such
that it doesn't require that library. However, that's a decision for
the aptitude team to make, since I have no idea how heavily it relies
on that package, or what portions of the program depend on that
library.
I'd be glad to donate some of my time if the aptitude team wanted it th
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This service looks excellent! Definitely spread the word about it, and
thanks for providing such a service.
PS I posted it on the linux Redd
].d/, to improve single user mode and increase concurrency
>> during boot.
> mhh,.. ok... I see :)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
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>> presentation at all, who makes the idea of debian clear: save costs through
>> the work of a community , development will be guaranteed in the future, use
>> of real standards, more power for less money, no license problems an
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5, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 19:32, Will wrote:
>> Additionally, an HTTP interface to reportbug would be a good idea.
>
> are you (and all the others asking for this) willing to help developing one?
>
>> Many
6, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:32:49 -0400, Will wrote:
>>Additionally, an HTTP interface to reportbug would be a good idea.
>>Many new users find it difficult or unnecessary to set up an MTA when
>>they first install, so allowing to
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 17:12, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > We need to discuss this point and find a technical way of solving the
> > first.
>
> erotic.debian.org
It seems to me this is the sensible solution. When we could not export crypto
from the US for legal reasons we created non-US. Now I
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 11:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Well, guess what? I live in the American South, and I'd like to
> give away disks to young geeks and wannabees without having to
> worry about whether his/her parents or teacher would wig out.
Subjective.
Legal issues are one thing, subjectiv
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:35, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Right. We should not have games like quake, doom, or
> nethack,. since they promoite murder and mayhem and eating of
> corpses.
So far so sarcastic. IMO if it can be demonstrated that distributing something
is illegal we should think a
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> There are a number of locations where gambling is illegal, as
> are all games of chance.
That's "gambling" as in "wagering a stake on a game of cards" not gambling as
in "playing cards".
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 22:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> These nebulous authorities also frown upon various other
> things, depending on your jurisdiction -- games of chance, the
> bible, games promoting violence, texts promoting freedom ..
>
> Descending to the lowest common denominator shal
n.
No. We are talking about "distributing" hot-babe. Debian never has and
probably never will distribute "teh Intarnet". We cannot stop people doing
anything with Debian that is within license terms once it is installed, but
we can be held responsible for what we distribute.
&
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:35, Neil McGovern wrote:
> Ok, Yes, if push comes to shove, I'll be happy to stand trial for the
> inclusion of hot-babe in main.
I can't see how that choice is yours to make.
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 09:27, David Weinehall wrote:
> > So far so sarcastic. IMO if it can be demonstrated that distributing
> > something is illegal we should think about not distributing it.
>
> And, as demonstrated elsewhere in the thread, whoops goes
> bible-kjv-text.
I know of no country w
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 04:43, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > No, that doesn't work. There's some base level of stuff that's so
> > unlawful we don't include it because it would cut off far too much of
> > the userbase (or cause them to commit illegal act
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 00:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > It seems to me this is the sensible solution. When we could not
> > export crypto from the US for legal reasons we created non-US. Now I
> > think it is as significant an issue to distribute items such as
> > hot-babe.
>
> Cool, we legiti
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:48, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Who gets to decide for each case? Usually it is the person who
> does the work who makes the decision -- the packager, in this
> case. The only way to override that is call in the tech ctte -- but
> this is not a technical issue. Yup, a
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:50, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > No. We are talking about "distributing" hot-babe. Debian never has
> > and probably never will distribute "teh Intarnet". We cannot stop
> > people doing anything with Debian that is within license
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 20:48, Adam Majer wrote:
> China would *appear* to be one,
>
> http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/28/china.bibles/
> http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=28012002-054849-9679r
If you follow the links you'll find they refer to a man charged with
involvement
On Friday 03 Dec 2004 09:49, Joerg Wendland wrote:
> Will Newton, on 2004-12-02, 19:57, you wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:35, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > > Ok, Yes, if push comes to shove, I'll be happy to stand trial for the
> > > inclusion of hot-babe in ma
On Friday 03 Dec 2004 00:11, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Umm, the linux kernel, the purity tests, and the offensive
> fortunes are not G rated, so can't be given to minors without
> parental consent. I guess that makes it illegal in the united
> states.
