Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
should be spelled out in the GR, in the latter I think it is unnecessary since everyone actively involved in the postings in question have already been asked and it's more of a "speak up now or remain forever silent". Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
ffect bugs against foo. I am unsure whether comma notation is allowed (so katie could generate "package bar,wnpp" at the beginning of bug closing emails). Simon --- Begin Message --- Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > package test Ignoring bugs not assigned to: test

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Richter
does not. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Richter
exactly that (there is an inter-proxy protocol); it will take a bit to configure it to let .deb files live longer than other files (since they don't change), but should not be too hard). The only thing it doesn't do is load balancing the DSL lines. Simon signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Richter
o the extent Debian has is related to the "single-user with sudo" approach they have taken, but this is not a solution. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-19 Thread Simon Richter
as a way to grant limited privileges to users, while in fact they are meant as a way to remove privileges from system services that do not need them. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Your Confirmation Required

2005-12-27 Thread Simon Richter
that someone has been abusing their service and that it may be in their interest to implement something so that it can be detected who did it. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Simon Huggins
s/betas tested by the majority of users? Do people think that this is the sort of thing that should just be uploaded to unstable and allowed to flow into testing? Simon. -- -+// &q

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:11:55AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Is there any better way I can get snapshots/betas tested by the > > majority of users? Do people think that this is the sort of thing > >

Re:

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Richter
use we're in the #1 spot. You can find a summary of instructions at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#346216: ITP: ussp-push -- OBEX PUSH file transfer program

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ussp-push Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi * URL : http://www.xmailserver.org/ussp-push.html * License

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-09 Thread Simon Huggins
ed fine. What did we miss? -- Simon Huggins \ If at first you don't succeed, you'll get lots of advice. \ http://www.earth.li/~huggie/htag.pl 0.0.22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Any volunteers for ploticus in Debian?

2006-01-09 Thread Simon Huggins
s required tools > not in debian to build, and it has tons of references to features that > could not be put in the debian version -- either due to patent issues or > depending on removed libraries. Go on, you know you want to. Simon. -- UK based domain, email and web

Bug#348775: general: terminal emulators' alternatives settings' priorities annoy users

2006-01-18 Thread Simon Richter
nism to select them...NOT!). This message shall serve as a starting point for discussion. Please CC the bug in replies. Simon - -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental') Architecture: powe

Re: Bug#348775: general: terminal emulators' alternatives settings' priorities annoy users

2006-01-20 Thread Simon Richter
o get that done. I had somehow expected that the bug report and any followups are forwarded to -devel to spark discussion, so I'm explicitly forwarding it there. Simon, would this help with the problem you mentionned? Not entirely, since it isn't limited to browsers or termina

Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Richter
es that are strictly for build-indep / binary-indep only to be moved to Build-Depends-Indep. This will break building those packages with older dpkg-buildpackage unless care is taken to also install B-D-I, so I'd have no problem at all to postpone this step until after the etch release. Questions? Comments? Seconds? Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Simon Richter
here. Thus, only the FSF may build the binutils package. I'd be very surprised if that were to meet your definition of free software. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Simon Richter
hus the simple majority suffices, or it could be argued that it failed supermajority, hence modifies a foundation document, hence requires supermajority. And it *will* be argued, no doubt. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?

2006-02-23 Thread Simon Richter
chown and chmod to work and be persistent enough to remain in effect until the target exits. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: debian zeroconf group?

2006-02-24 Thread Simon Richter
ion) as well as on a enable/disable level, where I could tell my laptop to not talk to the weirdos hanging out in the airport lounge. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-14 Thread Simon Richter
is located in the US AFAIK, not the ftpmasters. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Debian / GNU Linux logo?

