Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread John O Sullivan
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:17:42 Vince Mulhollon wrote: 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable. For the record I object to any Code of Condust that includes this clause. btw I'm a Ham operator and

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread John O Sullivan
There was a few discussions on the rsync mailing lists about how to handle compressed files, specifically .debs I'd like to see some way of handling it better, but I don't think it'll happen at the rsync end. Reasons include higher server cpu load to (de)compress every file that is transferred and

Re: Questions about testing

2001-01-02 Thread John O Sullivan
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 05:38:36 Branden Robinson wrote: Consider that when I manage to hork up X, I know about it within hours of dinstall. Likewise, a few days ago when Wichert busted the vim postinst, he was told about it quite fast indeed. I don't have any concrete recommendations for

Re: possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-28 Thread John O Sullivan
These files include such things as fvwm, koules and xbill. There doesn't seem to be any tools specifically for building packages. I know the source for all the packages is kept under the source directory, but these files aren't in their subcategory directory. eg we have

possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread John O Sullivan
Hi all, I've noticed something that seems odd to me. On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this directory. Is this the correct behaviour? Is this related to the switch to package pools? I'm curious because the same thing

ITP lame

2000-09-04 Thread John O Sullivan
LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder I'm surprised that lame hasn't been packaged already. Was it discussed and rejected previously? Original source available from http://www.sulaco.org/mp3 Licence is 100% GPL'ed code since May 2000 There is a possible problem with the Fraunhoffer (sp?) patent on mp3 but I

ITP magellan

2000-09-04 Thread John O Sullivan
Magellan is a personal information manager under development for KDE 2.0. I am a close friend of the project leader and we've discussed this several times. More details available from http://www.kalliance.org The license is the MIT license. I am not assuming that KDE will or will not make it into