Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/15 12:47 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > So long, and thanks for all the fish[7]. > > Daniel > > [7] http://live.debian.net/project/downstream/ > Enough bitter words have been said. I don't want to add any more. So: I'm proud. Indeed, that long list of downstreams does speak to the impact

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 16/01/15 08:15 AM, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 07:32:41AM +1100, Riley Baird wrote: (Also, in any case, don't you think that this game is going a little too far? It's fine to be opposed to systemd, but don't do to Lennart Well, do you see a difference to the original game

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
to enter Debian or not. So yes, it's a necessary part of the process. On 01/16/2015 03:48 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Do you honestly not see the difference between poking fun at an upstream that is at the center of an ongoing controversy vs. poking fun at a competitor? 1. Everybody (who

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 16/01/15 11:34 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: My personal opinion is that both XBill and xlennart are mildly entertaining and it is rather immature to depict living people as a virus. The message is either silly or offensive. While we're talking about personal opinions, and clarifying for

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.22-2 (source all amd64) into unstable

2015-01-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:45:14 -0400 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-plugins-default tuxpaint-dev tuxpaint-data Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 1:0.9.22-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.13-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2014-10-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:53:13 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.22-1 (source all amd64) into unstable

2014-10-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:20:50 -0300 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-plugins-default tuxpaint-dev tuxpaint-data Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 1:0.9.22-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong

Accepted tuxpaint-stamps 2014.08.23-1 (source all) into unstable

2014-10-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:52:47 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-stamps Binary: tuxpaint-stamps-default Architecture: source all Version: 2014.08.23-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/03/2014 07:41 AM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple: Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: 1001 With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to official ones. At least it did in my case. For me, finding out the

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/01/14 01:39 PM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: If you have other 3rdparty repos, you'll also need to set 1001 for all of them (except DMO), that should be enough. Simon wanted a general, user-friendly way to deal with situations like this. This is neither. And of course strictly speaking it

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Simon, On 01/02/2014 01:52 PM, Simon Ruggier wrote: I'm writing to suggest that in the long term, Debian's package management should have a general, user-friendly way to deal with situations like this, such as a mechanism to remove a repository subscription, and all package versions that came

Accepted ruby-rack-flash3 1.0.5-1 (source all)

2013-09-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: ruby-rack-flash3 - Flash hash for Ruby Rack applications Changes: ruby-rack-flash3 (1.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release. Checksums-Sha1: 491059e0bb72098b65f406fc55eec617351fa000

Accepted ruby-rack-flash3 1.0.3-1 (source all)

2013-09-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: ruby-rack-flash3 - Flash hash for Ruby Rack applications Closes: 719308 Changes: ruby-rack-flash3 (1.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release (Closes: #719308) Checksums-Sha1

Bug#721611: ITP: libjs-tinycon -- Library to manipulate the favicon by adding an alert bubble

2013-09-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: libjs-tinycon Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Moor tom.m...@gmail.com * URL : https://github.com/tommoor/tinycon * License : MIT Programming Lang: Javascript

Accepted ruby-sinatra-simple-navigation 3.6.0-1 (source all)

2013-09-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
pkg-ruby-extras-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: ruby-sinatra-simple-navigation - Extension providing simple navigations for Sinatra or Padrino Closes: 719312 Changes: ruby-sinatra-simple-navigation (3.6.0-1) unstable; urgency

Accepted ruby-simple-navigation 3.11.0-1 (source all)

2013-09-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: ruby-simple-navigation - Library to create navigations for Ruby web applications Closes: 719310 Changes: ruby-simple-navigation (3.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release (Closes

Accepted ruby-parseconfig 1.0.2-1 (source all)

2013-09-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: ruby-parseconfig - Simple standard configuration file parser for Ruby Closes: 719307 Changes: ruby-parseconfig (1.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release (Closes: #719307) Checksums-Sha1

Accepted ruby-blockenspiel 0.4.5-1 (source amd64)

2013-09-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: ruby-blockenspiel - Comprehensive implementation of Ruby DSL blocks Closes: 719313 Changes: ruby-blockenspiel (0.4.5-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release (Closes: #719313) Checksums-Sha1

Accepted ruby-versionomy 0.4.4-1 (source all)

2013-09-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: ruby-versionomy - Generalized version number class for Ruby Closes: 719314 Changes: ruby-versionomy (0.4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release (Closes: #719314) Checksums-Sha1

Bug#719307: ITP: ruby-parseconfig -- Simple standard configuration file parser for Ruby

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: ruby-parseconfig Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : BJ Dierkes de...@bjdierkes.com * URL : https://github.com/derks/ruby-parseconfig http://rubygems.org/gems/parseconfig

Bug#719308: ITP: ruby-rack-flash3 -- Flash hash for Ruby Rack applications

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: ruby-rack-flash3 Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Pat Nakajima patnakaj...@gmail.com Travis Reeder tree...@gmail.com * URL : https://github.com/treeder/rack-flash

Bug#719310: ITP: ruby-simple-navigation -- A library to create navigations for Ruby web applications

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: ruby-simple-navigation Version : 3.11.0 Upstream Author : Andi Schacke andreas.scha...@gmail.com Mark J. Titorenko * URL : https://github.com/andi/simple-navigation

Bug#719312: ITP: ruby-sinatra-simple-navigation -- Create simple navigations for Sinatra or Padrino web applications

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: ruby-sinatra-simple-navigation Version : 3.6.0 Upstream Author : Andi Schacke andreas.scha...@gmail.com Mark J. Titorenko * URL : https://github.com/andi/sinatra-simple

Bug#719313: ITP: ruby-blockenspiel -- A comprehensive implementation of Ruby DSL blocks

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: ruby-blockenspiel Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : Daniel Azuma daz...@gmail.com * URL : http://dazuma.github.io/blockenspiel/ http://rubygems.org/gems/blockenspiel

Bug#719314: ITP: ruby-versionomy -- A generalized version number class for Ruby

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: ruby-versionomy Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Daniel Azuma daz...@gmail.com * URL : http://dazuma.github.io/versionomy/ http://rubygems.org/gems/versionomy * License

Bug#719315: ITP: taskwarrior-web -- A web interface for the Taskwarrior todo application

2013-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: taskwarrior-web Version : 1.1.11 Upstream Author : Jake Bell j...@theunraveler.com * URL : https://github.com/theunraveler/taskwarrior-web https://rubygems.org/gems

[OT] Bridge burning

2013-07-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/07/13 09:51 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: It doesn't look like trolling to me... Sure, the question is a bit odd on a Debian forum, but it was posted in the Offtopic area, and I think it's perfectly valid to ask that question there. Some people might use Debian derivatives, and are on

Accepted debian-installer-launcher 17 (source all)

2013-04-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: debian-installer-launcher - Debian Installer desktop launcher Closes: 704065 Changes: debian-installer-launcher (17) unstable; urgency=low . [ Raphaël Hertzog ] * Ensure to always provide a sane TERM variable to d

Re: Upstream packaging (was Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes)

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/25/2013 09:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: There are actually users who do not see the system but just the topping. Yes, but I don't think we should encourage any users in this skewed view of the system. I would never try to blame the user about this. Nor would I. However, I would not use

Re: DPL 2013: Lats call for votes

2013-04-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
- - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 8367b943-96ac-4530-afbd-529da5fc4fd5 [ 3 ] Choice 1: Gergely Nagy [ 2 ] Choice 2: Moray Allan [ 1 ] Choice 3: Lucas Nussbaum [ 4 ] Choice 4: None Of The Above - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines

Re: DPL 2013: Lats call for votes

2013-04-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 13/04/13 07:46 AM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 06:52:01AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [...] So you're the second person that doesn't follow the headers I've set: Reply-To: leader2

Re: Bug#684128: down the memory hole

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/04/2013 12:05 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: Do you think there is any way that the relevance of posts to a bug report can be determined, without reference to the context in which they appear, *all the preceeding discussion*? So far as I can see, nobody doubts your intentions. But you

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/04/13 02:28 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:55 -0300 Ben Armstrong sy...@debian.org wrote: Just take care in future that the style of communications you used triggered someone's wetware spam filter with a false positive. I initially wrote up a detailed

Accepted debian-installer-launcher 16 (source all)

2013-03-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: debian-installer-launcher - Debian Installer desktop launcher Closes: 703979 Changes: debian-installer-launcher (16) unstable; urgency=low . * Use tmpfs and lazy unmount to ensure safe cleanup. Thanks to Bastian

Accepted debian-installer-launcher 15 (source all)

2013-03-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: debian-installer-launcher - Debian Installer desktop launcher Closes: 673450 702335 Changes: debian-installer-launcher (15) unstable; urgency=low . * Correctly identifying syslogd/klogd processes to kill when cleaning

Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/03/2013 02:16 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: release and lsb-base being Architecture: foreign). Patches are welcome to make Wheezy+1 more suitable to your needs. How about changing it from a kernel bug to