1997-12-01 Thread Simon Kagedal
Hi! Just a little note on the chosen new logo: It says "Debian / GNU Linux". Isn't the project called "Debian GNU/Linux"? Just wondering... Otherwise, the logo is very nice. -- Simon Kågedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Homepage: http://www.sdf.se/~simon/ -- TO UNSUBS

Re: How to show $arch releaseability

2005-03-22 Thread Simon Richter
ages could be autobuilt. That sounds more like a case of too-loose build-dependencies to me rather than architecture specific problems. This can also hit i386, the fact that it hit ARM this time is sheer coincidence. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Firmware handling in Debian

2005-04-02 Thread Simon Huggins
ime when necessary? (think installing via a USB ADSL modem like a speedtouch) Simon. -- "There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!" -- Comic Book Guy, The Simpsons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTBFS for illegal archs

2005-04-18 Thread Simon Richter
'd say. Not quite unlikely. In fact ACPI support for the Pegasos is on my todo list. :-) Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[OT] Power Management (Re: FTBFS for illegal archs)

2005-04-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Not quite unlikely. In fact ACPI support for the Pegasos is on my todo list. :-) >Umm, why? Because it is the only way you can shut down PM capable PCI cards. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FTBFS for illegal archs

2005-04-18 Thread Simon Richter
to do with power management of individual devices. ACPI also handles individual devices. You can put individual devices into one of three sleep levels and get them back, at least in theory. This may help a lot with graphics boards, as some have the super-secret init sequence as AML in their SSDT

Bug#310194: ITP: schism -- Impulse Tracker clone

2005-05-22 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: schism Version : 0.2a Upstream Author : chisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rigelseven.com/schism/ * License : GPL Description : Impulse Tracker c

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > maybe we should rename sound into multimedia and populate it with video > players too ? Seconded. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

2005-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Torsten Landschoff schrieb: > Suggestions how to fix that for real before getting sarge out of the > door with this risk that I don't feel I can estimate? Build a dumy libldap.so.2 with the same SONAME that consists of a NEEDED entry for libldap_r.so.2 only. Simon si

Dear Adrian Bunk, Please hold off a week or two

2005-05-30 Thread Simon Huggins
Adrian, I've noticed lately that almost every post you send is about the release; Pointing out problems with some feature or other of it or with the actions of the hard working people who are trying to get sarge out the door. Do you think you could manage to leave your critisms til next week when

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

2005-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
in another lib, maybe DT_FILTER might help. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#311289: ITP: asedrive3e -- PC/SC driver for Athena smartcard readers (serial/USB)

2005-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asedrive3e Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Athena Smartcard Solutions * URL : http://www.athena-scs.com * License : BSDish Description : PC/SC driver for

Bug#311371: ITP: elektra -- A framework to store configuration atoms hierarchically

2005-05-31 Thread Simon Law
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2005-05-31 Severity: wishlist * Package name: elektra Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Avi Alkalay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://elektra.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Description : A framework to store configurat

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-06-01 Thread Simon Huggins
ml [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg00010.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/04/msg00023.html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/04/msg3.html -- Simon [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] *\ "You heard of Kung Fu? Well get

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Huggins
hat arch. Though I say all this having never looked at the source. -- Simon Huggins \ "I have this terrible pain in all the diodes down my \ left side." - Marvin http://www.earth.li/~huggie/htag.pl 0.0.22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Huggins
lately where people have finally crawled out of the woodwork to say please let such and such a package in. Has anyone stepped forwards to do release management of etch? What are their ideas of what's achievable? Simon. -- Black Cat Networks-("Her na

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:22:15PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:18:28PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I think having a target date, even a target month for release, would > > help everyone and reduce the posts to -release lately where people > >

Re: Bits from the dpkg maintainer

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Huggins
or just seeing what's going to happen? Do you know if Ubuntu going to support the new format during etch's testing phase (say 18 months for argument's sake)? Simon. -- * "They were trying to manipulate behaviour. Alter people's * | decision making - what to buy, who

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Huggins
irefox then they have to rename it. I see no problem here. Debian has proved it only wants to do nice, fluffy things to firefox, Gervase is being accomodating as far as I can tell. Why do you want to make Debian the distribution that users moan about shipping iceweasel when there is no reason not t

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:07:16PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Simon Huggins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:16:18AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Like others in this thread I disagree

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:03:52AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Simon Huggins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:07:16PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Indeed the most pragmatic thing to do is to keep the name. But you > > > don't fee

