Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008-12-28 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 02:31:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:04:24PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Bummer, please stop that bullshit. I don't know your origin, but Lisi > > Reisz doesn't sound like an Arabic, nor Indian, nor African name, so > > probably your ma

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Stone
[Not subscribed, Cc if you want me to see it.] On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:19:58PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > Ian hijacked his own program back from the people who had been blocking > updates for six months So Ian Murdock would be perfectly entitled to kick out the DAM, DPL, TC, DSA, and all others

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:49:01PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:59:37PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > The fix should be somehow unclumsified, though. Currently I inject > > some horrible runtime testing in the configure script to find out > > whether the clib support

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:41:27AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Anthony Towns > > [...] If people have > > weighed the costs and benefits of contacting -legal and decided not to, > > that's entirely their choice. > > Yes, that package maintainer may choose to ignore all of policy. It's > entirely my c

Re: RFH: problems building against libradius1-dev with libtool-aware packages?

2006-05-27 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:42:40AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > the latest upstream version of nagios-plugins has incorporated libtool > into the build process, and no longer successfully builds in a pbuilder > chroot with the following error: The real fix there, is to not install the .la file, eve

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 04:18:15PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 26 May 2006 00:50, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 25 mai 2006 à 02:36 -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > > It has come to my attention that Martin Kraff used an > > > unofficial, and easily forge-able, ident

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:08:17AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > By reading your email, I feel you are acknowledging the fact the > ftp-masters cabal (I can't name it otherwise after seeing their behavior > IRL) is treating other developers as second-class contributors who > should just do as th

Re: Easy way to incorporate Ubuntu improvements back into Debian?

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:09:01AM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote: > Ubuntu benefits alot from Debian. They have custom development tools > for streamlining the process of taking Debian packages and making them > into Ubuntu packages. > > I'm curious: does the reverse of this exist for the convenie

Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:15:36AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:23 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Wouter asked: > > > > Just out of curiosity, could you point me to arguments in favour of > > > > Xprint?

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:03:19AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > There is no xorg 7.0 backport yet, and I fear it will not be easy to > add one (as the Debian xorg 7.0 introduced _major_ packaging changes, > if somebody puts up a backport it will probably be completely made > from scratch to behave a

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > So, with all that said, do you still believe it is normal that a perfectly > running daily build was rejected in maybe a few minutes/hours after i sent > that email, while i had offered to continue running it until a proper > replacemen

Re: fonts prbl in sid

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:22:42AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > I use sid and Gnome ; I upgraded my box (after 3 weeks in which I did > not have time to) ; now I have serious problems with fonts. > > Symptoms: some programs fail to find and use the fonts ,and are then > almost unusable ; including '

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:51:08AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >- So the answer is right, why would you want to use XFree now? > I guess, he has unsupported hardware, ugly proprietary drivers, etc. I don't know of any hardware supported by XFree86 4.5 th

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:28:11PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Notice also that both you and Colin Watson, where donated pegasos machines, > (and guess who arranged that), so the unavailability of a decent build machine > is no excuse. I can't speak for the other guys, but I have a Pegasos machine

Re: Apache 2 maintenance status?

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:58:58PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 10/29/05, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Does anyone know the Apache2 maintenance status? > > Lots of bug reports appear to be 'ignored'. > > > > Examples are: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bu

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:18:21PM +0800, Eugene Konev wrote: > This part is broken now. So I ask you please _do not_ yet upload rebuilt > packages if you use dh_installxfonts. Or you should handle your > maintainer scripts by hand. The required (as from X11R6) changes are: > * place your *.scale

Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you

2006-04-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:44:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of /usr/X11R6/, > packages providing fonts for X should now install to /usr/share/fonts/X11 > instead of to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. The heirarchy is the same as > before

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: > I'm complaining because *you* created the huge load of bugs you have > to cope with, and a lot of other you don't warn other packagers about > (what pissed me, and made me write my previous mail is yet-another-RC > bug because of

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:52:21AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > I'd like for you to back this claim up. So far I've fixed dozens of bugs > > over the course of the past week at great personal an

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:52:21AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > As for the build-depends, pbuilder is, as far as I've been able to > understand it, completely incapable of handling such a massive beast as > this. You can't point it easily at a custom repository in order to have it > pull from ther

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 04:31:10PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I welcome the fact that you bear your responsabilities, that's a quality > fewer of us have. Though, the .la problem is not the sole one the > modular Xorg raised. > > - /usr/X11R6/bin/X disapearing broke login managers (gdm, kd

Re: Lintian package-has-a-duplicate-relation

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:18:58PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to force a specific library version known in > ${shlibs:Depends} ? > > Using "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}" is not really fine, if I want to > force the library to be upgraded when the primary binary package is > upd

Re: libgtk2.0-0: changelog.Debian.gz is not an upstream changelog

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 12:02:42PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Christian Marillat: > >> Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > >> Where are you reading that ? > > > > An upstream change is a change to the Debian package, to

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 04:17:28PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and > /usr/lib are update in /usr/lib. > I currently have XFree 4.5, when the library libfontconfig1 was update > to version 2.3.2-1 was also updated > the fil

Re: What on earth?

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:52:52PM +0200, Marco Cabizza wrote: > I experienced the issue while recompiling some gnome packages. Is sed > "s##/usr/lib/libXrender.la ##g" (in the .la references, ie > libgdk-x11-2.0.la) the "best" temporary solution by now? s##/usr/lib/libXrender.la##-lXrender##g, I

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:12:06AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Please tell me if I have this right: > * You don't like .la files Yes. > * So you're unilaterally removing them from a core package > (libxcursor) with dozens of reverse-depends, breaking all of > them

Re: per-architecture Provides field

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:13:57AM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 00:04 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > > Why not simply Provide: sunwlxsl all of the > > time, doesn't it provide sunwlxsl on other arches? > > But how? sunwlxsl is something which is only present in > OpenSolaris-b

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:34:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I can't help but get the impression Daniel may have prematurely > discounted the patch - admittedly I may not understand the issues > though. I dismissed the X patch Sven sent me because it was fundamentally wrong. No amount of changes t

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:39:42PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > So, this expulsion process looks more like a good way to hurt Sven > than anything else. If it fails (hint: it will) Andres will be > kind of singled-out, > and this whole thing will turn into "I can't bear this > guy, please kick h

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 08:08:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I am still a bit disgusted of seeing a bug report i provided to ubuntu, with > patch and all the proper research immediately after the breezy beta go > unanswered and uncared for though, so this may color my relationship with > ubuntu,

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:29:49PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am going through the expulsion process to have Sven Luther removed > > from the project. > > I want to see you leave the Project if this expulsion process fails. There's a defined proc

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:48:11AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) Yes, I have tried talking to him. After a number of blowups on the > > debian-kernel list, myself and a number of kernel team members have > > talked to him to calm him down (and in som

Re: dpkg update

2006-03-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:31:29PM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:06:40PM -0800, John Gee wrote: > > Guys honestly why aren't we as developers doing a massive overhaul on dpkg? > > I feel we are running on pre-historic machines here. There needs to be at > > least a litt

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:18:22PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I haven't answered the question because it wasn't one. You are > implicitly answering it the line after, and I already know we disagree > on this matter. Let me rephrase: 'Who exactly are the candidates claiming there are no probl

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:06:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 09 mars 2006 à 20:49 +0200, Daniel Stone a écrit : > > I think you'll find what they're saying is, 'don't be an idiot on > > mailing lists'. And here you are, being an idiot on a m

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:05:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 09 mars 2006 à 16:39 +0100, Amaya a écrit : > > > but when will we try to solve some of the real problems we have > > > > Hey! It's DPL election time! Lobby around. I really am biting my tongue, > > but you don't have to.

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:05:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyway, I don't think GNOME bashing is really on-topic here. > > It's not gnome "bashing", it's just airing of a very common gripe with > gnome. If there were indeed a viable fork that imp

Re: On binary compatibility

2006-02-26 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The solution would be to convince Ubuntu to branch from stable instead > of sid. The problem is that this creates a lot of work for Ubuntu > because they have to backport all of the desired bleeding-edge stuff. > However, Debian d

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:12:36PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2006-02-18 kello 10:43 -0500, Michael Poole kirjoitti: > > What's the purpose of an assembler without assembly code to use it on? > > It can be used, for example, to assemble code you write yourself. That > is, after all, the pr

Re: architecture-specific release criteria - requalification needed

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:05 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I'm starting to suspect you do not trust the release team nor the > > porters to make good judgement [...] ^^^ > Nono... of course not! > It's just my personal experience tha

Re: mesag3 <-> xlibmesa-gl / libgl1-mesa-dri <-> xlibmesa-dri / libglu1-mesa <-> libglu1-xorg

2005-09-04 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:04 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:58:19PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Right. My solution for that was to split them into a separate > > mesa-utils source package, with a slightly hacked Makefile. They &g

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 01:34 +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > The wiki markup languages of twiki and moin-moin are not > compatible. Still it would be nice to have some content moved > from the old .net wiki to the new .org one. (the debconf team for > one is interested in using the features of moin

Re: mesag3 <-> xlibmesa-gl / libgl1-mesa-dri <-> xlibmesa-dri / libglu1-mesa <-> libglu1-xorg

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:00 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:07:46PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Sorry, I've really just not had any time recently, and there are some > > things I wanted to clean up before I fired off to you (e.g. the

Re: mesag3 <-> xlibmesa-gl / libgl1-mesa-dri <-> xlibmesa-dri / libglu1-mesa <-> libglu1-xorg

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:25 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Daniel also said he'd send a package via email which I never got, so I > went ahead and did my own thing. (No Matt, I'm not happy with the idea > of fishing patches out of some random, cluttered, and very unusable > webpage; every

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:33:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.19.1422 +0200]: > > Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, > > arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian > > Weimer list

Re: Multi-User X machine (Was: runlevels remodeled)

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:50:41PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > wasnt it me who included the interesting patches into the > *debian* kernel a year ago? Depends if you want multiseat X or multiseat VTs, but hearty congratulations in any case. Well done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Multi-User X machine (Was: runlevels remodeled)

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:19:08PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Daniel Stone] > > Ubuntu implements this from the installer down (although only for > > the special cases of four nVidia, MGA, or ATI cards, and even then > > you may need to fiddle with the configuration

Re: Multi-User X machine (Was: runlevels remodeled)

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steinar H. Gunderson] > > How do you make this work? Last time I tried it, X would only show > > the one connected to the ???active??? virtual console, and blanked > > the other. > > It need some patches to the kernel and X.

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I know, but as written before, IMHO the abi version number should > not be encoded in the package name. Usually you just get a new > abi, but no new functionality, so why introduce a new name? Just > to work around the limitations of

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:43:50AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 7/14/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The server hasn't been modularised yet, it's just that I split up all > > the packaging. I've been working closely with Josh Triplett on

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:02:09AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > I see that yesterday a modularized xserver (xorg) entered ubuntu > breezy (the current development branch) archives. > > I've some questions: Is XSF coordinating its work with them or what ? > Is modularized xorg a goal for us ? I t

Re: Debian concordance

2005-06-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:54:08PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > > libc6 added interfaces between 2.3.2 and 2.3.5 and made several other > > major changes, so all packages built with .5 depend on .5 or above, > > in case you use one of the new interfac

X SI in Debian and Ubuntu (was: Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?)

2005-06-10 Thread Daniel Stone
ts off. > > As the upstream X.Org tree gets modularized, we're going to begin to work > > on packaging that instead. My personal preference is to use the modular > > tree (which will be entirely equivalent to the 6.9 release otherwise, > > except called 7.0) but if i

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:07:52AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:57:23AM +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > > > * Three bodies (Security, System Administration, Release) are given > > > > independent veto power over the inclusion of an architecture. > > > > A) Do

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:32:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:58:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I think it would be really dumb for a driver author to re-use an > &g

Bug#220347: ITP: xlibs-freedesktop -- X libraries (client-side) from freedesktop

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Stone
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-11-12 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xlibs-freedesktop Version : (unreleased) Upstream Author : Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and other freedesktop.org hackers * URL : http://xlibs.freedesktop.

Bug#220345: ITP: xserver-freedesktop -- freedesktop.org X server (nee KDrive)

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Stone
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-11-12 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xserver-freedesktop Version : (unreleased) Upstream Author : Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and other freedesktop.org hackers * URL : http://xserver.freede

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:58:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:59:48PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:56:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I thought about the latter as well. It's not too long-winded if

Re: using freedesktop.org libs

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Stone
Jim Gettys has a vague idea of what he's doing. Also, note I specified no timeframe. I would've ITPed it already if I wanted it nownownow, only I don't. I want to wait until fd.o deems it ready. Getting tired of this, Daniel -- Daniel Stone

Re: using freedesktop.org libs

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel Stone
hile. Unreleased libraries do not belong in > > unstable. > > It's not about released vs. unreleased but XFree86 vs. freedesktop.org. And about how responsive/cluey the upstreams are, specifically. Daniel, dreaming of source package Xu-ification (no really; it would be a good thing).

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:56:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:03:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > There is one unreachable person; IIRC, he was a reasonably major > > contributor. > > Double bummer. Aye; sort of condemns it to extern

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-08 Thread Daniel Stone
er-synaptics, or xfree86-driver-input-synaptics, but the last one is too unnecessarily longwinded. (I was going to package this as an XSF project, post-exams). > > I'll package it. I'm a bit unsure about XFree configuration after &g

Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread Daniel Stone
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: debbackup Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/debbackup/ (not function

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Daniel Stone
on the 9800 Pro than the GeForce FX, and the 9800 Pro has been out longer than the FX. Not only that, but ATI have offered outstanding support to XFree86, and I can do my acceleration with a Free driver, not needing to depend on nVidia to fix my bugs, or make the kernel module not use up 1mb RSS, or

ignore (misdirected) parent (was: Re: Galeon 1.2.x on pila (finally!))

2003-06-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:07:07PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > [stuff utterly irrelevant to -devel] Please ignore the parent post; somehow, mutt managed to take a mail sent to 'oldk, bhat', and reply to -devel. *shrug*. Sorry, Daniel -- Daniel Stone <

Re: Galeon 1.2.x on pila (finally!)

2003-06-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:06:40PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > Gentlemen, > I've restored Galeon on pila to its former 1.2.x glory. A few packages > (galeon, galeon-common, mozilla-browser, mozilla-psm, libnss3, libnspr4) > are now on hold: don't touch them (and watch ap

dbtcp RFP->ITP

2003-06-01 Thread Daniel Stone
bian/ dbtcp/ deb-src http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/debian/ dbtcp/ Cheers! :) d -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne pgpIMvUk8ZAZH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 69 - branches/4.3.0/sid/debian

2003-05-26 Thread Daniel Stone
regressing > the C++ ABI transition progress? Well, this isn't a problem for buildds, because I made libstdc++5-dev the preference. > 2) Is libstdc++5-3.3 ABI-compatible with libstdc+5? Does the former > have any symbols that the latter lacks? I *believe* it's completely ABI-compatib

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-12-05 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:02:34AM +0100, Michael Meskes scrawled: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Secondly, ftpmasters have to add overrides for new packages, in case you > > didn't realize. That takes time: their time adding them, and

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-12-05 Thread Daniel Stone
ne on 2.2->3.1 upgrades before it goes into sid, but that's a completely moot point, because it probably won't go in for over a month, even if gcc 3.2 on SPARC is finally fixed. Daniel, occasional KDE package monkey -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Debian Developer Packages Overview

2002-08-31 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 2:43:29PM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > Also, if you search for my GPG key id (20687895) then I get a listing of my > packages and also those maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] We've had issues of > my being mistaken for Daniel Stone in the past, and I don&#

Re: bind9-chroot again

2002-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
the main package. I vote yes for the Debconfy bit. I chroot it by hand, and I find it insanely nifty, even though bind9 isn't plagued by the same security problems bind is. Helps me sleep better at night, or something. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL

[security] What's being done?

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Stone
surprised to note that Debian, a distro with ~850 developers and a dedicated security team, is behind Slackware on security issues. d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may make you think you have mystical

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:29:34AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:00:30AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I'll stop posting to -devel when you come up with the guideline that > > says "don't post important stuff about one of the two major des

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:13:53PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oh, there *appears* to be one? You mean the one I sent this message to, > > and the one that I'm subscribed to? Right! Thanks for the information! I >

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:24:11PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sat 12 Jan 2002, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:12:37PM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote: > > > At 10:30 am, Saturday, January 12 2002, Rob Bradford mumbled: > > > > I'm now a h

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Stone
ll be forthcoming": you're either missing a comma, or you've put an extra in. Should be either, "Plague and LART will be forthcoming," or, preferably: "Plague, and LART, will be forthcoming." But wait! Still more errors! You really mean, "are forthcom

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jan 11, 2002

2002-01-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * > > |libqt3-psql (#127709), orphaned 7 days ago > > Uhm, shouldn't Daniel Stone or Cheney (sp?) take this one as well, I > guess it builds with the rest of qt3. I'm not sure if Chris is t

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:14:21AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > There appears to be a list named debian-kde. PLEASE use that. -devel > is already clogged enough, and should be reserved for extremely > general or miscellaneous discussion. Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:17:08 +1100 From: Dan

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:19:52AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:17:08PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > The libpng[23] screwup in unstable is now more or less resolved with > > kde{base,graphics,network} in incoming. Now, the only pac

[kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-10 Thread Daniel Stone
er for calc to build KDE than it is for me (AthlonXP 1800 vs P2 350; I'll have access to some P3 Xeons soon). Obviously DDness would be far preferable, but ya. Have at it. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:38:20PM +, James Troup wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:20:00PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Can someone please help me with this? > > > > Have you identified why libkcm

Re: Bug#127252: kmerlin: Nope, it broke it

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:43:40PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:38:31PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > kdebase will be uploaded today and kdemultimedia tomorrow; the rest > > should be OK. > > I still need to upload a libpng2 version of kmerlin as I

Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
and gets used in the link of libkcm_kamera.so -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux smallone 2.4.9-pa79 #2 Thu Nov 8 18:18:02 MST 2001 parisc64 unknown - End forwarded message ----- -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tkstep8.0 8.0.4p2-4.1

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
e that this is *at least* the second time lamont did this. He did a no-notice NMU to kdegraphics to fix a couple of small bugs, without informing anyone. Can someone please beat him upside the head with a copy of the Developer's Reference? -- Daniel Stone

Re: Bug#127252: kmerlin: Nope, it broke it

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
xt couple of days. If you are really > desperate an `apt-get build-dep && apt-get source -b kmerlin` will > build your own kmerlin package for you which is usable. kdebase will be uploaded today and kdemultimedia tomorrow; the rest should be OK. -- Daniel Stone

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
linked with libpng3. What? That means that you can't have a libpng3 program on a machine with libqt2-dev installed ... icky. -d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Craig Sanders isn't a real man; he's a social degenerate. -- Branden Robinson to debian-devel pgpw6NaFE7bDB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:07:13AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > > It's only the -dev package, which is only required > > > for the compile time, and I believe it is quite small, only > > >

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-08 Thread Daniel Stone
atic link files... > > Or better, libqt2-dev depend on libpng2-dev. They generally Build-Depend on libpng2-dev, I believe. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hello? flood-join bots on the loose. ack it's the irc equivelant of slashdot users pgpMHj5tqFHSh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [kde] anti-aliasing is *NOT* supported!

2002-01-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:45:48PM +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Daniel Stone schrieb am 08.01.02 um 12:50 Uhr: > > Hi guys, > > Just to let you know that I will *not* support anti-aliasing. You can > > use it, but don't expect me to urgently follow up on bug repor

Re: [kde] anti-aliasing is *NOT* supported!

2002-01-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:57:07PM +0100, Noel Koethe wrote: > On Die, 08 Jan 2002, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Just to let you know that I will *not* support anti-aliasing. You can > > use it, but don't expect me to urgently follow up on bug reports > > involving AA,

[kde] anti-aliasing is *NOT* supported!

2002-01-08 Thread Daniel Stone
x27;s too buggy. That said, *please* make mention of whether you're using AA or not in your bug reports, because it makes my life easier. -d (no, this is nothing new, as it was Ivan's policy too; I completely agree with it and am just re-stating it)

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

2002-01-08 Thread Daniel Stone
to file #128208. So, in short: * kdebase source upload tomorrow, with fix in kdm's Depends: field. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * asako launches into a great fable of love, desperation, honor, and coffee spilled on motherboards. pgpTvBJkFaLo5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Stone
; bug should i file? > should file i bug? > bug file i should? > file should i bug? > > okay, that suffices. No, because a kdebase upload will be made today to fix it. :) -d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wtf is pants? s

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-07 Thread Daniel Stone
l KDE/png related bugs which > should be solved by linking (again) libqt2 with libpng2. Actually, > closing only one of these ought to be enough (they are all merged). KDE packages for libpng2 will be uploaded today. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL

Adopting these packages

2002-01-04 Thread Daniel Stone
retitle 127711 ITA: kde-designer - Qt GUI Designer (with KDE Widget support) retitle 127707 ITA: kdemultimedia - Multimedia applications for KDE retitle 127706 ITA: kdebase - Core applications for KDE retitle 127705 ITA: kdelibs - Core libraries for KDE retitle 127698 ITA: meta-kde - KDE meta-packa

Re: (forw) [ardo@debian.org: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force]

2001-09-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:01:49AM -0500, Ardo_Vanrangelrooij wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:36:37AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > From: Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org >

Re: (forw) [ardo@debian.org: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force]

2001-09-13 Thread Daniel Stone
;d give it probably more than a year before I even thought about letting it loose in production. I also got bored a while ago, and discovered that 2.0.24 builds cleanly (and works) on Progeny. :) d (CC all replies to me as I'm not on -devel). -- Daniel Stone

[PATCH] kernel-image-2.4.4-i386's flavours

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel Stone
iding flavour-specific files, but that way still sucks, IMHO. d -- Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- rules.crap Sun Apr 22 11:50:02 2001 +++ rules Wed May 9 20:52:26 2001 @@ -30,22 +30,15 @@ cp debian/changelog kernel-source-$(version)/debian cp debian/control kernel-s

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:21:58PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) And alias "quit" to "exit". :) -d, who now uses dig -- Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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