Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Sep-08, 08:34 (CDT), Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2008-09-22 16:43:51, schrieb Steve Greenland: apt-get install localepurge I was thinking on this too but it has an negative impact, since you have to install the whole thing first... where you can run out of space

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Sep-08, 19:28 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not what he said. If installation of language files (they can still be in the program package) could be only done for the language(s) that the user wants (many systems only will ever use one specific translation),

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Aug-08, 13:08 (CDT), Mark Hobley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Packages should not install cruft on the system. This means that a package should not install a foreign language file, unless the system has been explicitly configured to support that foreign language. Others have commented on

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Aug-08, 02:19 (CDT), Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, how would you check that a bug has not already been filed manually by another user? Why, the same way all the manual duplicate bug filers[1] check :-) Steve [1] yes, I've filed a few duplicates in my life, no need to

Re: Re: Re: Bug#493645: ITP: nostromo -- small, simple, fast andsecurehttpd

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-Aug-08, 16:06 (CDT), Franklin PIAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:43:16AM +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: For those who needs to choose a (light) webserver, this page is meant to gather pros and cons of each one : http://wiki.debian.org/WebServers

Minor bobble in etch-lenny upgrade

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Greenland
Just upgraded an old etch box to lenny via aptitude, ran into the following minor problem: (Reading database ... 22081 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mount 2.12r-19etch1 (using .../mount_2.13.1.1-1_i386.deb) ... You have NFS mount points currently mounted, and

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Jul-08, 20:58 (CDT), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, policy-rc.d is obeyed by invoke-rc.d, and therefore, by all maintainer scripts. But manually trying to run the initscript will still work. Which is a *good* thing, which is why I detest the growing habit

Re: unifont - consensus on dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Jun-08, 12:02 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The updated package will have some new dependencies, and the Debian Policy Manual says that any package dependencies should be agreed upon by consensus on the debian-devel list before uploading .deb files. No, it says that any Pre-Depends

Re: Bug#486127: ITP: sock -- make a customized traffic over network

2008-06-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Jun-08, 10:05 (CDT), Joao Eriberto Mota Filho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name: sock Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Willian Richard Stevens, Mike Borella and Christian Kreibich. * URL : http://www.icir.org/christian/sock.html * License :

Re: cupsys renamed to cups, please adjust your (build-)depends

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Jun-08, 11:23 (CDT), Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about using this transition to move some binaries between package boundaries? Especially having some programs with generic names in -client and some in -bsd seem to be a problem for some users (like #405827). I do not

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Jun-08, 13:57 (CDT), Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bug was closed by maintainer with note it is not a bug. Is he right? Banshee's maintainer isn't (and can't) be responsible for other packages recommends. It looks like the bug is in libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 which

Re: Bug#485553: ITP: charybdis -- fast, scalable irc server

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Jun-08, 06:38 (CDT), William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - openvpn (may or may not have exception, more checking needed) The copyright file has the necessary exceptions. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Bug#383425: lighttpd: Distinguish installation from activation

2008-06-04 Thread Steve Greenland
reasons this might be is not a job for the postinst. But failing the install just because the daemon won't start *at this particular moment* is not helpful. All IMHO, of course. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread Steve Greenland
category. Parsing error, I think. Aptitude shows a group of obsolete and locally created packages. However, it doesn't distinguish between them, as far as I can tell, which is what Marc (and I) would like. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: Packages in section python/perl simply because implemented in python/perl

2008-05-24 Thread Steve Greenland
(NOTE: Am I the only one who thinks descriptions, especially short descriptions as in phenny, usually shouldn't tell what language was used to implement the program? It's just not relevant to the user.) I mostly agree with this. The exception would be development tools and libraries, where the

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Greenland
from a repository that used that particular tool. Currently I only *use* mercurial. Steve [1] Used to track changes to config files until mercurial came along. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: RFS: figtoipe / difficulties with Replaces:

2008-05-18 Thread Steve Greenland
be nifty if you could explicitly list the files being Replaced, to avoid accidents, but I suspect there are more important things to be done. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Steve Greenland
, any files that are also in A will be taken over by B, as in the Replaces only case. In *addition*, any remaining files in A will be *removed*, and package A will be considered removed from the system. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA (was: Alioth and SSH: restored)

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Greenland
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Re: separate package for iotop?

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Greenland
should not be introduced - so if we dont have a python based system management package, it might be good to start one. But it could be a Suggests, since it's only one of several utilities in the package. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Greenland
through the various install and config scripts, but not closely enough to figure out why...) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Greenland
PROTECTED]:~# But it still works. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#473828: hosts: Unreasonable impact of misconfigured /etc/hosts file

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Greenland
, and worked. (All still with no resolv.conf or hostname file, and hosts with no IPv4 info.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Greenland
: The various emacsen-related packages seem to cause multiple re-compiles during a single install run. It's not terribly slow, but it's sort of annoying. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

2008-03-23 Thread Steve Greenland
* that argument (although it's been years). The contention is that since the init script didn't take the action, it's an error. So perhaps more specifity is required. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Greenland
interchangeable. After all, it worked on their platform, so why be correct? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Steve Greenland
has reviewed the patch and had problems with it, it's that they've ignored it for 6 months. I don't approve of IanJ's hijack attempt, but in this he's got a legitimate complaint. So do the rest of us who've been waiting for triggers for *years*. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Feb-08, 10:30 (CST), Vincent Danjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mercurial in now imported in the PAPT repo: Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk Oh, the irony. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

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

2008-02-05 Thread Steve Greenland
like the implementation, and ripped it out.) DSP in pure Python? Hopefully not. No, the actual playback is via xine or gstreamer, as previously noted. I think this is different enough from mpd to be worth including. I'll probably switch when it's packaged. Steve -- Steve Greenland

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

2008-01-17 Thread Steve Greenland
] I realize this is just an RFP, but the proposed package name is way too generic. Something like 'partlabel' or 'disklabel' would be better. It also seems a rather trivial script for its own package... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

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

2008-01-17 Thread Steve Greenland
this a request for one. Looking at the website, it appears to be the former. It looks like a wrapper that determines whether the FS in question is ext[23] or msdos, and make the appropriate utility call. However, I don't read Spanish, so there may be more to it. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Re: Bug#460672: RFP: pymills -- James Mills Python Library

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Greenland
libraries and modules for the Python programming language. English sentences begin with capital letters. Yes, even when the word is not normally capitalized. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu multiuser update-rc.d extention

2008-01-04 Thread Steve Greenland
a shutdown several minutes before power runs out. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
to have to do it eventually, why not now? Is there some sort of fierce competition in ITPs that I'm unaware of? Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Re: Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
are not) - safe object based locks to help debug lock code. Excellent. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Greenland
files go. I would include metalog's upstream defaults as an example, though, so that an admin can easily convert to that, as well. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Re: Should download managers offer some virtual package?

2007-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
; instead, liferea should, in fact, list them specifically. Steve, continuing his probably pointless campaign against useless virtual packages. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

2007-11-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Nov-07, 13:01 (CST), Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland schrieb: On 28-Nov-07, 05:25 (CST), Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Habouzit schrieb: wrong. providing inet-superserver means that you are able to perform what any implementation of inetd(8

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Greenland
configuration. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Packages with httpd needs

2007-11-27 Thread Steve Greenland
, I've had no problem getting maintainers to add | httpd to the Depends, once I've confirmed that the package does, indeed, work with non-apache servers. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Re: dh_installinit

2007-11-12 Thread Steve Greenland
for this package so that should also work. Wrong. That code is buggy. The limit of OPEN_MAX can be indeterminate, and thus sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) can return -1. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc. Huh? VNC != VLC. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Steve Greenland
to deal with one MTA. I find postfix more understandable than exim, but I know others feel the reverse. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Re: Bug#447514: ITP: apt-cacher-ng -- Caching proxy for distribution of software packages

2007-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
^ Original, as in the 4-clause anti-advertising version? It's your code, your license choice, of course, but it's so rarely used these days, I kind of wondered... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

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

2007-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
shouldn't make a package DFSG non-free. I'd bet there are many packages in Debian whose distribution or use violates local law somewhere in the world. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: Bug#446791: ITP: python-pycg -- NVIDIA's Cg 1.4 for Python

