Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Philip Charles
ebian is superb. However, it would be good if Debian could also be more aware of J.Average User. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [E

Re: 3.0.22 plan, translations (b-f bugs dropping like flies.)

2002-03-29 Thread Philip Charles
built massive images with debian-cd, but not quite as large as a DVD. cat'ing the CD images and then running rsync would work. The pseudo image kit should work as is. I am not certain about jigdo, I have not used it. Phil. __ Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedi

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > Philip Charles wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > IIRC, the second release of 2.1 was called 2.1r2 to avoid the confusion > > > > I > > > > am in

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-01 Thread Philip Charles
ease" and so would see 2.2 as > > being identical with 2.2r1. > > > > But still, if we are going to make that assumption, then we should call > this one 2.2r1, and not skip the nomenclature. It's confusing. Agree about it being confusing. If we want to keep "r&

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-01 Thread Philip Charles
initely happening in a couple of weeks ;-) > > > >2.2r1 The first revision, after the initial release > > > >2.2r2 etc. > > > > Right? IIRC, the second release of 2.1 was called 2.1r2 to avoid the confusion I am in the process of creating. We may m

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Charles
t advantages. Debian has a reputation of being difficult to install so we need to ensure that the CDs are problem free and user friendly. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Charles
; potato, because I can already tell you that potato will not have > all of its dependency issues ironed out before the release. > CDs can be produced with force_deps, however, the conflict is unneccessary given that the right version of we-el is available. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Pate

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Charles
> (Critical bug:#62169: ftp.debian.org 2.1r5/6 issues: w3-el, > security and ChangeLog; 9 days old ) I also reported the > problem in a private email on 3-13 . > If w3-el is fixed, at least 2.1r5 will work. Please!! Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Ze

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-27 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jim Westveer wrote: > > > > > > > On 23-Mar-2000 J.A. Bezemer wrote: &

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-26 Thread Philip Charles
ists on my product for those who > choose to install that package. If that is the case installing from the > stable ftp archive would also be a problem until it is updated. > Anyone who tries to use any of the preselected systems will run into problems with their installation with 2.1r5(6,7,8) Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Re: 2.1r5

2000-03-16 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > > > Still broken!!! > > What exactly is broken? The w3-el and emacs20 dependency problem. I was under the impression that a compatable version of w3-el had been uploaded. I had up