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

2006-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/06 02:33, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/15/06 00:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote

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

2006-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/06 04:24, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:16:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I don't think this is good. Basically a user should be able to choose if s/he would like to use Gnome or KDE. Wookeys proposal

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

2006-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/06 14:28, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:10:33PM -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Why *shouldn't* KDE, GNOME, Firefox/Iceweasel, Tbird, and anything that requires Mesa/OpenGL, and all of Charles

Re: Bug#392315: ITP: datrie -- Double-array trie library

2006-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
of the implementation can be found at http://linux.thai.net/~thep/datrie/datrie.html . Homepage: http://libthai.sourceforge.net/ Should the package name be libtrie? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
share more information about what the virtual package would allow? It's also possible to run multiple FTP servers, each listening on a different port, but all the packaged ftp daemons Conflicts: ftp-server. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-protocol-server. The ftpd virtual package is ftp-server. - -- 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

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/06 22:18, Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:37:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Would you mind sharing the -39 or deb-src with us? xv isn't distributable by me as I'm not the copyright holder. Whoever controls where

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
feature? Those that know that they need it, know how to install it. Maybe you can enlighten me what the average Debian user will gain from SELinux? Having it there and installed lowers the mental inertia barrier to trying it out. IMO, of course. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-06 Thread Ron Johnson
transition and move the binary into /usr/bin as well. There's no tool quite like xv, that wraps so many useful things into one binary. Would you mind sharing the -39 or deb-src with us? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-findremovable :) Some of us are partial to apt-get and would appreciate apt-findremovable. - -- 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

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
and libpoppler0c2 is not used by anything else .. ) Thanks. Is a single perl script worth packaging, though? - -- 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: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
/cobolds/kobolds s/cobolds/COBOLs Take your pick. Are you on netcrack, or are you a DP geezer? - -- 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

Re: Bug#390515: ITP: pgpool-II -- pgpool-II is a multi-functional middle ware for PostgreSQL that features connection pooling, replication and load balancing functions

2006-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
sentence 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, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong

Re: Bug#388278: ITP: doc-debian-uk -- Debian Manuals and other documents in Ukrainian

2006-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ua Based on ISO_3166, it appears that Ukranian i18n files should either be -ua or -ukr, but not -uk. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites

Re: Bug#388278: ITP: doc-debian-uk -- Debian Manuals and other documents in Ukrainian

2006-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/06 14:14, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: 24 ??? 2006 ? 14:00 -0500 Ron Johnson ???(-??): Based on ISO_3166, it appears that Ukranian i18n files should either be -ua or -ukr, but not -uk. Did you read ISO 3166-1? ISO 3166-1, as part

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Ron Johnson
for you? The Psychic Friends Hotline? - -- 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

Re: Bug#387385: ITP: shed -- Hex editor using ncurses, with a friendly pico-style interface

2006-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/06 20:15, Adam Cecile wrote: [snip] It includes the following features : [snip] - Can handle files up to 2Gb. That's a feature? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense

Re: Bug#386138: ITP: mpop -- a POP3 client

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
of encryption and authentication mechanisms, as well as pipelining. It might be helpful to summarize the Some things that mpop can do and fetchmail cannot: in the full description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power

Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
that has ROMs and Flash EEPROMs on the mobo, on high-performance NICs, etc. - -- 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

Re: Bug#385125: ITP: awardeco -- Decompress flashfiles equipped with an AWARD BIOS

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
images (i.e., for flashing the BIOS). - -- 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

Re: Bug#385128: ITP: phnxdeco -- Decompress flashfiles equipped with a PHOENIX BIOS

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
/ * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Decompress flashfiles equipped with a PHOENIX BIOS Phnxdeco is a program which can decompress BIOS images which contain a PHOENIX BIOS. Same comment as with Awardeco. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common

Re: Bug#385127: ITP: amideco -- Decompress flashfiles equipped with an AMI BIOS

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
, for example, bios-logo-extractor? - -- 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

Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lamb wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:37:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [ x ] Choice 5: Ship *BLOBs* (does *not* mean closed-source drivers like nvidia) that can be legally redistributed, do not ship BLOBs

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas? Debian official update sub-release

2006-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
Databases: - Improved SMP Performance - Table Partitioning - 64-bit Shared Memory - Faster Aggregates - Tablespaces - -- 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: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
haven't had any hardware issues with them so I never compared the contents of the discs but I would assume that they update the kernels with each update release. Who would object, and how strenuously, if Stable became Stable-plus- some-newer-stuff? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
not fit this hardware, so who cares. The other half of userland cares. - -- 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

Re: Surpassing Microsoft quality

2006-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
apply the next security update that will fix the bug. IIRC, security updates do just (and *only*) that: fix *security* bugs, not *feature* bugs. - -- 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

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
speak for how nice it is, but autotools (for all its problems) is very widespread. So is syphilis. That doesn't make it desirable. But it *does* make it hard to eradicate... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power

Re: Two versions of pan in etch?

2006-07-29 Thread Ron Johnson
, and the 0.14 file picker is *really* *useful* for newsgroups. [0] http://pan.rebelbase.com/ [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2006-07/msg00158.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites

Re: Bug#379196: ITP: beaglefs -- implements a filesystem representing a live Beagle query

2006-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
results as symlinks to the hit targets. It would helpful to include a sentence explaining what Beagle is and how or why one queries it. $ apt-cache show beagle - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites

Re: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
if the maintainer would give some blur as to why package snagglefrob recommends pussywillow. - -- 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

Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
will be available to recreate the executable. - -- 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

Re: code cpustat.c

2006-06-30 Thread Ron Johnson
that it shouldn't(?) go in it's own package. moreutils seems like a good place to put it. You'll have to create a man page for it, though, and specify how you've licensed it. top(1) gives the exact same information. What's the advantage of your program? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Tests on fhs-2.3.pdf.gz

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
.uncompr.pdf fhs-2.3.uncompr.pdf: 88.7% -- replaced with fhs-2.3.uncompr.pdf.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dir fhs-2.3*.pdf* - -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 510762 2006-06-25 06:14 fhs-2.3.pdf - -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 324732 2006-06-25 06:16 fhs-2.3.uncompr.pdf.gz - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
mirror to your computer? 2 ways: - - network - - mailed CD/DVD In either case, *size* does matter. - -- 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

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adeodato Simó wrote: * Ron Johnson [Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:34:29 -0500]: How does that package get from the Debian mirror to your computer? 2 ways: - network - mailed CD/DVD In either case, *size* does matter. No, this is not about network

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

2006-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
(using su - from an xterm window), it complained about not being able to find DISPLAY. Unlike Sun Java Macromedia Flash, it uses a GUI installer. Since many (most?) desktop users install apps from within su or sudo'ed xterm windows, how will you work around that? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically ...

2006-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
is almost always even easier, more consistent, and less to worry about. Concur. Even if the installer isn't accepted into contrib, but were in a separate mirror like Marrilat, I'd add it. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

2006-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Joe Smith wrote: Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [snip] When I tried to install it as root (using su - from an xterm window), it complained about

Re: message/rfc822

2006-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
against debbugs or bugs.debian.org. $ file ~/*eml /home/me/message_rfc822.eml: smtp mail text $ file /home/me/download/pgsql-performance.2006-06.mbox /home/me/download/pgsql-performance.2006-06.mbox: ISO-8859 mail text, with very long lines - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
portability to 64-bit windows, assuming sizeof(void*) == sizeof(long) is just fine. - -- 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

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 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: GnuPG

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
. [...] And here's me thinking that you lose them. :-) You loose them to roam the ether. Think of them as free-range bits. - -- 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

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
provider it's colocated at. For an unstable distribution, it gave me the most stable server experience I've ever had. Go debian! That rocks. What did the machine do? (I want to forward this email to a Windows admin friend of mine.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense

Re: GPL-compatible libcrypto replacement?

2006-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
(= 0.5.7) Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1) liblzo1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1) libopencdk8 Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-21) Depends: libgcrypt11 Depends: libgpg-error0 (= 1.1) Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1) zlib1g Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
is, *why* should any *system* files be hidden? Nevertheless, IMO these changes and arguments should be made upstream. - -- 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

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [...] [snip] 4. there's already working java in main; and Partly/somewhat/mostly working. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense

Re: The correct use of debian-devel

2006-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
the fruits of their free labor, I try (probably am not totally successful) to know my place, stay polite, and bite my tongue *especially* when it comes to on-topic threads like what should or should not be in Debian. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
, and not correct, or make a tiny half-arsed correction. - -- 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

Re: LSB init scripts and multiple lines of output

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
. For example, if starting md1 pukes really hard, the parent process still exists to start md[234]. - -- 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

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gregor herrmann wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Description : limits the cpu usage of a process cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 15:27, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Given time, one can pay more attention to each document (I require at least two photo ID's issued

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 18:34, Russ Allbery wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Given time, one can pay more attention to each document (I require at least two

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 13:40, Joe Smith wrote: Apparently the US makes it very clear that US Citizens are not to be pestered at customs OR ELSE. If only that were true. The Americans give me hell. Canada practically

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 12:32, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (The fact that most of the constitution is not applied to foreign national is more a shame than something to be proud of for

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:19:21PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 27 May 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane spake thusly: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:04:31PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 27 May 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:12, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:54:03PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Oregon abolished the voting booth in 2000 Oh, so they get better counts and less fraud by doing away with

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:12, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:54:03PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Oregon abolished the voting booth

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:41:58PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:12, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:54:03PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Oregon abolished the voting booth in 2000

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 15:28, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 26 May 2006 15:27, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Given time, one can pay more

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 27 May 2006 16:03, Ron Johnson wrote: Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:19:21PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 27 May 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane

Re: sending debian-private postings to gmail

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Jackson wrote: Kevin B. McCarty writes (Re: sending debian-private postings to gmail): Ian Jackson wrote: [snip] distributed to computers whose owners and operators cannot be expected to refrain from processing the content in other ways.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Zini wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:42:07AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: [snip] People write books in the name of someone else fairly often, actually. No, I'm not only thinking about the Bible :) There's professional book writers who

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:45:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:26, Mike Hommey wrote: [snip] [0] As long as he doesn't go and vote too, since the people in the voting table would

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Given time, one can pay more attention to each document (I require at least two photo ID's issued by the government). WTF? In Oregon, if you have a driver's license,

[Fwd: Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers]

2006-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
---BeginMessage--- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:32 -0500, Michael Banck wrote: We had a pure NetBSD port before, but so far no non-glibc port got added to the archive officially (but that

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:35 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Except, this is _doubling_ a question that was already asked somewhere else, ie, a bug. The UNIX way of configuring the mail

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Dowland wrote: At 1148052328 past the epoch, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Using popcon would ensure that the applications which most people prefer would be the default; this is a fair and objective criterion. Thoughts? Interesting idea, but by

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 04:55 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:16:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Ignorance, fear of becoming an open relay and years of learning will have to be overcome before Most Users will config Debian to use a relayhost. It's not very

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
it. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA this is how main street of town looked back in 1985 when I was of age of those girls http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/page11.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
on the definition of in conjunction. I read this clause as meaning that you can't create a hybrid that uses the Sun javac with gjc jars. [snip] -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Welfare Democracies will only work, in the long term

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
Drew Parsons wrote: Brian displayed: 2. License Grant. ... (c) you do not combine, configure or distribute the Software to run in conjunction with any additional software that implements the same or similar functionality or APIs as the Software; I am correct in

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:35 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:58:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: [snip] Except, this is _doubling_ a question that was already asked somewhere else, ie, a bug. The UNIX way

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:41 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:24 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:34 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:01 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5/15/06, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Allombert

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it. Cullen Hightower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 22:47 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:44:19 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. b.d.o doesn't seem to be answering on port 25 though. Doesn't your provider block port 25? $ telnet bugs.debian.org 25 Trying 140.211.166.43

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
[snip] 12551 me16 0 9132 6624 2512 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.90 reportbug This doesn't look all that huge to me... Maybe I'm just jaded by pigs like Evo, FF, X SpamAssassin. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
in different ways. Yes. The standardized interface is smtp. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Yes, indeed, C isn't 'trendy' enough in the same way gas lighting isn't trendy enough: it's dangerous and it's completely obsolete. http

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
POST? That's what popcon does, I think. Remember, though, that reportbug *works*, simply and easily, be- cause it uses the $LANGUAGE smtp library. Why change what works? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA You can either have

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
administrator. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: [snip

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: On the home desktop reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing, because, for a long time, reportbug did not have that feature

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:24 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:44 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: On the home desktop reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send email directly

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
location that is both upwards and downwards compatible. That certainly isn't a proof but untill someone comes up with a solution I will keep asuming there is none. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Politics is not the art

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:39 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: The point is that they could if the wanted to. And if they did, it would work for _all_ programs, not just particular perl scripts

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Peace Thru Superior Firepower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#366359: ITP: libnet-smtpauth-perl -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol client with AUTHentication

2006-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
innermost bean? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. Mae West -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

List of bugs opened by my email address

2006-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I'd like to get a list of bugs opened by me, so that I can close any that should be closed. Is that possible with the BTS? Thanks -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA If Congress can employ money indefinitely

Re: So we got caught, so what? But we did the right thing.

2006-04-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 22:11 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still, regardless of whether the state of Utah recognizes a marriage, that is surely a different question from whether the marriage has, in fact, occurred. Making that distinction

Re: So we got caught, so what? But we did the right thing.

2006-04-18 Thread Ron Johnson
pretty far OT. Shouldn't it be moved to debian-user? :-O -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people

Re: So we got caught, so what? But we did the right thing.

2006-04-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:48 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is same-sex marriage legally recognized in Utah? If not, then there is only hetero marriage. You can't discriminate against what doesn't exist. To my knowledge, the courts of Utah

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
if desired. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. Madame

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA And I'm hiding in Honduras, I'm a desperate man. Send lawyers, guns and money!

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a patriot. William Randolph Hearst, editorial (1933).

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-10 Thread Ron Johnson
config. And how many of our users are going to be digging through the kernel config? Only those worthy of using Debian, of course... +1 for Amateur Radio -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Americans hate foreign policy

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
existing packages. Maybe not *packages*, but possibly non-Debian software. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 19:53 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] And now I am wondering whether this will break existing packages. Maybe not *packages*, but possibly non-Debian software. non

Re: Bug#360340: ITP: libpcl1 -- the Portable Coroutine Library (PCL) implements the low level functionality for coroutines

2006-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Description award. Vote: nay. OP forgot to mention which volume of tAoCP. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Democracy is woman's greatest invention. Indeed, it even reflects her character: purposeless, irrational, subject

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