Bug#189461: ITP: oilwar -- Defend your country from oil-thirsty invaders

2003-04-17 Thread keegan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: oilwar Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Jarmo Hekkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.2ndpoint.fi/projektit/oilwar.html * License : GPL Description : Defend your country from oil-thirsty invaders

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
p (or "Heavy" maybe?) * KDE * GNOME * Light desktop (or "Advanced" maybe?) * openbox * fluxbox * etc. I don't know if this would be practical but I think it could be useful. HTH, -- Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://keegan.sniz.org q=&q

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Keegan
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I think /etc/mtab is on its way out. A 2.4.x kernel with devfs has a > > /proc/mounts that actually has a proper line for the root filesystem. > > Linking the two files would probably actually work on such a system > > with

Re: Bug#195236: ITP: eclipse-cdt -- C(++) Development Tools for Eclipse

2003-05-29 Thread Keegan Quinn
asily become such a case. Just a suggestion... - Keegan

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 13 June 2003 05:13 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: > Oh, what the hell. This damn song won't get out of my head, so now you > all get to be subjected to it to[1]: FWIW, the original version of this song has also been in my head for weeks. Thanks for digging up the full text :) > 1: Misery lo

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Keegan Quinn
ing that knowing the date you last updated somehow helps you find out who created the package? ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages This would give you the time your Packages files were last updated. Is this what you were looking for? Your message does not exactly make it clear. - Keegan

Re: advise for packaging duali "arabic spell checker"

2003-06-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
duali-data > > I really don't know what to do so i thought about asking here for help. The plan you outlined seems quite sensible to me. - Keegan

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread Keegan Quinn
eplies already -- sorry Adam, I'm afraid there are just too > many people that lack even the most basic sense of humour. Or perhaps not everyone thinks a threat of an RC bug is a laughing matter. - Keegan

Bug#200576: ITP: oddcast -- encodes and transmits audio to a streaming server

2003-07-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
both pieces should be usable seperately. The upstream author of this software has been contacted; I am waiting for a reply before beginning serious packaging work. - Keegan pgpc0omAKCFdJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#200579: ITP: xmms-oddcast -- XMMS plugin for broadcasting

2003-07-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
age in the end. As I understand it, both pieces should be usable seperately. The upstream author of this software has been contacted; I am waiting for a reply before beginning serious packaging work. - Keegan pgpqmByfD4Crt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#200580: ITP: xmms-null -- null output plugin for XMMS

2003-07-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
acted; I am waiting for a reply before beginning serious packaging work. - Keegan pgpfWVWl8yv9k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Keegan Quinn
y-contest data for this, and perhaps even all of the packages in your list... Of course it's not perfect, but that might give us some vague idea of how widely used these packages are. - Keegan pgpCmCoiPLlzH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#202556: ITP: apradar -- a GTK+-based graphical netstumbler

2003-07-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
ts are available at the following apt source: deb http://rune.thebasement.org/debian unstable keegan deb-src http://rune.thebasement.org/debian unstable keegan Sponsorship offers will be warmly welcomed, although I am aware of some issues related to the build process which I am working out with the autho

Re: Closing cinelerra ITP [was: cleaning of the wnpp / RFP]

2003-07-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
stead? Then at least this note will survive, in case anyone ever does have time to deal with these issues. Thanks, - Keegan pgprcR07qE6k7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

2003-07-31 Thread Keegan Quinn
27;ve had very good experiences with the CUPS in unstable, so I'd not object to this. OTOH, installing it without it being 'default' is already quite trivial. What would this change entail, exactly? Just my non-DD US$0.02. - Keegan pgpD9zk1xuo7I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#203903: ITP: mcp-plugins -- LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth

2003-08-02 Thread Keegan Quinn
these really specific to ams? LADSPA-compliant plugins can generally be used with any LADSPA host software. You might want to update your descriptions to reflect that fact. Having ams Recommend: this package should be sufficient to denote the relationship. Glad to see these getting packaged! Thanks

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-29 Thread Keegan Quinn
his drug aggravates the pain" [syn: {worsen}, {aggravate}, {exacerbate}] [ant: {better}] - Keegan pgpkdhOOQymzr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: many scripts fail if /tmp/tempfile.$$ exists -> local DOS vulnerability

