Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I've had problems with packages of mine living in ubuntu universe two > times already, and that's tiredsome. Especially because one of those > users didn't want to believe that I was not the "Ubuntu Maintainer" of > that package, si

Re:Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-02 Thread calvesmit
Hi guys, First of all, forgive me for posting here but I don't know where places to do that since what I have to say got to do with you all working in Debian. Ok!Let's not go in flamewars! My name is Carlos Alberto, I come from Brazil, I'm just a Debian user, not developer. I had used other

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:40:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Isn't this request contrary to the consensus identified in the poll on this > > subject earlier this year? > err, poll ? I've never "voted" in such a poll, and I

Re: hi..i need ur help

2006-11-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:23:20AM +0800, meisam sarabadani wrote: > dear sir > > my name is Meisam, Im majoring at Information System Engineering (IT), in MMU > university in malaysia, its been a long time ive been using Ubuntu since last > year...im ganna change it to debian and i know ubuntu is

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:40:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Isn't this request contrary to the consensus identified in the poll on this > subject earlier this year? err, poll ? I've never "voted" in such a poll, and I've had problems with packages of mine living in ubuntu universe two time

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:11:31PM +0100, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've heard too many people complaining about it, so I wrote it down: > > > Feel free to tune the description of the problem, or support this op

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:11:31PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > I've heard too many people complaining about it, so I wrote it down: > > Feel free to tune the description of the problem, or support this open > request. > Please add ideas fo

Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, I've heard too many people complaining about it, so I wrote it down: Feel free to tune the description of the problem, or support this open request. Please add ideas for handling the problem below the list of Supporters if you

Re: uses for "efficient computation" in various corners of debian?

2006-11-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 30 October 2006 14:31, sean finney wrote: > - anything remotely resembling a graph theory problem (pkg deps? bts?) I guess conflict resolution in the pkg deps graph, respecting /etc/apt/preferences *and* the user's wishes would be worth a try. aptitude's algorithm is good, but has on

hi..i need ur help

2006-11-02 Thread meisam sarabadani
dear sirmy name is Meisam, Im majoring at Information System Engineering (IT), in MMU university in malaysia, its been a long time ive been using Ubuntu since last year...im ganna change it to debian and i know ubuntu is debian base, and they are so similar to each other, i was wondering if u could