Re: "what it's like" to be old debian maintainer

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Finney
tly trying to make | `\you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” —Ralph | _o__) Waldo Emerson | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: +dfsg extension meaning and reference docs ?

2010-03-24 Thread Ben Finney
all very good in practice, but how does it work in | `\ *theory*?” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: +dfsg extension meaning and reference docs ?

2010-03-24 Thread Ben Finney
ian operating system.) -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Well, I think | `\so, Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: RFS: rush

2010-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
ual | `\property] is almost assuring a customer that you are not going | _o__) to do any innovation in the future.” —Gary Barnett | Ben Finney pgp2P0hubtPtV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: rush

2010-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
he house for mocking me because I'm gay.” | _o__) —postsecret.com, 2010-01-19 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbliao3h@benfinney.id.au

Re: About package with potential legal risk

2010-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
ments and do the work of making better images if needed. -- \ “Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if | `\ they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that | _o__) explain nothing are not welcome.” —Victor J. Stenger, 2001-11-05 | Ben Finney pgpkqy4r

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-11 Thread Ben Finney
ntainers by helping them with packages that are already in Debian. -- \“We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't | `\believe in tolerance and free speech.” —David Brin | _o__) | Ben Finney pgpAuJjxTxYQe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
of those packages. -- \ “Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It | `\indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.” | _o__) —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mento

Re: question about debian/watch

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
http://sf.net/radiotray/radiotray-(.+)\.tar\.gz -- \ “That's all very good in practice, but how does it work in | `\ *theory*?” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney --

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > I'm not sure what “coordinating via notes at the top of > > debian/changelog” means. Bear in mind that the changelog is > > primarily for communicating package changes *to users* of those > > packages. >

Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

2010-06-14 Thread Ben Finney
things bigger and more complex… | `\It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in | _o__)the opposite direction.” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Asking for DMUA: Yes while seeking first sponsor

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Finney
—Albert Einstein | Ben Finney pgpZ6YaYnIWAq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: notorious-women

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Finney
—Ovid (43 BCE–18 CE) | _o__) | Ben Finney pgp1jlOIRndFT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help me find a project to join!

2010-07-20 Thread Ben Finney
and good fortune to you in scratching your itches! -- \ “True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to | `\ others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you | _o__) want.” —Larry Wall | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: How to change the version of a package

2010-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
aniel Dennett, 2010-01-12 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Re: Helping out during Freeze

2010-08-25 Thread Ben Finney
ort. Rinse and repeat from the top. -- \ “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without | `\ having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it | _o__) too?” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney pgpYTyhZ2houY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Helping out during Freeze

2010-08-26 Thread Ben Finney
make that clear. None of my advice was intended as a limit on how to help. -- \ “He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.” | `\ —Maurits Cornelis Escher | _o__) | B

Re: RFS: compactheader

2010-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
fish.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: RFS: compactheader (updated package)

2010-09-03 Thread Ben Finney
cases where one can refer to an existing license text elsewhere are strictly delimited. -- \“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it | `\ correct, not tried it.” —Donald Knuth, 1977-03-29 | _o__)

Re: ITH! webalizer

2010-09-11 Thread Ben Finney
theirs, its. I'm, you're, he's, | `\ she's, we're, they're, it's.” —anonymous, alt.sysadmin.recovery | _o__) | Ben Finney pgptXtFy7H6un.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Four days

2010-10-03 Thread Ben Finney
er, via Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y6aeztfr@benfinney.id.au

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Finney
on this planet is not to worship God — but to | `\ create Him.” —Arthur C. Clarke, 1972 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Finney
Asheesh Laroia writes: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > > > So when we identify a point of pain, I think it's essential to ask: > > is this pain necessary to the learning process for this person? > > Ben, I'm not sure what you're saying. It s

Re: Four days

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Finney
ld be sought much more commonly before the RFS is sent; I think this forum is already good for that purpose. How do you propose encouraging that behaviour, though? -- \ “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, | `\ neat, and wrong.” —Hen

Separate verbs, separate hats: mentor and sponsor (was: Four days)

2010-10-10 Thread Ben Finney
great price, and whosoever procures | `\it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and | _o__) happy purchase.” —J. Balguy | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
trary to its design. -- \“The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. | `\ It's absolutely not.” —Bill Gates, 1995-10-23 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-m

Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Richard Hector writes: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:50 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Richard Hector writes: > > > The packages in question are web sites; we find that's the easiest > > > way to deploy them. > > > > You might simply be using Debian'

