apt-file for lucid and new rapt-file

2010-01-17 Thread Philip Wyett
Hi all, After reporting bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-file/+bug/508089 against the apt-file-2.3.2 in lucid. A little digging shows in 2.3.0 an initial version of an app called rapt-file was introduced. apt-file (2.3.0) unstable; urgency=low * Add initial version of rap

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-30 Thread Philip Wyett
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 23:26 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Fri, 01 May 2009 03:32:37 +0100 Philip Wyett wrote: > >> As explained, users shouldn't assign bugs, but a LP team that subscribes > >> to bugs reported on games is a good idea probably (but maybe that >

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-30 Thread Philip Wyett
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 03:36 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op woensdag 29-04-2009 om 11:51 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Philip > Wyett: > > - It would solve having to go to pages hosted on servers with the self > > signed certificate problem. Launchpad does not have these issue

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-29 Thread Philip Wyett
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 10:24 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:51:36 +0100 Philip Wyett wrote: > >On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:28 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> Philip Wyett writes: > >> > >> > It could. Maybe additions of

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-29 Thread Philip Wyett
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 16:17 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Philip Wyett writes: > > > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:28 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> Philip Wyett writes: > >> > >> > It could. Maybe additions of: > >> > > >>

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-29 Thread Philip Wyett
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:28 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Philip Wyett writes: > > > It could. Maybe additions of: > > > > - List of participants. > > https://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30862 > > > - A collecting of the more u

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-28 Thread Philip Wyett
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:14 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Philip Wyett writes: > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Games > > > > This old and defunct page is very lacking. > > The page currently reads: > > , > | THIS TEAM IS NOT ACTIVE ANYMOR

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-28 Thread Philip Wyett
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:07 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Martin Owens wrote: > >> Some confusion maybe seen from the naming, but I see no real issue. The > >> team members who wish too can look at and work with more specific Ubuntu > >> issues and act as a conduit between the teams of both distribu

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-27 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 08:02 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > > > Some confusion maybe seen from the naming, but I see no real issue. The > > team members who wish too can look at and work with more specific Ubuntu > > issues and act as a conduit between the teams of both distributions to > > make th

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-27 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:34 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Danny Piccirillo writes: > > > It's already a problem? Really? The problem i think you're trying to say is > > simply confusing the packaging team with this team. Firstly, i don't see how > > people would be so confused. > > Let's see

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:50 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Danny Piccirillo wrote: > > In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has > > been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of today, > > the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in.

Re: [Ubuntu-gaming] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Philip Wyett
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:08 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:02, Scott Kitterman > wrote: > Top posting fixed. Ugh. > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:40, Scott Kitterman > > > wrote: > > > >> First, apologies for

Re: Updates to Mesa in an LTS - How do you get one?

2009-04-15 Thread Philip Wyett
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:48 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > I think being on an RC, as opposed to a final release, is as awkward > for us as it is for everyone else. It makes all of our updates harder, > because the codebase is unique to us, it's not a release that upstream > cares about. So,

Re: Updates to Mesa in an LTS - How do you get one?

2009-04-15 Thread Philip Wyett
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:01 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Philip, > > Philip Wyett [2009-04-15 19:20 +0100]: > > After pain of dealing with the RC Mesa in Ubuntu 8.04 ever since, I > > decided to email the technical board about why it and all releases > > should be

Re: Updates to Mesa in an LTS - How do you get one?

2009-04-15 Thread Philip Wyett
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 19:20 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: > Hi all, > > Once upon a time :-) > > Six months ago I filed a bug against Mesa for Ubuntu 8.04. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/283175 > > I supplied the effects, test case and even a

Updates to Mesa in an LTS - How do you get one?

2009-04-15 Thread Philip Wyett
Hi all, Once upon a time :-) Six months ago I filed a bug against Mesa for Ubuntu 8.04. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/283175 I supplied the effects, test case and even a backported patch. This then gets wishlisted to sit idle for six months until today. After pain of deal

Re: State of Emulation on Ubuntu.

2009-04-14 Thread Philip Wyett
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 05:43 -0400, Chris wrote: > Right now, I think the state of emulators in Ubuntu is pathetic. > Most of the emulators are out of date in the repositories, and most > aren't even included. > I'd love to start building debs for the more popular emulators (zsnes, > pcsx2, psx, eps

Re: Nonsensical jack sensing - A bug day idea

2009-02-20 Thread Philip Wyett
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 10:03 -0800, Dan Chen wrote: > Please note that it must be invoked as a bash script. > My bad. I invoked with sh and got sent to dash as I should. Making executable and running ./alsa-info.sh it all works. Thanks Regards Phil signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: Nonsensical jack sensing - A bug day idea

2009-02-20 Thread Philip Wyett
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 07:16 -0800, Dan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I recommend creating a wiki page with links to the generated > URLs by alsa-info.sh[0] and sorting by SSID, e.g., > > SSID .. codec+revision .. output url > > Please be aware that the jack rework upstream is very act

Nonsensical jack sensing - A bug day idea

2009-02-20 Thread Philip Wyett
Hi all, Users of Linux with ALSA on laptops and other mobile devices have for years often been presented with the fun and games of sound working great but then plugging in headphones leaves you with no sound or sound coming out of speakers and headphones etc. This annoys many and makes distros loo

Re: Proceedings from UDS for Ubuntu 9.04

2009-01-16 Thread Philip Wyett
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:02 -0500, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am pleased to announce the proceedings from the Ubuntu Developer > Summit for Ubuntu 9.04, which took place from 8-12 April in Mountain > View, CA, USA. > Hope nobody forwards the announcement with the wrong month

Re: libavcodec51 and libavcodec1d package description

2008-08-19 Thread Philip Wyett
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 06:07 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: > Hi, > > Whilst installing empathy on another intrepid test box. I noticed > libavcodec being installed. After an "hmmm an mpeg library is there an > issue here for inclusion of empathy by default" I did so

libavcodec51 and libavcodec1d package description

2008-08-19 Thread Philip Wyett
Hi, Whilst installing empathy on another intrepid test box. I noticed libavcodec being installed. After an "hmmm an mpeg library is there an issue here for inclusion of empathy by default" I did some digging. We have two libavcodec packages, libavcodec51 in main and libavcodec1d in universe. A qui

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Philip Wyett
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:38 +0100, Alexander Jones wrote: > 2008/8/10 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The argument Luke puts forward for keeping pidgin by default for the > > time being I totally agree with. I have installed empathy under hardy > > and it connect

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-10 Thread Philip Wyett
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 02:12 -0500, Luke L wrote: > I'm skeptical about this. I personally have never heard of this > software before this email. Pidgin is cross-platform and elegant, easy > to use, and extensible. Also, (I know this is hearsay) I've heard > people mention the idea of removing EKIGA

Re: Reporting and Triaging ODP file

2008-08-08 Thread Philip Wyett
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 02:45 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2008 02:21, Philip Wyett wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 00:54 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:02:10 +0100 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Reporting and Triaging ODP file

2008-08-07 Thread Philip Wyett
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 00:54 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:02:10 +0100 Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:24 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: > >> Greetings All, > >> > >> At the request of Daniel Hol

Re: Reporting and Triaging ODP file

2008-08-07 Thread Philip Wyett
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:24 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: > Greetings All, > > At the request of Daniel Holbach I uploaded a presentation that I will > be giving on Saturday as a part of the Global Bug Jam for the Maryland > Loco team. It is in the 'Material' section at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ru