On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:26PM +, Andrew Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges
>
> I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean?
My
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:28:34AM -0600, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Do you really think packaging mistakes not caught by lintian would be
> caught by the test suite put together by the same goober who made those
> packaging mistakes?
To me, this sounds like the arg
ut kde is part of the
"desktop" task, which I'd expect a lot of users will use to install desktop
systems.
Daniel
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I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say, but assuming you want to get a
wireless card working, you could try ndiswrapper. It lets you use a Windows
driver for your card (for instance, from the CD that came with the card)
under Linux.
Daniel
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me German neo-Nazi spam that's flooding
the Internet this week and using a lot of free-software From addresses)
Unfortunately, since we aren't sending this mail, we can't do anything to
stop it.
Daniel
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work at a nuclear plant/are a member of a neo-Nazi group. So,
should we put software like that into main so that they don't "think the
differences between free and non-free software are pretty small"?
If not, I'm not sure I see what you're trying to say either.
Danie
This shoulda gone here too (Matthew, you can forward my other message if you
want to forward your reply).
Daniel
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ce). If you want,
though, I can send you a reverse diff against the DFSG ;-).
Daniel
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all software that's broken in utf8 ;-)
Daniel
PS - if someone has a debtags-based aptitude, could you please send me the
patch? Thanks.
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On Monday 31 January 2005 10:06 am, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> "they" is commonly used colloquially
> (at least around here) as a gender-neutral substitute for "he" or "she".
And just to be ultra-clear, I don't mean "used by PC people", bu
ts merits in formal writing, "they" is commonly used colloquially
(at least around here) as a gender-neutral substitute for "he" or "she".
Daniel
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thing else.
Also, the fact that we have a long-standing exception for one non-free thing
doesn't mean we have to create exceptions for other random non-free things
that people want to include.
Daniel
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Mmm, meta-spam.
(I had to satisfy my morbid curiosity; as you probably guessed, the Debian
logo appears nowhere on that site. So it's just a social engineering spam
mail)
Daniel
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ladly accept them over at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 0. dpkg-sig.turmzimmer.net
I think he was asking about bug #206421 (ITP: gaim-encryption)...
Daniel
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Daniel
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uide pages to go from zero to "sysadmin" in no time, as
well as get a solid start in the knowledge needed for the Linux+ certification.
Emage industry lists Local lists
special lists foreign lists publishing
yellow pages free resource site map about us
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know how to write. Regardless of whether you
believe it to be true, attacks (or percieved attacks) on your audience
are pretty much at the top of the list of ways to get yourself ignored.
Daniel
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ably pick up significantly. Until some
significant evidence of a problem is presented, though, I don't think
we need to worry too much.
Daniel
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helping to create the software and
infrastructure that's needed to achieve the ends you want.
Incidentally, this article has information on submitting useful bug
reports that you might want to read:
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/149/
Daniel
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libraries, which was my second guess from your
subject line)
Daniel
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t; they are debated about in
> > -devel during an ITP as to whether or not they are truly useful. If
> > they're both Free and useful, they are allowed in
>
> I precisely think that they aren't useful to an operating system...
There goes all of section "games"
Debian Project.
In other words, unless you are extraordinarily lucky, no-one here has
ever heard of Alain or Arion. Sorry.
Daniel
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Daniel
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| mentally substituted 'things tha
ebian web page under "Getting Debian":
http://www.debian.org/distrib/
Daniel
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00209/msg00050.html
and here is the list I'm looking at:
http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
Daniel
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\-Evil Overlord, Inc: p
ently don't use them, and don't miss them (I
> suspect it's in the area of handling certain types of package sources,
> rather than UI issues.)
Just for clarification: the major missing feature in aptitude is a
decent missing-dependency resolution screen.
Daniel
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 05:57:58PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Previously Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > aptitude does exactly the same thing, but no-one has added new
> > packages to the archive in the last 24 hours or so. If I can trust
&g
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:46:13AM +0200, "Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> > Generally I don't plug aptitude much, but this is just flat-out wrong.
