer overflow or similar would have security implications, then
> I think it's definitely more than just wishlist. For example, it's a
> pain to patch all those (subtly di
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> * libpng - nightmare of the security team. Upstream developers
> seem to have recently understood some packaging issues, but with
> their erratic behavior and stupid things libpng-using
> applications do, it is likely to
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote:
>
> But now, I can stop! There will be people doing my work! And they will
> win money! They will do my translations on debian installation manual,
> on the debconf templates, they are going to close my RC bugs and other
> non important bugs.
Y
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006, Fabrice Lorrain wrote:
> Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org...
> Your version of wmaker (0.92.0-6) is newer than that in Debian! Do you
> still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]?
Just packages.debian.org that's not up to date.
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2006, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> For the faster arches, i.e. the ARM9 machines and above, I'm thinking
> that we should stick with real hardware so there's no question that the
> binaries will run properly.
Pardon me sir, but can that claim that binaries built on so-called
"real h
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> >Pardon me sir, but can that claim that binaries built on so-called
> > "real hardware" will unquestionably run (as opposed to, if I understand
> > correcly, binaries built on an emulated platform) be backed up by any
> > facts, examples, experime
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Sure, even on a single CPU -jX (X > 1) can be faster, but it depends on
> various factors, such as available memory, and other load on the
> machine. Using -j is not something that should be on by default, but it
> would be *really* nice if it were eas
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > Do you think users with small machines shouldn't be able to install
> > docs, too? It's just a one line script to gunzip all pdfs in
> > /usr/share/doc.
>
> I don't find this a good argument as it is equally a one line script
> to bzip2 all pdfs in /
ject, I merely won't
attend.
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Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-30
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* Package name: raptor
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : Jon Rafkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://raptorv2.sourceforge.net/
* License : probably GPL, see below
Description : a
Package: wnpp
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* Package name: hellcarrier
Version : 0
Upstream Author : Johan Peitz
* URL : http://hellcarrier.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL, but see below
Description : a 2D shooter in topdo
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Is this a new sport in #d-d or something like that? I read that entry
> as "the new upstream version fixes the problem reported in #193497",
> and looking at the BTS that is exactly its meaning.
The point being made is that "#193497 has be
On Sat, May 31, 2003, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > Raptor is a clone of Raptor: Call of the Shadows, a classic shoot'em-up
> > game.
>
> Calling the package Raptor, for a clone of Raptor: Call of the Shadows
> could get confusing.
True. I talked to upstream about it and he agreed to change the
n
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > # out of date on hppa: libzorpll, libzorpll-dev (from 2.0.5.2-1)
>
> Go to buildd.debian.org, read the log and find out what happened.
But the buildd didn't even try to build 2.0.26.4-1.
Attila, if I were you I'd just try to upload a new rele
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> >Attila, if I were you I'd just try to upload a new release.
>
> I wouldn't, that just means you get another 10-day delay before the
> package gets into testing.
Yup, but you missed the subliminal message in my "try lintian" hint :-)
Regards,
-
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> Yep, i took the one from the Quark 3.0 announce, which i suppose was the
> one of a previous version and should have been replaced by the one from
> the web site.
Also, you could remove the leading "an" from the short description,
as recommended by th
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Ugh. Since when does the developer's reference recommend this? The
> article most definitely belongs...
It is in 6.2.2:
Since the synopsis is a clause, rather than a
full sentence, we recommend that it neither sta
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> > Also P MMX seems meaningless to me. MMX was, I think, introduced in
> > Pentium Pro (which is still a i586 according to uname)
>
> Really? Seems wrong to me.
Indeed. MMX and PPro are orthogonal features.
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* Package name : matroska
Version : CVS
Upstream Authors : Ludovic "Blacksun" Vialle
Christian HJ Wiesner
Steve "robUx4" Lhomme
* URL : http://www.matr
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* Package name: libebml
Version : CVS
Upstream Author : Steve Lhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.matroska.org/
* License : dual GPL/QPL
Description : Extensible Binary Me
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Since the ffmpeg ITP (#157719) was closed almost one year ago, I
assume no one is interested anymore, thus this ITP. I use ffmpeg daily
and I am not satisfied with the reasons given for closing the ITP. If
anyone disagre
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Do I look in Packages.gz for Conflicts:, and then look in Description:
> for "this is the GNU version of..."?
No need for such a fastidious search. Use this instead:
apt-get install `apt-cache search gnu | sed 's/ .*//'`
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003, Julien LEMOINE wrote:
> gcc -o osd_clock osd_clock.o -L. -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lpthread -lXt
> -lXinerama -lxosd
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/s390-linux/3.3/../../../../lib/libxosd.so: undefined
> reference to `XineramaIsActive'
Did you try to put -lXinerama after -lxosd
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003, Andreas Barth wrote:
> is it usefull/ok to close old RFP/ITP-entrys? "old" means for me more
> than year since the last mail for ITP, and 2 years for RFP. Of course
> I would write mail first whether the package is still wanted
I do not think old RFPs should be closed, at
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003, martin f krafft wrote:
> ./configure: line 1: g++: command not found
> configure:21244: $? = 127
>
> This is, IMHO, a problem with autoconf, as it should really check
> for g++ first.
Uh, this is not a problem with autoconf. It is a problem with upstream
calling AC_CHEC
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003, Hans Fugal wrote:
> Description : incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis
> program
Mmmh, you really should get rid of the "incredibly powerful and
versatile" part. Every program is incredibly powerful and versatile.
How about this: (taken from your lo
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >g5 (#165500), orphaned 264 days ago
> > Description: gtk-based 5-in-a-row game
>
> Not an attractive one?
It's still gtk1 and uses O and X characters to display the pieces,
so "not attractive" is probably the correct description.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Is there a list of developer accessible machines anywhere ?
>
> A mirror of http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi would have been handy
I don't have a mirror, but http://zoy.org/~sam/machines.txt has a
list of machines I could log into and their $(ARCH)
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003, Andrea Mennucc wrote:
> we asked for someone on debian-legal to scrutinize it and say if the
> work we did is enough to let this package in Debian
The MPlayer tree contains an almost verbatim copy of libdvdcss
("statically linked for performance reasons", rotfl) and a co
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:
> For example, grep is not able to search unicode strings.
Yes it is. Are you sure you are using a unicode locale?
See for instance:
$ export LC_ALL=fr_FR
$ echo "skål" | iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf8 | grep -q "sk.l" && echo OK
$ export LC_A
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Keith Dunwoody wrote:
> >>* Package name: decss
> >
> >Like that won't be a confusing package name. ;-p
>
> If you read the website, that was the point ;)
And what is the point of confusing our users and cluttering the package/
executable namespace with a useless prog
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> >And what is the point of confusing our users and cluttering the package/
> > executable namespace with a useless program that could be replaced with
> > a sed one-liner?
>
> If it's so easy to type in, I'd have expected it in your response.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> |And what is the point of confusing our users and cluttering the package/
> | executable namespace with a useless program that could be replaced with
> | a sed one-liner?
>
> oh? what sed one-liner would that be?
That trivial one, for instan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | I expect anyone with minor common sense and minor sed/
> | awk/perl/whatever practice to understand the triviality of that program.
>
> It's not possible to parse all valid SGML using regexes, iirc.
And HTML makes it even harder since very few
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | > sed -e
> 's%\(]*rel="stylesheet"[^>]*>\|.*\|\(style\|class\|id\)="[^"]*"\)%%g'
>
> it doesn't handle
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003, Gaetan Ryckeboer wrote:
> >/var/cache/spip
> >/usr/share/spip/ecrire/upload
> >/usr/share/spip/ecrire/data
>
> All right. I understand the problem. But the directories removed by the
> postrm/purge are normaly only used :
> - by user, to upload datas related to h
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> But descriptions can be deceiving. Does anyone use this package who
> could comment on its reliability? Does the lack of other bugs indicate
> that the software is mature and stable, or unused?
