Re: Is dh_installxfonts okay?

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
bian Policy Manual for an explanation of why packages don't need to edit the XF86Config file. -- G. Branden Robinson |Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux|road from capitalism to capitalism. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Russian saying http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpYKi6nP0kSn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I propose gazillion packages (LONG)

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:34:08AM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > I propose these packages to be added to Debian GNU/Linux. I have proposed them > once before, but they are not yet added. I propose you start working on packaging them. -- G. Branden Robinson |Somebod

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
t tool; for instance, when diagnosing routing problems farther away than the interface card in the local machine. If this practice sounds foreign to you, then you either live on a more reliable Internet than I do or are much more indifferent to network problems. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 16-Aug-00, 12:31 (CDT), Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Blindly following your fiat declarations about traceroute are getting us > > into trouble now. > > What trouble is that? I do

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
hat deserve to be swatted. | > | -Bryan Andersen| "He who quotes himself in his own .signature files likely has no esteem for the views of anyone else, past, present, or future." -me -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:53:51AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:42:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I think if someone has to do such a thing, then: > > > > a) they forgot to su root; or > > b) they don't know they need privlege

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
ts of info, I don't think it qualifies for /usr. After all, such things can be (and often are) in the program's manual page, and we don't leave section 8 out of users' MANPATHs. Contrariwise, you can't read ifconfig's manpage to find out what interfaces are currently

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
he FHS explicitly decrees that they move to bin. This is unacceptable, and is why I argued elsewhere for a Debian policy that removes these decisions from discretion of the package maintainer; thanks to you, we've seen that package maintainers can't be trusted with this discretion.

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
with the "E" prepended. (I think, in some contexts, you can actually use the 16-bit register names to fetch the low-order 16 bits out of the actual 32-bit register.) Hopefully someone who has actual knowledge will be able to answer your question. Maybe Randolph Chung,

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
t could depend on a non-free thing that isn't packaged at all. See, for instance, xtrs. -- G. Branden Robinson |The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux|selfishness. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Robert Heinlein http://www.

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
b) they don't know they need privleges to use the command in question; or c) the command doesn't belong in sbin anyway. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux| intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
user will ever run it directly, then it should be placed in one of the "bin" directories. Ordinary users should not have to place any of the sbin directories in their path. Note: For example, files such as chfn which users only occasionally use should still be placed in /

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
bian-policy package. Well, keep in mind that Debian has committed itself to FHS-compatibility, not FHS-compliance. This means that we are free to have symlinks standing between a pathname and the inode. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux|

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:32:32AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > >> But I thought one of the main complaints was that /usr/sbin wasn't in the &

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
7;t object. I still think a few of those tools could profitably be placed in (/usr)?/bin, but this is at least another step closer to the elimination of a useless artifact of the old days. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux| Never attribute to malice

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
bly some things we (Progeny) will do that Debian doesn't want to fool with. We can of course set up our own CVS repository if need be, but this seems a good way to do development out in the open. -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked like Debian G

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:54:28AM -0400, Chad Miller wrote: > >> Hear, hear! It would be a flag day for a few poorly written programs > >>

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
ht of lots of programs moving from sbin to bin, or even the elimination of sbin altogether. -- G. Branden Robinson |America is at that awkward stage. It's Debian GNU/Linux|too late to work within the system, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
unofficial packages. -- G. Branden Robinson | Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux| Biology is really chemistry. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chemistry is really physics. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | Physics is

Re: Python 1.5.2 licensing (long)

2000-08-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:51:52PM -0700, Henry Jones wrote: [...] Your lines are so short that they are difficult for me to read. It's like listening to a 56kb/s stream through a 14.4 modem. How about setting your line width to between 65 and 75 characters? -- G. Branden Rob

Re: Bug#69090: strange su / which / apt behaviour

2000-08-14 Thread Branden Robinson
't like that before - and should something be done about that? It > seems pretty broken to me. Read the Debian X FAQ. /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz -- G. Branden Robinson | If a man ate a pound of pasta and a Debian GNU/Linux| pound of antipasto, w

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread Branden Robinson
command --args fi (It would be nice if POSIX had thought to include a -s option to shut command up and just return an exist status so as to avoid all that ugly redirection, but oh well.) -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux|

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:27:22AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Branden> Of course. The obvious answer is that programs that have > Branden> some utility to unprivileged users sh

Re: DUL (was Re: RBL report..)