You can't distribute text with the word "
On Monday 06 Dec 2004 06:54, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Stupidly enough, you have committed the idiotic mistake of
> assuming that everyone holds to your premises, that firstly,
> tolerating intolerance is somehow a good thing -- why should it be is
> beyond me.
Oh, this is about intolerance i
On Monday 06 Dec 2004 10:01, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> The difference being that editing is a choice made by the person doing
> the work, while censorship is a choice made by an otherwise unrelated
> person in the same organisation.
>
> Editing would be if the maintainer decided to remove the
> pac
ran or Saudi Arabia have? I can not and will not learn all the laws
> of every country on Earth, and the project can not survive if we have
> to meet all of them. This whole thread is a waste of space looking for
> a problem. If there is a demonstrable law being broken by a cartoon,
> then
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 20:26, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > I don't think this holds. Censoring is editing for ideological
> > reasons, which is a subset of editing. It has nothing to do with who
> > does it. A censor is a third party, and editor is a third party, at
> > least in literary terms.
>
>
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 15:13, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It is. if we want people in Arabia to be able to possess Debian
> > disks.
>
> The solution to censorious regimes is not to say, "well, ok, we'll
> censor ourselves so you don't even have to bother
that this is going to be something more and more people
will have to deal with in the years to come.
Do you see why it seems like Debian is more of a political talking shop that a
team trying to develop an operating system?
I don't want to start a flame war and I will probably not
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 16:07, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Have you taken a look at what hot-babe actually looks like? I suspect
> you haven't. I don't think it will "offend" anyone.
I have looked at it. And I don't think it is an acceptable thing to ship as
part
n't going to want to support more firmware versions than they
> have to.
4. Even if they are free to open the firmware, they will likely not be able to
supply the tools with which to build it. You're back in contrib.
It is also worth noting that some devices that have large compl
s partially responsible for insanely
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On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 12:56, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> > > It's all encumbered with patents. Encoders *and* decoders.
> >
> > Encoders only, not decoders. Decoders for anything probably cannot be
> > patented.
>
> Really? AFAIR every producent of mobile mp3 player had to pay patent
> gr
re all going wrong.
[1] You will have to know how MPEG-2 decoding is performed to argue this
point.
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 14:01, John Hasler wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > And a hell of a lot of work. You can't just create checksums of the
> > resulting binaries and compare those; it's not as if any difference
> > between the two compiled binaries would constitute an error...
>
> The i
On Monday 07 March 2005 23:38, Ben Hill wrote:
> Are there any UK meetings / keysignings for Debian Developers (and
> others :-) )?
Try the debian-uk list:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-uk
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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:59, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> My main gripe with the proposal, as it currently stands, is that it
> provides a solution for problems that haven't been discussed in detail,
> without much space for improvements.
I agree. I think there is a spectrum of measures that could
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:16, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> ... and probably not for (that is, not unless you tell me otherwise):
> > HPGL
> > HTML
> > HTTPS
Traditionally I think these would use "an". Even if you pronounce "h" as
"haich" rather than "aich" as another poster pointed out, many wor
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:05, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Device driver development for embedded systems? There are embedded
> > systems, including x86-based, that run kernels which fail to compile with
> > gcc >= 3.x.
>
> In that case you likely need as well an older binutils version, which
>
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I request an adopter for the freetype package.
Due to a new job I haven't had any time to work on FreeType in the last
few months. As such I would like someone to adopt it. A team would
probably be best, there's lots of difficult issues with this package
and it requ
On Monday 20 February 2006 06:40, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The project could also include the maintenance of font-related tools,
> such as fontforge or defoma (which seems mostly abandoned, but
> probably requires solid knowledge or Perl and cryptic
> programming...:-)).
As several people have
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manual "rmmod" or by autoclean.
I'm running kernel 2.0.29, home-configured-and-compiled but that's
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packages.
.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256).
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y hamm, so I need one of those two versions, as they're the only
ones available in hamm.
