Re: Master-Slave terminology Re: [Piuparts-devel] piuparts.d.o stalled?

2020-02-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/02/2020 21:14, Timo Weingärtner wrote: I don't think giving slaves new labels helps them in any way; they will still be slaves. True, but once "freed", they could compete to be Employee of the Month. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limi

Bug#906249: ,general: Long pause after lightdm login, gimp not starting except under strace

2018-08-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
/getrandom-printk-dump-stack Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: How to upgrade the linux-image package on Debian 8.7 OS

2018-07-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
s with: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade This will upgrade all packages on your system. If you have installed linux-image-amd64, this should automatically install linux-image-3.16.0-6-amd64 3.16.56-1+deb8u1. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: make compilation not so gray

2018-05-26 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 27/05/18 10:21, Adam Borowski wrote: [Warning: a long-winded rant about terminals. You should have known better than to get me onto this particular topic.] I am pleased. It is working out very well for me :-) On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:57:39PM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: Exhibit

Re: make compilation not so gray

2018-05-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
be dealt with by the a11y police. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: make compilation not so gray

2018-05-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 26/05/18 12:28, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 26/05/18 00:21, Adam Borowski wrote: It might be good to pipe output through ansi2txt Thank you so much for alerting me to ansi2txt. Given the miserable failure of some command line tool authors to contemplate terminal background colours other

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
-e "buster\nStretch" | LC_COLLATE=C sort Stretch buster In en_GB, by comparison: $ echo -e "buster\nStretch" | LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8 sort buster Stretch Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Let's enable AppArmor by default (why not?)

2017-11-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 18/11/17 04:27, intrigeri wrote: Thanks in advance, and sorry for any inconvenience it may cause (e.g. the AppArmor policy for Thunderbird has various issues in sid; all of those I'm aware of are fixed in experimental already). Where "various issues" means no thunderbird external helpers

Re: Let's enable AppArmor by default (why not?)

2017-11-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 18/11/17 14:34, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 18/11/17 04:27, intrigeri wrote: Thanks in advance, and sorry for any inconvenience it may cause (e.g. the AppArmor policy for Thunderbird has various issues in sid; all of those I'm aware of are fixed in experimental already). Where "va

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade uninstalled most of KDE

2017-08-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
hat conflict with the installation, so you should not have to manually remove anything. The only other thing I did after the downgrade was to "apt-mark hold" the packages affected by the transition that I did not want to remove; this is my preferred tactic for surviving transitions. Kind

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade uninstalled most of KDE

2017-08-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
would be delighted if anyone has a better suggestion. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: can't start GUI mode debian 9

2017-07-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
might also consider installing "task-laptop" for power management and wifi tools. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-05-30 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
-agent). This seems really not ideal. Trust is not transitive. Perhaps Recommends should not be either? Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: De-Branding of Icedove, reintroducing Thunderbird packages into Debian

2017-02-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
lt. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: De-Branding of Icedove, reintroducing Thunderbird packages into Debian

2017-02-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
lt. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Re: Is lack of full-HD display support an RC bug?

2017-02-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
, then it is serious and thus RC. It sounds to me that you are unhappy releasing xrdp without this patch. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand

Bug#837606: general: system freeze

2016-09-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
ry errors? Overheating? - Wireless keyboard low battery or lost connection? In any case, the Debian Bug Tracking System is not the most suitable forum for general support unless you can determine specific steps to reproduce this problem. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient

Re: Help me please... I need help immediately becouse I can't open my pc and I need to use it for work

2016-01-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
need to use my pc for my work but it dont open... please help.. is there any way to format my pc... becouse I put my windows 7 cd to format my pc but nothing happened. ... the only thing that can be opened is kali linux cd help pls -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Tra

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-11 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
are not discouraged by the way that you have been treated by some. There is no reason why live-wrapper cannot coexist with live-build. Let users choose which best meets their needs. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-07-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
to join a Debian organization on Github. GitHub organizations are free for open source, and each GitHub user can be a member of multiple unrelated organizations: https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-07-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/07/15 23:18, Florian Weimer wrote: * Ben Caradoc-Davies: On 19/07/15 21:52, Florian Weimer wrote: * Jérémy Lal: i was wondering if debian had a github account as an organization, where maintainers could be added. Github has a single-account-per-person policy (unless you pay, I think

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-07-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
that affect third parties in a way that might be of concern to them? I am interested to know if you have experienced such a case. (You could argue that organization objecting to such sharing should pay for an account for their users, though.) Indeed. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-07-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 20/07/15 12:18, Ian Jackson wrote: Ben Caradoc-Davies writes (Re: debian github organization ?): I am not sure why this would be unacceptable to anyone. Authentication is your ability to prove who you are. GitHub accounts provide this. You're talking as if what is identified is a human

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-07-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
collaborative development by building maintainer teams. I acknowledge the identity management and security concerns raised on this list as valid, but they need not prevent use of GitHub organizations. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies b...@transient.nz Director Transient Software Limited http