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

2003-12-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 01:44, Joel Baker wrote: > Appropriate? As much as any of the Valar would be; he's certainly on the > list. But since we know of at least 4 active ports, one name isn't going to > be enough... I would hope whatever name chosen is pronounceable, spellable, reasonably short

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

2003-12-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 17:21, Joel Baker wrote: > Point #4: For at least the one proposed name ('Nienna'), it is, in fact, > representable (properly) in US/ASCII. Even the rest are all representable > in a clearly identifiable degenerate form (that is, no worse than many > Europeans already have t

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-07 Thread Will Lowe
the stable version -- but I'd argue that the resulting binary is not much like the original "stable" one. -- thanks, Will

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-07 Thread Will Lowe
ebase, it's hard to make any valuable claims about the resulting product if the "backport" changes more than a few lines of code. -- thanks, Will

Re: why do we care about configuration files?

2003-04-22 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 18 April 2003 16:15, Colin Walters wrote: > Perhaps I've been overly strong with the rhetoric. Let me give two > realistic scenarios where this "manage foo with debconf?" fails. Also the scenario: 3) Guy who has to install lots of boxes that aren't desktops I have to arrange for the i

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-24 Thread Will Lowe
> if you leave at least one symlink in at least one runlevel, even if > its a K link in runlevel 0 or 6 update-rc.d will refuse to add any new > links. policy requires the use of update-rc.d so packages can't add > any links so long as you leave at least one. if you find a pa

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-26 Thread Will Lowe
> That's a good hack, but I still think update-rc.d should support it > directly. I was surprised to see portmap restarted after an ugrade when > I'd previously done "update-rc.d -f remove portmap". That was my feeling, that most users would probably wonder why it was started again.

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Will Lowe
probably safe to say that running Debian without an MTA is "unsupported". Will

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Will Lowe
lhost only, or not listen on Sure, don't run the daemon at all. When you install exim, "rm /etc/init.d/rc?.d/S*exim" and it won't start. Local processes will be able to send mail via the /usr/sbin/sendmail link, and there's a cronjob in /etc/cron.d/exim that'll try to cl

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Will Lowe
an.org/~lowe/aptwatcher) and each box will mail you when you need to do something to it. -- thanks, Will

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread Will Lowe
thanks, Will

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 1:24 pm, Anthony Towns wrote: > velocity werken.xpathantlr These are all pretty much bug free (antlr has a couple of wishlist bugs) but a jikes bug is keeping them out of testing. Does anyone who knows jikes have any idea if this can be fixed soon, or is it a bi

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 3:42 pm, Will Newton wrote: > > ilisp > ilisp is in fact fixed, it's just the bug has not been closed yet due to a typo in the changelog. I'll email the maintainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

ilisp debian package

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
(I have CCd to debian-devel in case you are on holiday or otherwise indisposed to close these) ilisp is being removed from woody because of a bug that is fixed but not closed. According to your changelog the following bugs are fixed, but are not closed: 125744 140049 138669 137011 98132 12885

Request for NMU: sidplay-base

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
Quite simple fixes: - Fixes build on hppa and quite possibly others. - Bump version number to replace older packages correctly. (RC bug) - Fix a minor bug in the description. Packages and diff are here: http://www.misconception.org.uk/will/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 4:16 pm, Will Newton wrote: I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct procedure for getting these bugs closed? The changelog looks like this: ilisp (5.11.1-7) unstable; urgency=low * well 125744 was fixed, but I put the files in the

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Will Newton
On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 2:44 pm, Josip Rodin wrote: > Since you're not a maintainer, you shouldn't close them. However, you can > tag them "fixed", by sending 'tag fixed' commands to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, if Craig hasn't done it by the end of today I

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Will Newton
On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 3:20 pm, David Starner wrote: > Why? Considering how close to the release we are, and how easy it is, > why not do it now? It certainly won't interfer with the maintainer > closing them. OK, done. I just don't want to step on anyone's toes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Request for NMU: sidplay-base

2002-04-08 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 7:35 pm, Will Newton wrote: > Quite simple fixes: > > - Fixes build on hppa and quite possibly others. > - Bump version number to replace older packages correctly. (RC bug) > - Fix a minor bug in the description. > > Packages and di

Re: please upgrade libxslt package to 1.0.15

2002-04-10 Thread Will Newton
ive. Now it should be possible to package newer versions, but beware that libxml2 currently has an RC bug so libxslt will be blocked until that is fixed. I'm not sure if Nicholas reads this list, I had no success contacting him previously. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Apr 2002 4:04 am, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: > Well, it seems that you almost need 4.2.0 for Woody anyway, if it is > going to work with any recent hardware (unless you are aiming for > servers only). Or are you going to hack 4.2.0 display drivers into 4.1.0? As it happens 4.2.0 seems

Keysigning at Linaro Connect US (Burlingame, 15 - 19th September 2014)

2014-09-01 Thread Will Newton
Hi all, Due to the recent changes in keyring policy I need to get some signatures on my 4096bit key. I'm going to be attending Linaro Connect next month where I hope there should be a few DDs who I can either track down individually in the hallways or if anyone else is in the same situation as me

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-25 Thread Will Daniels
Ts'o wrote: So what? If you write to a normal file system, it goes into the page cache, which is pretty much the same as writing into tmpfs. In both cases if you have swap configured, the data will get pushed to disk; That's not at all the same, the page cache is more temporary, it's

Content marketing infographic

2014-05-07 Thread Will M.
? Would you be interested in publishing it on your site? I’ll share your post across our social media accounts and promote it free of charge; it will be substantial. Best, Will -- Will Moyer Blogpros.com Content creation and blog management

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-04-04 Thread Will Set
Goswin von Brederlow Sun, April 3, 2011 5:17:06 PM > Philipp Kern writes: > >> On 2011-04-03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> OTOH, do you really want to type >>> "apt-get install package-with-policy-compliant-utterly-long-silly-name"? >>> There's a point when package name lengths become problemati

HELP: hosed /etc

1998-06-17 Thread Will Lowe
disk and then addusering for a while) to get dpkg to reinstall _just_ the /etc/ files from each of the packages listed as installed? Then, is there some way to get it to run all the postinst scripts?

Hamm install disks -- where are they?

1998-06-18 Thread Will Lowe
subject says it all... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe

libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread Will Lowe
I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all complaining that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it be? There's no libungif package, according to www.debian.org/packages.html. thanks,

Re: libungif?

1998-06-20 Thread Will Lowe
not. Thanks for your help. I'm assuming that "libungif" is some sort of freeware clone of "libgif"? Will --

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Will Lowe
trouble for that one), Debian Wall Trees? Oak, Maple ... How long is debian going to be around? There are literally millions of species of insect ...

Intent to Package: FSViewer

1999-05-24 Thread Will Lowe
FSViewer is a NeXT filesystem browser. It's available from someplace under http://www.csn.ul.ie/~clernong/ (I'd give an exact link but I don't seem to be able to connect to that host right now...)

what's our stance on the opencontent license?

1999-05-25 Thread Will Lowe
http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml Did we already have a discussion about this? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#886927: ITP: tlog -- Terminal I/O recording and playback package.

2018-01-11 Thread Will Rouesnel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Will Rouesnel * Package name: tlog Version : 3 Upstream Author : Nikolai Kondrashov * URL : http://scribery.github.io/tlog/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Terminal I/O recording and playback

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