Re: ecartis up for adoption

2002-12-04 Thread Martin Loschwitz
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:46:01PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Hello, > > I have decided that since my mailing lists are not currently hosted on > Debian, I don't have the time/resources/testing platform that I used to for > maintaining Ecartis, and I would like some qualified person to take over

Re: esound with libasound2

2002-12-04 Thread Ryuichi Arafune
(Please cc: me if you reply this message.) Ok, I understand what your thinking. I will not do NMU. However, I don't think only ALSA 0.5 is stable release. The current ALSA is also enough stable for sid ("unstable" release) users. So I believe the upload of esound with libasound2 to sid is not

Re: /tmp/root ???

2002-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-04 13:11:40 +0900]: > > I'm not sure but after recent upgrading of unstable > I found /tmp/root > > And can anyone guess which package created this /tmp/root ? Try this on your machine. It might be a clue. Or it might not turn up anything at all. B

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2002-12-03, Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please enlighten me, anyway: Why is bouncing the full body of the >> mail you received from a person who claims to be Adam back to Adam a >> good idea? > > This is an implementation issue, not a philosophical issue. This is correct. The

Re: esound with libasound2

2002-12-04 Thread Thomas Hood
It would be useful if someone would package the current esound program. The esound package maintainer has clearly expressed his lack of interest in doing so. esound2 anyone? -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:22:35AM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: > On 2002-12-03, Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please enlighten me, anyway: Why is bouncing the full body of the > >> mail you received from a person who claims to be Adam back to Adam a > >> good idea? > > > > This is a

Bug#171672: ITP: lufs-{utils,src} -- Linux Userland Filesystem

2002-12-04 Thread Eduard Bloch [RHRK]
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-12-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: lufs-{utils,src} Version : 0.8.2 Upstream Author : Florin Malita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://lufs.sourceforge.net/main/contact.html * License : GPL Description : Linu

电子厂:降低您生产成本的福音

2002-12-04 Thread cbc
您好! 我是深圳市惠世光电子有限公司,我公司专业生产SMT钢网已有四年多, 近期本公司代处理北京千柱原装锡膏,具体型号是:OZ 8031-418F-53-9.5; 金属含量:SN58/PB39/BI03;外包装:针筒式750G;销售价:150元/支(即200元/KG,不含税) 本锡膏缺点:1.不很光亮;2.较稀,不适应有0.5PICH的QFP. 优点:1.焊接性,抗干性,印刷性,稳定性都比较好;2.价格低,较大数量. 联系人:方先生TEL:13602577858。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 打扰您实在不好意思!

Debian package of additional TuxRacer courses

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have uploaded Debian packages of additional TuxRacer courses at http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/tuxracer-courses/ The packages do not have Debian quality regarding the necessary docs but they just work. I do not plan to make this an official package because each single

Re: Planned mass-filing of bugs: java packages only depending on java-common

2002-12-04 Thread Stefan Gybas
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:33:49AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > To that end I will be filing important bugs against any lib*-java > package that does not depend on either java1-runtime or java2-runtime > (should the package required features of the standard java.* classes > that are only include

Re: /tmp/root ???

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:40:27AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-04 13:11:40 +0900]: > > > > I'm not sure but after recent upgrading of unstable > > I found /tmp/root > > > > And can anyone guess which package created this /tmp/root ? > > Try this on you

一个手机, 多个号码

2002-12-04 Thread 234345
一卡多号,能将您所常用不同地区或不同国家的手机卡号(GSM SIM Card) 整合在一张手机卡的卡上, 对于经常往返不同国家或不同省市经商人士, 或年轻族群爱酷耍帅的的朋友们,当您拥有多个手机号时, 不必再烦恼出门时要带哪张卡号了,只要一张卡就能让您掌握所有手机号, 走到哪儿、省到哪儿;秀到哪儿、炫到哪儿!而且线上直接切换手机号, 无须关机重开!本产品附赠软件光盘,内含中、英、简体系统软件及其使用手册, 使用者可轻易按照手册的导引自行安装操作软件及烧录卡号, 并且很轻易地在手机上随意转换您所要使用的手机号码,从此您将避免换卡的麻烦, 并省下巨额越洋或跨区漫游电话费用。 产品说明 全世界

Re: Mozilla Calendar?

