Re: making deals with M$

2008-06-09 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Fink schrieb: > I just read this article: > http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/07/ubuntu-remix-codecs/ Just FYI: Mark Shuttleworth just replied to the blog post: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/07/ubuntu-remix-codecs/#comment-12124 "Canonical has

Re: The Harvest Season has started!

2008-08-04 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for your suggestions, Brett Alton schrieb: > 1) The user can not sort data in a way he chooses, it is rather > hard-programmed Please file a bug about it at https://launchpad.net/harvest/+filebug and please elaborate a bit on how you'd like t

Re: 5 a day (was Using Harvest with your team)

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando schrieb: > Why did you stop using the bug description? It was an eye catcher and > promoted users/readers to check on those bugs. just mentioning a bug #id aint > that helpful. This is because of https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyth

Re: How to make .deb packages

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ioannis Vranos schrieb: > Hi, I am a developer with little experience on Linux development. > > I made my first free and open source application for Linux, named Glass, > which you may download from my site http://www.cpp-software.com, and I > would

Re: upload request: exiv2-0.18-1...

2009-02-18 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrice Vetsel schrieb: > It's asked since 2008-12-19 ;) on > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/+bug/309684 I asked if there was a clear transition plan for all the packages that are depending on it as there are supposedly some API ch

Packaging Training

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, Nicolas Valcárcel and I just had a quick discussion about regular Packaging Training sessions. Based on the experience with the past MOTU Q&A sessions and Ubuntu Developer Week and Ubuntu Open Week sessions, we'd like to propose the f

Re: Packaging Training

2009-03-16 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew schrieb: > One idea for a session I'd like to see, maybe along with some new > documentation added to the wiki, would be something on the new dh auto > stuff added with debhelper 7. Sounds like a good idea. I noted this down. Have a great day,

Re: Gnome Phone Manager

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kyle Amadio wrote: > Will the final release Karmic version include the latest version of > gnome-phone-manager, there have been some bug fixes to the re-connect > function. The current build of 0.65 does not re-connect when a bluetooth > connected phon

Re: Please add workaround for JRE (open and sun) bug to azureus package.

2009-09-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 22:03 -0400 schrieb dar...@chaosreigns.com: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/azureus/+bug/428514 > > There is a bug in both sun java and the openjdk that causes azureus to > crash. There is a workaround that prevents the crash by just using a > command line

Re: 'crash' upload needed for 2.6.30/31 support...

2009-09-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Samstag, den 19.09.2009, 14:40 +0100 schrieb Daniel J Blueman: > The newer 'crash' utility adds support for 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 kernels > [1], addressing various debugger hangs and crashes, thus is needed in > Karmic when doing kernel crash-analysis. > > It's available in Debian already, so needs

Re: too many virtual terminals by defaut

2010-03-31 Thread Daniel Holbach
On 31.03.2010 22:15, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > "Dear Mr. President. There are too many states nowadays. Please > eliminate three. I am not a crackpot!" Please keep the discussion respectful. Whatever you are arguing for will not be truer or more significant by insulting others. In the Ubuntu

Re: Getting a package into Ubuntu

2011-04-27 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am 27.04.2011 15:47, schrieb Dylan Borg: > How do I get my PPA package into the Ubuntu > archive? I want to add my compiler package into Ubuntu once it is fully > stable. If anyone might need it, the address of my PPA(test packages) is > ppa:borgdylan/ppa https://wiki.u

Re: Ubuntu Developer Week - 29th-31st Jan

2013-01-28 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hey Mark, On 26.01.2013 00:28, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Are we ready to crank up the mobile development story? we'll have a number of mobile related sessions: one about memory consumption and fixing its problems, one about creating Ubuntu images and another one about cross-building packages. P

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Prefix, On 20.09.2013 17:38, Prefix wrote: > What is more important is that, they know a lot more about their code than > us. If a large project like Firefox contain bugs in their code and can't work > well in Ubuntu, we have to waste a lot of time to learn the code tree, learn > the algo

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 20.09.2013 17:54, Chris Coulson wrote: > On 20/09/13 16:38, Prefix wrote: >> If we have a look at the maintainers of the packages in the Pool, we will >> find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. > Well, thanks I think what Prefix wanted to say was that i

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-04 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 02.11.2013 16:52, Ben Tinner wrote: > I am planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu which will have the GNOME > 2 look and feel. For those of you who are subscribed to ubuntu-users, > you would have heard about my plans to create this (Anyone interested in > a "GNOME 2 look and feel" re

ubuntu-devel-discuss moderation

2014-11-06 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, the moderation of this list took a bit of a backseat in the last time, so quite a few mails have been sitting in the moderation queue for a bit. As Michael said in one of his last mails, some new folks are now looking at moderation. If you see some old mails hitting the list every now and t

Re: ubuntu-devel-discuss moderation

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 06.11.2014 10:08, Diego Germán Gonzalez wrote: > I agree with Oscar. > Eliminate all mail from the list. > If those who have sent interest they will re-do After talking to a few others, it looked like 4-8 weeks of "old mails" would probably enough, and the rest not too useful. I'll

Re: Community Council election

2015-11-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Robie, On 11.11.2015 20:32, Robie Basak wrote: > "Only the single favorite choice will win the poll." I'm very sorry. I made a mistake when setting this up. I'll set up a new poll in a bit and inform everyone. :-( > Is that right? Or are we v

