(with -kb).
I'm not sure why the Debian CVS packages don't ship with any of this
stuff configured, by default or as a debconf option: something to take
up with tfheen@ at some time I suppose. =)
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
u could just
refer to both services.
There's probably a lot of overlap between the two services: the most
recent wwwkeys.pgp.net report says it has 1,649,308 keys and the
keyserver.net page says it has 1,650,709 keys.
Why there isn't just one grand unified (but distribu
supply
its own Content-Type header. Yet another way would be with the Apache
configuration directive AddType.
AddType text/html .pl
This would need to be done on cgi.debian.org, obviously.
I think that fixing redirect.pl to send its own header would be the best
solution, as the Remove
a
> > > above.
> >
> > That's valid, yeah.
>
> (I'll just remove that )
Either move the from before the
to after it, or remove the from after "under the GPL.".
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
ian web mirror?
(I'm not exactly sure how you're intending to implement this.)
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
Gerfried Fuchs said:
> * Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-31 08:49]:
> > I'm sure that I've seen forms with multiple submit methods out there.
>
> You mean, like <http://www.google.com/>? :-)
Now that I think of it, yes. =)
Andrew
nly pack-rat who keeps everything they get. =)
It would be nice if the list archives were available as (say) gzipped
mailboxes, or public IMAP folders. This may not be a high priority at
the moment though. =)
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s.
And having mentioned that dreaded word (policy, not Geocrawler): is any
of the stuff on that disclaimer page actually part of Debian Policy?
Should it be?
Andrew.
[1] http://www.spamgourmet.com/
[2] http://packages.debian.org/spamassassin
[3] http://packages.debian.org/razor
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ites with full ISO9660 image files to
download. Three clicks, no brain usage apart from reading some plain
English ...
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself.&q
acker with read write access to the
> Memory" - it doesn't make sense, should "with" be replaced with "gains"?
Yeah, that doesn't seem to make any sense at all ...
However if you check the web version of the security advisory, it has
been fixed.
unt of hand-holding already present is pretty good, but
I'm sure the world would welcome a GUI for jigdo ...
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
/dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=unusable&Strategy=*&Database=*
http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=unuseable&Strategy=*&Database=*
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there&#
Gerfried Fuchs said:
> * Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-20 11:38]:
> > Andrew Lau said:
> >> makes the package in question unuseable or mostly so, or causes
> >>
> >> should read:
> >> makes the package in question UNUSABL
you can find with
Google's image search ...
http://images.google.com/images?q=penguin+%26+gnu&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always so
heir package descriptions.
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
ered into a database, and be given a unique index
number to be used across all Debian services à la M$ Passport. That
should appeal to the Big Brother fans. =)
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there
generate the UID property of the VEVENT ...
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/caldata/USHolidays.ics
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
&q
.."
string returned null, which it can. If you refer to the Perl docs you
will see that whenever a filehandle is specified with open(), then
parentheses will surround the arguments before "or die".
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
Andrew Shugg said:
> Josip Rodin said:
> > > > > Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl
> > > > > ===
> > > > > -open SRC, "<$mirror_source" ||
> > > > &
has already been pointed out)
there is no standard directory structure for the Debian CD mirrors. The
one on ftp.au.debian.org is pretty good though IMO. Hopefully the
debian-cd people can sort that out sometime.
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>
> And list everything, with the known-good ftp ones only in bold.
I think that's a good idea.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is
> Well, there are parts of it. As far as I know Joerg Jaspert put some
> > > efforts into it. Unfortunately he hasn't found the time yet to finish
> > > it...
> >
> > I stopped, no time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is it now.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
d.o i
doubt first off. =)
Perhaps they can have a "we are not related to Debian" disclaimer with a
link to the Debian site. That might make everyone happy! Meanwhile you
can check the (web) archives of the debian-legal list, where you email
was forwarded to, and see if it's stirred anythin
Josip Rodin said:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:00:40PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> > Maybe you could write a polite note to the webmaster of that site, and
> > ask them if they are aware of the similarity between their logo and the
> > Debian logo which was published in
can apply it ... (please?)
