Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 10:38, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Who makes the decision as to how much redundancy is too much? And is it crap just because it's redundant? For example, is micro-httpd redundant crap? There are no bug reports, so how much Security

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
*package* this s/w, it's convince me that I should *use* this package. As such, I think the revised description is perfectly acceptable for Debian. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA (Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions. Pitr Dubovitch

Re: Bug#466078: RFP: sourcenav NG -- source code analysis tool

2008-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
navigator and strives to improve usability and performance. What language(s) does it support? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHtu5/S9HxQb37XmcRAgSwAJwO34vojPp1FhD

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
to search for and install apps, it is incumbent upon you to have *some* basic knowledge of your system. Among the most important is whether you have a GNOME/GTK or KDE/Qt system, and whether you run Stable, Testing or Sid. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals

Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny

2008-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
use on our current arm/armel toolchain being broken. Once I have a bit more time I'll try seeing what happens if you build gcc-4.3 with ssp enabled. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
Description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHp4OUS9HxQb37XmcRAv8zAKCQ/3WxrBFAvVF1zExqh7cgFT5w6gCfdadV 2ACbdREHqSecmeG7MzIyR+I= =UNoq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/08 23:22, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 19:07 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog daemon, which supports infinite rules

Re: Bug#461104: RFP: label -- Set or change label to partition disk

2008-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
... Aren't there already ways to do this? For example, # tune2fs -L some_label /dev/[sh]d[a-z][1-15] - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables! unknown -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
be another example. *cough* - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables! unknown -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHjBYiS9HxQb37XmcRAk2OAKCRxUS0jCmMBMyplYHT4iy5dJZ0dwCgsQrH

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, ...

2007-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
is not postfix or qmail, it's you. Agreed. For 3+ years I've been using Postfix (always keeping it relatively current with Sid) at home, in smarthost mode, and it's never crashed on me. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA For me

Re: Bug#457424: ITP: yougrabber -- download simultaneously several videos from youtube.com

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
.) -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong In fact it is only reestablishing under another

Re: Bug#457384: ITP: netsend -- a speedy filetransfer and network diagnostic program

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday December 22 2007 12:16:20 Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: * Ron Johnson | 2007-12-21 21:30:08 [-0600]: From reading the web page, it seems that netsend might only work between Linux systems. Am I reading it wrong? You are right. Netsend is optimized for linux: splice(), madvice

Re: Bug#457384: ITP: netsend -- a speedy filetransfer and network diagnostic program

2007-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
page, it seems that netsend might only work between Linux systems. Am I reading it wrong? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not hereditary... Dr. Dean Edell signature.asc

Bug#453105: general: Gnome + Sound problem

2007-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
and Sid. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash - -- Ron

Re: Missing uploads?

2007-11-24 Thread Ron Johnson
updated before the other mirrors. In my experience (which might or might not be accurate) ftp.debian.org is one of the least reliable .debian.org Debian mirrors, it being out-of-date wouldn't really be a surprise to me. But isn't ftp.debian.org the Prime Mirror? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
Description: This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice versa. Is a package really needed for something this simple? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/07 18:51, Matt Brown wrote: On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice versa. Is a package

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/07 20:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:03PM +, Matt Brown wrote: On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter state identification

Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

2007-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
file is the same as printing it? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHHk60S9HxQb37XmcRAjy5AKCDm1TSPXvrzRVNXIgTuMMcw3QOOACffnYG

Re: Forming a new linux Distrbution

2007-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
next week. If I'm paying University US$5,000/semester for my progeny pun intended?) to learn how to build a distro, then I'm one more-than- slightly upset parent... 2. Why do you want to have all the fun? 3. For any other reason, see 1.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
... changing the format or structure for clarifying, or even fixing typos? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 10:46, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Ron Johnson] If O'Reilly wants to write a book on implementing smtp or dns they must get permission from the IETF? Not if they either (1) do not quote the RFCs at all, beyond what is permitted by fair

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 10:01, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:17:57 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 02:45, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 16:51

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
(and his bosses, if relevant) be steamed, his trust in Debian would plunge, he might write a Slashdotted article that ZDNet picks up on, and FLOSS get a big black eye. Bottom line: being able to willy-nilly change protocol specification base documents seems, to me, to be One *Stupid* Idea. - -- Ron

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/07 04:30, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 04:19 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit : Except for fixing typos, none of what you seem to propose seems to my humble eyes to be modifying the base document. Give the new

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/07 05:16, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 05:04 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit : Sorry, but the license doesn't allow that. Which license? I've looked a a few RFCs, and they each seem to have a different (sometimes

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/07 09:16, Russ Allbery wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 09/12/07 05:16, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 05:04 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit : Which license? I've looked a a few RFCs, and they each