I am trying barrendero but don't trust it enough yet
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > http://zoy.org/~sam/debian/barrendero_1.0-1.1.diff.gz
>
> >I haven't contacted the maintainer yet because I was working on other
> > bugs, but if he is MIA as you seem to be suggesting, I'll probably
> > upload that NMU to DELAYED quite soon
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> [per-user init scripts]
>
> (yes I realize fetchmail could be started from cron, which notably also
> has a similar per user idea)
And it also has a similar "at startup" idea, see crontab(5).
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Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-02
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: guile-db
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : C. Ray C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.pyro.net/~crayc/
* License : GPL
Description : Berkeley DB module for Guile
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It could be something like debian/track where 'track' is a list of files
> > to be tracked by this package as if they were contained within it when
> > it was built (even though they are actually downloaded during the package's
> > postinst or by anoth
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> I like your idea. But i think that i think it should be better
> to follow base-dir specification from freedesktop.org. It gives exactly
> the same kind of dirname, but in a more standardized way.
>
> Take a look at:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Just a completely uninformed question: Wasn't the -el (endian
> > little) in mipsel a pun on the "wrong" endianess? If so,
> > shouldn't it be armBE, because it's the "right" endianess?
>
> What gets you the impression there's a "wrong" endianes
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Interesting, but very specific to the caching example. There are other
> useful parts of the proposal, too: e.g. if libraries are in ~/lib then
> its easy to have $LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib work on multiple
> applications; also
> for an install
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* Package name : yasm
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* URL : http://www.tortall
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* Package name: monsterz
Version : 0.6.0
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* URL : http://sam.zoy.org/monsterz/
* License : WTFPL (BSD-like)
Description
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005, Riccardo Setti wrote:
> Cinelerra, the first Linux based real-time editing and special effects
> system is a revolutionary Open Source HD media editing system.
> It has a number of effects built into the system including
> numerous telecine effects, video special effects i
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ diff -x *.bzr* -x *pyc -x *~ -x *.o -x *.so -wru
> /org/ftp.debian.org/dak/ debian-archive-kit/ | diffstat
> [...]
> 24 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 362 deletions(-)
Do you have any idea whether there are reason
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
> PS: Almost all... as first official act, I herewith announce the
> nomination of Mark J. Ray as an honorary member of debian.ch.
> Honorary members have no rights and no obligations, but they also
> cannot quit.
Is that legal?
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2007, Ryan Murray wrote:
> wiki.debian.org has been moved to a new host with lots of available
> disk space, so updates should be fine now. For the first 90 minutes
> after the move exim wasn't running, so updates during this period
> would have failed to send notifications.
>
> I
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007, Greg Folkert wrote:
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> bugs.debian.org.186 IN A 140.211.166.43
>
> Hope this helps.
It sure did! Thanks!
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The following packages have been orphaned:
>
>s48-refman (#411423), orphaned 4 days ago
> Description: An unofficial reference manual for Scheme48
> Installations reported by Popcon: 18
>
>scheme48 (#411425), orphaned 4 days ago
>
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:26:45PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > What do people look on the following idea: not allow packages to migrate
> > from sid to testing if they have unanswered bug reports with severity >=
> > normal?
>
> Hon
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Howard Young wrote:
> I have never heard of Web2.0 before? I will go and find out what this is.
Now you are some lucky person.
You may also want to look at XSwallow:
http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/Packages/XSwallow.html
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> But it seems like you maintain only few simple packages.
Did you really just say that to Loïc Minier?
Amazed,
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> I just discovered today that some packages can store pretty huge cache
> data in my $HOME, and found that rather problematic. When I backup my
> home, I don't want to waste backup space or time to do it, because I
> have to check what eats space and te
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > I like doing bug triage as well. I guess it is because I am a neat
> > freak and anal about organization.
>
> Would you still like it if the bug count for one package would number in
> hundreds ?
It's easy to have a huge backlog. I believe a more
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:57:03PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > Indeed it accounts for some part of the problem; after I cloned and
> > replaced my /var/lib/dpkg/info tree with the copy, the figure dropped
> > from 22 seconds to 15 seconds.
>
> It's
tag 410474 +patch
thanks
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Document it in the release notes, please. It's not worth risking
> stability for the majority of users for this kind of bug.
>
> Anyway, is there any particular reason why upstream (or you) don't use
> the Intel-recommended
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007, Neil Williams wrote:
> > 2. Why a seperate -doc? API docs should be part of the -dev package.
>
> In practice, such attitudes are commonly expressed as RTSL. (Read The
> Source, Luke). That does NOT encourage upstream usage of Debian as a
> distro.
>
> Is man (3) really so
[moving to -project as I should have done with my original message]
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> >Matt Taggart proposed that dpkg developers meet in person during a
> > dpkg summit[9] to talk about future dpkg development. The meeting would
> > be sponsored at least by Debi
Hello. I recently packaged jpegtoavi for my personal use, and I am
looking for someone willing to maintain it in Debian. The package is
available at svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/unstable/jpegtoavi
(http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-multimedia/unstable/jpegtoavi/).
Additionally, I'd be ha
[Cc:ing -legal, but please try to follow-up on only one list]
I am having a chat tonight with people from the FSF. Despite the
inevitable disagreements between Debian and the FSF, I am willing to
cooperate in a constructive manner on as many topic as possible. Here
are the topics we'll be di
On Tue, May 22, 2007, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On ti, 2007-05-22 at 13:30 +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > 1. The GPLv3: the latest draft did not raise major objections from
> > -legal and despite its concerns with the strategies developed in some
> > sections, Debian does
On Wed, May 23, 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> >Because software under the GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2-only
> > software, while "GPLv2 or above" software is compatible with both.
> Could someone make a page with GPLv2-only software, I'd be curious what
> would be affected. Maybe the easiest way
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 03 juin 2007 à 10:55 +0100, Justin Emmanuel a écrit :
> > So what do you think? Is this the correct mailing list to send this
> > idea to?
>
> I'm so happy that people who send such posts to this mailing list are
> not the ones developing
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > So, an idea: what about checking "make -f /dev/null blah 2>/dev/null" first,
> > for some portability?
>
> What 'blah' are you planning to use that's guaranteed to not have broken
> side-effects in some cases on Debian packages?
How about: "blah
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:56:42PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > The way Debian works is that developers have the final word on what
> > happens in their packages.
>
> No, the way Debian works is that we have this little thing called Policy
> that
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008, Russell Coker wrote:
> The expression "broomstick in their arse" is also common in Australian
> culture. It is even sometimes used without the intent to make an accusation
> of homosexuality.
>
> However Josselin made it quite clear that he was not using the term as a
>
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Nico Golde wrote:
> > A lintian test for needs=vc programs that are not linked with svgalib
> > or directfb would be nice.
>
> Oh that is a good idea. I will file a wishlist bug.
Note that there are also framebuffer-only programs that directly use
the /dev/fbX device. At
Hello, I would like to gather comments about a proposal I have been
thinking about during the GPLv2/v3 and GPLv2/CDDL discussions. I have
finally written down what I have in mind here, and refined it with the
help of many people on IRC:
http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It overall seems reasonable to me, although it surfaces other issues that
> we've been somewhat ignoring. For example, with a format for clearly
> expressing copyrights that vary per file, it raises the question if we
> should be noting such things. Mo
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
> It's probably better to use a separate file. If there's a syntax
> error, you can't be sure if the file is in the old format, or if its a
> genuine error.
But the information must be in debian/copyright. Duplicating it is
not an option.
> Copyrig
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> A comment about file patterns. For possible future needs I would go for
> specifying clearly the semantic of file patterns, for example whether if
> the first matching pattern apply to a file (as it seems in your example
> on the wikipage) or wheth
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Adam Borowski wrote:
> What about providing a way to programmatically cathegorize licenses,
> something that would work for licenses other than different versions of GPL.
>
> I mean:
> * BSD4 (or "BSD4-like") for stuff with the advertising clause
> * BSD-like (as you used yo
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Some initial comments:
> - Even though the GPL/OpenSSL is mentioned explicitely in the rationale,
> the rest of the document doesn't mention a good way to handle it.