Re: RFS: jsl - JavaScript program checker

2010-10-24 Thread Ben Finney
contradict and confute, nor to believe and take | `\ for granted … but to weigh and consider.” —Francis Bacon | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-10-29 Thread Ben Finney
d to education.” —Alvin | _o__)Toffler, _Future Shock_, 1970 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739ron1zv@benfinney.id.au

Re: Open RFS lacking (further) response

2010-10-29 Thread Ben Finney
Noel David Torres Taño writes: > On Viernes 29 Octubre 2010 22:05:40 Ben Finney escribió: > > Noel David Torres Taño writes: > > > That person creates the Debian package (as he creates packages for > > > other distros) and puts it here. It is a good package of a good

Removing duplicated library code (was: RFS: hotot)

2010-11-02 Thread Ben Finney
- \ “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the | `\ occurrence of the improbable.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: mediadownloader

2010-11-03 Thread Ben Finney
`\ not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog | _o__)and a man.” —Mark Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

English localisation help for Debian package maintainers (was: RFS: dalle)

2010-11-03 Thread Ben Finney
of your Debian packaging work. -- \ “The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a | `\ question, but to post the wrong information.” —Aahz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Sponsors and ‘UNRELEASED’ suite

2010-11-05 Thread Ben Finney
Jonathan Wiltshire writes: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Stefano Rivera writes: > > > First, we don't tag releases until they are uploaded. You can > > > leave the changelog entry as UNRELEASED, and the sponsor will

Re: A question about svn-buildpackage

2010-12-13 Thread Ben Finney
t doesn't exist. -- \ “… whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to | `\ his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.” —Robert G. | _o__) Ingersoll, _The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child_, 1877 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: installing an end user editable file

2011-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
nly | `\incidentally for machines to execute.” —Abelson & Sussman, | _o__) _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkpygmvh@benfinney.id.au

Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
, or can we now expect package managers to figure it out from the metadata? -- \ “[Entrenched media corporations will] maintain the status quo, | `\ or die trying. Either is better than actually WORKING for a | _o__) living.” —ringsnake.livejournal.com, 2007-11-

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Finney
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > > at http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> it is asserted > > “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to replace > > the old with the new one”. […] > > In ot

Re: parse error in changelog

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Finney
lbert, 2006-04-29 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbbx85bo@benfinney.id.au

Re: upstream source contains .gif files

2011-03-24 Thread Ben Finney
rm * halt LART LART LART!” —The Swedish BOFH, | _o__)alt.sysadmin.recovery | Ben Finney pgpV9hH5Z1LEp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: upstream source contains .gif files

2011-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Holger Levsen writes: > On Freitag, 25. März 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > > What I thought you were referring to was that the images were a > > binary form and the “preferred form for making modifications” wasn't > > included, hence making the source package non-free. Is

Re: upstream source contains .gif files

2011-03-27 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Elliott writes: > On Friday, March 25, 2011 01:43:59 am Ben Finney wrote: > > What I thought you were referring to was that the images were a > > binary form and the “preferred form for making modifications” wasn't > > included, hence making the source package

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Finney
onnaire | `\Philosophique_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4fhpnlw@benfinney.id.au

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Finney
_) the strong probability that yours is a fake.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ei5pp3qw@benfinney.id.au

Re: docs are generated on all build machines

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Finney
on all the buildd architectures). -- \ “What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy | `\ river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.” —Jack | _o__) Handey | Ben Finney -- To UNSUB

Re: docs are generated on all build machines

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Finney
egin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then | `\ I thought ‘Why should I? He never reads any of mine.’” —Spike | _o__) Milligan | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: sshfs could use a version bump.

2011-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
ity. -- \“Room service? Send up a larger room.” —Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-r

Re: Package consisting of a single data file.

2011-04-30 Thread Ben Finney
one starts out being an atheist.” —Andy Rooney, _Boston | _o__)Globe_ 1982-05-30 | Ben Finney pgpUYo1WXHvoA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-10 Thread Ben Finney
expected.” —Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Ed., 1972-06-12 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Fix FSF address in copyright notices?

