Re: ITP: ncurses-ruby - ruby extension for the ncurses C library

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:58:25PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:44:02PM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: BA I intend to package ncurses-ruby, which is a ruby extension for the BA ncurses C library. It is placed under the LGPL 2.1. It's required BA by raggle. BA

ITP: raggle - console RSS aggregator

has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, and should work properly under other Unix variants as well. http://www.raggle.org -- Brian Almeida | http://tynian.net| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org| [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITP: ncurses-ruby - ruby extension for the ncurses C library

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to package ncurses-ruby, which is a ruby extension for the ncurses C library. It is placed under the LGPL 2.1. It's required by raggle. http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator, Core Messaging Systems

Re: mozilla 0.7

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :%( away : Yes, I know its out, leave me the fuck alone Bad move... -- Brian Almeida | http://people.debian.org/~bma Debian Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Avifile package - help needed

running 2.4.0 could tell you). Thus, it would die immediately for me. flags was changed to features in test11, and was reverted back to flags in test12 (and later). -- Brian Almeida | http://www.debian.org/~bma Debian Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

given above returns No such changelog file. Any other ideas how to do this? apt-cache show $package|grep Source Then use that value in the url (in this case db) -- Brian Almeida | http://www.debian.org/~bma Debian Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:57:41AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: I don't think explorer is sufficient justification to keep qt1 in woody. I wasn't implying it was. I was just saying it needs to be fixed, or removed. -- Brian M. Almeida Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL

Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:16:03AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Hey, I'd like to remove qt1 from woody. I only seem to find 1 package that depends on it currently (tuxeyes) and due to the fact that it's non-free and qt2 is out with a gpl'd license and all, I think we should discourage

ITP: SkipStone

Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to make packages of it, and I have uploaded it into Debian. It is placed under the GPL. See http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ for more info. -- Brian

Re: ITP: SkipStone

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Peter Teichman wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to make packages

Re: ITP: SkipStone

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:48:17PM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000, Brian Almeida wrote: Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to make packages of it, and I have

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:32:38PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: It's still mention in Suggests: etc. but the package is not listed in the Packages files anymore. Just a temporary situation or a real problem? prc-tools (0.5.0r-3.1) frozen; urgency=low * NMU * Specify the archs (excluding

Re: WNPP

] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Almeida Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org Linux Systems Engineer @ Winstar | http://www.winstar.com

Re: WNPP

...or maybe not. It's got cryptographic hashing algos (tiger, sha1, etc), so I probably can't package it due to wonderful US laws. Drat. On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: I'll do this, since it relates to my work. :-) On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:39:52PM -0800, Joey

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

in internet time), we have fastr become a distribution that does not meet the needs of a vast number of people. I believe slink was released Mar 9, so we are just over a year, not 18 months (so we are only 2 generations behind ;) -- Brian Almeida Debian Developer | http

ITP: ICQnix

ICQnix is a clone of ICQ intended to resemble the Mirabilis client as much as possible. It is placed under the GPL, with the exception that it may be linked to Qt. I will upload in a day or so if no one objects (I searched the archives and wnpp and didn't see anyone had dibs on this, but if I

Re: request to kill nag messages

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:26:11PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: You are subscribed to a mailing list debian-devel, aren't you? Nag also sends emails regarding old bugs on your packages. I never subscribed to that. :p -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux Developer

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

from possibly investigating the source with an eye towards taking over maintenance. Ah, I see. I must have missed that message. In this case, yes, I'd say Ok, this guy has it now, thanks for the help, which most people do right now anyways (most often just a It's yours.). -- Brian Almeida

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

the way I want. Also consider this, linux.com is a 100%-debian drive site - from the impressions I've gotten, the VA people are really big on Debian, but for the reasons above aren't doing preinstalls of it. Don't be so quick to judge things. -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

. -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://www.cicat.com/ V: 703-383-1408 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F: 703-385-3788 Life's unfair - but root password helps!

