Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2009-01-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, John Goerzen wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the code has been written from scratch and

Re: Mailing list code of conduct, again

2008-05-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 19 May 2008 18:10, Bernhard R. Link wrote: People already CCed are a different beast. But CCing the creator of a mail by default is not reasonable. Unfortunately that doesn't work with Kmail's reply-to-list, which means manual attention is needed when the thread is being

Re: Bug#427697: Is sbackup maintained? If not, what to do?

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 16 May 2008 10:20, Charles Plessy wrote: Since the revitalisation of sbackup is expected after the freezing of Lenny, we have to solve the most important bugs of the current version of sbackup. I do not know enough of python for helping on bug #427697 (the gid of the backups). If

Re: Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:07, Noah Slater wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:44:00AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying if you don't know what this is, you don't need this defeats the purpose of packages descriptions.

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 21 January 2008 07:45, Russ Allbery wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : Regarding the list above I would guess that what you want is something like the following: * glib - GLib * Glib -

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Vaughan
[Sorry for the late reply] On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:18, Hamish Moffatt wrote: It appears that the Technical menu should include at least; - Science - Engineering - Math - HamRadio - Electronics [snip] I thought that Science fit under Technical, if the offer was for one

Re: Flash player?

2007-03-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Sunday 18 March 2007 10:09, Gabriel Molina wrote: Hello, I've recently installed debian on a MAC Power PC G4 but I have not been able to find a flash player to work on it.. The one I found (gnash) did not work. Is there anything out there that I've over looked? Thank you for your

Re: apt hangs for ever

2006-11-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 27 November 2006 11:55, Brian May wrote: Hello, Is this a bug in apt? pbuilder update --override-config --configfile /tmp/pbuilder-local.SvMNy19452 W: /home/brian/.pbuilderrc does not exist Upgrading for distribution etch Building the build Environment - extracting base tarball

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 20 October 2006 08:06, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Sander Marechal] True, but I meant that an app can kill X, requiring it to be restarted. Newbies get very confused at that point. Look, if you typed startx once, you can type it again. If you didn't, it means you're using a display

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 05:41, you wrote: On 2006-10-17, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Anyway, the usual way to detect a newbie and give help to them seems to be to assume everyone a newbie and give little hints, startup tips, ... till they learn enough to

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Saturday 29 July 2006 04:42, Katrina Jackson wrote: Hardware supported by Ubuntu 6 months ago, should be supported by Debian by now. Just out of interest, what hardware in particular? Which Debian distribution? (Stable, testing, or unstable) Also remember that non-free drivers typically

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: at the moment, we have two types of Live CD images: * the small one which contains only packages of standard priority, * and three larger ones, each of which contains one of the common desktop-environments on it

Re: Testing excuses question

2006-06-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 26 June 2006 23:08, Jiri Palecek wrote: Sorry, I do not understand. You mean the breaks xx packages thingy? I have already said, that of these 74 packages, 15 are dependent, and they are more or less prepared to enter testing along with neon. The rest only depends on those 15, and

Re: Bug#374607: ITP: mlmmjadmd -- a networked daemon for remote administration of mlmmj

2006-06-20 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 18:26, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: mlmmjadmd is a TCP based server that allows clients to remotely administer an mlmmj installation. Currently, almost all mlmmj tunables and actions are supported. mlmmjadmd makes it easy to construct synchronous adminitratitive UI's.

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-11 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thursday 11 May 2006 01:25, Frank Küster wrote: The only things that should be installed separately are probably aptitude, apt and dpkg, then just dist-upgrade. From memory, upgrading apt + friends seperately isn't possible whilst synaptic is installed. In sarge, the gnome meta package

Re: Bug#354803: ITP: stx2any -- A converter from structured plaintext to multiple formats

2006-03-01 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:23, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: Description : A converter from structured plaintext to multiple formats What formats? Please be a little more verbose. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Bug#347617: ITP: itrans -- Converts romanised Indic text to LaTeX, HTML Postscript

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:58, Frank Küster wrote: Yves-Alexis Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Baishampayan Ghose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did you manage to download the sources from there? I get: ftp://ftp%40aczoom%2Ecom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/itrans/53/itrans53 .zip

Re: No 2.6 kernels for 586 in Sarge and up

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 02:55, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 16:40, Jérôme Warnier wrote: I wonder why there is no 2.6 kernel package for 586 in Sarge while there is for 2.4? I can find 386-486-686 and k7, but no 586. Try linux-{source,image,headers}. (on sarge, long lines

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:52, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Given the choice between having to double check work done by potentially inexperienced folks, and ensuring that the package is done by people who can do some of the double checking on their own, and make less errors, I'd go for the

Re: [Listmaster] Seeking petsupermarket

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:25, Cord Beermann wrote: Someone who is subscribed to d-devel forwards the mails to petsupermarket. petsupermarket itself is not subscribed to any of our mailinglists. If you have seen those c-r-responses outside of the debian-lists, or in the last days on other lists

Re: udev event completion order

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:29, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written... Kay Sievers wrote: There is also the plan to do parallel device probing inside the kernel some day, that will make the situation of relying on kernel names even more fragile.

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:32, David Nusinow wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:32:21PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: This is not a fair characterization of what the introduction of a two-maintainer rule would be doing. No one should be insulted by general rule changes designed to make Debian work

Re: kernel 2.6.14

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:34, Richard Fojta wrote: Hi, I've recently try to install new kernel. Somethings go wrong and I cannot found solution. There is some problem with configuration. It seems to me, that this problem is not unique. Does anybody know how to solve ti? [This is probably more

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:08, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: This is beyond tasksel, but Bob User would profit immensely from generic menu entries. SuSE does this and I think it's very helpful. Most people don't care, which web browser

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 03:03, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Simon Richter wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is dig through the Perl code in merkel:/org/bugs.debian.org/scripts and work out how to add this functionality. grin You can use package foo as a

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: FWIW, Debian package names prefer e.g. foo-en-uk-doc over foo-documentation-ukenglish. This allows to filter documentation packages by name (doc-* or *-doc), and following the standardized ISO abbreviations also seems to be better than using yet

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:40, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Andrew Vaughan wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: FWIW, Debian package names prefer e.g. foo-en-uk-doc over foo-documentation-ukenglish. Can you provide a reference/stats to back this up. (on sarge) $ apt-cache search

Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:17, Alexander Wirt wrote: Frederico Rodrigues Abraham schrieb am Mittwoch, den 27. Juli 2005: i am using debian stable... (sarge) Then I'm sorry, I tried to reproduce the problem, here my results on a fresh installed sarge chroot: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-08 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi all, The following two packages are the only ones not in testing that I currently use. Note that both are in woody, so it would be good they also shipped with sarge. (packages maintainers cced, in the hope they might fix these themselves). (Note: I'm not a dd, so I can't fix these

Re: [Fwd: Re: partimage-server]

2005-04-18 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi Martin On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:51 pm, Martin Kos wrote: hi everbody i'm forwarding this to the list and perhaps somebody could close the bug for partimage-server, please? greets KoS ps.: i am NOT a subscriber of the list so please take me on the CC Original Message