2011-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
7;t dare ever see your life as | _o__) boring, monotonous or joyless.” —Richard Dawkins, 2010-03-10 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hb91k6d5@benfinney.id.au

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
five.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4drh4jx@benfinney.id.au

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
Nikolaus Rath writes: > Hmm, but you snipped away step #4: making changes to the debian/* > tree. How do I incorporate that into the workflow? You just, um, do it? I don't know why that would be different. > >> 6. Copy debian back into repo > > > Ben Finney wri

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
Nikolaus Rath writes: > > Ben Finney writes: > >> These two steps are what ‘${VCS}-buildpackage’ does. You don't have > >> to have the build artefacts cluttering up your working tree; it > >> does its work elsewhere. > > So if I'm using -buil

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
Nikolaus Rath writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > So I don't see why you think ‘debian/’ needs to keep being copied > > around under this model. I never do that manually. > > I believe that dquilt needs the current upstream source *and* the > debian/ directory in the

Re: RFS: undo-closed-tabs-button

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
t menu, and the “History → Recently closed tabs” menu item. -- \ “The process by which banks create money is so simple that the | `\ mind is repelled.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _Money: Whence It | _o__) Came, Where It Went_, 1975 | Ben Finney --

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-07 Thread Ben Finney
“The best in us does not require the worst in us: Our love of | `\ other human beings does not need to be nurtured by delusion.” | _o__) —Sam Harris, at _Beyond Belief 2006_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Incorporating patches best practice

2011-07-10 Thread Ben Finney
h makes Debian's work easier, see http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide> and especially http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#Releases_and_Versions>. -- \ “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, | `\ when you looked at it in the right way, did not becom

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-07-23 Thread Ben Finney
ository. -- \“Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for | `\ peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: what kind of | _o__)peace?” —Noam Chomsky, 1984-05-14 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

Debhelper doesn't know the ‘build-stamp’ target, but Lintian recommends it

2011-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
ts and evidence.” —John Adams, 1770-12-04 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4b5qzz9@benfinney.id.au

Re: Debhelper doesn't know the ‘build-stamp’ target, but Lintian recommends it

2011-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
Kilian Krause writes: > Hi Ben, > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Lintian recommends (via tag ‘debian-rules-missing-recommended-target’): > > > > = > > N: Note that the following form is recommended however: > > N: &

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
erally, what a very large part of our brain has | _o__) evolved to do.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
ring what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but three round meals a day wouldn't be as hard to | _o__) swallow.” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
hat rare story of which you happen to have first-hand | _o__) knowledge.” —Erwin Knoll | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Debhelper doesn't know the ‘build-stamp’ target, but Lintian recommends it

2011-07-27 Thread Ben Finney
Roger Leigh writes: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:23:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Kilian Krause writes: > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > Lintian recomm

Re: Debhelper doesn't know the ‘build-stamp’ target, but Lintian recommends it

2011-07-27 Thread Ben Finney
Peter Pentchev writes: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:12:37PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Roger Leigh writes: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:23:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > Should Lintian's recommendation be changed? > > > >

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-10 Thread Ben Finney
need to be nurtured by delusion.” | _o__) —Sam Harris, at _Beyond Belief 2006_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aabgiy9q@benfinney.id.au

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
| `\ ground whatever for supposing it true.” —Bertrand Russell, _The | _o__) Value of Scepticism_, 1928 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
evolved to do.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739h4gb1l@benfinney.id.au

Re: Downloading of test data

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
d free software. -- \“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” —Edsger W. | `\ Dijkstra | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...

Re: Should dh_python2 be used for single-file python applications?

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
willing to go through hell to get it.” —Donald Robert Perry | _o__) Marquis | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
erything; where would you put it?” —Steven | `\Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: I have a error on dput

2011-08-17 Thread Ben Finney
un it from your shell like this: dput debexpo yourpackage_yourversion_arch.changes -- \ “You've got to think about big things while you're doing small | `\ things, so that all the small things go in the right | _o__) d

Re: Cavalry

2011-08-29 Thread Ben Finney
e months of our children's lives | `\ teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years | _o__) telling them to sit down and shut up.” —Phyllis Diller | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: decibel-audio-player

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Finney
eek or more with no response. -- \ “What is needed is not the will to believe but the will to find | `\ out, which is the exact opposite.” —Bertrand Russell, _Free | _o__) Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 | Ben Finney pgpMQjzXwIGWs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: decibel-audio-player

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Finney
Leonardo Marín writes: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:24:31AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > When you say “the list of python”, do you mean the ‘debian-python’ > > forum? When did you write to that forum? What was the message-id field > > of your message? > > I sent m

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server (an Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policy files)

2011-09-24 Thread Ben Finney
am; “Debian Packaging Team” is clearly not helpful to distinguish which team is being referenced. -- \ “Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right | `\ there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to | _o__)

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server (an Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policy files)

2011-09-25 Thread Ben Finney
is a palace with gardens, about as big as an average golf | _o__) course.” —Geoffrey Robertson, 2010-09-18 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Finney
ragraph>. -- \ “What is needed is not the will to believe but the will to find | `\ out, which is the exact opposite.” —Bertrand Russell, _Free | _o__) Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ..

Re: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright syntax error in section 4 after the tag license

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Finney
uth.” —E. O. Wilson, | _o__) _Consilience_, 1998 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5wovb8p@benfinney.id.au

Re: RFR: blogofile -- Static website compiler and blog engine

2011-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
“My house is on the median strip of a highway. You don't really | `\ notice, except I have to leave the driveway doing 60 MPH.” | _o__) —Steven Wright | Ben Finney pgpZ8PppiIUG2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
bt, there is | `\freedom.”) | _o__) | Ben Finney pgpXq6rLQcWkT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
“Come on Milhouse, there’s no such thing as a soul! It’s just | `\ something they made up to scare kids, like the Boogie Man or | _o__) Michael Jackson.” —Bart, _The Simpsons_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: setup packaging project on Alioth?

2011-10-29 Thread Ben Finney
ies from | `\ almost all standards of accountability should be dismantled | _o__) once and for all.” —Daniel Dennett, 2010-01-12 | Ben Finney pgpljU2bCiB2U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: start mysqld from debian/rules?

2011-10-30 Thread Ben Finney
o run only the unit tests at build time. -- \ “I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little | `\ children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. | _o__) They don't know I'm only using blanks.” —Emo Philips | Ben Finney pgpp555pT6SoM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: blogofile (2nd try)

2011-11-15 Thread Ben Finney
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Re: RFS: owncloud

2011-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
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Re: RFS: blogofile (2nd try)

2011-11-27 Thread Ben Finney
onsor packages (I am not a Debian Developer, merely a Debian Maintainer). -- \“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. | `\ Unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles | _o__)

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
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Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
rstand this. Fetch me a child of | `\ five.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
Philip Ashmore writes: > On 12/12/11 10:03, Ben Finney wrote: > > Philip Ashmore writes: > > > >> Well, it goes a bit further than being packaged for Debian. > >> > >> The v3c package includes make scripts that allow you to build Debian > >> pa

Re: RFS: owncloud 2.0.1

2012-01-01 Thread Ben Finney
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Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
the *possibility* of correction.” —Sam | _o__) Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: Packaging AngularJS application as part of the python twisted application

2013-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
e it > contains generated code, minified js/css etc. I've encountered much the same thing, sadly. The result is a lot of busy work to separate the download-source-and-repackage from the build-from-source steps, untangling a lot of what upstream have done. > Thanks to the conversation

Bug#731296: RFS: lojban-common/1.5+dfsg.1-1 -- commonly-used wordlists for the Lojban language

2013-12-03 Thread Ben Finney
ion: 3.9.5”. -- \“That's the essence of science: Ask an impertinent question, | `\and you're on the way to the pertinent answer.” —Jacob | _o__) Bronowski, _The Ascent of Man_, 1973 | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Which targets need their requirements in “Build-Depends*” declared?

2013-12-15 Thread Ben Finney
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Bug#731296: RFS: lojban-common/1.5+dfsg.1-2 -- commonly-used wordlists for the Lojban language

2013-12-16 Thread Ben Finney
oth. + Declare “Standards-Version: 3.9.5”. -- \“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. | `\ Unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#736376: RFS: comixcursors/0.8.2-1 -- X11 mouse pointer themes with a comic art feeling

2014-01-22 Thread Ben Finney
bian source package. -- \ “Now Maggie, I’ll be watching you too, in case God is busy | `\ creating tornadoes or not existing.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#736376: RFS: comixcursors/0.8.2-1 -- X11 mouse pointer themes with a comic art feeling

2014-02-02 Thread Ben Finney
tags 726615 + pending block 726615 by 736376 tags 684869 + pending block 684869 by 736376 tags 708133 + pending block 708133 by 736376 tags 648965 + pending block 648965 by 736376 thanks On 23-Jan-2014, Ben Finney wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for release 0.8.2-1 of “comixcurs

Bug#736376: closed by Damyan Ivanov (Re: Bug#736376: RFS: comixcursors/0.8.2-1 -- X11 mouse pointer themes with a comic art feeling)

2014-04-14 Thread Ben Finney
oking through your stuff.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need sponsor

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Finney
"My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if | `\ I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year." -- Steven | _o__) Wright | Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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