Re: [RFS] wormux - A funny fight game on 2D maps

2006-05-18 Thread John Buttery
* On Thu 2006-May-18 16:29:14 +0300, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doing that will get you fishslapped by the release managers and people > caring about etch. ;-) Hey, _I_ care about Etch (well, about Debian in general). If I didn't, I wouldn't bother sending the email. > Serious

Re: [RFS] wormux - A funny fight game on 2D maps

2006-05-18 Thread John Buttery
* On Thu 2006-May-18 12:38:46 +0200, Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway people often like to talk with persons and not to artifacts. > There's no shame on using your name of person when posting to the > lists, you can put your nick or alias next to it enclosed in > parentheses, lik

Re: RFC/RFS: ...

2006-03-07 Thread John Buttery
* John Buttery wrote: > I fretted for a long time over whether to send this, but no, it has > to be said. As far as I'm concerned, the most offensive thing that's > been said so far is your line about how "decent" people don't use "bad > words&quo

Re: RFC/RFS: ...

2006-03-07 Thread John Buttery
* On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:33:46AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > I guess you mean libacme-brainfck-perl. > Yes. > > > I think there is no need to use such a trick, since the program's name does > > contain no offending words. > Well, l-b-p's description doesn't eith

Re: RFS: stegsnow -- whitespace steganography for text files

2006-02-20 Thread John Buttery
* On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 02:24:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Seems highly similar to snowdrop which is already packaged.. Um, they're completely different apps. This "stegsnow" app is a steganography codec (with optional encryption), whereas "snowdrop" does watermarking. -- John ! Since

Re: How to remove ITP from debian.org?

2004-09-06 Thread John Buttery
* Lawrence Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-27 12:26:21 -0230]: > Hmmm I don't worry if they're not in main. Perhaps both lsongs and > python2.3-lame would be okay in contrib? As far as I know, this sort of thing is exactly the reason why the contrib section exists in the first place... --

Re: How to remove ITP from debian.org?

2004-09-06 Thread John Buttery
* Lawrence Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-27 12:26:21 -0230]: > Hmmm I don't worry if they're not in main. Perhaps both lsongs and > python2.3-lame would be okay in contrib? As far as I know, this sort of thing is exactly the reason why the contrib section exists in the first place... --

Re: How to remove ITP from debian.org?

2004-08-26 Thread John Buttery
* Lawrence Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-26 23:26:25 -0230]: > It is pointless to leave them open, since neither package can ever be > released. Am I missing something here...couldn't these packages be in contrib if they themselves are free, even if their dependencies aren't? -- John

Re: How to remove ITP from debian.org?

2004-08-26 Thread John Buttery
* Lawrence Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-26 23:26:25 -0230]: > It is pointless to leave them open, since neither package can ever be > released. Am I missing something here...couldn't these packages be in contrib if they themselves are free, even if their dependencies aren't? -- John

*-chroot packages? [WAS: Re: looking for a sponsor for jailkit]

2004-08-24 Thread John Buttery
* Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-16 22:56:20 +0200]: > I've packaged jailkit, a collection of tools to create and maintain > chroot jails. The package is lintian clean. My pgp key is checked by > some debian developers already, so now I need a sponsor. This message reminds me of a question

*-chroot packages? [WAS: Re: looking for a sponsor for jailkit]

2004-08-24 Thread John Buttery
* Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-16 22:56:20 +0200]: > I've packaged jailkit, a collection of tools to create and maintain > chroot jails. The package is lintian clean. My pgp key is checked by > some debian developers already, so now I need a sponsor. This message reminds me of a question

Re: RFS: sigrot: rotates ~/.signature on every run

2004-06-17 Thread John Buttery
7;t be posting this since I haven't used sigrot, but just thought I'd point out that this sounds like the same job "signify" does; maybe that's the replacement you're looking for? -- John ! Buttery! Why do CS majors always confuse Christmas and Halloween? www.io.

Re: RFS: sigrot: rotates ~/.signature on every run

2004-06-16 Thread John Buttery
7;t be posting this since I haven't used sigrot, but just thought I'd point out that this sounds like the same job "signify" does; maybe that's the replacement you're looking for? -- John ! Buttery! Why do CS majors always confuse Christmas and Halloween? www.io.

Re: RFS: atanks, A scorched earth clone

2004-02-22 Thread John Buttery
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-21 14:37:54 -0800]: > It's big fun. For more info http://gaim.sourceforge.net Scorched Earth is definitely big fun, but I don't think you can send instant messages with it. :) -- John ! Buttery! There are 10 kinds of people in this world: www.io

Re: RFS: atanks, A scorched earth clone

2004-02-21 Thread John Buttery
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-21 14:37:54 -0800]: > It's big fun. For more info http://gaim.sourceforge.net Scorched Earth is definitely big fun, but I don't think you can send instant messages with it. :) -- John ! Buttery! There are 10 kinds of people in this world: www.io

Re: Looking for a sponsor: geektool

2004-02-08 Thread John Buttery
* C?dric Gehin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-04 00:16:22 +0100]: > geektool prints file's content on screen's background, in real time. It > allows > to keep any file on background, with any new line added to the file > automatically printed on screen. For exemple, you can use it to be informed

Re: Looking for a sponsor: geektool

2004-02-08 Thread John Buttery
* C?dric Gehin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-04 00:16:22 +0100]: > geektool prints file's content on screen's background, in real time. It allows > to keep any file on background, with any new line added to the file > automatically printed on screen. For exemple, you can use it to be informed >

Re: RFS: apt-best

2004-01-28 Thread John Buttery
g that might be a good complement to "popularity-contest". -- John ! Buttery! Why do CS majors always confuse Christmas and Halloween? www.io.c! Because DEC(25)=OCT(31). om/~john! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: apt-best

2004-01-27 Thread John Buttery
g that might be a good complement to "popularity-contest". -- John ! Buttery! Why do CS majors always confuse Christmas and Halloween? www.io.c! Because DEC(25)=OCT(31). om/~john! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread John Buttery
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-08 19:48:09 +0200]: > You are aware that some mirror are already on the very limit of not > having enough place on their 100Go partition for the debian archives > and were asking for near term solutions. In point of fact I was not aware of that. That's

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread John Buttery
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-08 19:48:09 +0200]: > You are aware that some mirror are already on the very limit of not > having enough place on their 100Go partition for the debian archives > and were asking for near term solutions. In point of fact I was not aware of that. That's

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread John Buttery
* Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-08 07:19:08 -0700]: > That is certainly not all that matters. If every script anyone tried > to write was included in Debian, Debian would collapse under its own > weight. How? I mean, as long as the package was maintained. Although, if you're talki

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread John Buttery
* Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-08 07:19:08 -0700]: > That is certainly not all that matters. If every script anyone tried > to write was included in Debian, Debian would collapse under its own > weight. How? I mean, as long as the package was maintained. Although, if you're talki

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread John Buttery
t; lines of code) would be worth including in Debian. Personally, my opinion on this is that anything useful enough to be worth writing is worth including. As long as someone's willing to maintain the package, that's all that matters. That goes for any distribution, or any OS for t

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-07 Thread John Buttery
t; lines of code) would be worth including in Debian. Personally, my opinion on this is that anything useful enough to be worth writing is worth including. As long as someone's willing to maintain the package, that's all that matters. That goes for any distribution, or any OS for t