Hi!
Alright, this happened far too often lately to be ignored. This must
stop, pretty please. The developers-reference[1] isn't written just for
fun.
Yes, writing closes: #123 in a changelog a really easy way to close a
bugreport. But it is not the golden calf! Don't overdo it, don't
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:16:21AM +0200, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote:
io non ho capito bene questa storia del pacchettizzare solo la versione
binaria .. nell'upload ufficiale a debian di solito bisogna fornire
comunque i src che poi viene trasformato in deb-src e compilato dai BD
se non
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:58:54AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
Ciao,
Allora che delegazione del 'chapter IT' ci sara' ad Oslo?
zufus
enrico
fabbione
frankie
who else?
ultrotter
Ciao,
Guido
ciao a tutti,
sto debianizzando un demone che ho scritto
(http://sf.net/project/cpufreqd) e mi sorge qualche domanda:
1- mi sto *aiutando* con dh_make, e' cosa buona e giusta? (in realta' e'
dh_make che sta facendo tutto, ma tant'e' :)
2- il demone fa uso di una feature dei kernel 2.5 e
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:09:38 +0200
Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
sto debianizzando un demone che ho scritto
(http://sf.net/project/cpufreqd) e mi sorge qualche domanda:
1- mi sto *aiutando* con dh_make, e' cosa
Michel Grentzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté :
Bonjour,
Un developpeur Debian a annoncé que ses paquets sont disponibles sur CVS et
m'a indiqué qu'il pourrait me donner accès au CVS.
Comment fonctionne Alioth pour les non développeurs Debian ?
D'après ce que j'ai compris, je dois créer
* Michel Grentzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-06-24 13:07] :
Bonjour,
Un developpeur Debian a annoncé que ses paquets sont disponibles sur CVS et
m'a indiqué qu'il pourrait me donner accès au CVS.
Comment fonctionne Alioth pour les non développeurs Debian ?
Comme un CVS normal.
D'après
Le Mardi 24 Juin 2003 15:51, Frédéric Bothamy a écrit :
Un developpeur Debian a annoncé que ses paquets sont disponibles sur CVS
et m'a indiqué qu'il pourrait me donner accès au CVS.
Comment fonctionne Alioth pour les non développeurs Debian ?
Comme un CVS normal.
D'après ce que j'ai
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:12:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote:
Exim is capable of handling Maildir mailboxes. It's Priority: important.
I don't know if that counts as shipping it by default or not, but I
would certainly say that it's the closest
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:12:04 +1000 (EST)
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Capable of handling, yes, but then, so is cat. g Once delivered, though,
there's no way of getting it back out again unless you're running something
like courier or similar.
Or Mutt, or a halfdozen other MUAs.
At Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:11:36 +0200,
Erwan MAS wrote:
Please keep , a i386 or i586 architecture , for the via C3 processor .
i686 architecture is not compatible with C3 .
This processor is very used in the Via EPIA motherboard :
See :
At 21 Jun 2003 00:27:18 +0200,
Mathieu Roy wrote:
RedHat provide glibc for i386, i586 and i686. Why doesn't Debian
provide several packages for i*86 when the package can be optimized a
lot depending on the CPU type?
We're planning. i686 optimized binary does not work on my machine, so
it's
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote:
Given how simple it is, makes more sense to have it in one place. I
don't know where it should be (in all the MTAs?), but there you go :)
Well I have one in dovecot but I don't see why it couldn't be in e.g.
debianutils.
--
Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Marek Habersack wrote:
thanks Marek. Can you ask him if he installed webmin updates without
using .debs? This is the most probable cause of his problem. It is a bad
idea because the packaging system is unaware of the changes and can, like
in this case, accidently overwrite
* Jan Schulz
| * David Goodenough wrote:
|
| KDevelop comes as part of KDE, Eclipse is only available in unstable at the
| moment (I don't think it has made it into testing yet but I may be wrong).
|
| Nope... On the other hand it is no problem to recompile it on woody
| systems. Only thing is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
But, I was looking around and wondering about that I couldn't find
any `maildirmake' for Debian, excluding qmail-src, courier and
maildrop, which I don't want/don't need to use.
[...]