The main problem is that the script doesn't generate the Maintainer
lines itself, but gets them from the package descriptions. All that is
really needed is for the strings self.maint and t[0] to be given the
Python equivalent of Perl's "$_ =~ s
mp;hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:f2o-B9APhnAC:www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/21/+seperate+site:www.debian.org&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:TTg1Yir6O8IC:www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html+seperate+site:
gest you file a wishlist bug against the xplanet Debian package,
asking for that URL to be added to the package description.
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr F
.
Whether the security team 'should' still be creating these links for
the old way or not, I don't know, so you should raise it with them.
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's alway
eb mirror is broken,
who do I complain to?, I've seen illegal use of your logo/code/chicken
soup recipe on the Internet, how do I dob them in? and so forth.
Andrew.
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a descargado las imágenes y las haya escrito en CD,
asegúrese de leer la
+(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/";>spegel [en])
När du väl har hämtat avbildningarna och skrivit ned dem till cd bör du
läsa de
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
Peter Karlsson said:
> Andrew Shugg:
> > I don't have CVS write access; could someone apply this patch? I
> > haven't updated the translation version number in each file so that will
> > need doing.
>
> Please do not patch the translations this way, the chang
le (server down, machine
room on fire, ISP routing issues, etc). Do you disagree on this? If
so, then there are dozens of mirrors of the Debian web site for what
particular reason? =)
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"I don't w
'll notice the world of difference there :)
Dear me, I missed those well-documented guidelines. ;)
I thought tacking the second link on at the end was the least disruptive
change. I will remember that for next time then ...
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Someone on debian-legal may be able to help with modifications to the
disclaimer document. I posted some suggestions a month or two ago on
this list, but no-one was particularly interested. ;)
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"Jus
oo&bar" shouldn't happen, and we don't have any mirrors at
> AT&T. :)
I think it would be much better to remove any hard-coded entity fixes
from the script(s) and instead use HTML::Entities::encode on everything
that is going to be output as HTML. Anything to be
ould gain privileged access to an
> > account there shouldn't be any harm, should it :)
> >
> > Or am I thinking in the wrong direction?
>
> "This can lead to gaining unauthorized access to the 'lp'"
Or maybe "... to an unauthorized escalation
g:
http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401
If you look in /Icons/ you'll see that all the image files are available
in at least two different formats.
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
than the children. =)
Apart from building the web site, this is another argument for having a
dedicated non-human user: to generate the urlcheck, validate and tidy
reports. Then if you're MIA someone else can continue to maintain the
processes ... please?
Andrew.
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Josip Rodin said:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:32:12PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> > > I haven't a shred of doubt that if we just switched to PNG, there would be
> > > enough people complaining to make reading this list a pain. :|
> >
> > Me either. Howev
but rather than do s/job/task/g in the English page I would
advise just doing it in your Japanese translation such that its meaning
is clear to you.
There are also mentions of 'task' and 'job' in devel/join/nm-step3 which
can also just be treated as meaning 'task'.
I don't
> > understand the difference between them.
>
> We solved this translation with help of a Japanese AM (Applicant Manager).
Sorry I didn't write my reply in time to be of assistance then! Will
try to be quicker next time. =)
Andrew.
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derstood that Woody included all architectures.
This is true; it's the /ports/sparc/ page that is incorrect. (It is not
being maintained by the debian-sparc@ people unfortunately.)
The sparc install manual for woody is probably a good point for your
friend to start reading:
http://www.deb
the local convention (and
optionally a different character set
Basically letting you have your cake and eat it too, if you're prepared
to compromise on the "main" name field. =)
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ns though; if someone chooses to send a politely-worded howl of
protest, the address at the other end is '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
(For all my apathy over the listing, it looks like a fair bit of work
has gone into the 5-10-sg blackhole system, so I'm impressed about
that at least.)
Andre
ave "objectionable" clauses.
>
> It seems that this sentence is missing a verb. Can anyone give me an
> idea about possible completions?
>
> thanks,
> Frank
Well spotted, "even thought" should be "even though".
Andrew.
