Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
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] | -- Robert Anton

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
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.debian.org/~branden

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
of the actual 32-bit register.) Hopefully someone who has actual knowledge will be able to answer your question. Maybe Randolph Chung, who works for Intel? :) -- G. Branden Robinson |A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux|more legs and no brain

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
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. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux| The noble soul has reverence for itself

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Branden Robinson
. 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 up on your system. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter

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 privleges to use the command in question

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
. -- 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 really math

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
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] |too early to shoot

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 out there, but a reorg is worth it. Then they're

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
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 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 should go in /bin (or Branden /usr/bin

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread Branden Robinson
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| intellectual integrity you cannot [EMAIL

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

2000-08-14 Thread Branden Robinson
- 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, would they cancel [EMAIL PROTECTED

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 Robinson

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 and sorry for sending to devel (I

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

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
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 any [EMAIL PROTECTED] |hereditary propensity

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

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
appears weighted towards negative assessments -- unless there's another happy state you haven't mentioned? -- G. Branden Robinson|A celibate clergy is an especially good Debian GNU/Linux |idea, because it tends to suppress any [EMAIL PROTECTED] |hereditary

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 discourages

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

2000-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
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/Linux | they take over a country is to outlaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cockfighting

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
using xterm 3.3.6-6, please be sure and read the Debian X FAQ. There is a section about debugging key binding problems. file:/usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux | selfishness. [EMAIL

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

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
, 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 pounding on a greasy spot [EMAIL PROTECTED] |on the pavement, where used to lie

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 Robinson

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

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
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 wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux

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. Of course, you could always

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 else to listen

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

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
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 biology. Debian GNU/Linux | Biology

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
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's magic is another man's Debian GNU/Linux

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:44:24PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: Is there any kind of database to filter out time-wasting, vitriolic arguments full of personal attacks, about things that have nothing to do with Debian? Sure: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED].* /dev/null -- G. Branden

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

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
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: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
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 |If God had intended for man to go about [EMAIL

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
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] |-- Friedrich Nietzsche roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

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..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
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's purposes are beneficent

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 GNU/Linux

Re: Is someone working on Jazz++ ?

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
, 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 | road from capitalism to capitalism. [EMAIL

Re: WNPP

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
. -- 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.edu/~branden/ |-- Friedrich Nietzsche pgpFFu2lBWToW.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Encryption Builds

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
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] |suffer Christianity. roger.ecn.purdue.edu

Re: Paradise

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
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 Robinson| Never underestimate the power of human Debian

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 with six

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 for testing. Excellent. I've long been

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

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
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 | road

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
, not caring that their premises have been obliterated. -- G. Branden Robinson|When I die I want to go peacefully in Debian GNU/Linux |my sleep like my ol' Grand Dad...not [EMAIL PROTECTED] |screaming in terror like his passengers. roger.ecn.purdue.edu

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
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 are venerable Debian GNU/Linux

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
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 nailed-up IP's) get hurt by such tactics. -- G. Branden Robinson|I must

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
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|Reality is what refuses to go away when Debian GNU

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

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
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 PROTECTED] |from it to a discussion about cough

Re: ITP: tinydns and dnscache

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
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 you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux

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 slightly different things. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: keyring-maint@debian.org

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
. 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 pgplftmyZQTZm.pgp

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
installed). Also in the 0.0.4a version a split screen view with package details and a key help menu is missing. It would really suck to ship without a help screen. Dark might be persuaded to let in such a documentation-only revision. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux

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

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
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.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
been bugfixes. I'm sorry if you've grown attached to some of X11R5's bugs. Please keep replies out of my personal mailbox. I read the lists. -- G. Branden Robinson| Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux | of truth than lies. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
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 roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpqJWcVx3zVE.pgp Description

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 of pasta

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
-- 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 engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux |computer science

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

2000-03-22 Thread Branden Robinson
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 pounding on a greasy spot [EMAIL PROTECTED] |on the pavement, where used to lie

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

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
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, well, something bad will happen

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
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/~branden/ |If it doesn't work, it's physics

Re: xfs question

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
/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| Debian GNU/Linux

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

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Branden Robinson| If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux | thinking, they'll love you; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | but if you really

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
internationalization of computer software to mean -- it makes localization transparent and possible. -- G. Branden Robinson|Men use thought only to justify their Debian GNU/Linux |wrong doings, and speech only to conceal [EMAIL PROTECTED] |their thoughts

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
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 PROTECTED] | -- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpv5mHi93o7V.pgp

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
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. Branden Robinson|I just wanted to see what

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

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
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 PROTECTED] | than sheer

Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
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] |-- Oscar Wilde roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpzN0zGoQNCy.pgp

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

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
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 in an X window? :) -- G. Branden Robinson|Human beings rarely imagine

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

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
-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 half a man. [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's patches, #130 or #131, is probably the culprit since I think these are the only two changes that happened to the xterm sources between 3.9.18 and 4.0. -- G. Branden Robinson|Men use thought only to justify their Debian

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. ...users AND my fellow

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 not part of gs 5.5. The differences

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 for potato? The Release

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

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
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 Church roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: Packages to remove from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
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 whining and start coding. -- G. Branden Robinson

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

1999-10-06 Thread Branden Robinson
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's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux

Re: ITP: actx

1999-10-02 Thread Branden Robinson
a window sitter is. I think I'm up on my jargon, but I don't know what you're talking about here. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux | then believe; if you wish to be a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | devotee of truth

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

1999-09-28 Thread Branden Robinson
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, but I cannot claim credit for having discovered this vulnerability

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-27 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 transmitters are hideously excessive

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
, 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

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

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
if something that can do the job is already present? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bill Clinton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgprrIapNJF5t.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
() { grep -i ^$1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab; } -- G. Branden Robinson | Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Because we use vi, son. They use cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | emacs

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
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 may change. -- G. Branden Robinson

possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Branden Robinson
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 | I came, I saw, she conquered. The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled

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

1999-09-23 Thread Branden Robinson
. 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. Branden Robinson

Re: static user IDs

1999-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
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, son. They use cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Red Hat XFree86 security update

1999-09-20 Thread Branden Robinson
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 initialization at server startup time. I appreciate the mention, but I cannot claim

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 you please wait for this until a) debconf has

Re: warning: update-menus may thrash system

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
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 | reading

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
-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 cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | carcass

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
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: /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 wrong and we're repeating the mistake. Well, I'm glad

Re: Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:40:44PM -0500, David Starner wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: There is apparently an egcs optimization bug that miscompiles a few object files that are included in the X libraries. Could you just compile those object files with optimization off? Yes

Re: [ITP] xfonts-jmk-charcell

1999-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bill Clinton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpWYeYjIYt5E.pgp Description: PGP signature

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 | Debian GNU/Linux

Re: time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
can provide for your arguments is to redesign and reimplement the Debian packaging system yourself (or with people you recruit to the task). So get to work. If you reply to this message, do not be surprised if I don't to yours. -- G. Branden Robinson |A committee is a life form

Re: Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
and packaged before I release -5 (probably next week), that may have the fix. This bug did not crop up in slink/stable because GNU gcc was still the standard compiler at that point (I think -- my memory can't hold anything prior to about 2 previous Debian X releases :) ). -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: gpm problems in potato

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
xfree86-common package (3.3.3.1-3). -- G. Branden Robinson |There's nothing an agnostic can't do Debian GNU/Linux |if he doesn't know whether he believes [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in it or not. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Graham Chapman

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
. There is no way I will ever forget. -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when you Debian GNU/Linux | pry it from my cold, dead brain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Adam Thornton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpzOpZmTsldO.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
of code is seen from them. It is impossible, IMO, that you can't engage in this endeavor without learning a lot, and likewise so will the people who see your code. So, Godspeed. I look forward to hearing about your progress. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no gravity in space

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
to that. -- G. Branden Robinson |Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux |I met a man who wasn't there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |He wasn't there again today, cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |I think he's from the CIA

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: xfntbig I put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger, cackling with glee. Package: xfonts-cjk Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 2467 Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source

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