Re: Community Council election

2015-11-12 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 12.11.2015 16:28, Glenn A. Russell wrote: > I don't know why I am receiving these emails. I am not acquainted with any > of the members of this group nor am I really interested in being involved. I > wish I could be unsubscribed from the mailing list. Thank you. you can unsubscribe from

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
this might be occuring in other places too It looks to me like a serious problem, can anyone help debug this? Have a great day, Daniel On 06.01.2016 22:45, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello, > > on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable > anymore. This bl

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 15.01.2016 08:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > On 2016-01-07 07:45, Daniel Holbach wrote: >> on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable >> anymore. This blocked updates and further package installations on those >> machines. Upon searching

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 15.01.2016 08:32, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > On 2016-01-15 17:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: >> On 2016-01-07 07:45, Daniel Holbach wrote: >>> on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable >>> anymore. This blocked updates and further pac

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 15.01.2016 08:46, João M. S. Silva wrote: > I'm just guessing: is it one of those cases in which you can install the > missing dependencies with "sudo apt-get install -f"? Unfortunately not. Have a great day, Daniel -- Get involved with Snappy Ubuntu Core! developer.ubuntu.com/snap

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
On 15.01.2016 09:26, Stephen P. Villano wrote: > > > On 01/15/2016 10:55 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 15.01.2016 08:46, João M. S. Silva wrote: >>> I'm just guessing: is it one of those cases in which you can install the >>>

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-27 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 15.01.2016 18:43, Ernst Sjöstrand wrote: > Is the problem caused by LTS packages, perhaps you have > libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-vivid instead of libgl1-mesa-glx? yes, that was the issue. apt gets really unhappy if you try to replace one set with the other. Have a great day, Daniel -- Ubunt

Re: Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

2016-04-25 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Austin, On 25.04.2016 09:12, Austin English wrote: > So, I'd like to know what the process is for having a maintainer removed > from a package, so that someone else can maintain it. If not, I'd prefer > to see Winetricks removed from Ubuntu, as currently it's more broken > than useful. I'd s

Re: Add Africa-Togo Keyboard Layout in the Linux Distribution

2016-05-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hey hey, On 24.05.2016 03:06, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > You should edit that file, and replace xenial with yakkety so the line > looks like this: > > deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gunnarhj/togo-kblayout/ubuntu yakkety main It should be in yakkety proper very soon. Have a great day, Daniel --

Universe Freezes

2006-12-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody during our last MOTU meeting we decided to stick to the same dates as in main (cf https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleaseSchedule), but to add another week after Feature Freeze for the inclusion of NEW packages. If there are any objections, please discuss. Have a nice day, Daniel

Re: Universe Freezes

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, On Mo, 2006-12-18 at 14:03 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Please make sure the universe freezes end up on the release schedule > on the wiki. any additional opinions on this? Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubun

Re: Bug Tags, especially 'bitesize'

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Matt, Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2007, 12:58 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman: > Thanks for getting this started. It's so valuable to have lists like > these to help new contributors find ways to get involved. > > I've added a link to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment so that it's > easil

New MOTU Mentoring proposal

2007-05-16 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, at UDS we had an interesting and fruitful session about MOTU Mentoring. Please take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/NewMentoring where you find a write up of what we agreed on. Leave comments on the wiki page and please also leave a note if you're interested in mentoring.

RFC: New MOTU Mentoring process

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, thanks everybody for the comments I got so far. I updated https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/NewMentoring with all the information until now and would like to do a final call for comments before we get this process rolling. I also created the https://launchpad.net/~motu-mentoring-recep

Re: Automatix Team-Ubuntu Developer Collaboration

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Sonntag, den 07.10.2007, 19:41 -0500 schrieb Jared B.: > So starting with the Hardy development cycle, we hope to start working > with the Ubuntu Developers to improve both Ubuntu and Automatix. Thanks a lot for that initiative! I think it'd help to add each problem that Automatix addresses at

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Dienstag, den 16.10.2007, 11:02 +0100 schrieb João Pinto: * getdeb packages requirements do not meet ubuntu backports requirements, ubuntu backports are based on versions available on the development version, getdeb packages are based on the latest upstream versio

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 17.10.2007, 09:24 -0400 schrieb Peter (Ubuntu List): > I did check to see if I could help out creating packages for as some > call it, the inside Ubuntu community. All I could find was becoming a > MOTU which is a whole process and I wasn't, and I'm still not, ready for > that. ht

UI for backports usage

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I had some discussions with John Dong and João Pinto and both acknowledged the fact that there's a need for installing just a select few backport packages and not all of them. Let's imagine that somebody has an interest in just the latest version of blender on his stable system.

Re: Team TODO pages

2008-01-07 Thread Daniel Holbach
On Mi, 2008-01-02 at 12:02 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > This seems to me like you've done a lot of careful work to implement a > listing that Launchpad really should be able to do itself. :-) Thinking about it this makes sense. :-) > What would you need in Launchpad to make this wiki lis

Re: Request for inclusion into Ubuntu

2008-01-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 09:16 -0500 schrieb Daniel Hollocher: > My question is this: How do I actually incorporate my work into > ubuntu? Check out http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages Have a nice day, Daniel -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@list

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman schrieb: > In theory who says something shouldn't affect how it gets responded to, but > in real life it does. On a developer's list, I think people who are making > substantial contributions should get a little slack. I can clearly

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cory K. schrieb: > If you think that was a flame then I would say you're a tad sensitive. :P Please make an effort to make this thread productive. > It comes down to why would a package be uploaded at this stage in the > cycle that renders systems u