Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
u...@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko) writes: > (in usr/share/doc/kwwidgets-doc/html), 138 characters long, so such a That's a pathological example per #552346; disregarding kwwidgets-doc gets the current limit down to 133, which 14 packages hit in unstable. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
/kwwidgets-doc/html), 138 characters long, so such a limit should pose little trouble in practice. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ..

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ns/rse/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.core.source_3.1.1.201006121442-7a7CEw7sReRSjesfJIs/src/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.core_3.1.1.201006121442/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs so it looks like a limit of 256 should indeed be ample. Thanks for taking the time to revisit this issue, BTW. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at

Re: How thorough must the clean target be?

2006-10-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
way when done. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#361418: Moving the NCBI programs in a subsection of Applications/Science

2006-05-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
n top a framework that allows them to request their options via a single dialog box when invoked suitably[1]. As such, I have given them all menu entries on principle, but could be convinced to do otherwise. [1] With NCBI's "Vibrant" GUI library preloaded; the libvibrant6 package con

Re: Bug#176506: Proposal seconded...though very late..:-)

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (if people are aware of other prompting-user-but-not-using-debconf > packages, please let me know) One I've noticed is lirc (nontrivial to fix... see #162933). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.o

Bug#162812: [PROPOSAL] Apps/Science menu section

2002-09-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
her biology and chemistry related > programs use Apps/Math, which is definitely wrong. As the ncbi-tools6 maintainer, I gladly second this proposal. (FWIW, I'll probably keep the hint regardless. ;-)) - -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTE