On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
There's no point to defining rules without a working implementation,
because we don't know what the rules should be.
So I tried to do an implementation for the tasks pages of Blends which
works for unordered lists as discussed here and I also made
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
And this is like 6 lines of Pseudo code, and less in compact
languages like Perl. A fairly trivial exercise in basic CS logic.
Please do not insist on the number of lines. I mentioned in my
mail [1] that you need a bit more. I did not said
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
While I can't speak for the policy team (I have not been
re-delegated yet), I suspect the answer might be to get a working
implementation out in the wild (it does not have to be packages.d.o or
anything official -- even a standalone software
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
For the sorts of markup our
descriptions have now it'll be fine, but it's my experience that when
you give people a hammer they start hitting everything that's vaguely
nail-shaped with it. :-)
ROFL.
The whole time of discussion was well spent just
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Sure. It would be great to have another implementation, perhaps
one that people can play with (something that, for example, one can
pipe the output of a grep-dctrl command to, and get an html snippet
from (hey, that can then be packaged as an
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Steffen Moeller steffen_moel...@gmx.de
* Package name: profit
Version : 3.1
Upstream Author : Andrew Martin and...@bioinf.org.uk, Graig T. Porter
* URL :
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I would prefer Restructured Text, for the simple reason that it has an
actual specification with a fairly complete description of its syntax
and semantics.
I do not have practical experience with both and so I do not have
any preference. The only
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I've on purpose not looked at Andreas implementation, in order to see
if we have mutually thought at different issues. That also means that
it can be utterly buggy, you have been warned :-)
At short look I have the following diff:
---
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Library OCaml which provide a set of needed and useful macros for developing.
Modules and functionality are the follows :
.
- Configuration_files: Allow to get information from configuration files
- Environments: Environments are useful for
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Given that we agree that that example is just plainly broken no matter
what, why do you consider it as a valid motivation for throwing all
away?
That's not what I intended. My intention is to give guidelines which
might be independent from a
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
[ FWIW, if you want to try it out please use the live version [1],
I've just fixed a stupid bug which caused ignoring the last
paragraph of a description ]
[1]
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Noah Slater wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:27:03AM +, Philipp Kern wrote:
On 2009-04-26, Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 06:03:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
FIRST: GO AWAY WITH YOUR STUPID CC'S. I OBVIOUSLY READ THE LIST.
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Wow, that's a lot of work! I certainly won't ask you to do it all
over again.
No, not really. I might replace just the markdown by the reST
call. That's probabyl quite cheap and I might try this in the
next couple of days even while beeing under
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Charles Plessy wrote:
Also, can you tell us where to write comments related to NEW uploads in plain
English, so that it can be documented in the Developers Reference?
That's actually a really good question which I would like to formulate even more
clear:
How to
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I'm happy to support whatever markup language people want to use.
Same for me. To feed some facts to be able to compare the options
I rendered the debug blends pages with reST using the very same code
for the preprocessing which does
1. s/^ //
the liststat effort turned
out to be useful in this topic after I wrote to listmaster:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Cord Beermann wrote:
I'd like to take your input into our spamremoval-effort, at least for
nominating for review and maybe as one 'spam'-vote
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
But I'd prefer dropping 'o' as a bullet marker.
Yes, me too. But somewhere in this longish discussion it
was suggested to find a solution for currently existing descriptions
and ditch these cases later. I do not want to spend my time to
seek for the
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Well, if you just keep them as transitional period without
highlighting them as deprecated in some way, you will end up with
them forever. We all know how slow we are with this kind of
transitions :)
ACK
Given that the current semantics was to
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
not to see this on slashdot
or other website.
There is a German (not necessarily Linux related) news site who reported
immediately:
http://www.golem.de/0905/66930.html
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On Fri, 8 May 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
I bringed the discussion in out maintenance list but dropping
Recommends to Suggests is likely to make us provide a broken home page
for SWAT by default. We could of course patch SWAT so that the page
explicitely says that adding samba-doc is needed
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote in [1]:
Those tasks are read from the Packages files (the Task: field that some
entries have). I'm not sure how this field is managed.