2002-12-04 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:29:28PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > is anyone planning on packaging Mozilla.org's Calendar program? > > > It requires Mozilla 1.2a (1.2 is in Unstable but I don't know about > 1.2a). It looks promising and hope someone

Re: esound with libasound2

2002-12-04 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:13:52PM -0800, Ryan Murray wrote: > This is an ABI change, and as ALSA 0.5 is still the stable release, (and > the only one that seems to work for me) I don't want to change it yet. Well, what Ryuichi said... ALSA people don't support 0.5 anymore. In any case, I guess it

Bug#171686: ITP: adzapper -- squid_redirect advertisement zapper

2002-12-04 Thread Ludovic Drolez
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-12-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: adzapper Version : 20021128 Upstream Author : Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Description : squid_redirect adver

Bug#171688: ITP: lazy -- A console-based CD player with digital audio extraction support

2002-12-04 Thread Shiju p. Nair
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: lazy Version : 0.23b Upstream Author : Lucas Correia Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freshmeat.net/redir/lazy/5502/url_bz2/lazy-0.23b.tar.bz2 * License : G

yacc on arm???

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
please check http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gradm&ver=1.5a-1 bison is in build-depends, and at least on i386, it provides bison.yacc, which yacc is linked to via alternatives. so what's the deal on ARM? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian

why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
speaks for itself. i didn't notice in months... http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gradm&ver=1.5a-1 http://bugs.debian.org/gradm -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to

package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
First off, http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ROCKS, thanks Raphaël! The page on gjay states: The package has not yet entered testing even though the 10-day delay is over. update-excuses lists it as valid candidate. is there something i am missing? also, wuzzah's page says that it's "Too young

Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
martin f krafft wrote: First off, http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ROCKS, thanks Raphaël! The page on gjay states: The package has not yet entered testing even though the 10-day delay is over. update-excuses lists it as valid candidate. is there something i am missing? also, wuzzah's page says tha

Re: why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:56:44AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > speaks for itself. i didn't notice in months... > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gradm&ver=1.5a-1 > http://bugs.debian.org/gradm It's easier to notice these things in a timely fashion if you put 'grep-excuses "y

Bug#171693: ITP: wondershaper -- a script to set up QoS, mainly for home users

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-12-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: wondershaper Version : 1.1a Upstream Author : Bert Hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ * License : GPL Description : a script to set up QoS, ma

Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also, wuzzah's page says that it's "Too young, only 0 of 10 days old". > i uploaded it to unstable on 17 Nov! What's going on? Read the lists. :) Testing scripts are dead since some time. -- bye Joerg pgpcQhsJMX3TZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1319 +0100]: > It's easier to notice these things in a timely fashion if you put > 'grep-excuses "your name"' (or just 'grep-excuses' with > GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER='your name' in ~/.devscripts) in your crontab. nice! still doesn't explain w

Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1308 +0100]: > You should have a look at update_output.txt which gives more details about > problems. Details about such outputs can be found in the main testing page. okay, that explains gjay (build failure on ia64). but i can find nothing

Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1331 +0100]: > > also, wuzzah's page says that it's "Too young, only 0 of 10 days old". > > i uploaded it to unstable on 17 Nov! What's going on? > > Read the lists. :) i am trying... > Testing scripts are dead since some time. okay, so

Re: why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1319 +0100]: > > It's easier to notice these things in a timely fashion if you put > > 'grep-excuses "your name"' (or just 'grep-excuses' with > > GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER='you

Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:38:08PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1331 +0100]: > > Testing scripts are dead since some time. > > okay, so no package will make it to testing in the mean time??? Correct. Also, multiple punctuation marks are

ITH: hdf5

2002-12-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
I intent to hijack the hdf5 package. Its current maintainer didn't make any upload for about a year, and the package is currently virtually maintained by me; I have already done 4 NMUs, as I have packages depending on hdf5, and thus needed to solve the RC bugs. If I don't have any news from Brian

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Re: ecartis up for adoption

2002-12-04 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:46:12PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > > take over maintenance of this package. > > is development still active upstream? i used to use listar heavily, but > stopped because i thought it was not being very well maintained by > upstream. Yes. There is not a lot of activi

