Re: Bug#676114: Ruby help needed (Was: Bug#676114: wordnet: FTBFS: debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII))

2012-06-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
one that's stable and supported on all the platforms in Debian At the moment, that doesn't sound like Ruby. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Bug#676114: Ruby help needed (Was: Bug#676114: wordnet: FTBFS: debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII))

2012-06-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 07:24:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:10:55PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >Any better hint? >> >> It sounds like you should replace the functionality of the script in a >> more suitable langu

Re: Do Debian packages need to build properly with umask 0007? (was: Bug#208802: Wrong permissions on exim manpages)

2003-09-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
use install -m instead. Explicitly setting the permissions on files in a package is the correct thing to do - that way you can't be surprised, and the package build will work for everyone. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain

Re: Description help for argouml

2003-09-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
-not-be-phrased-properly >> >> Here is the description field, can someone help me to solve this? >> >> Description: Modelling tool to help you do your design using UML. Try using "lintian -i" - it will tell you more about the errors and warnings that it finds.

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
nly thing I know of that >programmatically cares about the section in .TH is dh_installman, and if >that were a problem for you you'd already know about it. I agree. The nas man pages all appear in sections 1nas, 3nas and 4nas. There are lots of them, and I've just been ign

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
nly thing I know of that >programmatically cares about the section in .TH is dh_installman, and if >that were a problem for you you'd already know about it. I agree. The nas man pages all appear in sections 1nas, 3nas and 4nas. There are lots of them, and I've just been ign

Re: ud - rewrite?

2004-12-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
behaviour, which is the bit that matters IMHO. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Do Debian packages need to build properly with umask 0007? (was: Bug#208802: Wrong permissions on exim manpages)

2003-09-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
use install -m instead. Explicitly setting the permissions on files in a package is the correct thing to do - that way you can't be surprised, and the package build will work for everyone. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain

Re: Description help for argouml

2003-09-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
-not-be-phrased-properly >> >> Here is the description field, can someone help me to solve this? >> >> Description: Modelling tool to help you do your design using UML. Try using "lintian -i" - it will tell you more about the errors and warnings that it finds.

Re: Linker issues for libssw on armel, mips64el and mipsel

2020-08-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ild doesn't even attempt to make the library libssw.a. Check the Makefiles etc. to see if it has hard-coded architecture support? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that Eng

Re: Bug#801237: RFS: mactel-boot/0.9-1 [ITP] -- hfs-bless utility for Intel Macs

2015-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
d from >http://heeris.id.au/2014/ubuntu-plus-mac-pure-efi-boot/#fixing-efi Hi Bernhard, This looks like a tool that would make a lot of sense managed as part of the Debian EFI team. Would you like to join us? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com &qu