When trying to track down the origin of the task column in UDD[1] I learned
that it is just copied from the task
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
I haven't read the whole long thread, so perhaps this has been mentioned
by someone else. Python has recently decided to convert their
documentation to reStructuredText [1]. It would make a lot of sense for
Debian to use that de-facto standard (or
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote:
OK, just for kicks I just pulled arb and it seems to build fine with
lesstif. Though I don't know the package well enough to test runtime.
My colleagues worked with a version of arb which was linked against
lesstif and noticed
an
intermediate place where maintainers could push their meta-data, does anybody
think about an alternative? Andreas Tille suggested me the Package Entropy
Tracker, but it would limit the system to packages hosted in a Subversion
repository. This said, since many of the packages that caused us dig
Hi,
in the Debian Pure Blends effort we were wondering about relations of packages
and what an Enhances relation actually means. Debian Policy says:
`Enhances'
This field is similar to Suggests but works in the opposite
direction. It is used to declare that a package
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:44:49AM +0100, James Westby wrote:
I see it as an almost bi-directional relationship, but one that allows
you to add it to the package that cares about it more.
So the answers somehow draw a sketch about the concept behind the
Enhances field - but is it technically
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:35:10AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
apt-get --include-suggest install
-o 'Apt::Install-Suggests=1'
Ahh, I remember I was formerly wondering about this option which might
be not easy enough to find. But anyway, my main question was whether
there is a
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:26:24AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
How do you imagine a technical implementation of a 'Enhances' field?
Something
like 'apt::install-enhances'?
I do not *want* this personally - I just wanted to know if any tool
makes use of this field in some way.
The
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:16:58AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote on
debian-med list[1] but the discussion should be here on debian-devel
(Reply-To is set):
Once we are at the topic of web tools: I'm really waiting for an answer
from you why you think that mgltools fit in your categories
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:32:14AM +0200, Martin Grimm wrote:
So as long as there is no easy manual way to provide anonymized figures
without installing software on our production servers we can't deliver
such data :-( and yes, I know there are many reasons why a manual upload
form would be a
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, many people discussed about answering bug reports:
...
I'm soory, but I tried to safe my time and went over most of the
mails in this thread but one point I was missing (only one mail of
Cobaco was touching the idea a little bit): Not answering a bug
report is IMHO at
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, RalfGesellensetter wrote:
Thank you, seems like. However http://www.agnula.info/download/ points
to a highchecked domain.
What do you mean by highchecked. Do you mean highjacked?
I don't see any evidence for this assumption if I look at this
Ploneish site.
Maybe I'd
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tomas Nykung wrote:
DeMuDi is dead,
H, well, what exactly means dead? I did not dived into the
DeMuDi project personally, but besides producing ISO images ready
to install my impression was that the people connected to that
project are busy integrating audio related
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
IMHO the biggest problem of reportbug is that it is not
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Tomas Nykung wrote:
The reason I didn't recommend the OP to install Etch is that Etch is not
ready for multimedia out of the box, most importantly there is no real
time enabled kernel in stock Etch, and that is a _must_ when working
with real time audio (latency).
Well,
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote:
I supose last version is still not in Debian, so you'll need to compile it.
Well, if you know that a new version is better than the old version
in Debian, why don't you report this as wishlist bug? I did so (#415333)
and learned now that a new
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Debian Project Secretary wrote:
===
|||Total # of| |Valid|Unique|Rejects|| Multiple ||
||Year|Developers|Quorum|Votes|Voters| |% Voting| of Quorum||
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Bart Martens wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 07:43 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
The relation between Rejects and Voters is currently the highest we
ever had. I'm just asking whether we need some technical improvement
here because I personally add a count of three
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Ben Pfaff wrote:
However, this is the only ballot I recall containing
non-ASCII characters, which could be the cause.
Ahhh, this is a typical cause of problems. So we have three chances:
1) fix software that interprets incoming mails
2) issue an alternate ballot
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
My suggestion is to stop using mailcrypt, it is ancient, and
hoary; pgg and easypg work a lot better.
This is a case of non-functional MUA software.
Well, I have to admit that I do not want more or less than voting this
time as I did
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
1) fix software that interprets incoming mails
There is nothing wrong with the software that interprets
incoming mails; the mails that fail actually fail cryptographic
checks since they have been masssaged by the MUA/MTA afterwards,
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
1. Copy ballot to text file (vote.txt).
2. Edit it for my voting preference.
3. Sign with gpg: gpg --clearsign vote.txt
4. Send: mail -s vote vote.txt.asc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I work in a UTF-8 environment, in case that matters.
It might matter, so I
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Well, in either case, something intervened along the way (some
MTA) and protected the accented char after you had sent the mail.
The solution is to use a MYA that does properly do PGP/MIME --
or send in an encrypted ballot, which is
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
3) do not accept DPLs with non-ASCI names. ;-))
Sure, if you think that is better than fixing broken MUAs.
I guess you missed the double smiley.
Well, no. I think it is funny that one should consider
eliminating us pesky people with
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
On ke, 2007-03-28 at 14:57 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
just want to give my vote and concentrate on the rankings I want to give
and not learn about tools to submit my vote.
From memory (my shell history isn't long enough), here's what I did:
1
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
...
In order to type the letter a, look on the keyboard (ask someone
...
Manoj, the answer you gave here does not fit the statistics you posted.
The statistics do show a problem and I'm a little bit frustrated that
you seem to make fun of it.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:10:53 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
... In order to type the letter a, look on the keyboard (ask
someone ...
Manoj, the answer you gave here does
Hi,
I try to package a project that needs to add some include
pathes to the existing default CFLAGS and thus I tried
to patch a Makefile in one subdir to
CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) -I$(INCLUDEDIR)
but I had to learn that the CFLAGS variable that is used
in the call
cd subtree; $(MAKE)
just overrides
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, [iso-8859-1] Loïc Minier wrote:
Actually, the CFLAGS passed to the top-level $(MAKE) are overriding
everything.
Which I learned by this example and which makes me wonder whether
there is absolutely no way out to enforce overriding CFLAGS.
I suggest you either try to set
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Luis Matos wrote:
A cdd would be good for some first testing, but having it included in
debian would be great.
Argh - the usual missunderstanding: If you use the term Custom
Debian Distribution your first Google hit gives the definition:
Custom Debian Distribution
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Luis Matos wrote:
it true it's debian, but ... i meant in debian's main (general)
distribution, that is, as option in tasksel and not only as
meta-package ... but there is no problem.
Well, there is definitely more in Debian than you can select via
tasksel. ;-))
But your
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Luis Matos wrote:
At least, we could preseed some options, (like debian-med) but that
wouldn't come in tasksel's options, like kde-desktop and xfce-desktop.
IMHO the best solution would be if tasksel would have a two level
selection:
[x] Desktop environment
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ben Armstrong wrote:
But as Luis pointed out, having material on extra CDs or needing the
network to install it is a bit of a problem.
Well, IMHO shipping Lenny on CDs is a little bit - how to say -
oldfashioned, right?
I don't think a warning
alone is sufficient (What
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
Er, do you know that it's possible to create a deb that, when installed,
extends tasksel with any tasks you like? And d-i has hooks to allow a CDD
to easily install such debs.
Yes, you are right and I'm even doing this in the med-common package.
But I do
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
I'm afraid that I can't seriously consider this kind of proposal unless
it shows indications of taking into account all the issues and design
goals listed in http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/tasksel/faq/
The answer to question one is very compelling if you
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
Andreas Tille wrote:
I think they probably will install via DVD or network.
If tasksel keeps its install from one CD medium philosophy
Tasksel does not have any such philisophy.
Quoting from #186085
From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andreas
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
Andreas Tille wrote:
Yes, you are right and I'm even doing this in the med-common package.
But I do not really regard this as a really nice solution if those
extra tasks are mixed with the default Debian tasks.
Note that you can hide the debian tasks
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Nico Golde wrote:
This won't work for the initial mails you get when you
upload the package the first time.
What about using the Uploaders control field?
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On Wed, 9 May 2007, [ISO-8859-1] André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira wrote:
DebianArt.org is a place for high quality artwork and themes for the Debian
Desktop[4]. The idea is use the website for contests, creating an archive of
user contributed artwork that can be freely used and included in
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Sune Vuorela wrote:
Honestly. I would consider those misplaced. The artwork should be debian
related - not a bunch of random photographies. (no matter how nice they
are.)
Perfectly all right for me - that's why I kept my background images
as a private package on p.d.o. I
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
Andreas, kde-look.org would probably be a good place to put those
landscapes, though. I'd love to see them there. :-)
Well, there is a similar place for Gnome themes were I tried to upload
some time ago. They disappeared from there for some
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Have a look. I would be trilled if Debian could implement all the
tricks to increase battery lifetime, and make sure our users save both
the environment and their power bill.
... and can longer sit outside with their laptop when developing
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote:
Don't you think that if you would have waited a few days, or maybe even
fill an RFP, that someone other would have stepped up to maintain it? If
you've already created a package, attaching an URL to the RFP helps also.
I personally realised that RFPs
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Francois-Denis Gonthier wrote:
Beware that in (at least fr_FR) french, gastro is also a shortcut
for gastroenteritis and is strongly associated with its symptoms!
It may really hamper your success in french-speaking countries...
ditto for ca_FR
that's a very
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
We're going OT, however my experience based on last two Debian releases:
testing becomes quite stable in means of usability somewhere half year
before it's released as stable. The sooner before the stable, the rapidly
increasing is the chance
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
Don't remember, not too much. However, if hundred of packages had broken
deps,
This statement is definitely wrong.
where would You report the bug? I'm not too experienced with apt and I
hate hacking around it.
There is no need to hack around
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Wouldn't it be better to unpack a package twice in two different
directories, build and clean in one dir and then compare the obtained
tree with the tree available in the other dir?
I personally store the diff.gz from first build and compare with
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
Sounds like a hack. What do other say?
There are different opinions about orig.tar.gz should be equal
to upstream. I tend to the opinion that no precompiled stuff
that can be builded by the source has to be in orig.tar.gz and
in such cases I would
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Adeodato [utf-8] Simó wrote:
There are different opinions about orig.tar.gz should be equal
to upstream.
In case there is confusion, my original suggestion was to remove the
files from debian/rules ('clean' target), not to remove them from the
orig tarball. I don't think
Hi,
I recently started group maintenance of libblitz0 together
Konstantinos Margaritis [EMAIL PROTECTED] and just added myself
to the Uploaders field. The package recently gathered a bug
(#424644) but I got no e-mail notific personally. I draw the
conclusion that BTS automatically only informs
Hi,
I would like to ask kindly for support regarding bug #424644 because
I do not own any amd64 and thus feel unable to solve this problem.
Any hints / patches?
Kind regards
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On Fri, 18 May 2007, Andreas Metzler wrote:
On 2007-05-18 Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to ask kindly for support regarding bug #424644 because
I do not own any amd64 and thus feel unable to solve this problem.
Any hints / patches?
http://lists.debian.org/debian
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Julien Cristau wrote:
I don't see how that would be easier than subscribing to the PTS for a
package you're co-maintaining.
Well, the problem is missing documentation - at least I was not
aware of this fact. That's why my main intention was to initiate
a Group
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but
contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that
for a webdesign professional even a redesign would be quite manageable as
AFAICT the technical structure of the website
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
...
This is only my (ill-informed) opinion - I am neither a German, nor a
German lawyer :)
I'm not really picky about names and would be quite relaxed if the official
homepage http://www.sturmbahnfahrer.com/ would not support the suspicion
by using
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Isn't this just a standard blackletter font?
Well, I don't know much about standard fonts - it just reminds me
to the font that was prefered in a time were the name similarity
perfectly fits into. So if somebody might use a name that leads
to
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Also, you should think about this issue not just in the context of the
single package you are interested in but as a general policy.
I think because Michael actually is thinking about a general
policy he just asked this question here. He was asking for
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Then it should be obvious
obvious = common sense
... but the commons sense has to be defined in a technical document.
that it's a bad idea to add to the archive
multiple packages each containing hundred of megabits of data which are
only useful
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
Bug#38902 for hysterical interest, btw.
Ahh, my memory that this topic came up in 2000 was not that bad -
just missed it by 7 months.
I wonder, whether there is a more verbose explanation for tagging
it wontfix
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Anthony Towns wrote:
Are either of you going to debconf, or able to point out some example
large (free?) data sets that should be packaged like this as a test case
for playing with over debconf?
