Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Wouter van Heyst
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:03:04PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > * it's not ftp-master's business to judge on _technical_ merits of the >pacakge (bad packaging practices, missing dependencies, ignores >/chapter and verse/ of policy, ...), so we can safely rule that one >out I ha

Re: ITP: open.tool -- User guide for GNUMail

2005-11-28 Thread Wouter van Heyst
gree the description needs to be improved, good luck coming up with something descriptive though. Wouter van Heyst

Re: init.d script dependencies for etch?

2005-04-01 Thread Wouter van Heyst
ntoo-Way looks better than this. What is the Gentoo-Way? Wouter van Heyst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Wouter van Heyst
kward situation for installation, and The awkwad situation would be that d-i is part of Debian, and non-free isn't, so anything in non-free can not be part of the installer? But having a (non-free) firmware section with components of that in the installer is ok? Wouter van Heyst -- To UNS

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-07 Thread Wouter van Heyst
my curiosity again, could you point me some precise > examples? Gcc compiling not so correct C++ code. Wouter van Heyst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian concordance

2005-06-17 Thread Wouter van Heyst
e to give Debian a chance to fix its > release cycle problems and, better yet, to try to help fix them, > rather than simply saying "Debian is too slow/unpredictable for us"? Pardon me, but wouldn't hoary and sarge be (roughly) compatible, and breezy with etch (hoping on a slightl

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Wouter van Heyst
e program's branding depend on argv[0]. Do trademarks only apply to binaries, or to source also? A running firefox will prominently display the trademarked bits in question, but hey, the source being open for viewing is important here. Wouter van Heyst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: intent to hijack python-paramiko

2006-07-17 Thread Wouter van Heyst
; > end of this week, we will take over the package as it's blocking bzr > > He was moving cross-country in May, so I suggest you NMU for now. Would NMUing a new upstream be ok in this instance then? Wouter van Heyst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-08-20 Thread Wouter van Heyst
be useful (and I agree with not trying to become upstream, unless the OP is part of such a project already) Wouter van Heyst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#325371: ITP: binfmtc -- a binfmt_misc hook for running C programs as scripts

2005-08-28 Thread Wouter van Heyst
TCC does C scripting, but it's nowhere near as complete as GCC and while > it runs much faster, the resulting code is not optimized at all and runs > very slowly. Are you sure? http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ claims it produces optimized x86 code, which could be a problem on other arch

Re: To Linux or not to Linux

2005-09-02 Thread Wouter van Heyst
would cross my mind initially. Do people interpret the phrase negatively otherwise? Wouter van Heyst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]