You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why
do we
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:12:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no
use.
Can I have a bit of the weed you are smoking? Seems to be good.
Package: mutt
Priority: standard
`standard'
These packages
I was hoping large package developers would write longer descriptions.
* Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why
do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not
only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of
generating them. This includes e.g. the exim(4) MTA,
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Am Dienstag, 24. Juni 2003 09:45 schrieb Ralf Hildebrandt:
* Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do.
Why do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir
is not only
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why
do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not
only capable of storing messages in Maildir
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why
do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not
only capable of storing messages in Maildir
* Michael Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do.
Why do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir
is not only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but
also of generating them. This includes e.g. the exim(4)
I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the
package justice by giving an adequate description.
The Packages file could very well be the source for decisions on what
gets chosen or not for ones system.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:29:23PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the
package justice by giving an adequate description.
File wishlist bugs with a patch for the long description then.
Michael
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: debbackup
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/debbackup/
(not functional yet)
*
[Ob-lists: if replying publicly, please reply to -devel only]
Farideh Sherbaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Linux Developer and Distributor,
Hi,
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Farideh Sherbaf and
I am your contact for EPSON Worldwide Developer Relations for scanners
and
Hi Arnd Bergmann,
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 02:00, Adam Heath wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
In g++ 3.2, this code was distributed as i386, and nobody noticed
that it doesn't work on i386 for quite some time. In gcc 3.3, an
implementation is provided that works on i386,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
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I was hoping large package developers would write longer descriptions.
Where are the statistics for that? You only gave the
Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I was wondering, should I make a mass filing of bugs for those packages
who fail to produce a proper description?
[...]
I doubt that just filing bugs without fix makes sense, OTOH
if you planned to submit 10 reports with the description
Dan Jacobson writes:
I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the
package justice by giving an adequate description.
While extremely short descriptions might be a cause for concern regardless
of the size of the package, I don't see why larger packages should need
longer
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:28, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
Hello people! =)
I became a maintainer recently, when I took the prozilla package from Gustavo
Noronha Silva (kov), a few days ago. I am now trying to finish my second
Debian Package: cgiirc.
Unfortunately, the program puts all
* Dan Jacobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I was hoping large package developers would write longer descriptions.
Too bad. The two are not, should not, and should never be related.
Stephen
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* Dan Jacobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the
package justice by giving an adequate description.
The description is adequate. The size of the package has nothing to do
with it.
The Packages file could very well be the source
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:10:09PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:56:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Fellas, looking in the Packages files, some big packages have little
descriptions, some little packages have big descriptions,
and this package description went
Martin Schulze wrote:
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:29:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
He wants to know when a particular package was last updated, without
having to download it and examine the gzip time stamp and/or changelog.
It is unfortunate, that there is no
Hallo Tollef,
* Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Jan Schulz
| sources.list. Unfortunatelly I don't have that much webspace to do
| a woody backport myself...
deb http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/
deb-src http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/
Was more meant to supply a eclipse backport for woody. :) My
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:14:26PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:29:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
He wants to know when a particular package was last updated, without
having to download it and examine the gzip time stamp and/or changelog.
Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 03.46 schrieb Matthew Palmer:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_
necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script
why it isn't included anywhere and anyway in the
Martin Schulze wrote:
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:29:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
He wants to know when a particular package was last updated,
without
having to download it and examine the gzip time stamp and/or
changelog.
It is unfortunate, that there is
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:47:55PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
At 21 Jun 2003 00:27:18 +0200,
Mathieu Roy wrote:
RedHat provide glibc for i386, i586 and i686. Why doesn't Debian
provide several packages for i*86 when the package can be optimized a
lot depending on the CPU type?
We're
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:51, Daniel Stone wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: debbackup
Version : 0.1
Version 0.1...
How much of it does already work? How much is sid specific and won't work on
woody/sarge?
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: debbackup
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL :
Dear Matt,
Thank you for responding to my email. I will use Julien as scanner contact
person. However, if possible I appreciate if I could also obtain your
signature info for our database.
