How to achieve "Cancel pending actions" equivalent in Sarge?

2006-09-01 Thread David Weinehall
Is there any simple way to achieve the same thing on a Sarge system, other than backporting aptitude? Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www

Re: RFS: inotail -- inotify enhanced tail

2006-09-23 Thread David Weinehall
ntence > > > > > > How about "Fast tail replacement using inotify"? > > > > Is it faster than tail? I think tail replacement using > > inotify is enough. > > Argh sure is inotfy faster than 1 sec delay, forget my mail

Re: RFC on tuned version of Ogg Vorbis

2007-02-21 Thread David Weinehall
on (I have been able to reproduce these distortions on other portable oggplayers too, but not on a regular computer with ogg123 or similar). Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white rose

Re: RFS: dfu-programmer

2007-04-04 Thread David Weinehall
up the wording a little. > > "an" is used before a "vowel" like > > an USB connector > an Inode > an Error Almost correct. "an" is used if there is a vowel-*sound*. Since U is pronounce alone here (it's an abbreviation, not a word), U i

[OFFTOPIC] passwd-ng (Was: Re: camsource -- a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software)

2003-09-24 Thread David Weinehall
S/NIS+, and PAM, so if anyone feels that having a better user management system in Linux, now is the time to download the source (and/or the debs) and try them out. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v

Re: [OFFTOPIC] passwd-ng

2003-09-26 Thread David Weinehall
t of it doesn't map too well into Linux, at least not yet... > wishlist: > inactive-expire (expire after x days with no login or other password > requiring activitiy.) Ahhh, nice idea. Will consider implementing... /David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Full colour fire (/

Re: [OFFTOPIC] passwd-ng

2003-09-29 Thread David Weinehall
be a way for a program or shell script to > get the information easily. lsuser -f shows things in stanza form, that is: euwe:~# lsuser -f tao tao: id=1000 locked=no pgrp=tao groups=dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,src,media admgroups= home=/home

Re: Error on dpkg-buildpackage

2003-11-07 Thread David Weinehall
.] > to > CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure [...] > in debian/rules. Wouldn't CFLAGS += .configure [...] be a lot easier in most cases? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-15 Thread David Weinehall
s write Copyright (C) 20xx David Weinehall unless a real © is available, of course, in which case I write Copyright © 20xx David Weinehall instead... [snip] Of course, UTF-8 whereever possible is a nice goal to strive after, and I think that the debian-specific files are a good place to star

Re: RFS: Bootsplash

2004-03-03 Thread David Weinehall
r bootsplash-scripts by using /bin/bash instead, why not fix them for real instead? For the scripts in sysv-rc-bootsplash, this should from a cursory glance, be as easy as removing the function keyword and adding () after the function-names. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMA

Re: Should I recommend "less" if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-22 Thread David Weinehall
his others). > > Should every little "ordinary" thing like less be included in my > Recommends? It's surely not germane to the package, but if it's not > there, these little scripts will break. Why do you need less, wouldn't any pager work? Refer

Re: RFS: cc65 - Cross development suite for 65xxx processors

2004-07-01 Thread David Weinehall
y, which should be enough... Granted, I haven't done any 65816-programming. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Full colour fire (/

Re: RFS: cc65 - Cross development suite for 65xxx processors

2004-07-01 Thread David Weinehall
510-assembly, > | which should be enough... Granted, I haven't done any > | 65816-programming. > | > | > | Regards: David Weinehall > > I should mention that after discussing this with upstream[1], it turns > out that four source files actually do fall under the old l

Re: packaging newbie...: .svn directories / perldoc --> manpage

2004-07-06 Thread David Weinehall
is be made a default for debuild, perhaps? I've seen far too many packages containing .svn or {arch}-droppings. The number of CVS-droppings seems to be low, either because the CVS-users are dwindling, or that they have learned by now... [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall

Re: RFS: atris - Alizarin Tetris

2004-07-09 Thread David Weinehall
Which, should of course be chown root:games ... Use of . can lead to nasty surprises with usernames that contains a `.' (valid character in a username). Of course, this is not the case here, but let's try to fix all occurences anyway, since a lot of coding is done by copy and modi

Re: RFS: rhythmbox-applet

2004-08-06 Thread David Weinehall
hythmbox-applet/ > * License : GPL > Description : an applet for GNOME panel to control Rhythmbox music > player > > This is a small GNOME panl applet to control Rhythmbox music playback. Should be panel --> [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weine

Re: Temporary sponsor for cpufreqd_1.1.2-3 (fixes an RC bug)

2004-08-07 Thread David Weinehall
gt; the package to be in the right place at the right time (as in Freeze > time!). > > Can somebody help? the package is here: > http://oioio.altervista.org/debian/ [1] I'll sponsor you. I still feel sort of guilty for slowing down your NM application, and I'm using cpufreqd

Re: RFS: cc65 - Cross development suite for 65xxx processors

2004-07-01 Thread David Weinehall
y, which should be enough... Granted, I haven't done any 65816-programming. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/

Re: RFS: cc65 - Cross development suite for 65xxx processors

2004-07-01 Thread David Weinehall
510-assembly, > | which should be enough... Granted, I haven't done any > | 65816-programming. > | > | > | Regards: David Weinehall > > I should mention that after discussing this with upstream[1], it turns > out that four source files actually do fall under the old l