That has been mentioned to me several times already. I don't know yet
what the
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
> * Others have mentioned the ordering problem that puts the main license
> last. Seems that Packaging-Copyright at the top is another case of
> this problem (see you've now removed that special case name, but the
> debian/* data would still go there). "
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> 1. I *personally* hated that some packages sent a *huge* amount of
> 2. I *personally* was very annoyed by packages with very long presubj
> 3. I'm definitely opposed to a feature which will pop up a *terminal*
> 4. I was *personally* very annoyed
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* Package name: neercs
Version : 0.0 (SVN snapshot)
Upstream Author : Sam Hocevar
Jean-Yves Lamoureux
Pascal Terjan
* URL : http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs
* License
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* Package name: libdvb
Version : 0.5.0
Upstream Author : Marcus Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/index.html
* License : GPL
Description : library to tune and command DVB cards
This library
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* Package name: gtklookat
Version : 0.13.0
Upstream Author : Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.openvrml.org/
* License : GPL
Description : VRML viewer for GTK+
VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) i
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> What is 'DVB?' Some type of radio interface? It would be nice if the
> final description said something about that.
FYI, here is the final description. Thanks to all who helped.
Description: library to tune and command Digital Video Broadcasting c
My openvrml packages have been failing to build on arm [1], mips [2]
and mipsel [3] for some time. From the build logs, it looks like g++ is
eating all the memory and the OOM killer kills it.
What can I do? Ask the buildd admins to add more swap? I would be
happy to cross-compile the package
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003, Joe Drew wrote:
> > Description : VRML viewer for GTK+
>
> Short description shouldn't mention the toolkit.
I usually don't mention it, but in this case it is the only way to
differenciate from openvrml-lookat which is the plain X11 version.
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2003, Adam Majer wrote:
> >What can I do? Ask the buildd admins to add more swap? I would be
> > happy to cross-compile the packages (they don't require any arch-specific
> > bootstrapping) but I don't have enough hard drive space to build a cross-
> > compiler.
>
> Whatabout r
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I would love to do so but it happened to me that the files I created seem
> to depend from automake. I do not call any automake script - just
> the usual
>configure; make; make install
> but I had to add a build-dependency from automake accordin
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> People in general seem to get unnecessarily het up about Lintian
> warnings. They're intended as advice to be read and understood by
> humans, not as things you should be blindly counting.
Just for an example where it annoys me: I use lintian.d.o as
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* Package name: etw
Version : CVS
Upstream Author : Gabriele Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://etw.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description : arcade-style soccer game
Eat The Whistle is an arcade soccer game si
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> * Package name: etw
>
> Eat The Whistle is an arcade soccer game similar to famous Amiga titles such
> as Kick Off or Sensible Soccer. It features several game modes where you can
> play either as the whole team or as a single play
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003, Max Cohan wrote:
> The pcmcia-cs init script runs AFTER networking. If your primary network card
> is on a pcmcia card (as with a laptop) this requires you to run 'networking
> start'
> after boot.
I suggest you read /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs/FAQ.Debian.gz:
oThe PCMC
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> I'm trying to prepare a QA upload of the 3dwm source package, and close a
> few of the trivial bugs assigned to it (mainly binary package descriptions
> being shite).
Yes, they all suck pretty much. Here are my suggestions:
Package: libcelsius
D
he
codebase a bit because I (unsuccessfully yet) tracked #145424 and other
endianness bugs.
Sam.
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Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://sam.zoy.org/>
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libcaca
Version : 0.2
Upstream Author : Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/
* License : LGPL
Description : text mode graphics library
Package: libcaca-dev
S
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> * Package name: vco-plugins
> Description : Anti-aliased oscillators
>
> This plugin contains three anti-aliased oscillators, all based on the concept
> of using pre-computed band-limited Dirac pulses to construct the classical
> waveforms
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: kxl
Version : 1.1.7
Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://kxl.hn.org/kxl1xx.php
* License : LGPL
Description : a multimedia library fo
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: geki3
Version : 1.0.3
Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://kxl.hn.org/games.php
* License : GPL
Description : a horizontal shoot'em-u
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: grande
Version : 0.6
Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://kxl.hn.org/games.php
* License : GPL
Description : a vertical shoot'em-up
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: geki2
Version : 2.0.3
Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://kxl.hn.org/games.php
* License : GPL
Description : a vertical shoot'em-up
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