Bug#628523: Don't be so sure about piuparts

2011-05-29 Thread Thomas Hood
#x27;t say "You should fix it." Say, "You should investigate the cause." Or something appropriately weak. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: The use of setserial?

2004-05-11 Thread Thomas Hood
This doesn't really answer your question, but at Popcon http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_inst its stats are: #rank nameinst vote old recent no-files (max: 5050) 96setserial 4576 2652 725 1196 3 -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
that it is OK to put services in such a state that they will be improperly started on upgrade. You make it sound as if upgrade chaos were a long Debian tradition that we should honour and cherish! This is the Quality Assurance mailing list so I think I can claim victory now. :) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:28, Michael Stone wrote: > If a services is never automatically started by any > runlevel the only way it will be running is if the admin launches it. I > do this all the time for things I don't want running on an automatic > basis, but which I might want when I'm testing s

Re: Brian Mays inactive/MIA?

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
when a large number of bugs were suddenly tagged 'pending'. Chris Hanson went ahead and did an NMU anyway (3.2.2-1.4). B.M. did a maintainer upload shortly thereafter (3.2.5-1) which ignored Chris's work. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 12:09, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:28:05AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > >The configuration is not interpreted to mean "no-op". As I said > >before, > > you said it, but it's wrong. > > >There is eviden

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 16:20, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Can we just document this to be "Service state is not modified on runlevel > changes involving that runlevel"? At least, that is not a dangerous, nor > broken behaviour. Sorry, I don't follow you here. Which documentation? Do you

Re: [Fwd: Re: Please remove rcconf]

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Hood
]:/etc$ # Notice the absence of rc symlinks! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ cat init.d/dummy #!/bin/sh echo yay [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ sudo invoke-rc.d dummy start yay However, this just reinforces your main point. Thanks. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 22:55, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:14:11PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > >Argh! You're not supposed to delete _any_ links [...] > >If there is neither an S nor a K symlink for a service in a > >runlevel it [...] is a misconfigu

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Hood
ll remain not running. On the other hand, if you ask invoke-rc.d to start a service on entering such a runlevel then it will start it. Each service needs exactly one symlink (either K or S) in each of the runlevels to which the system can possibly be switched. Pant, pant ... >foam< ... -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Hood
ryone for their comments. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Please remove rcconf

2004-03-07 Thread Thomas Hood
ing on a new and better runlevel editor. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Please remove rcconf

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Hood
ctory for choice as set. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#31214: fixed for me

2001-09-21 Thread Thomas Hood
I am now running ALSA 0.9+0beta7-1 and I am finally able to get saytime to say the time. The only thing I had to do was to ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/audio. Unfortunately, the sound quality is very distorted. But at least it's better than a blurp. Thomas

Bug#101258: /usr/man and /usr/doc still used; should be under /usr/share

2001-06-17 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: perforate Version: 1.0-8 Severity: normal Still contains man pages under /usr/man and docs under /usr/doc. These should be moved under /usr/share/man and /usr/share/doc. -- System Information Debian Release: newton Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux thanatos 2.4.5-ac9 #2 Fri Jun 8 12:21:44