The meaning of Vcs-* fields

Hi I do not maintain any official Debian package nor I'm a Debian developer but I'm interested in some of the Debian's technical points anyway. About these new Vcs-* fields in debian/control: it's not clear to me where the URLs should be pointing at. Are they meant to point to the upstream VCS

Re: The meaning of Vcs-* fields

Andreas Tille kirjoitti: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > I do maintain some unofficial packages which - of course - I can do > > anything I want with, but I also want to do things right, so I'd > > appreciate your help in this. > > May I a

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Lars Wirzenius kirjoitti: > On to, 2008-01-31 at 09:19 +0100, sean finney wrote: > > is there any reason why this issue couldn't be solved by amending > > policy (or just simply patching dpkg-source) to require that > > "debian/rules patch" (or some less commonly used name if we're > > worried abo

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

Charles Plessy kirjoitti: > Le Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:51:05PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > I'm *not* happy to need to run some target with arbitrary commands > > in the 'debian/rules' file, just to allow me to examine the source. > > A big part of the reason for unpacking the source could be t

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

In this message I'm only speaking about the orig.tar.gz+diff.gz and patches-as-separate-files approach and its possible standardization. I'm not very familiar with VCS brances approach. Most of these thoughts have already been given by different people in this thread. I just collect (some of) t

Re: Kernel 2.6.25 broke iPod support for me, but who to bug?

Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I traced the error back to a change in kernel 2.6.25: Apparently vfat > file system can now become case sensitive in some cases > ("FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, > filesystem will be case sensitive!") > - kernel: I find it unlikely that

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

Ben Finney (2008-10-21 17:37 +1100): > That's not the point being made: As I understand Manoj's point, it is > that tagging a bug ‘lenny-ignore’ is an active decision that a > particular bug, even if it represents a DFSG violation, will not be > considered in the decision to release. > > To that e

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (2008-10-28 16:07 -0200) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:01:45PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: >> Throwing out the firmware doesn't help our users, it makes things >> worse for our users. And our users are our number one priority. > > Is it not providing them the

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

Ben Finney (2008-11-09 10:54 +1100) wrote: > We don't distribute non-free *anything* in Debian. That's what our > users are promised, at any rate. Yes, this claim has been repeated many times, but as a thought-exercise let us be more concrete: who exactly are those users who have been promised? I

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

Manoj Srivastava (2008-12-17 17:02 -0600) wrote: > If there is sufficient support, we could also scrap the > current vote, change our ballot, add options to it, or something, and > restart the vote, but that would need a strong grass roots support (I > do not think the secretary has the

Re: Is The number of stable users dropping fast?

Petter Reinholdtsen (2008-12-21 14:38 +0100) wrote: > [Florian Weimer] >> This doesn't appear in the per-architecture statistics. Are you sure >> you got your numbers correct? > As you can see, the number of submissions have dropped the last month. > Not by much so far, but it used to increase ev

Bug#457839: general: Many man pages display shell quotes ` and ' wrong in Unicode environment

Package: general Severity: normal In Unix/Linux shells the Ascii apostrophe (') is used as single quotation mark. The grave accent (`) is used as command substitution mark. In many man pages these are displayed wrong because they have different meaning in groff code. In groff code the non-escaped

Bug#457839: general: Many man pages display shell quotes ` and ' wrong in Unicode environment

Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > Note that it only does this in verbatim text and in C<> blocks, so > people who use 'text' or `text' in general text in POD will still get > the Unicode quotes. I think this is the correct behavior, but I'm > always open to further suggestions. (I'm upstream for Pod::Ma

Re: Which spell checkers to include by default?

(I just subscribed to this list and tried to construct the References field manually. I Hope it won't broke threads.) Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Luca Capello] > > It seems that I cannot find a comparison of the differences spell > > checkers. Please, could you enlighten me on why hunspell shou

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

* 2010-07-22 08:11 (UTC), j. jj wrote: > To attract more people to debian, some particular features are need to > show to the world. Debian's attractiveness (or perhaps the lack of it) is probably a sum of several different things. I think one of those things is the front page

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

* 2010-07-25 12:54 (+0200), Marc Haber wrote: > stable = release > testing = current > unstable = development I like these. They describe the three distributions well and "current" might encourage more users than "testing". Advertising "constantly usable" and trendy "rolling release" would surely

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

* 2010-07-26 08:13 (+0200), Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> * 2010-07-25 12:54 (+0200), Marc Haber wrote: >>> stable = release >>> testing = current >>> unstable = development > I would not introduce "release" but just keep "stable", it describes > the distribution well. Yes, that's it: stable - curre

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

* 2010-07-23 00:27 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:54:16AM +0300, Teemu Likonen a écrit : >> Debian's attractiveness (or perhaps the lack of it) is probably a sum >> of several different things. I think one of those things is the front >> p

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

On 2009-04-29 07:46 (+0200), Adeodato Simó wrote: > + Frank Lin PIAT (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:54:07 +0200): >> If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: >> If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed to the list. > And how does one (or their MUA) know which of these is

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

* Toni Mueller [2012-06-02 13:46:19 +0200] wrote: > My suggested fix for this problem is to install a ~/tmp upon account > creation, and set the TEMP environment variable in, say, > /etc/environments. That *should* fix up all cases except for rogue > applications that don't honour $TEMP. We can th

Re: emacs23 and/or emacs24 in Wheezy?

Jean-Christophe Dubacq [2012-07-26 07:47:28 +0200] wrote: > And AucTeX does not work with emacs24. Even following some indications > in the bug reports I didn't succeed in having it work, so I > uninstalled it. Just a note that Emacs 24 has its own package manager now (M-x list-packages) and a wo

Re: network-manager as default? No!

* 2011-04-06T16:45:03+02:00 * Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Stanislav Maslovski (Sun Apr 3 > 12:37:26 2011): >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:11:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >>> But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown an optional >>> replacement, I would question Debian's capac

Re: getting rid of "testing"

27;t remember what was the name of the previous version. I think it's best to use version numbers for communication with users and to configure Debian (like sources.list). Anyway, thank you for this excellent operating system. -- /// Teemu Likonen <https://github.com/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Has anyone else perceived this email as spam?

MAD [2019-08-23T08:31:37-03] wrote: > Subject: Re: Has anyone else perceived this email as spam? It is spam. Unfortunately your message was spam too because you quoted the spam message. People's mail clients and mail servers have spam filters which are trained automatically (and manually) and it

Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives?

together with official packages, is more difficult for users. "update-alternatives" is just one command. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives?

* 2023-12-25 13:26:40+0100, ans...@43-1.org wrote: > On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 09:29 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> I hope not. For example, as a user it is nice to execute a single >> command (update-alternatives) to get a high priority alternative for >> "editor". I

Re: The "which -s" flag

should mention the "-s" flag in the usage: ?) puts "Usage: $0 [-a] args"; exit 2 ;; Like "[-as]" maybe. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. http://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Convenient access to Debian keyrings

uld seem that all other keyrings are then read-only. ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf: primary-keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx keyring /usr/share/... keyring /usr/share/... keyring /usr/share/... -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://keybase.io/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6

Laptop reboot and suspend

traveling through risky places because I want to have my data encrypted (can't use gpg separately for all valuable data). I suggest posting follow-ups to debian-user list (Cc'd) and dropping -devel. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://keybase.io/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E10

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

be > DVD#1). I wish it were a standard practice to create new netinst images with backported kernels. (Even though my actual problems were with installer's Grub stage.) -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://github.com/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature