Re: Bug #213524

2003-10-01 Thread Bruce Stephens
Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bug #213524 on automake has the potential to hit a lot of packages > in a way that they become uninstallable. So far, diff, indent and > nano have been affected, but there might be more to come. Ah! I've recently noticed that a recent install didn't

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andrew Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for > my OS has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the > partition. I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS > as I'm sure there must be stuff there that I

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I'm sure all the FSF/Debian folks would be thrilled if someone > changed the code in [x]emacs to not output anything about the GPL at > startup, or if vim didn't include any info about helping Ugandan > orphans. XEmacs and Emacs follow sensible

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Bruce Stephens
Jon Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > What we need to accept is there is a (percieved??) > problem, or problems, with Debian as it stands today, > these being (mainly) > > Hard to install (rubbish obviously) > Out of date (this _is_ true) > Slow to update (this _is_ true) > Hard to configu

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Bao C. Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > > Hi Donald, > >> >> Let me see if I understand this. I am running VMWare 2.0.4 and >> this morning I discovered that it dies with: >> >> VMware Workstation PANIC: >> AIO: NOT_IMPL