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
as way to get some of the package basics right before you upload debs and people spend time translating them. The sooner you find and fix a bug, the easier it is. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
/two month periods are bit short - people do take vacations. Other than that, good proposal. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
of this argument, really, but if you really think it's a problem: What if someone needed to access an existing Perforce repository? They could download and install the client from Perforce? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Greenland
generate a bunch of differnt unmunges, and try them. Or, more accurately, sell them to losers. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Greenland
-assistant should recommend/depend on bzip2, since it is presumably m-a that is calling it. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Greenland
don't want a particular e-mail address distributed, then don't distribute it. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#443904: ITP: jugglemaster -- graphical siteswap simulator

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Greenland
explicitly may be a bit much. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-09-10 Thread Steve Greenland
should help). That's fixing a symptom, not the bug. What possible justification is there for a package looking at the contents of $HOME during the build? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: Package cache

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Greenland
maintaining several machines with similar package loads, most of your downloads are local. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-10 Thread Steve Greenland
* system except you. It simply won't be available as a Debian package from the Debian archive on new installs. Why not? Because nobody is willing to make the effort to support it. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Re: Installing Recommends by default

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Greenland
the version from being installed Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 26-Jul-07, 13:41 (CDT), Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. The actual contents and structure of the default menu in each WM etc. This is a matter of Policy and ENTIRELY orthogonal to issues 1 and 2. In particular, just saying we're going

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Greenland
saying we're going to use the FDo format now does nothing to prevent the kind of mess you see in the Debian menu. OTOH, setting an acceptable policy would clean up not only the GNOME menu but all the other menu systems. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Jul-07, 02:05 (CDT), Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 ? 19:08 -0500, Steve Greenland a ?crit : Some of the users we target don't even know what a window manager is, and they don't want to know it. Some of the users we target don't use any

Re: Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
change from 'baz' (aka bazaar the old SCM tool) to 'bzr' (the new SCM tool)? That seems like a bad idea. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
menu format, then transitioning to FDo format is a fine proposal. Someone (Bruce Sass?) proposed a straightforward transition plan. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Re: Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
with bzr. Or, just include in the bazaar package long description This is baz, not bzr. You probably want the bzr package, instead. Or, just have 'bazaar' depend on *both* baz and bzr. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
xsession. So J. Random User can easily see what window managers are available. Not everybody thinks GNOME and KDE are the epitome of desktop management. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
of the big values of Debian is a long time tolerance and support of a variety of users and use patterns, even those that are non-mainstream. If you find the Debian menu to be clutter, fine. Ignore it, or change the configuration to skip it. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
than trashing the Debian menu system, it might be the better choice for GNOME (in Debian), to ignore/disable the Debian menu by default. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
seize the technical committee to ask the GNOME menu to be replaced by the Debian menu. Why do you think that would happen? None of the people here have suggested that. You, on the other hand, have suggested that the Debian menu system be trashed in favor the GNOME menu system. Steve -- Steve

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Jul-07, 12:57 (CDT), Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 ? 12:25 -0500, Steve Greenland a ?crit : So I can try a new window manager without restarting my xsession. Does your job include daily window manager testing? No. But anything I use daily gets

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-15 Thread Steve Greenland
wrong to be offended by jerks. However, based on 20 years of Usenet and mailling list experience, I do think you'll be happier in the long run by learning to ignore them. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Greenland
on XMMS (via BMP), I'm not sure why you find such comparisons offensive. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Greenland
/replacing the desktop links and scripts. H. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Greenland
the dpkg level conffile handling. Alan, you know that it should only be prompting you on conffiles you actually modified? Do you really want those overwritten? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: curl dependency problem in unstable

2007-06-25 Thread Steve Greenland
then would we encourage users of unstable to subscribe to debian-devel and ask questions here? Problems with the unstable archives are on-topic for -devel. Sure, the user might be *mistaken* about the source of the problem, but we can solve that. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Re: Bug#430140: ITP: hoard -- Fast, scalable, and efficient replacement memory allocator

2007-06-24 Thread Steve Greenland
faster and more efficient under many load patterns does not eliminate the possibility of pathologically horrible behaviour under other load patterns. Bubble sort works pretty well if the input data is already sorted :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Jun-07, 20:16 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:08:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 10-Jun-07, 17:47 (CDT), Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since then, it seems like most users have switched to apt-get and synaptic, with hardly

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Jun-07, 08:45 (CDT), Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:08:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Really? I'd have guessed that most people used aptitude. I can't imagine anyone preferring synaptic to aptitude. Of course, I don't really understand why