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Huggins
sion that downstreams could call the packages firefox as they had been blessed with official Debian penguin pee as long as they didn't then change them and it was only when they were modified that they potentially had to go to the Mozilla Foundation for a license. Did I get the wrong end

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Richter
#260720] > * Orphaned 327 days ago I cannot find this one on powerpc. > moria -- A roguelike game with an infinite dungeon [#274472] > * Orphaned 255 days ago I think that would be a shame. As I don't play it myself, I might not be the best choice for a maintainer, but I&#

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
hrough a smarthost that you authenticate to on the outbound way as well (this will have the added benefit of not clogging up your connection if you need to send an email to multiple people). Simon [1] Numbers pulled entirely from where the sun don't shine, and based on me reading 48h worth o

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
ld not allow you to send amounts of mail that greylisting would adversely affect you. :-) Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
has been pretty reliable (and in fact, your IP is not listed there). Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
something like 8 hours > (they seem to be better ATM). > Using my own server I would at least _know_ what was happening to my > mails. Yes, that is a valid reason, although being able to check manually sort of implies that you don't have a lot of traffic. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Richter
will depend on icewmpc)? I might be horribly wrong with this, but I dimly remember that in the case that the dummy package depends on a package that conflicts and provides the dummy, apt will not upgrade with "upgrade" and switch over to the new package on "dist-upgrade". S

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-27 Thread Simon Huggins
t rename > your package based on some personal differences with the mozilla > trademark policy. He's not intending to rename it or accept the trademark agreement if you read the original post AFAIK. Simon. -- oOoOourpmi, rpm, dpkg, apt... connais pas tout ca oOoOo oOoOo moi... mo

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Huggins
Salut Gervase! On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:46:55PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote: > >That's unfair. I would have summarised more as "there's no problem > >doing so as long as Mozilla are reasonable in Debian's eyes". I don't >

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-28 Thread Simon Richter
nly that within a group, you cannot even point at somebody and say they are responsible for anything. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-01 Thread Simon Richter
as to why subversion beats them > all, in your perception. It is centralized, so you have an authoritative source and need not talk to the other team members to synchronize. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-09 Thread Simon Richter
ore rapidly, getting bugs >found and fixed faster. this is particularly relevant for d-i, >and has been for years now. I'm not sure it scales that well if you apply it to the entire archive, due to the overhead of the mirror pulse. It might make sense to have "mini-pulses" for parts of the archive, such as d-i. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: WTF ? (Fwd: Your message to Yaird-devel awaits moderator approval)

2006-08-13 Thread Simon Huggins
t;Everybody, everybody's dead, everybody's dead )-- --( Dave." - Holly )-- Simon ( ) Nomis Htag.pl 0.0.22 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#385127: ITP: amideco -- Decompress flashfiles equipped with an AMI BIOS

2006-08-29 Thread Simon Richter
oo... > Comments, suggestions? Keep them separated. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-09-06 Thread Simon Richter
ploads to experimental from that branch of packaging. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bug #390664 inspired me to look in source packages for IETF RFC/I-D's > too, and the situation seem to be more problematic. I've put a list > of packages in testing (as of a few days ago, my mirror is slow) that > appear

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments > > A useful thing to add to that page would be simple instructions on how > those authoring IETF documents could make them available under a > DFSG-

Re: Bug#393411: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Simon Josefsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061016 13:19]: >> I went over many packages looking for names of likely non-free files, >> and there may be false positives. If this is the case for your >> package, I'm sorry for t

Re: Mass-filing RC bugs about IETF RFC license based on file name

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Simon Josefsson] >> Do you have suggestions to improve the situation? > > I would suspect manual inspection of each file, and only file bugs for > the files with real license problems. Using the file name to guess &g

Re: Mass-filing RC bugs about IETF RFC license based on file name

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
e copyright file gives a 404: <http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/subversion.html>. Probably a temporary problem... /Simon [1] Old e-mail: From: RFC Editor Subject: Re: Copyright and copying conditions for RFC 1510? To: Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: RFC Editor Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002

Re: Bug#393411: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Simon, > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:48:50PM +0200, Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > * Simon Josefsson ([EMAIL PROTE

Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
red using the same filename. The diff output for all of them suggests that these are real IETF documents, though. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#393411: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The second problem seems to be generic. The reason I looked at >> packages in testing was that they are the packages that are going to >> be released, and if I

Re: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
display publicly any such derivative works, in any form and in all languages, and to authorize others to do so. Perhaps talking to ISOC about this would help. So there can be more than 79 false positives... I don't yet see any way for that to hold. /Simon --

Re: DebConf6 DVDs available

2006-10-23 Thread Simon Richter
ng a torrent for the NTSC version on my tracker, please contact me. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mirror pulses now twice a day

2006-11-28 Thread Simon Paillard
rs/2006/11/threads.html#2 The up to date script is available at http://www.debian.org/mirrors/anonftpsync > and then notify all mirror admins to also update their scripts? Sure, updating anonftpsync was only the first step, the second one will come soon. Regards, -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: process timeslice

2006-04-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Robbie schrieb: I'm trying to determine if their is an API that allows the user program to change the scheduler timeslice. Is there any? Changing the slices doesn't make much of a difference -- I'd just give the process with special needs some realtime privilege.

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-19 Thread Simon Huggins
sing that existing projects that send to a project mailing list should change and send to the PTS and if so can you put forward some reasons? I'm just curious really. -- Simon [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] *\ "Peace and understanding through \** ** ]-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-[ **\bru

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:49:58AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > > > to the

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:46:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I'll go look at adding the PTS to pkg-xfce now anyway. > Thanks! Except as discussed on IRC in #alioth it sends to the first package affected if many packages are

Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
there a better way to handle this? What severity should I use? Some additional filtering should probably be done, some earlier RFC are (I believe) in the public domain. Thanks, Simon usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation/Developer/rfc1459.txt [84]libs/gnu usr/share/doc

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
libs/libsasl2 mail/fml mail/messagewall net/atftpd net/bidentd net/dhcp3-common net/freeradius net/heimdal-docs net/ircd-irc2 net/ircd-ircu net/openswan net/stunnel net/zenirc text/xml2rfc web/araneida web/cl-aserve web/phpgroupware-calendar The complete file list below. /Simon usr/lib/GNUstep/S

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Simon Josefsson: > >> text/xml2rfc > > From the debian/copyright file: > > | The software is released under the following license. Note that the > | output produced by xml2rfc may include more restrictive copyrigh

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 28 April 2006 13:34, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> The following packages appear to contain IETF RFCs/drafts, and I'll >> file bug reports for them: > > As per good mass filing practices, can you create a linda/linti

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
he GPL, such as the revised BSD license. >> Seconds, since when do we consider the GPL to be viral? > > Don't know about you, but the FSF does - it has created the LGPL because > of this. That doesn't mean libraries shouldn't be licensed under the GPL, see <

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:

Re: mdadm 2.4.1-1 ready for tests

2006-05-17 Thread Simon Huggins
they might well be fixed by this version I thought consensus was to try to describe what it was about this release that fixes these bugs. -- --( "And what have they ever given us in return?")-- --( "The aqueduct?"

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Simon Huggins
the first place. I'd be happy (as one of the xfce guys) for everyone to use the same priority to be honest. -- Simon [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] *\ "Emergency! Emergency! There's an \** ** ]-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-[ **\

Re: Packages violating policy 8.2

2006-05-19 Thread Simon Huggins
ust pushing this out to libfoo-bin:i386 contains /usr/bin/foo and likewise libfoo-bin:amd64 and getting the conflict there. How do you resolve that? Simon -- ... "You still here Basil?" - Sybil "No, I went a couple of minutes ago, dear, but I expect I'll be back soon

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
uot; the binary packages, and binaryless source packages are AFAIK handled by rene (archive cleanup tool). Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, * NTP server (some work required; currently, not-really-maintained by the Debian NTP Team, which consists of zero active members) I'll take it. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
ckage to the archive that *can never be installed*? Hm, that used to be a "magic" combination that would let dpkg do the right thing. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Richter
l I'd like to have a co-maintainer for the package. Anyone else interested? I'd create an SVN repository on my server or alioth. I have no problem with co-maintenance, but I'd have a problem with svn. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-09 Thread Simon Kelley
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Simon Kelley dnsmasq 2.31-1 Looks pretty trivial, it will fixed in the next upstream/upload. Cheers, Simon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#376588: ITP: cryptomount -- a utility for accessing encrypted filesystems

2006-07-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Joe Smith schrieb: X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org AIUI, there is no need to CC debian-devel with ITP's, as debian-devel normally gets them anyway. Not quite. X-Debbugs-Cc: is how debian-devel gets a copy of ITPs. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Recent sid amd64 rpath oddity?