I'm using a SoundBlaster 16pnp with a fully-pnp bios, and I've never had
any trouble before, even though I don't use isapnptools.
config
file for my kernel compiles, and I've determined that the problem was
caused by setting "Configure Additional Low-Level Drivers" in the sound
config menu.
Unselected it, and now everything's fine again.
On 17 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> > download them is closing the barn door after the horses have eaten the
> > chickens.
Horses are vegetarians anyway.
how do I do it?
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On 26 Dec 1997, Marco Budde wrote:
> JH> Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current
> JH> x11 elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will
>
> Great, but then we need a new non-german section :). You're not allowe
'll have to upgrade to unstable, but that's really not a
problem if you follow the libc5-tolibc6-mini-howto, and "unstable" has
been just as reliable as "stable" for me since June.
t to go around su:ing all my day.
Really, except for setting up the system and maintaining things, you
shouldn't have to be root all the time, except to shutdown the system...
ackage file itself (other than in the description and COPYRIGHT)
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* through some sort of dpkg flag -- is in 'dpkg --non-duetch file.deb
hatever. Make a backup copy of the passwd file 'fore you
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> On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt
> > we also just set the 0
> > to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ?
> There is really no advanta
ng it, in case we need to retract
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On Tuesday 25 Jan 2005 14:59, Ron Johnson wrote:
> You have the option to *not* install them on your machine. John
> Ashcroft is not holding a gun to your head making you install it.
>
> I want to have more options than just to do or do not install
> dosage. What's wrong with that?
1. File a wi
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 17:21, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> BUt according to Christoph Hellwig, the ext3 which is the default is
> used without directory indexing, which returns you to O(n).
You have yet to present any numbers which show there is a problem here.
Can we please discuss real world
three times, to follow the symlinks.
>
> This is a real inefficiency.
That is a possibility, it does sound sub-optimal. However, if you optimise
before measuring there is no guarantee things will get any faster.
Is reading the directory taking an appreciable amount of time compared to say,
doing
by François-Denis Gonthier.
> > > 5. wings3d -- Awesome 3-D modelling software (written
> > > in Erlang)
> > > 6. libsdl-erlang -- SDL binding for Erlang.
I will take these if no-one else is interested.
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:06, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
> El Martes 31 Mayo 2005 19:41, Mark Edgington escribió:
> > Pardon me if this has already been discussed, but I wonder if there
> > should be a tag in debian packages indicating the a minimum proficiency
> > level that a user should hav
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:55, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > This would be rather arbitrary and probably be liable to cause
> > disagreements.
>
> Not much more so than with the priorities for the alternatives system.
>
> I find this quite an interesting idea, really.
Alternatives are down a fairly na
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 20:07, Rich Walker wrote:
> Even within these categories there is some need for finer grain.
>
> For example, groupware clients are mostly "easy, end-user, corporate"
> groupware servers are mostly "impossible, sysadmin, corporate, server"
If you are installing a groupware
On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:40, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > If Debian treated our upstreams this way, I'd be suprised if we ever got
> > any patches accepted upstream.
>
> Debian does, in fact, treat most of its upstreams precisely this way.
> Debian publishes a large portion of its changes primaril
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 20:16, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > Would you please contribute your suggestions (either improve bits at that
> > page or somewhere else) of how to improve things. Thanks.
>
> What makes you think I have any?
A lack of familiarity with your posts?
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This package hasn't had a maintainer upload in 12 months. It is currently at
version 2.1.7 whilst upstream is in the process of releasing 2.1.10. These
new releases include some quite critical bugfixes and visual improvements.
Is this package being actively maintained? I volunteer to help out w
On Friday 10 June 2005 05:59, Steve Langasek wrote:
> We're leaning towards possibly keeping udeb-generating packages frozen
> during etch still because they require manual intervention for syncing
> udebs into testing; this means separating the source packages that create
> udebs (which as a clas
On Friday 10 June 2005 15:27, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm in the process of adopting a package (freetype2) that builds a udeb.
> > Would updating this package now require manual intervention from the
> > release team?
>
> Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team
> approv
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 23:09, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > I would be very thankful for links to aprorpiate search-and-replace
> > expressions or compatibility functions. Once I was searching for
> > this kind of stuff I failed.