Re: ecartis up for adoption

2002-12-04 Thread John Goerzen
Go ahead, it's yours. Please upload a version with a new Maintainer: line that closes WNPP O bug 171621. Thanks, John Goerzen On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:01:22AM +0100, Martin Loschwitz wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:46:01PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have decided that

Re:debian-devel

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Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:53:52PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Correct. Also, multiple punctuation marks are a sign of insanity. ;-) ^^^ Always knew those things were dangerous. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jim Penny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021203 17:35]: > OK, now, supposing that the unicode license is found to be non-DSFG > free, and hence that UnicodeData.txt is non-free. > > Suppose a program implements either unicode collation, regular expressions, > or any of the other things mentioned above. >

Re:debian-devel

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Re: Build problems on s390 & hppa (compiler/assembler bugs?)

2002-12-04 Thread John David Anglin
> > The second problem is an internal compiler error on hppa: > > ... > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DINET6 -DPREFIX=\"/usr\" > > -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/etc\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -O -g3 > > -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes > > -Wmissing-decla

Re: Bug#171693: ITP: wondershaper -- a script to set up QoS, mainly for home users

2002-12-04 Thread Joerg Friedrich
martin f krafft schrieb am Mittwoch, 04. Dezember 2002 um 13:08:46 +0100: > * Package name: wondershaper > Version : 1.1a > Upstream Author : Bert Hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ > * License : GPL > Description : a script

Re: Bug#171693: ITP: wondershaper -- a script to set up QoS, mainly for home users

2002-12-04 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:25:43PM +0100, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > and the other htb-based. cbq is no longer developped, but tc from > iproute does not support htb. Well, according to the changelog, tc does support htb, but it's probably based on htb2 and 2.4.20 contains htb3, which seems to be in

Bug#171720: general: Evolution1.2 does not compile on testing

2002-12-04 Thread mjnf
Package: general Version: 20021204 Severity: normal I have a update testing system. I also have the following lines on my /etc/apt/sources.list for whenever I want to try some "bleeding edge software" deb-src http://ftp.uevora.pt/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp

一个手机, 多个号码

2002-12-04 Thread 234345
一卡多号,能将您所常用不同地区或不同国家的手机卡号(GSM SIM Card) 整合在一张手机卡的卡上, 对于经常往返不同国家或不同省市经商人士, 或年轻族群爱酷耍帅的的朋友们,当您拥有多个手机号时, 不必再烦恼出门时要带哪张卡号了,只要一张卡就能让您掌握所有手机号, 走到哪儿、省到哪儿;秀到哪儿、炫到哪儿!而且线上直接切换手机号, 无须关机重开!本产品附赠软件光盘,内含中、英、简体系统软件及其使用手册, 使用者可轻易按照手册的导引自行安装操作软件及烧录卡号, 并且很轻易地在手机上随意转换您所要使用的手机号码,从此您将避免换卡的麻烦, 并省下巨额越洋或跨区漫游电话费用。 产品说明 全世界

电子厂:降低您生产成本的福音

2002-12-04 Thread cbc
您好! 我是深圳市惠世光电子有限公司,我公司专业生产SMT钢网已有四年多, 近期本公司代处理北京千柱原装锡膏,具体型号是:OZ 8031-418F-53-9.5; 金属含量:SN58/PB39/BI03;外包装:针筒式750G;销售价:150元/支(即200元/KG,不含税) 本锡膏缺点:1.不很光亮;2.较稀,不适应有0.5PICH的QFP. 优点:1.焊接性,抗干性,印刷性,稳定性都比较好;2.价格低,较大数量. 联系人:方先生TEL:13602577858。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 打扰您实在不好意思!

Bug#171731: ITP: gnuzza -- A small peer-to-peer chat program

2002-12-04 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnuzza Version : 0.4.3 Upstream Author : Timo Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.winpt.org/cryptchat/ * License : GPL Description : A small peer-to-peer chat program gnuzza (CryptChat) is a smal

Bug#171733: ITP: quack-el -- enhanced Emacs support for Scheme programming

2002-12-04 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: quack-el Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Neil W. Van Dyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/ * License : GPLv2 Description : enhanced Emacs support for Scheme programming Quack e

description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Walters
Hello, I think the package descriptions are a very important product of this project. They're going to be one of the first things people see when they use Debian, and their quality directly reflects on the quality of Debian. I've been putting in some random efforts here and there to comment on n

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Ari Pollak
I think the real issue here isn't so much actual package descriptions, but the ITPs. Most package descriptions I've seen have been pretty accurate, and tend to change a lot between the time of the ITP and actual package release. Colin Walters wrote: I think the package descriptions are a very i

Re: Mozilla Calendar?

2002-12-04 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:55:35 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sami Haahtinen) wrote: > In the past the only thing that stopped me from doing a build of my > own from the sources was that debian missed libical.. and now that > there appears to be libical-dev, i can't see any reason why not > package it.. Ye

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread David B Harris
On 04 Dec 2002 12:55:50 -0500 Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html Thanks. pgpfyKOIrBIap.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#171555: ITP: kernel-patch-sensors Hardware health monitoring tool (kernel patch) . This package contains two kernel patches. For 2.4.19 and 2.4.20.

2002-12-04 Thread David Z Maze
Robert Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Package name: kernel-patch-sensors > Version : 2.6.5 > Upstream Author : The Lm_sensors Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/ > * License : GPL > Description : Lm-sensors is a hardwa

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread David B Harris
On 04 Dec 2002 12:55:50 -0500 Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html I do have some differences of opinion, though. It's sad, but there are a getting to be a fairly large number of DDs who are "attention grabbers". Just a few days ago, I saw

Re: Bug#171693: ITP: wondershaper -- a script to set up QoS, mainly for home users

2002-12-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hello, Am Mit, 2002-12-04 um 14.25 schrieb Joerg Friedrich: > martin f krafft schrieb am Mittwoch, 04. Dezember 2002 um 13:08:46 +0100: > > * Package name: wondershaper > Please notice that the wondershaper has two scripts. First is cbq-based > and the other htb-based. cbq is no longer develo

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Dec-02, 12:11 (CST), Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the real issue here isn't so much actual package descriptions, > but the ITPs. Most package descriptions I've seen have been pretty > accurate, and tend to change a lot between the time of the ITP and > actual package re

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mer 04/12/2002 à 19:11, Ari Pollak a écrit : > I think the real issue here isn't so much actual package descriptions, > but the ITPs. Most package descriptions I've seen have been pretty > accurate, and tend to change a lot between the time of the ITP and > actual package release. The proble

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:01, David B Harris wrote: > Also, in the description template, two spaces are used after a period - > is that standard nowadays? (My understanding was that they were > primarily used for variable-width fonts, where a single space would take > up very little page space. Sin

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Craig Dickson
David B Harris wrote: > Also, in the description template, two spaces are used after a period - > is that standard nowadays? (My understanding was that they were > primarily used for variable-width fonts, where a single space would take > up very little page space. There was an interesting discus

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Craig Dickson
Scott James Remnant wrote: > In correct English grammar and typography the space after a full stop > ("period" in Merkin) is supposed to be a wider space then that between > words and after commas and suchlike. > > Therefore typists were always taught to press the space key twice after > a full s

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread David B Harris
On 04 Dec 2002 19:19:38 + Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In correct English grammar and typography the space after a full stop > ("period" in Merkin) is supposed to be a wider space then that between > words and after commas and suchlike. Ahh, allright, so there's still reaso

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:33:35 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see any reason why package descriptions shouldn't be presented > in variable-width fonts. The right margin might look a bit ragged > (assuming the program preserves line breaks, which is probably a good > idea to a

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:48, Craig Dickson wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > In correct English grammar and typography the space after a full stop > > ("period" in Merkin) is supposed to be a wider space then that between > > words and after commas and suchlike. > > > Hmm, you just gave

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Dec-02, 13:01 (CST), David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, in the description template, two spaces are used after a period - > is that standard nowadays? (Yes, I've read some of the other responses to this.) In standard typography, it is to have extra space after a period end

Re: Build problems on s390 & hppa (compiler/assembler bugs?)

2002-12-04 Thread Xavier Roche
>>I believe that you have hit a compilation limit in the pa backend. You >>have an unconditional branch that can't reach its target. The only work >>around at the moment is to compile without optimization. See the comments >>in pa/pa.md for the "jump" insn. We need a scratch register to load t

Re: Build problems on s390 & hppa (compiler/assembler bugs?)

2002-12-04 Thread John David Anglin
> >>I believe that you have hit a compilation limit in the pa backend. You > >>have an unconditional branch that can't reach its target. The only work > >>around at the moment is to compile without optimization. See the comments > >>in pa/pa.md for the "jump" insn. We need a scratch register to

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Craig Dickson writes: > Hmm, you just gave a rule specifically for fixed-width fonts, and now > you're tacitly assuming that it applies to variable-width fonts as well? You are supposed to use an n-space between words and an m-space between sentences when typesetting. Using two spaces with fixed-

Cost Effective Product Documentation

2002-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Processed: Re: Bug#171720: general: Evolution1.2 does not compile on testing

2002-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 171720 evolution Bug#171720: general: Evolution1.2 does not compile on testing Bug reassigned from package `general' to `evolution'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system admi

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:19:38PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > If you are writing text in something that uses variable width fonts, the > program should know about English grammar and render the wider space > itself on any whitespace. (LaTeX is about the only thing that gets it > right tho

Bug#171720: general: Evolution1.2 does not compile on testing

2002-12-04 Thread Graham Wilson
reassign 171720 evolution thanks On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:20:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: general this should be filed against the evolution package. -- gram

update alternatives priorities

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Cardenas
The man page for update-alternatives does not give a range for the possible values for priority. As a result, when I created a package for the lindowsos warehosue for ibmjava2-jre, I used a priority of 99, assuming that 100 was the maximum. The problem arose when a user installed another jre, s

Re: yacc on arm???

2002-12-04 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:11:43AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > please check > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gradm&ver=1.5a-1 > > bison is in build-depends, and at least on i386, it provides > bison.yacc, which yacc is linked to via alternatives. > > so what's the dea

Re: yacc on arm???

2002-12-04 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:11:43AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > please check > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gradm&ver=1.5a-1 > > bison is in build-depends, and at least on i386, it provides > bison.yacc, which yacc is linked to via alternatives. > > so what's the dea

Re: why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1319 +0100]: > > It's easier to notice these things in a timely fashion if you put > > 'grep-excuses "your name"' (or just 'grep-excuses' with > > GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:11:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Bramer wrote: > > The ddtp will produce also po-debconf files in future. I must only write > > some scripts for it... > > I did something like: > > for lang in cs da de es fr hu it ja nl pl pt_BR ru ; do wget > http://ddtp.debi

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:48:14AM +, Darren Salt wrote: > see if you still don't have a problem. Or try giving the server a local (to > it) address after MAIL FROM: the server should complain unless you're on a > network which it considers to be local. Tried that with both qmail and postfix,

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:12:37PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > But to be sure you're not getting any false positives, you cruise through > your "spam" mailbox every now and then, right? I generally try to (although I know one site that receives so much SPAM that this is simply not feasible). How

Why DDTP? shouldn't it be DPTP? (was Re: spanish translations in DDTP now)

2002-12-04 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I'm curious as to why was DDTP (Debian Documentation Translation Project) was chosen for the project in helping translate, exclusively, the package descriptions in Debian. Shouldn't this be renamed to DPTP (Debian Packages Translation Project). As far as I know the DDTP has nothing to do with: -

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 14:01, David B Harris wrote: > I do have some differences of opinion, though. It's sad, but there are a > getting to be a fairly large number of DDs who are "attention grabbers". > Just a few days ago, I saw a package description that said something > along the lines of "this

Re: update alternatives priorities

2002-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Dec-02, 15:30 (CST), Michael Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm fixing our package for ibmjava2-jre, but the man page should be > clarified. Are there any accepted values to use with > update-alternatives? Is it listed in some other documentation > somewhere that I just didn't see?

Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Amir Bukhari
Hi, I plan to port Xconfigurator from Redhat to Debian, if that will help debian to be more simple in installation. I have search in Internet, if some did that, or there is another tools already work on debian, but I have not found any! If you know one. That mean there is no need to port this p

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:20:47AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:48:14AM +, Darren Salt wrote: > > see if you still don't have a problem. Or try giving the server a local (to > > it) address after MAIL FROM: the server should complain unless you're on a > > network which

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:20:47AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:48:14AM +, Darren Salt wrote: > > see if you still don't have a problem. Or try giving the server a local (to > > it) address after MAIL FROM: the server should complain unless you're on a > > network which

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:53:46PM +0100, Amir Bukhari wrote: > I have search in Internet, if some did that, or there is another tools > already work on debian, but I have not found any! If you know one. That > mean there is no need to port this package. Dunno how you feel about this, but dpkg-

Re: why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1353 +0100]: > I'd be extremely surprised if the explanation wasn't something along the > lines of "we didn't get round to it" or "something more important came > up". Humans, not automatic systems, file bugs. there is not going to be a week

Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1353 +0100]: > > okay, so no package will make it to testing in the mean time??? > > Correct. Also, multiple punctuation marks are a sign of insanity. ;-) or of big surprise. then again, i am probably insane. -- .''`. martin f. kraff

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:57:05PM +0100, Oliver Kurth wrote: > MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Would this work? Or would you need to be authenticated first? (ie. I thought we were discussing checking purely based on the MAIL FROM address, not checking for relaying).

Re: Bug#171693: ITP: wondershaper -- a script to set up QoS, mainly for home users

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joerg Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.04.1425 +0100]: > Please notice that the wondershaper has two scripts. First is > cbq-based and the other htb-based. cbq is no longer developped, but > tc from iproute does not support htb. good to know. i asked for tc to include the htb pat

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 23:00, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:53:46PM +0100, Amir Bukhari wrote: > > I have search in Internet, if some did that, or there is another tools > > already work on debian, but I have not found any! If you know one. That > > mean there is no need to p

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:13:18PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Dunno how you feel about this, but dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > works quite fine here. > > > It does kinda assume you know what you want your config file to look > like, asking you about drivers and so-forth. Install

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 23:22, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:13:18PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > Dunno how you feel about this, but dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > works quite fine here. > > > > > It does kinda assume you know what you want your config file to

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:09:31AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:57:05PM +0100, Oliver Kurth wrote: > > MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Would this work? Or would you need to be authenticated first? $ telnet mx0.gmx.net 25 Trying 213.165.6

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:27:07PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 23:22, Michael Banck wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:13:18PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > Dunno how you feel about this, but dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > > works quite fine h

Re: Why DDTP? shouldn't it be DPTP? (was Re: spanish translations in DDTP now)

2002-12-04 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:29:47PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: [...] > PS: For example, people looking for translations in Debian might end up > reading http://ddtp.debian.org/ddtp-text/misc/ddts-faq.txt instead of > http://www.debian.org/international/ Or http://www.debian.org/in

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:42:43PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > Install discover, read-edid and mdetect before you install X, and you're > > > set. > > > > > Now explain that to my mother! :p > [snip] > > Maybe what we want is a meta-package that depends on discover, read_edid, > and mdetect.

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:30:39PM -0500, Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 14:01, David B Harris wrote: > > > I do have some differences of opinion, though. It's sad, but there are a > > getting to be a fairly large number of DDs who are "attention grabb

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I think the package descriptions are a very important product of this > project. They're going to be one of the first things people see when > they use Debian, and their quality directly reflects on th

Re: Why DDTP? shouldn't it be DPTP? (was Re: spanish translations in DDTP now)

2002-12-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:29:47PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I'm curious as to why was DDTP (Debian Documentation Translation Project) It wasn't, the expansion is Debian Description Translation Project. It's not exactly hard to find that infor

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:27:07PM +, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 23:22, Michael Banck wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:13:18PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > Dunno how you feel about this, but dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xf

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 23:50, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:42:43PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > > Install discover, read-edid and mdetect before you install X, and you're > > > > set. > > > > > > > Now explain that to my mother! :p > > [snip] > > > > Maybe what we want is a

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Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 18:58, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > I think the package descriptions are a very important product of this > > project. They're going to be one of the first things people see when >

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 18:55, Daniel Burrows wrote: > That might be true, but I would like to see language such as "best > package for foo" explicitly deprecated in the guide. I've even written > such stuff myself, back before I realized what the problems were. > (hopefully there isn't anything

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