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
olor. What mechanism do you propose that people on dynamic IP's use to identify their mails as non-spam while still making direct SMTP connections to the MX host of the destination domain? -- G. Branden Robinson| The first thing the communists do when Debian GNU/Linu

Re: DUL (was Re: RBL report..)

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:09:41PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 12:00:52AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > You appeal to authority, call for bandwagon jumping, and rely upon > > anecdotal accounts, but have yet to point to an RFC that forbids or >

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
or example it prevents address-testing/harvesting by spammers. Some > sending systems will immediately retry the same failed request, and it > prevents these infinite loops from spinning out of control.) The subjective issue of humor aside, do you suppose there is *any* possible non-

Re: DUL (was Re: RBL report..)

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
t, this shouldn't be an insuperable problem. Once you have done that, you won't have to shore up your position with invalid inferences. -- G. Branden Robinson|A celibate clergy is an especially good Debian GNU/Linux |idea, because it tends to suppress

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 07:50:31PM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > Hello Branden, > > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:48:24AM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > > Sorry for sending this message again

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
> is in Xterm. If you're using xterm 3.3.6-6, please be sure and read the Debian X FAQ. There is a section about debugging key binding problems. -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux | selfishness. [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
Not that I would advocate doing this in the first place. Fine; if you want to have a "conversation" with people who refuse to listen to you, that's your right. I see communication as a bidirectional process, however. -- G. Branden Robinson| One man&#x

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
ing has been turned on its head and you must qualify for a "whitelist" before it deigns to listen to you). I'm sure the list will continue to grow as certain individuals find the measures of all of the above insufficient. -- G. Branden Robinson| Psychology is really b

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 03:11:27PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:08:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone &g

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:45:35AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:55:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I suggest you close bugs filed by such people without comment. > > Call it the Malicious Blacklist User Behavior Modification System. > >

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
oying it. Who am I to tell you who you can't blacklist? Who are you to tell me the same? Furthermore, this Project has no business countenancing any particular SMTP blacklist policy over any other -- because no one has the right to be heard. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you w

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone > else to listen. Then this principle must apply universally. I reserve the right to ignore bug reports for any reason I choose, then. -- G. Branden Ro

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
issue up again after I've taken it to private mail. If a subject is off-topic, please don't apply a defibrillator to it after the participants have moved on. -- G. Branden Robinson|It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux |screaming mob poun

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
P that employs the DUL and have no ability to opt out of it, perhaps they should explore using a different ISP. There are lots of them, you know. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux |The noble soul has reverence for itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
ther > things, too). > > You want pragmatism? Work with FreeBSD. No flame, no smiley. Chip, how did it come to be that you are so cool and Tom Christiansen so...isn't? :) (No, I'm not being sarcastic.) -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux |

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
ke a full spool filesystem). And yes, you could consider my temper frayed on this subject. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | The software said it required Windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 3.1 or better, so I installed Linux. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgp5V28GG3R4G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
dev/null -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with remaining eye. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpoZgurLvGPn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:34:05AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:55AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: NILS JEPPE, CRAIG SANDERS: PLEASE STOP CC'ING ME ON LIST MAILS. -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is human Debian G

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
I suppose you guys are too busy disregarding my messages and spamming my inbox to have noticed that. -- G. Branden Robinson|Experience should teach us to be most on Debian GNU/Linux |our guard to protect liberty when the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |government

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:58:22AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] Why did you CC me? I read the list. Please control yourself. -- G. Branden Robinson| The basic test of freedom is perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | less in what we are free to do than in [EMAIL