>
> I don't have any links I'm afraid. I only learnt GTK+ 2.0, and never
icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM [#227077]
> > * Orphaned 520 days ago
> > * Package orphaned > 360 days ago.
>
> I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next
> week (via Anibal).
These two also use pygtk 1.2 which is rather o
On Friday 17 June 2005 13:40, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > It's only compilable in its current state with g++-2.95 (regarding
> > compilers in Debian stable). There is a single error when compiling with
> > g++-3.4 which I am unable to fix (as I don't know the STL at all).
>
> Thanks for investigating
On Friday 17 June 2005 12:10, Sam Watkins wrote:
> some of these packages are useful and interesting, and I feel they
> should not be removed from unstable at least. perhaps they could be
> moved to a different section which is not necessarily stabilized for
> release.
http://archive.debian.org/
On Friday 17 June 2005 17:08, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> The Mozilla Foundation explicitely gave us that right (or at least they
> are ready to give us this right because they trust us). Of course the
> right is revocable ... but that doesn't matter. When they decide to stop
> granting us this right
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 21:27, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Hi.
>
> As many of you might remember, back in 2003 Matthew Wilcox created
> an overview page for the last g++ transition from 2.95 to 3.2/3.3.
> You can still find it at
> http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/ (but the log file
>
least 1997, so nobody
better start lecturing me about release cycles. (even if I'm a
slacker who's mostly disappeared). :)
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Oh, and ... archive.debian.org doesn't seem to be rsync-enabled. Is
there anyplace that has woody and *does* support rsync?
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:48:13PM -0800, Will Lowe wrote:
> It looks like Woody has moved to the archives:
>
> http://archive.debian.org/dists/woody/
>
admins can do
what they think they're doing when they use "remove".
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I dont believe that this is a problem with Mozilla itself, because the binary
tarball of
M14 works fine with M13 prefrences. Its only after you install the deb that
this go crazy.
Has anyone else used both the deb and the binary version of M14 and had similar
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> - When apt runs to upgrade packages, it will call a new program (which
> I plan to write) in the same way that it calls
> dpkg-preconfigure. TNP would scan the list of upgraded packages,
I've had the same thought, but not enough time to begin such a project.
I wonder if
ept the dpkg N
answer), send email about what you did". With BIG WARNINGS about how much
stuff might break if you enabled it.
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> >I just put it in /var/secure-bind.
>
> I tend to put play chroots under my home directory, and chroots for
> production daemons under /var/chroot.
>
> A pity that the FHS doesn't comment on that.
How about /var/lib/bind/chroot?
> This will probably clash with a non-chrooted bind on the same machine.
> I don't like it.
Hmm, why would you have both?
Is there any place where someone could advertise jobs that would be suitable
for Debian developers?
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 08:18, Niall Young wrote:
> How about a postrm::downgrade hook to reverse any changes made in the
> new version's preinst::upgrade so that when the old version's
> preinst::upgrade is applied you're not left with a potential mix of
> configuration?
It would be cool if:
On Thursday 14 July 2005 17:14, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> The current recommendation I'm trying to give is:
>
> Package: libXXX-dev
> Conflicts: libXXX-dev
> Provides: libXXX-dev
>
>
> Thus, it won't contradict with your requirement to
> be able to just build-depend on libXXX-dev.
I may be wron
ode to the DB-
>open() stuff in libdb4*-dev?
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Will Daniels
* Package name: liboauth-ruby
Version : 0.3.6
Upstream Author : Pelle Braendgaard
* URL : http://oauth.rubyforge.org
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Ruby
Description : The OAuth Ruby Library
This
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 05:47, Greg Stark wrote:
> to list the available revisions then explicitly
>
> apt-get install libc6:2.3.2-8
>
> Actually this wouldn't really have helped my friend at all because he was
> unlucky enough that the *first* version of libc6 from unstable that he saw
> happened
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 19:54, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> We refuse to accept it blindly because it's wrong. There have been
> cases when architecture-specific optimisations have made programs run
> slower (recently the instruction ordering for that via i686 chip
> comes to mind); GCC gets it wrong fr
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