Best regards,
Farideh
- Original Message -
From: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Farideh
Johannes Rohr wrote:
I'd say that writing a meaningful package description is certainly the
duty of the individual package maintainer. A package maintainer should
usually have an idea of what his/her package is good for, while Javier
would probably have to spend a lot more time to figure that
* Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030624 18:50]:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: debbackup
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL
Le mar 24/06/2003 à 18:44, Adam Heath a écrit :
Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for
modifying other packages conffiles.
In the meantime, you can still file RC bugs against all text editors
that allow to modify conffiles.
Hint: maybe this package won't modify
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: debbackup
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Farideh,
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:15:25PM -0700, Farideh Sherbaf wrote:
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Farideh Sherbaf and I
am your contact for EPSON Worldwide Developer Relations for scanners
and All-In-One (Multifunction) products. The EPSON Developer
Relations
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:56:03PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one source
file
which have package descriptions like libfoo-dev = dev files for libfoo,
libfoo-doc = documention for libfoo, and libfoo = runtime files for foo
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
[snip]
debbackup is a supplemental, Debian-specific, backup program. It backs
up only what is needed to restore from a fresh install, with data
recovered - package information (including
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
I'd say that writing a meaningful package description is certainly the
duty of the individual package maintainer. A package maintainer should
usually have an idea of what his/her package is good for, while Javier
would
Adam Heath wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
* Package name: debbackup
- installing/updating required packages, restoring configuration files,
and more.
Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for
modifying other packages conffiles.
let's
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: debbackup
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Daniel Stone [EMAIL
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:59 am, Emile van Bergen wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for
modifying other packages conffiles.
*g*
5 serious replies already -- sorry Adam, I'm afraid
I've been meaning to write this for a while. I wrote up a procecure and I
may have even posted it. I include files indicated by cruft in my backups.
I'm also looking at checking md5sums and atimes to help decide if backups
of files like conf files is neccisary or if they're just the defaults from
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:09:25AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote:
On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:48 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
i was thinking about splitting duali itself into 2 packages:
1- duali the main dictionary
2- duali-dev contain the script
duali-data build-depends on duali-dev while duali
Hi!
I was just looking for a 'open use' debian favicon. But i can't find it on
http://www.debian.org/logos/index.en.html
Is it ok to use the resource from http://www.debian.org/favicon.ico ?
Shouldn't it also be published on the logo page?
Regards
Henning
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: pmk
Version : 0.4.5
Upstream Author : Damien Couderc Xavier Santolaria
* URL : http://premk.sf.net/
* License : BSD
Description : The pmk project aims to be an
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
Johannes Rohr wrote:
I'd say that writing a meaningful package description is certainly the
duty of the individual package maintainer. A package maintainer should
usually have an idea of what his/her package is good for, while
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to GNU/autoconf
(configure scripts).
Description field is inappropriate, use something like:
Description: A GNU/autoconf alternative.
ciao,
--
Luca - De
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
Description field is
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
Description field is inappropriate,
Josip Rodin wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
I'd say that writing a meaningful package description is certainly the
duty of the individual package maintainer. A package maintainer should
usually have an idea of what his/her package is good for, while
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:17:58PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one source
file
which have package descriptions like libfoo-dev = dev files for libfoo,
libfoo-doc = documention for libfoo, and libfoo = runtime files for
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:23:25PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
Alright, this happened far too often lately to be ignored. This must
stop, pretty please. The developers-reference[1] isn't written just for
fun.
[snip]
/me stands up
_ _ _ _
Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
I don't think that filing a bug saying that Your extended package
description does not meet Debian policy requirements. Please consider
writing 4-5 lines to give sysadmins an idea what your package can do
for them. means asking too much from a Debian maintainer.
You don't.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
Hello
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:12:20PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
Some progress has been made toward the goal of making
Debian easier to use with a read-only root filesystem.
Action has been taken to remove variable files from /etc/,
or at least to make it possible to do so locally, in the
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:41:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:17:58PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one
source file
which have package descriptions like libfoo-dev = dev files for libfoo,
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:25:23PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
Use ${description}, and debian/substvars. This is already supported.
RTFM.
is there FM in the form of an example package? or can you
think of a method of finding packages that use this
technique?
dpkg-souce(1) implies that
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Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some time ago, Martin Schulze pointed out that there is no developer
accessible Hurd machine available.