For a first shot we could play with sauerbraten-data. I just
stumbled upon it
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Tim Cutts wrote:
... (some interesting points)
There were many valid points in your mail but even if the issue
was raised at the example of biological data it is a more general
issue for others as well. It might be that we could:
0. Find a solution for large data sets
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release
redhat-release-5Client-5.0.0.9
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ rpm -ql redhat-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Steffen Moeller wrote:
It would be lovely if we could agree on a set of databases to support in
Debian and to have a permanent location in the file system for them. For the
reasons that Tim has already outlined I do not see to distribute the larger
database as Debian
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Tim Cutts wrote:
That's not true, unfortunately. They also have different design
criteria for duty cycles, and more stringent MTBF testing
requirements. There's been a lot of assertion in this thread,
without any real data, so this post provides links to some hard data
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
I tried to give a meaningful answer to that in
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but received no reply; I guess
it got drowned in the silly all disks are reliable! noise.
Perhaps you may want to read the three final paragraphs there and give
your opinion.
Well,
been a short discussion on
this topic during Debconf [1] and Andreas Tille collected some ideas about a
design. You might want to contact him.
I tried to sum up the results of our little boof in DebConf. Perhaps some
open discussion might not harm. Please note that all shown images
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, W. Borgert wrote:
I like LaTeX, but I use DocBook XML slides as source and S5-HTML
as output for presentations. I have a simple debianesque CSS, I
can share.
This is perfectly OK. The intention was not to restrict our ideas
to LaTeX. I have no ideas in how far the
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
It would be nice if you uploaded also the files (TeX+figs) you used in your
presentation. That way people could still use them as a template, or as
a starting point for their own presentations just in case no official
template ends up
Hi,
I have some trouble building the new version of WordNet. For
reasons I do not want to discuss here I had to build a composite
source tarball from two different upstream tarballs and had
to adjust the autoconf stuff - which obviousely failed. I
putted the relevant files to
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Ben Pfaff wrote:
OK, I can see now that /usr/lib/tk8.4/tkConfig.sh sets TK_PREFIX
in the environment of configure. But what is meant to
propagate this environment variable into the Makefile? I don't
see anything intended to do that. Autoconf does not
automatically
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Azazel wrote:
There's an acinclude.m4 file in the 2.1 source which is missing from
your 3.0 source which may be relevant. I've attached it.
This hint seemed me very reasonable and worked fine.
Thanks for all who provided help.
Now I was able to prepare packages from
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Jon Dowland wrote:
I suggest it is also a good idea to try and convince the
EMBOSS upstream to try and avoid using binary names that
are already in use in the wild.
Well, to be more precise it is better to try to convince
them to not use such generic names. It might be to
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
When last I looked (some time ago), none of the different XMMS
successors were ready for prime time. Are bmpx, audacious, and xmms2
all usable now?
I just tried audacious from testing which was not able to even load
a single sound file at my side.
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
Could you elaborate on this missing dependency? I'm using audacious in
stable for some time with no problems, but I don't know if the dependency is
satisfied by accident on my desktop system.
I installed audacious and started it. I tried to add a
Hi,
the latest package of tipptrainer was not builded on mips(el) since
55 days according to
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=tipptrainer
Did I missed anything? How can I trigger the building on this
architecture?
A similar situation is there for phylip
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
Removing the package from Debian will not affect current users that
much,
While I perfectly agree that there are replacements for xmms that at
first view look like a new version (for instnce audacious) many user
might have links form their desktops
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Steve Greenland wrote:
* can create desktop links and scripts
Yes.
* will notice the xmms has been removed
Perhaps not because of some dependencies (perhaps because GTK 1.x
will be removed) it might be removed by aptitude / synaptics besides
a lot of other stuff.
*
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Jon Dowland wrote:
If a user removes the package themselves, even if they don't
realise it, via a dependency chain with GTK 1.x or something
similar, I don't have a great deal of sympathy.
Did you ever heard about the multi-user concept?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
I'm opposed to people who drink the GNOME koolaid and call it usability.
Call it like you want. We call it usability, and it looks incompatible
with what a number of developers expect from the menu system.
I don't think that there is something
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 12:25 -0500, Steve Greenland a écrit :
So I can try a new window manager without restarting my xsession.
Does your job include daily window manager testing?
Interesting criterion: Daily use of an entry.
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So
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