Document Debian version#s, not just codenames, (was: Feedback)

2012-12-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Mistikos, In spite of your trollish approach to the topic, let's try to make something constructive of your request: On 25/12/12 08:50 AM, Mistikos Nik wrote: It constantly refers to Debian versions by their nick names, and not their versions. Please furnish links/references to specific

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/2012 12:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Josselin Mouette writes (Re: Gnome classic mode): Can we move on now? I don’t even understand how a *one-time warning* explaining a user that his desktop will look different from what he might obtain on another Debian machine can even be a serious

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/2012 01:11 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: every time the live image is booted they will see this image unless they happen to be using ^ I meant to say see this error message, not see this image. ugh. crappy proofing, sorry. Ben

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/2012 02:22 PM, Wookey wrote: If the message tells people to select 'gnome classic' in the logon menu to make it go away then that seems reasonable to me. Again, not really an option for our live images. Two obvious options are: 1. Modify the live image to silently fail over to gnome

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2012 02:10 PM, martin f krafft wrote: Nothing we can do about it now. The news posting at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/17/#amd64 could be edited to change the first reference to amd64 in the text to link to

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/16/2012 06:10 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no writes: No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of the floppy group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules : Yeah but you are not a member of that group by default surely? $

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/15/2012 02:18 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential of cat debian.iso /dev/sdX for X = valuable hard disk. I've wondered about that, too, when working on the relevant section of the Debian Live Manual. Maybe one should advise people to first read

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/02/12 09:08 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi, 2012-02-28, 12:58: Is this worth including in Debian? It's funny for several microfortnights, but how many people really need to install this? Completely agreed. We should not accept any new packages in section games and

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.12-3 (source i386)

2011-12-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:50:56 -0400 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.12-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Changed-By: Ben

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/10/11 08:31 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 17:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 646019 cdimage.debian.org WTF? Isn't this a kernel driver bug? my mistake. i had not read it carefully enough. it does

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/09/11 06:24 PM, Paul Wise wrote: In my intended case I believe they always end up with foo from main, only if they choose foo-contrib will they get it, which is how I think it should be. main should not reference packages from contrib/non-free in any way. If that's how it works, then

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/20/2011 08:43 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Package: bar Depends: foo Package: foo-contrib Provides: foo While that neatly sidesteps the issue, 7.5 says: To specify which of a set of real packages should be the default to

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 10:49 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: What's up with the hate? It's always convenient to have a package in Debian, instead of hunting for it upstream. If it rots in Debian, then it can easily be removed again (or left in Unstable). Wrong. Every additional package costs the whole

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Q: How many content management systems written in php does Debian need? A: How about zero? Not exactly helpful. When developers are passionately opposed to a particular technology (and not without reason here, I think,) they can be a bit

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
We can stop CCing the bug# now, as this subthread is apparently no longer about the ITP itself, but about proper conduct in discussing an ITP. On 05/06/2011 01:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Strange that you read 'support' into my responses. By support, I hope you understand I mean the

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/06/2011 02:39 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I was responding to someone who said I 'supported' inclusion of proposed package. Ah, I misunderstood. My apologies. Yeah, good point. So it's not enough for packager to say he will be responsive to problems? Packages, once uploaded, enter

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes!

2011-04-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/05/2011 05:21 AM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:09:42PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:10:47AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Stanislav Maslovski d-i doesn't use ifupdown, it uses netcfg. Hm, okay, I was pretty sure J.M. at some

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/04/2011 10:06 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: There is only one thing that can be used without reading a manual. It is a breast. All the other devices (and things, substances, etc) required to be studied. While this paraphrase of a familiar quote may be applicable when taken in context (in

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/04/2011 10:31 AM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: I do not think that reading documentation before trying to achieve something is that elitist. And in the case of wpa_supplicant, it is definitely not dozens of pages. Basically, it is just man interfaces man wpa_supplicant.conf zless

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/04/2011 11:03 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: I think squeeze already does a lot better, but there is still work to do, especially with the installation process. On my personal wishlist for wheezy is d-i actually calling NM behind the scenes to configure the network, instead of ifupdown.

Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

2011-01-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/25/2011 02:36 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:14:39PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: I'm upstream for Cedilla [1,2], which has been orphaned and removed from Sid. I'm receiving e-mail from Debian users of Cedilla, asking me what is the suggested replacement.

Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

2011-01-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/25/2011 03:09 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Thanks to both of you -- I've forwarded your messages to my (soon-to-be former, sigh) users. Minus the false hits from my search, I hope? My main point was to illustrate debtags is a nice tool for finding related packages (some time I'll try to

Accepted eeepc-acpi-scripts 1.1.11 (source all)

2010-11-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: eeepc-acpi-scripts - Scripts to support suspend and hotkeys on the Asus Eee PC laptop Changes: eeepc-acpi-scripts (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low . [ Damyan Ivanov ] * notify: avoid staircase effect when sending

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 30/10/10 05:11 AM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: Is there an easy way to see what is in the tasks without reinstalling? From /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc it would seem that web- server only pulls apache2-mpm-prefork, and I have no idea how that could account for this increase $ tasksel

Accepted libterm-ansicolor-ruby 1.0.4-3 (source all)

2010-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:27:27 -0300 Source: libterm-ansicolor-ruby Binary: libterm-ansicolor-ruby libterm-ansicolor-ruby1.8 Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.4-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy

Accepted libterm-ansicolor-ruby 1.0.4-1 (source all)

2010-10-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:37:43 -0300 Source: libterm-ansicolor-ruby Binary: libterm-ansicolor-ruby libterm-ansicolor-ruby1.8 Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy

Accepted libterm-ansicolor-ruby 1.0.4-2 (source all)

2010-10-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:55:22 -0300 Source: libterm-ansicolor-ruby Binary: libterm-ansicolor-ruby libterm-ansicolor-ruby1.8 Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy

Bug#594482: ITP: libsyntax-ruby -- A simple Ruby syntax highlighting library

2010-08-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: libsyntax-ruby Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Jamis Buck ja...@jamisbuck.org * URL : http://syntax.rubyforge.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Ruby

Re: RFA: a lot of packages

2010-06-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 06/20/2010 10:20 AM, Angel Abad wrote: Hi! Im interested in vnc packages too, I use these packages every day. I havent upload rights, Im sure these packages are important for many people, so its posible to make a group of intenerested DD and DM in alioth for maintaintaining vnc related

Re: RFA: a lot of packages

2010-06-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 19/06/10 11:55 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Bug#586413: RFA: tightvnc -- virtual network computing server software Bug#586414: RFA: vnc4 -- Virtual network computing server software Although I cannot take on sole maintainership, I'm interested in the survival of the best VNC server and

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3-1 (source i386 all)

2010-03-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3~cvs20091102-1 (source i386 all)

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Changed-By: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG

Re: Debian Mobile -- Debian GNU/Linux for mobile devices

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 17/02/10 05:34 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: I wonder whether we really need to start or whether we are able to continue what just exist: There is a Debian Eee PC project [1] which - as far as I know - is not reduced to this specific hardware despite the very specific name. Actually, our

Bug#565770: ITP: libterm-ansicolor-ruby -- Colors strings using ANSI escape sequences

2010-01-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca * Package name: libterm-ansicolor-ruby Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Florian Frank fl...@ping.de * URL : http://flori.github.com/term-ansicolor/ * License : GPL Programming

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:07 -0200 Gustavo Noronha Silva k...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:00 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: This is silly. I haven't seen bug reports about packages not fitting in diskettes, and it would not make any sense if they were filed! =). I thought this

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:54:47 +0100 Vincent Sanders vi...@kyllikki.org wrote: A constructive discussion was held about the outstanding firmware issues, how the team addresses them and how we might work with upstream to address our DSFG issues with kernel sources. By chance, did any of that

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.12-2 (source i386)

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:30:06 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.12-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.12-1 (source i386)

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:20:30 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.12-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Changed-By: Ben

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.21-1 (source all i386)

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:17:59 -0300 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-plugins-default tuxpaint-dev tuxpaint-data Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1:0.9.21-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy

Accepted tuxpaint-stamps 2009.06.28-1 (source all)

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:11:00 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-stamps Binary: tuxpaint-stamps-default Architecture: source all Version: 2009.06.28-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Changed

Re: Bits from the Eee PC team, Spring 2009

2009-05-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:56:05 +0200 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Ben Armstrong, le Sat 23 May 2009 10:38:51 -0300, a écrit : Accessibility we understand that some users also need software synthesized text-to-speech, something for which there is no support yet

rtl8187se for Eee PC 701SD (and MSI Wind)

2008-11-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Eee PC Model 701SD uses the rtl8187se driver which is not in the kernel upstream. Ultimately, we want to use whatever is supported in the kernel. While there is some recent work on rtl8187 in wireless-testing, we don't yet know if this works for the rtl8187se. We'd be interested in hearing from

Re: RFA: The Debian Jr. project

2008-10-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:30:40 +0200 Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. Has something happened on this in the last month? Miriam Ruiz has some ideas, but since our initial contact on the matter, I have not seen any action on them. Sounds good and compatible :) OK ... That said, I

Re: Bug#498180: ITP: eee-applet -- A systray applet for Eee Pc

2008-09-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:07:39 +0200 Julien Lavergne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Start or stop Wifi I'm concerned about how this is implemented. Does it play well with eeepc-acpi-scripts? * Control fan speed I'd be interested to see that supported in a way that doesn't require the

Re: RFA: The Debian Jr. project

2008-08-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:15:39 +0200 Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for your work on Debian Jr. and for acknowledging that you don't have time/a heart for it anymore! Thanks. It's hard to let go, but it's really for the best if someone else will carry on. Is that vision written

Accepted atl2 2.0.5-1 (source all)

2008-08-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:49:16 -0300 Source: atl2 Binary: atl2-source Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008

2008-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:53:54 +0200 Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lenny is Debian. non-free is not part of Debian. Check the Social Contract. In light of the point of that follows this one, is it perhaps not too far of a stretch to imagine that I understand this, and expected my readers

Re: confusion about non-free (Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008)

2008-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:17:46 +0200 Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what is it that we do wrong to spread this confusion so much that it affects even Debian developers themselves. What is this to blame? Would it be the FTP archive layout? Perhaps having an unified BTS? I'd

Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008

2008-08-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
As Robert Millan brought to my attention, in my enthusiasm to present our progress towards fully Lenny support for the Eee in the best possible light, my announcement muddied the distinction between Lenny and non-free when I said that the earliest Eee models are now fully supported in Lenny. I

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:35:46 -0700 Kushal Koolwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For now should we just keep track of the EeePC? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Status I can't answer the big picture questions you're asking. As for the Eee stuff, expect on d-d-a a new Bits from the Debian Eee PC

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:29:48 +0200 Steffen Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many thanks for your reply. Your web sites are indeed what I wanted to see, possibly a bit too far away from John Doe who just bought such a machine as a Newbie Linux user, Naturally. The site is made by and for those

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:09:57 +0200 Steffen Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The EeePCs are sold throughout large resellers (Saturn, Staples, ...) in Germany and at least until the new ones get out they all ship with Debian - perfectly visible to every potential customer passing by. I have not

Bug#492029: ITP: atl1e -- Atheros(R) L1e ethernet driver

2008-07-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: atl1e Version : 1.0.0.7r5 Upstream Author : xiong huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://marc.info/?t=12160065951r=1w=2 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.20-2 (source all i386)

2008-07-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:43:16 -0300 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-plugins-default tuxpaint-dev tuxpaint-data Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1:0.9.20-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong

Accepted tuxpaint 1:0.9.20-1 (source all i386)

2008-07-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:35:12 -0300 Source: tuxpaint Binary: tuxpaint tuxpaint-plugins-default tuxpaint-dev tuxpaint-data Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1:0.9.20-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong

Accepted tuxpaint-stamps 2008.03.01-1 (source all)

2008-06-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:17:35 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-stamps Binary: tuxpaint-stamps-default Architecture: source all Version: 2008.03.01-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben

Accepted lmemory 0.6c-2 (source i386)

2008-06-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:38:01 -0300 Source: lmemory Binary: lmemory Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.6c-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted tuxpaint-config 0.0.10-1 (source i386)

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:41:23 -0300 Source: tuxpaint-config Binary: tuxpaint-config Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0.10-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong

Accepted xpilot-ng 1:4.7.3~cvs20080224-1 (source i386 all)

2008-03-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xpilot-ng - Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version) xpilot-ng-client-sdl - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-client-x11 - Client for XPilot NG xpilot-ng-common

Accepted atl2 2.0.3-3 (source all)

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:49:01 -0400 Source: atl2 Binary: atl2-source Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted atl2 2.0.3-2 (source all)

2008-01-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:10:39 -0400 Source: atl2 Binary: atl2-source Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted junior-sound 1.3 (source all)

2008-01-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:00:57 -0400 Source: junior-sound Binary: junior-sound Architecture: source all Version: 1.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted junior-gnome 1.5 (source all)

2008-01-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:04:03 -0400 Source: junior-gnome Binary: junior-gnome Architecture: source all Version: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL

Accepted atl2 2.0.3-1 (source all)

2007-12-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:00:35 +1000 Source: atl2 Binary: atl2-source Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED

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