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ts/index.wml
Of course any Debian packages that include links to the Jargon file or
other parts of tuxedo.org/~esr will have to have bugs filed against them
for the references to be updated. =/
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"
It was almost four years ago so he may
not still have the original artwork. But I would suggest you email him
directly and ask, or enquire on the debian-alpha mailing list.
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty,
ain rather than text/xml. Maybe they could simply
be given a .xml extension instead of .rdf? (This is how a lot of sites
with RSS feeds do it.)
Thanks for your consideration. =)
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
comments and suggestions.
>
> Greetings,
> Frank
>
[...]
> 2. updating a advisory (new revision)
> -
Should be "updating an advisory" ...
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"
Gerfried Fuchs said:
> * Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-23 00:23]:
> > Firstly, I know it was alfie's preference to have only the first paragraph
> > (as bounded by ...) of the DSA in the RDF file, but this doesn't
> > always make good sense. Take
}
> $short_desc = $package{$pack}{'short-desc'};
> $long_desc = $package{$pack}{'long-desc'};
> +#$short_desc =~ s/\&/\&\;/go;
> + $short_desc =~ s/ + $short_desc =~ s/>/\>\;/go;
> $long_
t of work involved. The 'querybts' tool
provides a convenient text-based interface to the Debian BTS.
(Okay, that's introducing lots of new stuff rather than just fixing an
offending bit of grammar: sorry.)
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eah. Why for reportbug and for querybts though? They're
both programs.
I think "The querybts tool, which accompanies reportbug, provides..." is
a nicer way to put it.
Isn't it generally better to link to "http://packages.debian.org/package";?
Andrew.
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Denis Barbier said:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:56:23PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > I think, the solution presented by Andrew Shugg in #186740 is the
> > right way to go.
>
> Nope, ampersnads must be escaped, period.
> Example:
> Description: escape HTML
on Debian systems.
You could try the debian-user mailing list, where a lot of people go for
help and get it. =)
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe
Andrew.
P.S. You did not supply an email address, so hopefully this email to
the mailing list will also end up in the newsgroup
Denis Barbier said:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:18:27PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> [...]
> > To clarify what I outlined in #186740, if you were to start with this
> > sort of string:
> >
> > &foo blah &
> >
> > you would end up
is that if a package
description contains HTML entities that the package maintainer is
expecting to be normalised by the thing reading the description, then
that is a bug in the package description. The script we're discussing
doesn't have to cater for it, right?
Andrew.
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at (the
above underlined statement). DWN said somebody said somebody said
something! =) I don't know if this can be made any more clear in the
English original without directly quoting from the article, which would
at least indicate that the statement came from elsewhere.
Andrew.
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f you frequently
contribute useful stuff you'll probably be give CVS access.
Andrew, who doesn't have a CVS account, just lurks & whinges. =)
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
Frank Lichtenheld said:
> ashaming weekend for me.
>
> frustrated,
> Frank
Try to think of it as an 'educational' weekend with lots of positive
learning experience. After all, it's not like you burned down the
server or ran over anyone's cat. =)
A
the problem of
not being able to search for non-i386 packages (silo is the first that
leaps to mind).
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
doesn't mean that the problem won't be fixed, just that everyone
has to agree on a solution first. See debates in this list's archives
every time someone posts a big screaming rant demanding that their email
address be removed from the entire set of Debian archives (note: your
email
filed as a wishlist bug to the Security Team. You might find they
have better things to do though. They're busy people. =)
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off th
s recorded in the
bug's history.
Andrew.
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"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
g of 'incumbent' is 'person currently holding office'. So how
about "Current Officebearer", "Current Secretary" or "About Our
Secretary (2001 to present)"?
Andrew.
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"
t the
default options are. That shouldn't be too hard.
It's also non-intuitive to find the default values on a form when there
is no 'clear' or 'reset' button. Using that button will tell the user's
browser to take the form back to its default settings, in case
ting through packages.debian.org can't really
be a very common means of selecting and installing the appropriate
versions of the desired packages, can it? How important is it then that
the package pages provide this information?
Sorry for the rambling,
Andrew.
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