Re: packaging newbie...: .svn directories / perldoc --> manpage

2004-07-06 Thread David Weinehall
efault for debuild, perhaps? I've seen far too many packages containing .svn or {arch}-droppings. The number of CVS-droppings seems to be low, either because the CVS-users are dwindling, or that they have learned by now... [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL

Re: RFS: atris - Alizarin Tetris

2004-07-08 Thread David Weinehall
Which, should of course be chown root:games ... Use of . can lead to nasty surprises with usernames that contains a `.' (valid character in a username). Of course, this is not the case here, but let's try to fix all occurences anyway, since a lot of coding is done by copy and modi

Re: RFS: rhythmbox-applet

2004-08-06 Thread David Weinehall
hythmbox-applet/ > * License : GPL > Description : an applet for GNOME panel to control Rhythmbox music player > > This is a small GNOME panl applet to control Rhythmbox music playback. Should be panel --> [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall &l

Re: Temporary sponsor for cpufreqd_1.1.2-3 (fixes an RC bug)

2004-08-07 Thread David Weinehall
gt; the package to be in the right place at the right time (as in Freeze > time!). > > Can somebody help? the package is here: > http://oioio.altervista.org/debian/ [1] I'll sponsor you. I still feel sort of guilty for slowing down your NM application, and I'm using cpufreqd

Re: copyright and license missing?

2005-03-12 Thread David Weinehall
legal perspective. I suggest you contact the upstream author of the program and explain to him that he needs to read the "How to apply" section of the GPL... Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer o

Re: --purge and log/spool files

2005-04-05 Thread David Weinehall
d solution. > use "#! /bin/bash". Less good solution... In this case, with only 2 different alternatives, the best solution would probably be: rm -f /var/log/apache/access.log* /var/log/apache/error.log* Regards: David Weinehall -- /

Re: Creating libatk1.0-dev package

2005-04-24 Thread David Weinehall
b# apt-cache policy libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-0: Installed: 1.9.0-1 Candidate: 1.9.0-1 Version Table: *** 1.9.0-1 0 1 http://ftp.se.debian.org experimental/main Packages [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /)

Re: RFS: usermode - Graphical tools for certain user account management tasks

2005-05-26 Thread David Weinehall
setuid tools??? If they're designed in a sane manner they are probably graphical UI's for the setuid commandline tools, such as passwd, chsh, chfn etc. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Packaging plugins for The GIMP

2003-01-21 Thread David Weinehall
#x27;s not dwell on it, shall we. Regards: David Weinehall -- /> David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander <\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/

Re: Packaging plugins for The GIMP

2003-01-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:18:17PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > #4: I know I had a fourth question, but since I can't for my life > > remember what it was... Well. Let's not dwell on it, shall we. >

Re: Maintenance of phpgroupware

2003-06-10 Thread David Weinehall
to remove > phpgw from the archives. When I come back from my mini-vacation this week, I'll have a look at just how broken phpgroupware is, and if it looks at least reasonably possible to fix, I could co-maintain this package with you if you want to, since we use it at wor

[OFFTOPIC] passwd-ng (Was: Re: camsource -- a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software)

2003-09-24 Thread David Weinehall
S/NIS+, and PAM, so if anyone feels that having a better user management system in Linux, now is the time to download the source (and/or the debs) and try them out. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v

Re: [OFFTOPIC] passwd-ng

2003-09-26 Thread David Weinehall
t of it doesn't map too well into Linux, at least not yet... > wishlist: > inactive-expire (expire after x days with no login or other password > requiring activitiy.) Ahhh, nice idea. Will consider implementing... /David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [OFFTOPIC] passwd-ng

2003-09-29 Thread David Weinehall
be a way for a program or shell script to > get the information easily. lsuser -f shows things in stanza form, that is: euwe:~# lsuser -f tao tao: id=1000 locked=no pgrp=tao groups=dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,src,media admgroups= home=/home

Re: Error on dpkg-buildpackage

2003-11-07 Thread David Weinehall
.] > to > CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure [...] > in debian/rules. Wouldn't CFLAGS += .configure [...] be a lot easier in most cases? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-15 Thread David Weinehall
s write Copyright (C) 20xx David Weinehall unless a real © is available, of course, in which case I write Copyright © 20xx David Weinehall instead... [snip] Of course, UTF-8 whereever possible is a nice goal to strive after, and I think that the debian-specific files are a good place to star

Re: RFS: Bootsplash

2004-03-03 Thread David Weinehall
r bootsplash-scripts by using /bin/bash instead, why not fix them for real instead? For the scripts in sysv-rc-bootsplash, this should from a cursory glance, be as easy as removing the function keyword and adding () after the function-names. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMA

Re: Should I recommend "less" if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-22 Thread David Weinehall
his others). > > Should every little "ordinary" thing like less be included in my > Recommends? It's surely not germane to the package, but if it's not > there, these little scripts will break. Why do you need less, wouldn't any pager work? Refer

Packaging plugins for The GIMP

2003-01-21 Thread David Weinehall
#x27;s not dwell on it, shall we. Regards: David Weinehall -- /> David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander <\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/

Re: Packaging plugins for The GIMP

2003-01-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:18:17PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > #4: I know I had a fourth question, but since I can't for my life > > remember what it was... Well. Let's not dwell on it, shall we. >

Re: Maintenance of phpgroupware

2003-06-10 Thread David Weinehall
to remove > phpgw from the archives. When I come back from my mini-vacation this week, I'll have a look at just how broken phpgroupware is, and if it looks at least reasonably possible to fix, I could co-maintain this package with you if you want to, since we use it at wor