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Huggins
r any clues as to how on earth this can happen. If you do want to relibtoolize then install xfce4-dev-ools and run xdt-autogen in the package dirrectory. Thanks. Simon. heh, good sigmonster. -- oOoOo Open source is about letting go of complete control. Accept oOoOo oOoOo the fact that othe

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-26 Thread Simon Richter
g Recommends for that. The definition for Recommends used to be "you may not install these, but you should have a reason for it", which is exactly the foo/foo-data case. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Simon Richter
lpers that have unexpected side effects when your deployment deviates from the norm. > Unfortunatly I think you just aren't smart enough to read > the writing on the wall that there is a reason Ubuntu has been for a > while now such a more popular distro then us. Yes, it's called "marketing". Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: (Bug #286255) ssmtp does not work authenticated

2005-01-15 Thread Simon Richter
, however it gets the authentication data from the sending user's home directory and is more likely to be suited for laptop installations only. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-16 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:57:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:26:35PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > There are currently 11 orphaned xfce4-* packages in unstable, including > three that have just been rem

Re: Bug#290799: ITP: libspandsp -- Library which provides DSP functions for VoIP.

2005-01-17 Thread Simon Richter
so Bug #262032. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-18 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:22:14AM +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > * [ 17-01-05 - 01:50 ] Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There were some packages that made it to mentors.debian.net - and there > > is still some work up there. > > http://mentors.de

Bug#291553: ITP: gnome-blosxom -- Gnome Bloxsom is a GUI based program to post entries to a Blosxom based weblog.

2005-01-21 Thread Simon Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnome-blosxom Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Chris Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gnome-blosxom.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Gnome Bloxsom is a GUI based program to post entries

Re:bag of worms...

1995-12-06 Thread Simon shapiro
much, the above was a twisted-humor way to say that in my humble opinion, encrypt-only is OK, and, in the US, DES is OK and if you are a big computer copmpany with a powerful loby in DC, you can do what you please. Simon P.S. Yea, Teleport.com is still silly and my senmail is still crazy

Re: backup software in /bin or /usr/bin ?

1995-12-06 Thread Simon shapiro
If my memory serves me; /sbin was originally for statically linked executables which are indeed needed for system restoration (while shlibs are none). This IS where emergency stuff should be. Check UnixWare, /bin is symlinked to /usr/bin, I think... Simon P.S. Yea, Teleport.com is still

Re: Bug#1962: kernel needs sbpcd.h editing in some cases

1995-12-07 Thread Simon shapiro
for help or patience. I'll get to it some day. Really. Simon P.S. Yea, Teleport.com is still silly and my senmail is still crazy, Please ignore the below address and flame [EMAIL PROTECTED] He receives and answers mail :-) Simon Shapiro

Bug#1969: w3-el recommends things that don't exist

1995-12-07 Thread Simon shapiro
What happened to netpbm. I just picked a copy from GNU. Why isn't pbmplus free? Thanx, Simon P.S. Yea, Teleport.com is still silly and my senmail is still crazy, Please ignore the below address and flame [EMAIL PROTECTED] He receives and answers mail :-) Simon Sh

Re: symlink in /usr/include (fwd)

1995-12-11 Thread Simon shapiro
/usr/src/Kernels/1.x.yy. When i get a new kernel (say 1.3.46), all I do is (cd /usr/src/Kernels/`.3.46/linux; rm /usr/src/linux; ln -s `pwd` /usr/src/linux). All this NOT as root (as would be needed in the case of tinkering with /usr/include). Of course I may be wrong, but Simon P.S

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