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/07 11:49, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070912 15:04]: These are official protocol specifications. If you want to summarize the RFC, do it in a separate document. Let's consider some use cases: * You want

Re: Renaming libraries from upstream

2007-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
. something else? Explain the problem to upstream and ask him to rename it? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
misreading you? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG5IxcS9HxQb37XmcRAp6lAJ9ZUY6/WdMSzD84JW1b2XCYxKhTewCbB5Dq QC3UPWedGPpK1dTTWk2K+AM

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
it might not matter either way. :) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3RgqS9HxQb37XmcRAtOqAJ9ZmnJ0nsPR3IJlVOk9vgyoGkmr3wCfaZEH

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
it possibly need by Debian? Then you *still* don't understand what Testing means in the Debian. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
of context. I would like and need to learn packaging some software for Debian, and something already packaged does seem like a good place to start. The question there is, can it go into Debian? Sure. Check out http://mentors.debian.net/ . - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
be packaged would probably be an installer script that would grab the DEB or tarball from opera.com and then install it onto the system. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [CMake] Producing deb package with 'ar'

2007-08-06 Thread Ron Johnson
? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGtx1ES9HxQb37XmcRAor4AKC+jVZfxTAN5PRSL5a8UFqTEhZdCwCfS99D XT91sSgOD7RE6i54lRGjYWY= =UXSA -END PGP

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Ron Johnson
exploit the power of more than one CPU without multithreading. Of course it's an other question that this power is needed to handle system logging. Are you saying that Apache 1.x only ever used 1 CPU? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him

Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 andASCII character encodings

2007-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
bad the idea of adding GNU Moe to the archive. If the justification is small, simple text editor, nano is already in the archives. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 andASCII character encodings

2007-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
in the mud.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGsGupS9HxQb37XmcRAi0wAJ0bR3LdINxq30H2SlaMREXe70FqjQCfbD48 uwOgsOjlI8iqlv5+ofk9mD8= =xQVp

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/07 00:14, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:56:37 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 07/24/07 17:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:25:47 +0100, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
) doesn't want unprivileged users to see non-essential apps. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpp

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
--configure will let you tell it to use your ISP's smtp server. (Even so, you should configure your MTA to relay all outbound emails to smtp.yourisp.net. Why? To show that you are more than Just A User.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him

Re: Bug#428855: ITP: webkit -- HTML rendering engine library

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
made me realize I didn't specify it: both the QT and Gtk backend will be provided. In the same package? If so, wouldn't that possible pull in packages unneeded by the rest of the system? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
irrelevant how much better or worse they are. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
of the most minor package removal? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-05 Thread Ron Johnson
installs. That way, you don't use use double the space on your system. P.S. I *Really* Appreciates All The Hard Work You All Do. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#426874: ITP: pkg -- High-level library for managing Debian package information

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
? Wouldn't debpkg be a better (since more specific and describing) name? That, too, I think is too generic. metadebpkg, maybe? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#425761: ITP: decoratortools -- version-agnostic decorators support for Python

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
it, but I'm happy to share the load, or even give up on the package if someone wants to take it. It would be useful to add a short blurb describing what decorators are. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away

Re: Bug#423911: ITP: citadel -- Citadel.org is an highly integrated Groupware Platform with a Web 2.0 enabled Webinterface, but also providing SMTP, IMAP, POP3 and GroupDAV access to its content.

2007-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
in and explore a reallife citadel. You can contact me in #citadel on freenode irc. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#421107: ITP: torbutton -- iceweasel/icedove extension enabling 1-click toggle of Tor usage

2007-04-28 Thread Ron Johnson
is a 1-click way for Iceweasel/Icedove users to enable or disable the browser's use of Tor. Hi, maybe you can remind what Tor is ? http://tor.eff.org/ Full Descriptions usually (should) still have such a blurb in them. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he

Re: Bug#421107: ITP: torbutton -- iceweasel/icedove extension enabling 1-click toggle of Tor usage

2007-04-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/07 19:58, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Ron Johnson said: On 04/28/07 13:28, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 15:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:16:29PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio a écrit

Re: Bug#420179: ITP: libjson-any-perl -- Wrapper Class for the various JSON classes.

2007-04-20 Thread Ron Johnson
modules currently on CPAN. This module will allow you to code to any JSON API and have it work regardless of which JSON module is actually installed. Ok, what's JSON? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good

Re: Bug#420179: ITP: libjson-any-perl -- Wrapper Class for the various JSON classes.