2003-09-04 Thread Keegan Quinn
If you plan to submit many of them, ask here before you start. Isn't that exactly what he did, in the message you just replied to? I, for one, think it sounds like a good idea. - Keegan pgp4A7StvkRHr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-19 Thread Keegan Quinn
Guillem Jover wrote: It's one of the few native packages (if not the only one) that is still statically linking. dpkg appears to be dynamically linked on my unstable/amd64 box: kee...@keegan:~$ file /usr/bin/dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynami

Re: Bug#215058: ITP: libdvb -- library to tune and command DVB cards

2003-10-10 Thread Keegan Quinn
e of radio interface? It would be nice if the final description said something about that. - Keegan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#219277: ITP: gnusound -- Powerful sound editor

2003-11-05 Thread Keegan Quinn
d supports a large number of high-quality audio > effects through the LADSPA plugin architecture. Does GNUsound work with ALSA, OSS/Free, or something else? - Keegan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Keegan Quinn
BSD kernel, right? Why would the > Linux and Hurd kernels even be in the list? It would be nice to be able to [relatively] easily switch between kernels. I have no idea if that is possible, but it would be nice. :) - Keegan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
ynaptics Touchpad including: > ... H... In the first instance you use the capitalization "TouchPad", in the second "Touchpad". Maybe they should be consistent? - Keegan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Keegan Quinn
x", which implies that it > is the preferred kernel package. Indeed. I would be much happier to see "linux-kernel-rmh" instead of just "linux". - Keegan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2003-12-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
matter, but I've never really thought of them as such. Other summaries in this thread have pointed out their neutrality. Can you provide some references? I've no vested interest here, I just find this discussion interesting, and I like the names offered by Branden. Thanks; my apologies if this is considered OT... - Keegan

Re: Nameserver-pushing mechanism

2003-04-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
, why not use /run/resolver/resolv.conf? We're making all of these nice, clean new directories, and already kludging them up. Just a minor nit-pick. This FHS-remodeling business is serious stuff... - Keegan

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Keegan Quinn
are for their way, and you are not allowed to overwrite their actions. Now, am I missing something? - Keegan

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 21 April 2003 04:24 pm, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > > Am I missing something? > > > > Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Keegan Quinn
#x27;, the i686 border > makes sense because users who care about speed probably bought the machine > during the last two years and those should be i686 compatible. Not everyone buys brand new whiz-bang machines. I do not think we should create arbitrary boundaries - this thread began with a boundary that was enforced by code, not just a perception of which machines are newer or faster or more readily available. - Keegan

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Keegan Quinn
new code into their own systems. In other words, if you have serious (non-Debian) work to do on an unstable machine that is functioning properly, don't upgrade - doing this is like asking, "are there any new bugs I can work on?" If you don't really want to work on those bugs right then, wait! - Keegan

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-13 Thread Keegan Quinn
if you see it. Although I won't deny this happens, purging completely unused packages is generally a good idea, unless you want your system building up a nice history of everything it has ever been used for. - Keegan

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 07:31 pm, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:21:33AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > On Monday 12 May 2003 04:40 pm, Brian May wrote: > > > Also, just blindly purging packages can be dangerous, in some cases old > > > packages wil

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:05 am, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:36:57 -0700, Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> The only solution I think is if dpkg were to take over > >> responsibility for deleting configuration files, so that the postrm

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
has a place and actually making it happen are very different things. There seems to be a lot of the former, and little of the latter - perhaps because unstable actually works just fine for the majority of people actually working on it? Just a guess, from my limited perspective. - Keegan

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
security updates, testing becomes completely pointless, as I see it. - Keegan

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
Most likely this breakage would occur on most architectures, if they were checked. (This should be / is in a FAQ somewhere?) - Keegan

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
er install the > minimum sets of pkgs to provide the services. Please do not try to force this methodology upon the standard Debian base system. Administrators of embedded systems have many tools to deal with these problems already, that do not require ever unpacking the full base onto the target. - Keegan

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less > > > than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal > > > insta

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 12:13 pm, Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less > > > > than 100Mb flash an