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
been intimidated into using a smarthost, which might run just such a broken MTA. The anti-spam bigots enjoy seeing catch-22's like this. DoS attacks in the name spam prevention is their favorite sport. After all, no REAL people (read: people with single-user machines and naile

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
about ORBS are still valid, no matter what DUL is. I wasn't talking about ORBS, I was talking about DUL. I haven't visited the DUL site in quite some time, but IIRC it is <http://maps.vix.com/dul/>. -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
y remind me of Creationists, who will marshal "facts" in defense of their position, but when those "facts" are discredited, will simply fallback on repeated blunt assertions of their conclusion, not caring that their premises have been obliterated. -- G. Branden Robinson

Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
the world. Since I cannot communicate with bug report filers from chiark.greenend.org.uk, all bug reports submitted, past, present, or future, by people from that host will be summarily closed. -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux

Re: MiniVend Debian package

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:53:12PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:11:57AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > > > OK, now as MV 4.03 is out, there is a Debian package available now > >

Re: MiniVend Debian package

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:11:57AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > OK, now as MV 4.03 is out, there is a Debian package available now > for testing. Excellent. I've long been awaiting an upgrade to the mv command. -- G. Branden Robinson| A committee is a life form

Re: Paradise

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
eel free to CC me. Sounds great, but the first thing we need to know is: What's the license on Paradise Netrek? If it is DFSG-free (and it is if it uses the GPL, LGPL, MIT, or BSD without advertising clause licenses), then you're bound to generate enthusiasm. :) -- G. Branden Robinso

Re: Encryption Builds

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
stribute crypto in the U.S. I posted another message to -devel a few minutes ago with more information. -- G. Branden Robinson|Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux |redeemed. God loves us, so He makes us [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WNPP

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
etaps, key escrow, and other acts of urination on the Fourth Amendment. -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men are venerable Debian GNU/Linux |because they are more fruitful than the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |truths of little men. roger.ecn.purdue.e

Re: Is someone working on Jazz++ ?

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
tive, if you get it working, you'll a get a "avoid-Overfiend-bitch-out-for-free" card. This offer is valid for a limited time only! Not for pets or small children. -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux |

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
n' for navigation. (As a die hard vi user, I suggest making 'j' and 'k' also perform navigation operations as well. :) ) > NOTE: with aptitude 0.0.4a (included in potato) you will find it confusing if > you dont have support for colors in your term, since

Re: keyring-maint@debian.org

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
-- G. Branden Robinson|It's not a matter of alienating authors. Debian GNU/Linux |They have every right to license their [EMAIL PROTECTED] |software however we like. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Craig Sanders, in debian-devel pgplft

Re: woody mutt users, please read

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:38:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > You have to change all "lists" commands in your ~/.muttrc in > "subscribe". I have both. Do you mean I can get rid of "lists" altogether? Last time I read the docs, they appeared to do s

Re: ITP: tinydns and dnscache

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
ools", (which is required for > running tinydns). Since the letters "djb" appear here, I guess it goes without saying that these will have to go in non-free, but please mention the license when posting ITP's. -- G. Branden Robinson|If yo

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
anager virtual package and alternative. Session managers and window managers are different things. See the Debian X FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson|You don't just decide to break Kubrick's Debian GNU/Linux |code of silence and then get drawn away [EMAIL P

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
t; Package: netbase > Depends: vim > Conflicts: nvi, emacsen > > and leaves everything else the same. You can only achieve fairly petty > vadalism with this, but it would still be nice to avoid it, IMO. What a deliciously evil idea. -- G. Branden Robinson|

Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system)

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:53:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Yes, because Santiago Vila doesn't want it and because it looks like > a crude hack. There is no correlation there. Or if there is, it is a negative one. -- G. Branden Robinson| If a man ate a pound o

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
lor change escape sequences should be enabled. The default is ``true.'' -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Russian saying r