I am happy to coordinate the donation of hardware for this if it is
this something that you
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-25
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: kernel-patch-2.4-low-latency
Upstream Author : Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html
* License : GPL
Description : Reduces
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
about A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf?
I see your point, but your suggestion is still too long: it should be
rephrased to
Hi,
Here is a list of bugs older than a year; most of them are related to
translated debconf templates, so fixing them is trivial and I might
NMU some of these packages soon.
#BRDate Package Maintainer
103324 (03 Jul 2001) diald Jeff Licquia
106150 (21 Jul 2001)
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
about A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf?
Sorry for my previous reply to this message, your suggestion is definitely
good.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De
Vitis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:25:03PM -0700, Neil Spring [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
dpkg-souce(1) implies that substitution variables are
limited to a single line (which seems poorly suited to long
descriptions).
Then as long as the shared part is a single paragraph you should be
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:15:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Not all of it, but you can't object to duplicating a single sentence saying
what it is.
When the sentence in question is the one that goes in the short
description, and already fills the available
Hey list,
Running debuild as normal user under the 2.5.73+ kernel results in fakeroot
actually setting the file ownership to root (or any other uid/gid for that
matter). The result is that the parts which don't run under fakeroot -
e.g. debian/rules won't be able to write to the
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:14:56PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
about A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
Try an alternative to GNU autoconf or a substitute for GNU autoconf,
to avoid confusion with Debian's alternatives system.
It's
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:21:18PM -0400, Jim Penny scribbled:
[snip]
Description field is inappropriate, use something like:
Description: A GNU/autoconf alternative.
Try an alternative to GNU autoconf or a substitute for GNU
autoconf, to avoid confusion with Debian's
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:30:26PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
I think such a machine would be valuable to increase the quality
of the Hurd port overall.
Maybe. But also keep in mind that porting to GNU/Hurd is a bit more
complicated than porting to just another Linux architecture, because of
Dear Julien,
Thank you for responding to my email. We understand the existing issues
which you have explained below and to make this more clear is that EPSON
Kowa handles the License agreement. We have nothing to do with the
licensing agreement for the Image Scan! for Linux. We're sure that
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:15:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:41:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:17:58PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one
source file
which
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:19:35AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why
do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not
only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of
generating them. This
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:15:42AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote:
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:59 am, Emile van Bergen wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for
modifying other packages
avg. bytes per description lines 66321.8
A Is that just a meaningless number, or is there actually a correlation
A between package size and description length?
Somebody with statistics experience might go further and see if little
packages have big descriptions and visa versa etc.
Anyway, one
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:07:46AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Anyway, one liner snob descriptions just have to go.
$ apt-cache show emacs21
Description: The GNU Emacs editor
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
Oops, I see, it is self-documenting.
that's actually a
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no
use.
Can I have a bit of the weed you are smoking? Seems to be good.
They're pine needles. I really do need to get off them, they're keeping my
brain in the 70's...
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 18:34, Marek Habersack wrote:
5. Influence the XFS/kernel maintainers to change the default value of
restrict_chown to enabled.
I think they really should do this. Having people be able to give away
files is something that you usually *don't* want by default.
I demand that Dan Jacobson may or may not have written...
I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the
package justice by giving an adequate description.
I have here a 20K package. Should it have a 1/3-line description?
;-)
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:17:36PM -0400, Colin Walters scribbled:
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 18:34, Marek Habersack wrote:
5. Influence the XFS/kernel maintainers to change the default value of
restrict_chown to enabled.
I think they really should do this. Having people be able to
Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
During some of the discussions lately on debian-devel another usage of
the changelog has risen interest:
* New upstream release (closes: #123, #124, #125)
This has also raised some discussions. The thing is this: If #123,
#124 and #125 aren't just
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2. Modify fakeroot to check the kernel version, the type of fs on which it
is currently working and have it issue a sysctl to enable
restricted_chown. It looks better than #1 but it might incurr
Er, is this even possible as an ordinary
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-25
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libebml
Version : CVS
Upstream Author : Steve Lhomme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.matroska.org/
* License : dual GPL/QPL
Description : Extensible Binary
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