> > aptitude handles new packages
r entirely orthogonal
to selection state, which means (in short words) that a package can
remain "new" for an indefinite amount of time, even after it's installed.
Daniel
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as displaying new packages as a group.
> >
> > It does that by default. The top level categories are:
> >
> > --- New Packages
>
> For some reason, I dont have this Section.
Probably because you don't have any new packages.
tude (although I've added a lot of stuff
that dselect can't even dream of right now)
Daniel
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is just flat-out wrong.
aptitude handles new packages much better than dselect (IMO), and has
since day 2.
Daniel
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hat this guy is cursing at
us because he can't understand the installation manual?
Why do these people always land on -project? The contact address for
help should be -user, shouldn't it?
Daniel
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gt; Here follows a list of conftypes:
> * dirs (dh_installdirs)
> * docs (dh_installdocs)
> * changelog (dh_installchangelogs)
> * menu (dh_installmenu)
> ... etc ...
> "
Hm, maybe you should just cut and paste debhelper(1) if you're going
to do
as GUIs go, you should probably use the KDE environment (see
http://www.kde.org); "woody" will include this. Other environments
would include Gnome and WindowMaker.
Daniel
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appropriate; dump it on -project
(crossposted)
Daniel
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m seems to be generated in foreign
countries anyway..
Daniel
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maybe?
I doubt it, debian-project doesn't get anything like 40 emails a day. I'd
also be curious to see one of the mails, though. (maybe he subscribed to
debian-devel by accident, although I don't see how you could do that)
Daniel
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h Libranet is..
(I didn't know we changed our logo to a star :-P)
Daniel
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or the pink helicopters
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:06:18AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
> Guess what... you've got a secret admirer!
A crush on a MAILING LIST?? Someone has problems..
Daniel
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hen rewrote multiple times, but nevermind.
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experimental
Hurd kernel/microkernel. See http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd for more
information and links.
Daniel
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undup|SDBenedictRoundup~xml.0.jhtml?cda=true
Personally, I'm quite distressed to learn that we don't distribute the Linux
kernel sources or any graphics applications, and have no support for
SMP or USB ;-)
Daniel
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ges can wrap our init, as can users of tools like Aurora.
I think this is a great idea. Can it be a goal for woody? Please? :)
Daniel
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I'm still hoping that new-maintainer will reopen after potato is
released (I believe several people have said that's the plan)
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:55:07AM -0700, Nate Duehr was heard to say:
> #5 and #6 Folks, if you're being sponsored, you really should get on this
> webpage. Perhaps if
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:51:37PM +0100, Yann Dirson was heard to say:
> > > Daniel Burrows writes:
> > > > Secondly and more importantly, the current sectioning system is
> holding back
> > > > the more advanced interfaces
> > >
> >
t; * Using a new field ("Translates" ?) used in the same way that above,
> using a syntax like "gif:png" for a translator, "png:" for a reader,
> and maybe ":gif" for a pure writer (eg. fractal-drawing programs, and
> such programs for which "
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:37:50PM +0100, Yann Dirson was heard to say:
>
> Daniel Burrows write:
> > No, there definitely need to be a *lot* more categories based on what a
> > program is or does
>
> I agree, but the official frontend is still dselect AFAIK, and i
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 08:02:20PM -0500, Decklin Foster was heard to say:
> Goswin Brederlow writes:
> > Maybe program should be split up further into stuff like games and
> > such. Also where do windowmanagers go? I would like sections for
> > games, graphics, utils, interfaces.
>
> I'd disagree
[ moved to the appropriate forum ]
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:59:28PM -0600, Andrew G . Feinberg was heard to say:
> > Some might quibble with "will" above. I think it's only a matter of
> > time. We've seen it hapen so much already. It serves our Free
> > Software community poorly to produce s
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