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ood reason to accomodate you in the Debian defaults. Read that FAQ. Features have been added to xterm by Thomas Dickey, but the only changes that break compatibility have been bugfixes. I'm sorry if you've grown attached to some of X11R5's bugs. Please keep replies out of my person

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
n eliminated from recent XFree86 packages. Potato will ship without it. -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that he is Debian GNU/Linux |half an animal is only half a man. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Thornton Wilder roger.ecn.pu

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
Yann Dirson has the default keymap set to some French thing -- this affects every Debian user in the world, and most of the world isn't France. I guess some people take the figurative expression "lingua franca" too literally. :) -- G. Branden Robinson|Software engineer

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-22 Thread Branden Robinson
rge all X packages and reinstall... Please see the section in the Debian X FAQ[1] about the XAUTHORITY environment variable. [1] /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz -- G. Branden Robinson|It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux |screaming mob poundin

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
sages going to -devel-announce or -announce. -- G. Branden Robinson|Murphy's Guide to Science: Debian GNU/Linux |If it's green or squirms, it's biology. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If it stinks, it's chemistry. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~bran

Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
ckage > really seems to be a `wild beast'. Tom Dickey is also the upstream xterm maintainer. He and I have exchanged mails several times over the past couple of years. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, we

Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
t; Kernel Version: Linux shasta 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 > unknown > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Branden Robinson| If you make p

Re: xfs question

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Like Unix shell login sessions, which are customized by a file like Like the Unix filesystem, windows in X are laid out like a tree with a FontPath "unix/:7100" Yup. I sometimes wonder why I bother maintaining that FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
what I'm saying is this: I think a Debian window manager policy should say that window managers should be given higher priority if they DON'T mangle localized information that they are intended to pass along to the user. And that is what I understand internationalization of computer sof

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
ease come up with more, if there are any, and I'd be happy to make a new policy proposal incorporating your suggestions. -- G. Branden Robinson| I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux | confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PR

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
7.0 are anyone's > guess and who knows what has broken. > > So, Dark, what should I do? Let's boycott the fuckers! Drop the package and swear to never support Real until they discard their patents and free their software! G! P! L! G! P! L! CHAGE! -- G. Brand

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
c/X11/app-defaults. > I remember that me being against something actually serves to you as an > endorsements to do it, Heh heh heh heh heh heh... -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that he is Debian GNU/Linux |half an animal is only hal

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
w anybody who is using > one. But, I did use X 3.3.x on a EGA card for a while, I see that xega is not > even in the archive now.) I still have an old DOS game called EGATREK lying around someplace. I sure would like to play it again sometime. I wonder if dosemu can give you ega graphics

Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
hands dirty with it today, and it is far too soon for me to speculate sensibly on details of what the final packages will look like. -- G. Branden Robinson|The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux |is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
out errors on a potato system and I am basically deep in the guts of it right now, figuring out how I need to break it up for packaging. -- G. Branden Robinson| I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Debian GNU/Linux | for malicious intent is nothing more [EMAIL

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
Today's news flash: omitted words can really change the meaning of a sentence. On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > They're not available yet, so I am sending this message to apprise Debian > users my fellow developers of the situation. ...use

So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
ws is, I know a hell of a lot more now than I did two years ago. I appreciate everyone's patience and understanding in this process. [1] The makedepend program gets stuck in an infinite loop when attempting to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's patches, #130 or

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:59:01AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Eh? There would be no real code changes at all. As I understand it, the > > license on 5.5 is all that has changed. So why not move it from non-free > > to main

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:19:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > As I understand it, pdftotext is a new tool available in 5.5 but not 5.0. > > AFAIK pdftotext is included in xpdf - it's

Re: Packages to remove from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
> efficacy of their connection? SSH doesn't tell me the key length of > connections *except* in this one case--which is not consistent, and > which is not unambiguously "*right*" behavior. I disagree with your analysis, but nevertheless... Use the Source, Luke. Quit whi

Re: Consistant Keyboard Configuration (was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
from kdebase, and another reason people should be assiduous about filing bugs against the KDE packages. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will happen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bob C

Re: recompile needed for xlib6g (>= 3.3.5-1) instead of (>= 3.3.2.3a-2) ?

1999-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
ecompile their packages against the latest versions of the potato libraries shortly before the potato freeze? Mixed slink/potato systems are temporary things. Potato will be around for a long time. So let us please make it internally consistent. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man&#x

Re: ITP: actx

1999-10-02 Thread Branden Robinson
u." "Originally inspired with" should probably be "Originally inspired by". But the most important thing is to tell the user what a "window sitter" is. I think I'm up on my jargon, but I don't know what you're talking about here. -- G. Bra

Re: [RHSA-1999:035-02] Updated XFree86 3.3.5 packages available

1999-09-28 Thread Branden Robinson
; In Red Hat's recent announcement, there is the following text: > > > Thanks go to Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for discovering a > > possible symlink attack in the xkb extension initialization at server > > startup time. > > I appreciate the mention, bu

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:04:46PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:57:31PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Mind you, I'm not cheering for the FCC here -- in fact that I think their > > restrictions on output power for private radio transm

Re: Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ake exception to that reasoning. I can understand someone not wanting to type all that, but it would really be cake to write a shell alias or function that can accomplish the same thing. iso3166 () { grep -i ^$1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab; } -- G. Branden Robinson | &quo

Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ot ask the development community of such a tool is truly needed? Why not take a look around the existing distribution, which is very large, and see if something that can do the job is already present? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | It tastes

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
y tight lid on RFI generated by portable devices. Household appliances, on the other hand... -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] |with remaining eye. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpiv2fqJar7l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
to interfering with a receiver even 10 feet away. But the airlines don't expect flight attendants to comprehend such things and don't have to, since their passengers don't raise enough fuss to get the policy changed. As portable computing devices become ever more ubiquitous, this

possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Branden Robinson
3 apocalypse ~ > ls -dl /usr/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 23 22:02 /usr/bin/perl -> perl-5.005 [0] 1014 apocalypse ~ > ls -dl /usr/bin/perl-5.005 -rw--- 1 root root 534844 Aug 19 04:29 /usr/bin/perl-5.005 -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
DOS. > The marker file used to generate this can also be viewed: > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.coords Hmm. I get a 404 on this. Great work, thanks to everyone responsible for this, it is cool. We probably should whack the old xearth stuff from the site now. -- G.

Re: static user IDs

1999-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
thown out without mercy I nominate this guy for Debian's Most Promising Newcomer Award. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Because we use vi,

Red Hat XFree86 security update

1999-09-20 Thread Branden Robinson
t: Re: [RHSA-1999:035-02] Updated XFree86 3.3.5 packages available User-Agent: Mutt/1.0pre2i Hi Preston, In Red Hat's recent announcement, there is the following text: > Thanks go to Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for discovering a > possible symlink attack in the xkb extension

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't > > happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2). > > Err, can y

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
vate mail. If you want debian-devel to be your audience, then please don't CC me as well. I'm perfectly capable of following the list. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |If existence exists, [EMAIL PROTECTED] |why create a creator? cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpjGqWW2OJJA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
r -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2). -- G. Branden Robinson | It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux | screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on the pavement, where used to lie the carto

Re: warning: update-menus may thrash system

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
run. > I am looking into fixing this as soon as I can, but you might want to put > menu on hold over the weekend. Yes, I noticed this and howled loudly on IRC about it. See attachment. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny that Debian GNU/Linux

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: ...])

1999-09-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:57:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:12:44PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > No, I knew what the rationale was and I don't agree with it one bit. > > > In > > > short, their rationale is wr

Re: Intent to package: gtk-doc

1999-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > Maybe keep the source called gtk-doc and call the binary gtk-doc-tools... > Suggestions welcome. That sounds good to me, so there's one vote in favor of it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debia

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