2007-04-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/07 10:52, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:43:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Ok, what's JSON? JavaScript Object Notation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON). These days, I don't think it's reasonable to ask

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/07 14:32, Kurt Roeckx wrote: [snip] You can also see this by looking at /proc/cpuinfo looking for lm in flags. Does lahf_lm count? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish

Re: Results for General Resolution: Altering package upload rules

2007-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/23/07 05:41, Steve Langasek wrote: [snip] http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/suppl_002_stats: Ballots Received MIME Decoded Passed Sig Check Passed LDAP Check Votes Tallied Rejects Sent 313 313 270

Re: Bug#415263: ITP: gpspoint -- exchange data with a (garmin) gps receiver

2007-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 14:48, Cord Beermann wrote: Hallo! Du (Colin Tuckley) hast geschrieben: gpspoint is a program to exchange data with a (garmin) gps receiver. You can upload and download waypoints, routes, tracks and various other data. How is this

Re: Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/07 12:14, Tim Brown wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 17:06, you wrote: * Package name: sucrack Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Nico Leidecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.leidecker.info/ * License

Re: Bug#413735: ITP: mdk2 -- Destructive 802.11 wireless network hacking tool

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 14:58, Adam Cecile wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Cecile [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: mdk2 Version : 0.0.0+v33 Upstream Author : Pedro Larbig ASPj [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: sarge and DST

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 20:51, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 21:19 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Dear All, Please correct me (I hope someone will correct me) but sarge is not new DST rules ready like [1] discusses or am I missing smth? up

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 01:27, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Ben Finney wrote: Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] [Frankly, if you're concerned about whether someone has seen your mail, surely the ack from the BTS is sufficent.

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 03:48, Florian Weimer wrote: * Ron Johnson: Does the BTS ack *mean* that an actual living breathing human has eyeballed the bug? No, it doesn't. Ok. That was was I read from Don Armstrong's post, though. But would an ack from

Re: Looking for a temporary account on Alpha

2007-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/07 14:33, Frank B. Brokken wrote: Dear Steve Langasek, you wrote: The intention here is to use size_t in situations where the value is known to be non-negative. I don't see any reason why you should use size_t for that instead of

Re: Bug#411617: ITP: ivtv-firmware -- firmware for the ivtv kernel driver

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:59, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:51 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:06:45PM -0500, Edward Allcutt wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 07:26 +, Ian Campbell wrote: 2. You may not copy,

Re: request

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 10:03, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:44 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:30:40AM -0800, a sh wrote: hi I want debian etch sorce code and desktop picture. I have advertisment purppose. if

Re: Bug#410502: ITP: libcm -- Support code for compositing managers

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 03:39, Loïc Minier wrote: [snip] * URL : http://www.example.org/ No upstream website I know of. FTP site? Where do you get the source from? * License : LGPL, GPL, BSD (This is correct.) It's tri-licensed?

Re: Bug#410502: ITP: libcm -- Support code for compositing managers

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 12:58, =?//TRANSLIT?Q?Lo=EFc?= Minier wrote: On Sun, Feb 11, 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: * URL : http://www.example.org/ No upstream website I know of. FTP site? Where do you get the source from? ftp.gnome.org

Re: Bug#409640: ITP: mafft -- Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences

2007-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 08:27, Charles Plessy wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: mafft Version : 6.236 Upstream Author : Kazutaka Katoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL :

Re: Bug#409640: ITP: mafft -- Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences

2007-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 12:13, Loïc Minier wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: MAFFT is a multiple sequence alignment program for unix-like operating systems. It offers a range of multiple alignment methods, L-INS-i (accurate; recommended for 200

Re: Attempts at security

2007-02-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/07 08:20, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 03 Feb 2007, Russell Coker wrote: [snip] Real world security concerns? Please describe your real world and compare to the other existant real worlds. Botnets and the mafias behind

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/07 03:39, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, the feature as in the subject is nice and makes me feel safe, but sometimes it hits on the laptop, when booting on batteries, with people watching. Ideally, if I'm in a hurry I would like to be

Re: Bug#407721: ITP: dds -- double dummy solver

2007-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/07 13:25, Christoph Berg wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: dds Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Bo Haglund et al. Section : games * URL

Re: Bug#406935: ITP: ledger-smb -- A web based double-entry accounting program

2007-01-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/07 23:15, Michael Schultheiss wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael C. Schultheiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: ledger-smb Version : 1.1.7 Upstream Author : LedgerSMB Core Team * URL

Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
me about this stuff would take a look. As one improvement, I could probably use the /etc/default/aoetools in the initramfs script. wt [1]http://penguintechs.org/debian/aoe_stuff/aoe-block.tar - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example

Re: Bug#403506: ITP: fdisk -- linux fdisk replacement based on libparted

2006-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
you want to use OSX... Well, not really, but it sure gets confusing! Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk/ [2] http://live.gnome.org/ListOfCVSModulesArchive - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common

Re: Bug#403506: ITP: fdisk -- linux fdisk replacement based on libparted

2006-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
/ Since util-linux already has /sbin/fdisk, naming a package fdisk seems ambiguous. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people

Bug in Perl man page (was Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp)

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 13:12 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/24/06 11:54, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:25:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote: [snip] Ron

Re: Bug in Perl man page

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 13:54, Russ Allbery wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote: Ron, please stop that urban legend. Perl is Perl not P.E.R.L as you say. I have been corrected for saying that, by more than

Re: Bug in Perl man page

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 17:07, Russ Allbery wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/25/06 13:54, Russ Allbery wrote: It's a back-formation, as is Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (later in the man page). The language is actually named

Back to the original topic (was Re: Bug in Perl man page)

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 17:07, Russ Allbery wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/25/06 13:54, Russ Allbery wrote: It's a back-formation, as is Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (later in the man page). The language is actually named

Re: Back to the original topic

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 18:24, Russ Allbery wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What matters is that Perl started out as Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbi- trary text files, extracting information from

Re: Bug in Perl man page

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 23:02, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Ron Johnson said: Does an official-looking top-of-the-man-page backronym that does not indicate that it is a backronym *become* canonical, simply by reason that it's at the top

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:42:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: What's the real problem with /dev/{tcp|udp}? My issue with it is having phantom files that only exist in one shell on the system, could clash

Re: Elive requires donation to download

2006-11-24 Thread Ron Johnson
/philosophy/selling.html which explicitly states, in big, bold letters: Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/06 11:54, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:25:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote: I think that having the shell re-implement netcat to be a violation of do one thing and do it well. Hmmm

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
It can produce completely unexpected results. C Perl also can produce completely unexpected results, and C is a security nightmare, but we don't ban/disable them in Debian. What's the real problem with /dev/{tcp|udp}? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid

Re: default ext3 options

2006-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
. I've done the latter, though while the file system was unmounted, and I ran fsck -D on it afterwards. No problems as a result. Me too, on (unmounted) /home and /data, but I was too chicken to do it to /. Besides, I saw no need. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid

Re: arches and etch

2006-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/06 10:55, Tim Cutts wrote: On 31 Oct 2006, at 3:07 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 14:43, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: [snip] [snip

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Johnson
, and this change was forced upon us by the rest of the world. I'm very sure that all 386 chips had MMU. You might have been thinking of the 386SX, which did not have an FPU. However, it could easily (but *slowly*) run Linux when enable software FP was enabled in the kernel. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: Bug#396049: ITP: alice -- Alice programming language

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
. The Alice ML language extends Standard ML with several new features: I might be nice to mention MUMPS somewhere in the long description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks

Re: Bug#396049: ITP: alice -- Alice programming language

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 10:05, Kari Pahula wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Description : Alice programming language A functional programming language based on Standard ML, extended with support for concurrent

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/06 21:42, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:21:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Ron Johnson a écrit : On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr

Re: Bug#395309: ITP: labyrinth -- Labyrinth is a powerful but simple mindmapping tool which supports images, drawings, and text.

2006-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? Thanks - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-25 04:36]: Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? No, of course not. We cannot put a copletely new and untested libc

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Ron Johnson a écrit : On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-25 04:36]: [snip] For m68k and hurd, I have sent a mail to the porters a few months ago, I haven't

Re: Is something wrong to XGL, Compiz, Cgwd be packaged?

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
: 0.2.0-1 Version table: 0.2.0-1 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins

Re: HI, I am a honest user of China, I love linux especially Debian distribution , I think Debian is the greatest linux distribution , but nowdays, the debian weekly news was not updated , I think Deb

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
if someeone wants to and when they have time. The persons doing DWM have not done it, so if someone else wants to do it, I expect they could. IIRC, he sent an email out a few days ago saying that http://planet.debian.net/ now serves most of the purpose of DWN. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

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

2006-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
collection fdclone - A console-base lightweight file manager linuxfacile - An Italian manual for newbies newbiedoc - Documentation by and for newbies selflinux - A collection of German documents about Linux uim - Simple and flexible input method collection and library - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson

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

2006-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
in 1985 were not appreciably smarter than people are now, yet we figured out DIR COPY DEL CD. A HELP command and a set of DOS-friendly aliases (and/or scripts) would/should be adequate. After all, this isn't OpenVMS... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid

Re: Bug#393317: ITP: teamspeak-client -- Very good Voice Chat

2006-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
software code written by any party except as expressly permitted in this Agreement. Isn't this against everything the DFSG stands for? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
, the Amiga would need to process the OpenGL commands, no? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense

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