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-10 Thread Steve Greenland
them meaningless. But we should not have a situation where following Policy and tradition mean you get subjected to random sniping about your wrong behavior. Agree 100%. Regards, Steve the hopelessly out-of-date -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Greenland
/status (because packages might be on hold). Yes, many systems don't mix-n-match, and are pure etch or whatever. The contents of /etc/debian_release doesn't, and can't, tell you that, no matter how it's packaged. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Greenland
was something aptitude couldn't spot. The new dependency resolver, with its scoring and easily overridable choices, has pretty much solved this problem. But someone burned a few years ago might not know this. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Re: Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Greenland
: an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links Aren't iceweasel extension packages supposed to be named 'iceweasel-foo'? (No idea if there's actual policy, just looking at the existing packages) Thus Package name : iceweasel-linky Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-08 Thread Steve Greenland
about it. Steve PS How come my unstable system says lenny/sid and my etch systems say 4.0? Is someone deliberately trying to make it impossible to parse? Perhaps as a not-so-subtle way of saying don't use this from code? -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Greenland
. If they've got their dependencies correct, I should be able to install packages from other releases without too much anguish. Of course, if I have problem, I shouldn't be surprised to hear we can't duplicate it on our pure etch system... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Re: undo configuration file changes

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Greenland
(e.g. update-rc.d). Other than that, it's usually a bad idea to attempt to modify other packages' configuration files. If it's a conffile, it's explicitly forbidden by policy. See policy 10.7 and especially 10.7.4. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Re: BoF: Supporting 15,000 packages - How much support do we mean?

2007-05-30 Thread Steve Greenland
and what the bugs are. I'm not sure the number, in and of itself, is meaningful. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-May-07, 13:40 (CDT), Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:19:52PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: Why should we spend time and space to provide something that doesn't do anything useful?[1] I also once heard an argument that static libraries are easier

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Greenland
technical list. No amount of technical input can compensate for the hostility and stupidity that those kind of posts promote. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Re: Bug#425050: initramfs-tools: Ask if we should update all initramfses

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Greenland
, the file can't be a conffile. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-May-07, 13:41 (CDT), Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:28:49AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 09-May-07, 04:02 (CDT), Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not entirely sure about the specifics, and especially not across architectures

Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Users point of view.

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Greenland
) distinguish between Debian and upstream bugs. We make it easy to report bugs to us, and it's our job to work from there. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Users point of view.

2007-05-16 Thread Steve Greenland
(Please don't CC me on list mail.) On 16-May-07, 01:58 (CDT), Mgr. Peter Tuharsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland wrote / nap?sal(a): As I illustreted, rock solid is not automatically guaranteed by oldness of software or by length of pre-release testing. And as others have

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.

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Greenland
administration needed. It provides its own implementations of these server protocols: Imap, Pop3, SMTP, ManageSieve, Citadel Versatile = versatile verry = very Imap = IMAP Pop3 = POP3 (Yes, small nit-picky changes.) Thanks, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Re: print-system virtual package?

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Greenland
an explicit Depends: cupsys-client. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Users point of view.

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Greenland
. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Users point of view.

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Greenland
increasing is the chance that the snapshot that You have will not be installable at all, will have dependencies severely broken, etc. That does not match my experience with testing. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Users point of view.

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Greenland
more like Ubuntu is one of them. Why not let Ubuntu fulfill the desires of that group of users? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Greenland
, which is about the only thing I'd expect to be measurable. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sharing a subdirectory of /usr/share between multiple packages ?

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Greenland
On 09-May-07, 06:58 (CDT), Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Steve Greenland] There's no requirement that /usr contain only pre-packaged info; most of the wrappers that download binaries (e.g. flash) put them under /usr. It might not be a requirement, but it is a smart

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Greenland
significant pressure to upgrade to Fedora or SuSE. Are you saying Fedora and SuSE have API documentation for all the libraries they ship? I must say, that surprises me. And if so, why haven't they submitted them upstream? :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

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

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Greenland
, it will prevent confusion with the other tor system[2]. Steve [1] Or whatever it is. [2] No, I don't know of one off-hand. But given the number of naming conflicts we've seen over the years, it wouldn't surprise me, now or in the future. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Greenland
trade-off. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Apr-07, 17:29 (CDT), Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 22-Apr-07, 16:22 (CDT), Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because segfaults are often not easily reproduced. Having the ability to analyse

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