Re: broken packages?

2007-01-24 Thread Bruce Sass
(small) bug in aptitude? > > * Why is my package considered "broken"? All dependencies are > correct. Should it explicitly conflict with exim4? (I think this is > pointless since postfix already does.) Try "dselect", it gives you a more detailed view of conflicts and the packages around them. - Bruce

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
c ln: creating symbolic link `ip_unix.c' to `ip6_unix.c': File exists make[5]: *** [onceenv] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alpine-0.8/imap/c-client' - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
e two packages should be able to coexist, if possible, at least until alpine stops being an "alpha" product. So, maybe hold off on replacing "pine" for now. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
d shipping "pico" stuff. There may be a role where nano provides an Alternative to pico. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No response to RFS -- what to do now?

2006-11-05 Thread Bruce Sass
hat the package will never be a part of Debian? > > [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/10/msg00207.html "never" to probably too strong; you may only need to wait until an app which uses libvrb enters Debian or an app in Debian starts using it. - Bruce

Re: RFS: lopster (updated package) [sponsored]

2006-09-03 Thread Bruce Sass
to have something to do with /usr/share/menu/cdd-menu from cdd-common and perhaps menu-xdg, not sure what the problem is though. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: tstat

2006-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue August 22 2006 15:47, Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 8/23/06, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon August 21 2006 17:37, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Last week-end I was told by a DD that the 4-clause BSD licence > > > was non-free... Do you ha

Re: RFS: tstat

2006-08-22 Thread Bruce Sass
nk to render it ineffective.. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

contrib

2006-06-08 Thread Bruce Sass
rib and non-free are the mechanisms Debian uses to make such code available in spite of those handicaps. Note: the ideology at play here is not one of separation, but rather one of inclusion. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-20 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:32:42PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:47:44AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Since bzr (and other arch derivates) have the benefit of NEVER for

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-20 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:47:44AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Since bzr (and other arch derivates) have the benefit of NEVER forgeting > which changesets are in a tree, I prefer them over any other distributed > system. If anyone knows of other distributed system that saw the ligh

multiple dh_make runs

2005-09-30 Thread Bruce Sass
more than barely keep up with what going on; and generally, still too big and scary a project for me - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, skaller wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:22 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: <...> Can dpkg/apt/etc. be tweaked to automatically Provides: no-* ? Two methods, one is not tenable: (a) X conflicts with no-X implicitly no-X doesn't really "conflicts"

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Bruce Sass
udev (>= 0.060-1)". > > An elegant solution ;-) > > > I guess this would behave as expected, but I think that having one more > > package only for this would be quite insane! > > Especially because others would pick up the idea... Can dpkg/apt/etc. be tweaked to a

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-15 Thread Bruce Sass
short term, I'm glad the precedent which would be set by discarding a name/path with a long and useful history is seen as worthy of argument. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new upstream Cogito conflicts with GNU Interactive Tools

2005-06-02 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:24:47PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: Isn't this simply a case of,`too bad cogito guys, that filename is already taken.' I suppose other things being equal it'd make sense to give the older package priority.

Re: new upstream Cogito conflicts with GNU Interactive Tools

2005-06-02 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:24:47PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > Isn't this simply a case of,`too bad cogito guys, that filename is > already taken.' I suppose other things being equal it'd make sense to give the older package priority. Though git (the new one) seems som

Re: new upstream Cogito conflicts with GNU Interactive Tools

2005-06-02 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:05:53PM -0500, Michael Janssen wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jun 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Why not just take the git developers at their word, and assume that the > > intersection between users of git and of GNU Interactive Tools is likely > >

Re: new upstream Cogito conflicts with GNU Interactive Tools

2005-06-02 Thread Bruce Sass
y are wrong. MC is a toy, GIT is useful, imo. Should I just make my cogito package Conflict with the GNU Interactive Tools git package? Isn't this simply a case of,`too bad cogito guys, that filename is already taken.' - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: new upstream Cogito conflicts with GNU Interactive Tools

2005-06-02 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:51:12PM -0500, Michael Janssen wrote: > > Le Jeudi 02 Juin 2005 21:25, Sebastian Kuzminsky a écrit : > > > Should I just make my cogito package Conflict with the GNU Interactive > > > Tools git package? ... > My suggestion is to rename the binary in the cogito package to

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.03.0122 +0200]: I would go with a) because it is more likely to result in consistency between systems and across time; although b), with its bit more work for the admin, would be more satisfyi

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-02 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Sven Mueller wrote: Bruce Sass wrote on 02/04/2005 01:02: Ya, ok, it is still a significant amount of work, but it would be Debian's work and not that of the upstream authors. Now, what does make more sense? a) Investing a huge amount of time and thought into cleanly man

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-01 Thread Bruce Sass
- any desired user friendliness (graphs, charts, stats, etc.) could be added via optional plugins. Ya, ok, it is still a significant amount of work, but it would be Debian's work and not that of the upstream authors. - Bruce [1] universal, i.e., a feature of Debian rather than a feature

Re: searching sponsor for nfsv4-related packages

2004-10-23 Thread J. Bruce Fields
maining packaging needed won't be a lot of work, and I'll be excited to work on it with whoever is interested! --Bruce Fields

Re: searching sponsor for nfsv4-related packages

2004-10-23 Thread J. Bruce Fields
maining packaging needed won't be a lot of work, and I'll be excited to work on it with whoever is interested! --Bruce Fields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

searching sponsor for nfsv4-related packages

2004-10-22 Thread J. Bruce Fields
I'm one of the developers on the Linux NFSv4 project, and am starting to think about getting some of our userland support into Debian. See, for example, libnfsidmap, available from http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ Anyone interested? --Bruce Fields

searching sponsor for nfsv4-related packages

2004-10-22 Thread J. Bruce Fields
I'm one of the developers on the Linux NFSv4 project, and am starting to think about getting some of our userland support into Debian. See, for example, libnfsidmap, available from http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ Anyone interested? --Bruce Fields -- To UNSUBS

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2004-03-08 Thread Bruce Kroeze

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I need help getting started....

2000-08-15 Thread Bruce Korb
r", but I guess I am too impatient to wait more than a day. :-} ) Cheers, Bruce

I need help getting started....

2000-08-15 Thread Bruce Korb
;mentor", but I guess I am too impatient to wait more than a day. :-} ) Cheers, Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I *really* get my GPGP key?

2000-05-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, The instructions on: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/developers-reference\ /ch-new-maintainer.html was too confusing. Especially since I am behind firewalls and running OSR5, not Linux let alone Debian. I forwarded on my request for maintainership for my AutoGen package, san

Re: [boot-floppies] `mke2fs' and new Linux 2.2 ext2 features ?

2000-01-30 Thread Bruce Sass
ld be compelled" to upgrade old systems? Does this upgrade require user intervention? - if not then maybe do it in the background, over time? - Bruce -- On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Sun, 30 January 2000 14:03:33 +1100, Brian May wrote: > > >>>>>

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-09 Thread bruce
the source at all. I suspect the dupload processor wants to see the .diff and .tar.gz files. If necessary, you can upload the .diff to master and build the package there, so that you don't have this hassle with your modem. Thanks Bruce