Re: request to kill nag messages

possibly go through that list until some modifications are done to the BTS. 'Nag' also goes to developers personally, not only to -devel. -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://www.cicat.com

Re: request to kill nag messages

bug, it's either because it's fixed and forgotten to be closed, unreproducable, or the package/maintainer author feel it not to be a bug - but leave it open so it won't get reported over and over. -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand

Re: request to kill nag messages

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:28:33PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: So where's the problem with getting an reminder about your old open bugs, which you need to fix? I don't NEED a reminder about my bugs. There should be an option to TURN THE BLOODY THING OFF. -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: gtkicq replaced by gnomeicu communicator/netscape*45 new version is out(46) -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://www.cicat.com

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:03AM +0200, Mail Delivery System wrote: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. Can we please block this guy?

Re: Adding a global UID/GID?

On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:13:39AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Mitch == Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mitch GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in Mitch the 0-99 range added to Debian? Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe. And pray. :-)

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:02:10PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: Hmm... then why isn't it used on my system? devpts is mounted, I have /dev/ptmx, but /dev/pts is empty. Perhaps you aren't using anything that uses unix98 ptys? Not everything uses them by default, you know. Sometimes patches

Re: Anyone have a slink box I could use?

On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:17:59AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: I need to make a new frozen release of wmakerconf, but my system is potato all the way. Does anyone have a computer I could compile this on? Sure. I just fresh reinstalled slink last night. Contact me privately for more information.

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:30:31AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what you think. They're

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:06:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: It *was* a joke, you know. It's hard to tell sometimes. :p

Looking for someone to take over Imlib

=) Thanks, Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP Key: 0x3A800C65

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:14:57PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: There are two imlib maintainers listed on the People Behind Debian web page, Brian and Shaleh. Is that right? :) No. Shaleh was the maintainer before me.

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what you think. They're yours.

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:53:44PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Raster and I had philosophical differences, which made the maintainer/author relationship hard. Give it a shot, if you can't do it someone else will step in. Same reason here. Just took me a few months to really realize it =)

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:41:45PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: I'm very happy that you took the package, because I'm heavyly dependend from it. In my humble opinion maintaining is not so hard, because the program compiled well in all version I compiled myself (sometimes there where reasons

Re: libpng gnome slink

On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can downgrade, i see the 1.0.1 package nowhere ... bma !find libpng2 hamm dpkg bma: um, dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libpng2_1.0.0-0.1.deb what about latest gnome

Re: Is rvplayer working for others?

On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 07:17:03PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: rvplayer does not work under Linux 2.1, if that's what you're running. Why not? I noticed today that it wasn't working...are there any fixes? It'll suck when 2.2 comes out and rvplayer don't wrok...

libjpeg62 and Imlib

Well, now that I'm back from my wonderful little break, has anything been decided on libjpegg6b (libjpegg62?) It's gettin' kinda close to freeze, and I was wondering if anything happenedno updates on them in slink Any word from the maintainer? If not, maybe Steve could upload his fixed

Imlib NMU

. But all the other packages have to make it there as well. Thanks. Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/ _ _ _ __| | ___| |__ (_) __ _ _ __ / _` |/ _ \ '_ \| |/ _` | '_ \ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Imlib NMU

that 6b has not been tested. I don't want to break every Imlib dependent package totally a week and half before the freeze. Thoughts? Ideas? Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma

Re: Imlib NMU

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let's do so before the freeze. Alright. Who wants to do

Re: gnome .debs

' a GREAT idea. :) Keep in touch. Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/ _ _ _ __| | ___| |__ (_) __ _ _ __ / _` |/ _ \ '_ \| |/ _` | '_ \ Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

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Intent to package: audiofile

/ The latest version is 0.1.5. Audiofile is released under the GPL. I did not see it listed in dselect/slink as of a few minutes ago. If there are no objections, I will package it. Thanks. Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma

prelim deb of emusic

While I'm awaiting the phone call to receive maintainer status (possibly tonight), I have put up a preliminary .deb of my package(eMusic). It can be found at: http://web.terminus.cicat.com/software/emusic_0.5-1_i386.deb Any suggestions welcome. :) Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED

(Re)intent to package

Hello, I'd like to take on eMusic as a package once more. I've finally managed to find the time to do it. If there are no objections, of course. :) Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.terminus.cicat.com PGP Key: pub 1024/3A800C65 1998/04/20 Brian M. Almeida

Intent to package eMusic

) and fnlib. Both imlib and fnlib are already packaged for Debian, and are both GPL free. Regards, Brian Almeida -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://terminus.cicat.com PGP Key: pub 1024/3A800C65 1998/04/20 Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED