Re: ITP: ncurses-ruby - ruby extension for the ncurses C library

2003-08-22 Thread Brian Almeida
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:58:25PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:44:02PM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: > BA> I intend to package ncurses-ruby, which is a ruby extension for the > BA> ncurses C library. It is placed under the LGPL 2.1. It's requi

ITP: ncurses-ruby - ruby extension for the ncurses C library

2003-08-21 Thread Brian Almeida
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to package ncurses-ruby, which is a ruby extension for the ncurses C library. It is placed under the LGPL 2.1. It's required by raggle. http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator, Core Messaging Systems

ITP: raggle - console RSS aggregator

2003-08-21 Thread Brian Almeida
aggle has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, and should work properly under other Unix variants as well." http://www.raggle.org -- Brian Almeida | http://tynian.net| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org| [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla 0.7

2001-01-10 Thread Brian Almeida
: MythDead :%( address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :%( away : Yes, I know its out, leave me the fuck alone Bad move... -- Brian Almeida | http://people.debian.org/~bma Debian Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-05 Thread Brian Almeida
t; it, I reverted to test10. Anyone running 2.4.0 could tell you). > Thus, it would die immediately for me. flags was changed to features in test11, and was reverted back to flags in test12 (and later). -- Brian Almeida | http://www.debian.org/~bma Debian Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-27 Thread Brian Almeida
source packages - for example, > for libdb2-util, the URL given above returns "No such changelog file". > > Any other ideas how to do this? apt-cache show $package|grep Source Then use that value in the url (in this case db) -- Brian Almeida | http://

Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody

2000-09-08 Thread Brian Almeida
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:57:41AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > I don't think explorer is sufficient justification to keep qt1 in woody. I wasn't implying it was. I was just saying it needs to be fixed, or removed. -- Brian M. Almeida Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL PROT

Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody

2000-09-07 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:16:03AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Hey, > > I'd like to remove qt1 from woody. I only seem to find 1 package that > depends on it currently (tuxeyes) and due to the fact that it's non-free > and qt2 is out with a gpl'd license and all, I think we should discou

Re: ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:48:17PM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000, Brian Almeida wrote: > > Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is > > similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to > >

Re: ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Peter Teichman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: > > Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is > > similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author

ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Brian Almeida
Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to make packages of it, and I have uploaded it into Debian. It is placed under the GPL. See http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ for more info. -- Brian M.

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

2000-08-31 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:32:38PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > It's still mention in Suggests: etc. but the package is not listed in > the Packages files anymore. Just a temporary situation or a real problem? prc-tools (0.5.0r-3.1) frozen; urgency=low * NMU * Specify the archs (excluding sp

Re: WNPP

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Almeida
...or maybe not. It's got cryptographic hashing algos (tiger, sha1, etc), so I probably can't package it due to wonderful US laws. Drat. On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: > I'll do this, since it relates to my work. :-) > > On Mon, Mar 27,

Re: WNPP

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Almeida
NSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Almeida Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org Linux Systems Engineer @ Winstar | http://www.winstar.com

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Brian Almeida
; generations in internet time), we have fastr become a distribution > that does not meet the needs of a vast number of people. I believe slink was released Mar 9, so we are just over a year, not 18 months (so we are only 2 generations behind ;) -- Brian Almeida Debian Developer

ITP: ICQnix

1999-09-20 Thread Brian Almeida
ICQnix is a clone of ICQ intended to resemble the Mirabilis client as much as possible. It is placed under the GPL, with the exception that it may be linked to Qt. I will upload in a day or so if no one objects (I searched the archives and wnpp and didn't see anyone had dibs on this, but if I mis

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Almeida
o. This > is to prevent others from possibly investigating the source with an > eye towards taking over maintenance. Ah, I see. I must have missed that message. In this case, yes, I'd say "Ok, this guy has it now, thanks for the help", which most people do right now anyways (

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:26:11PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > You are subscribed to a mailing list debian-devel, aren't you? Nag also sends emails regarding old bugs on your packages. I never subscribed to that. :p -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian L

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:28:33PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > So where's the problem with getting an reminder about your old open > bugs, which you need to fix? I don't NEED a reminder about my bugs. There should be an option to TURN THE BLOODY THING OFF. -- Brian Almeida &

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Almeida
e to think the same of most maintainers out there. Often times if there's an old bug, it's either because it's fixed and forgotten to be closed, unreproducable, or the package/maintainer author feel it not to be a bug - but leave it open so it won't get reported over and over. --

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Almeida
bugs - yet from what I understand, he can't possibly go through that list until some modifications are done to the BTS. 'Nag' also goes to developers personally, not only to -devel. -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Br

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Almeida
new maintainers, just mark something like '* New maintainer' in the changelog. -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://www.cicat.com/ V: 703-383-1408 email: [EMAIL PR

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Almeida
fdisk'd and reinstalled - one reason to do it would be to set up the partitions the way I want. Also consider this, linux.com is a 100%-debian drive site - from the impressions I've gotten, the VA people are really big on Debian, but for the reasons above aren't

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

1999-05-18 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:03AM +0200, Mail Delivery System wrote: > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. Can we please block this guy?

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > gtkicq replaced by gnomeicu > communicator/netscape*45 new version is out(46) -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://w

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:02:10PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > Hmm... then why isn't it used on my system? devpts is mounted, I > have /dev/ptmx, but /dev/pts is empty. Perhaps you aren't using anything that uses unix98 ptys? Not everything uses them by default, you know. Sometimes patches a

Re: Adding a global UID/GID?

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:13:39AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mitch> GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in > Mitch> the 0-99 range added to Debian? > > Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe. And pray.

Re: Anyone have a slink box I could use?

1999-01-31 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:17:59AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > I need to make a new frozen release of wmakerconf, but my system is potato > all the way. Does anyone have a computer I could compile this on? Sure. I just fresh reinstalled slink last night. Contact me privately for more information.

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-28 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:06:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > It *was* a joke, you know. It's hard to tell sometimes. :p

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-28 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:30:31AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know wh

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:41:45PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I'm very happy that you took the package, because I'm heavyly dependend > from it. In my humble opinion maintaining is not so hard, because > the program compiled well in all version I compiled myself (sometimes > there where reasons

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:53:44PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > Raster and I had philosophical differences, which made the maintainer/author > relationship hard. Give it a shot, if you can't do it someone else will step > in. Same reason here. Just took me a few months to really realize it =)

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: > If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what > you think. They're yours.

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:14:57PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: > There are two imlib maintainers listed on the "People Behind Debian" web > page, Brian and Shaleh. Is that right? :) No. Shaleh was the maintainer before me.

Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
x27;t scared off everyone =) Thanks, Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP Key: 0x3A800C65

Re: libpng & gnome & slink

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Almeida
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can > downgrade, > i see the 1.0.1 package nowhere ... !find libpng2 hamm bma: um, dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libpng2_1.0.0-0.1.deb > what about latest gnome pac

Re: Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-18 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 07:17:03PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > rvplayer does not work under Linux 2.1, if that's what you're running. Why not? I noticed today that it wasn't working...are there any fixes? It'll suck when 2.2 comes out and rvplayer don't wrok...

libjpeg62 and Imlib

1998-10-14 Thread Brian Almeida
Well, now that I'm back from my wonderful little break, has anything been decided on libjpegg6b (libjpegg62?) It's gettin' kinda close to freeze, and I was wondering if anything happenedno updates on them in slink Any word from the maintainer? If not, maybe Steve could upload his fixed ve

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good > reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the > LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let's do so before the > freeze. Alright. Who wants to

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
s makes me edgy. Jim, Chris? Your opinions? Maybe we should just leave it at 6a...even Chris admits that 6b has not been tested. I don't want to break every Imlib dependent package totally a week and half before the freeze

Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
But all the other packages have to make it there as well. Thanks. Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/~bma/ _ _ _ __| | ___| |__ (_) __ _ _ __ / _` |/ _ \ '_ \| |/ _` | '_ \

Intent to package: audiofile

1998-10-04 Thread Brian Almeida
/ The latest version is 0.1.5. Audiofile is released under the GPL. I did not see it listed in dselect/slink as of a few minutes ago. If there are no objections, I will package it. Thanks. Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or

Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-04 Thread Brian Almeida
ving directory `/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk' make: *** [all-subdirs] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/gdselect]: exit Script done on Sun Oct 4 11:31:43 1998 -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resident Technology Advisor for ARC/Stubbs Phone: 4095 Pager: 315-9746

Re: gnome .debs

1998-10-04 Thread Brian Almeida
ven though I dont' really use GNOME per se, I think its' a GREAT idea. :) Keep in touch. Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/~bma/ _ _ _ __| | ___| |__ (_) __ _ _ __ /

prelim deb of emusic

1998-06-11 Thread Brian Almeida
While I'm awaiting the phone call to receive maintainer status (possibly tonight), I have put up a preliminary .deb of my package(eMusic). It can be found at: http://web.terminus.cicat.com/software/emusic_0.5-1_i386.deb Any suggestions welcome. :) Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL P

(Re)intent to package

1998-06-10 Thread Brian Almeida
Hello, I'd like to take on eMusic as a package once more. I've finally managed to find the time to do it. If there are no objections, of course. :) Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.terminus.cicat.com PGP Key: pub 1024/3A800C65 1998/04/20

Intent to package eMusic

1998-04-28 Thread Brian Almeida
>=1.2) and fnlib. Both imlib and fnlib are already packaged for Debian, and are both GPL free. Regards, Brian Almeida -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://terminus.cicat.com PGP Key: pub 1024/3A800C65 1998/04/20 Brian M. Almeida <[EMAIL PR