Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
urse, knowing that I do such things on occasion, I have aliased 'rm' > to 'rm -i', so it will ask unless I pass '-f' along. You have another option, "\rm", which will always give you unaliased "rm". [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

2008-03-24 Thread Darren Salt
or the nth time squared, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already > stopped service. How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop it... ITYM "must not fail if the service

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Darren Salt
g 472870, should anybody be interested.) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> Is this really happening? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

2008-04-08 Thread Darren Salt
asons. xine-config in libxine-dev, for example, started using pkg-config; Depends is correct since everything which needs xine-lib uses xine-config (or at least I've not seen any which don't). [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux |

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
ngs: xine-lib, for example, needs more than just -O0 for disabling optimisations. Then there are the times when I find it useful to run "debian/rules build" or something similar... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | you

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

2008-04-16 Thread Darren Salt
are/dpkg/flags.mk with: > CFLAGS += -Wall -g -O$(if $(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)),0,2) That looks reasonable to me. However, care should be taken to avoid ending up with cdbs-buildpackage ;-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Darren Salt
quot;Mako" Hill) > And for the record, the extent of my cabalistic work so far has been > limited to editorial, ahem, *grammatical* changes to a couple DPL reports. > ;) You mean "a couple _of_ DPL reports". ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarg

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Darren Salt
one S3 ViRGE), that's VESA driver territory. (No lockup problems, though - at least, not that I recall...) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the poun

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-13 Thread Darren Salt
ts (older macs, >> probably m68k too). > Looks like they should use floppy + netboot then. An install on a Risc PC can be done without any removable installation media, although it's possible that the newer or less common Ethernet cards aren't supported. -- | Darren

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-13 Thread Darren Salt
ause too many problems? [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Say NO to software patents Academy: A modern school where football is taught. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-20 Thread Darren Salt
w minutes. You don't want to run with a wrong clock for hours > or even days. Maybe ntp, ntpdate etc. should recommend adjtimex? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Arm

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-21 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Andrew Suffield may or may not have written... > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:22:08PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Florian Weimer may or may not have written... >>> * Olaf van der Spek: >>>>> You should set the clock using NTP *b

Re: (Re)Build problem with g++ 4.0

2005-07-07 Thread Darren Salt
eturn a > value in a non-void function. Not in this case: pthread_exit has the "noreturn" attribute, so gcc/g++ won't complain. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-10 Thread Darren Salt
ed down to switch to a text console though... You want Alt-SysRq-R (after which you should be able to switch to a text VT) or a serial or network console. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | d

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... [snip] > I would have suggested using > kernel-hurt-image ^ Ouch. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon

Re: New appearance of bugs on BTS web pages

2005-08-13 Thread Darren Salt
owsers need the space in "" (for example) else they'll fail to recognise it. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Kill all extremists! I'd like to, but I&

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Darren Salt
n > README. README isn't unreasonable, but I see that there is some usage of BUGS for this. A few packages differ here, using different names: groff-base (BUG-REPORT) and apsfilter (HOWTO-BUGREPORTS). [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumb

Re: To Linux or not to Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Darren Salt
aining references to "GNU/Linux". > We'd also have to rename packages that use the term "Linux" in a > non-descriptive way (linuxsampler, linuxtrade, and probably a few more). "leenookssampler", "leenookstrade" etc.? :-) -- | Darren Salt | nr

Re: [libsmjs-dev]: Missing files

2005-09-18 Thread Darren Salt
got build failure reports about this when I deprecated gxine's internal copy.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... The sur

Bug#329833: BTS "fixed" tag: RC-buggy packages may end up in testing due to NMU

2005-09-23 Thread Darren Salt
cepted and these bugs were tagged by 'katie' as "fixed" on 9 Sept, 13:47 -0700. Later, 0.4.1-1 made its way into testing. It looks like this simple tagging as "fixed" is insufficient (version information is needed) or is occurring too early. -- | Darren Salt

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-20 Thread Darren Salt
s of other distributions... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Retrocomputing: a PC card in a Risc PC Would it help if I got out and pushed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: pbuilder help (bug 334877)

2005-10-21 Thread Darren Salt
consumed with tracing > fonts, not compiling C code. :( A uuencoded tarball of the generated files would appear to be useful here. (You'll probably want tar's -m option when unpacking.) Or have you already tried this? [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. As

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-10-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:15:28AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I can see potential problems with that last part regarding upstream >> developers whose software happens to depend on packages for which >> pkg-config s

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-18 Thread Darren Salt
Fortran compilers, etc. etc. etc. even for pure C projects. > This is a libtool bug. I'm using the following workaround for gxine (due to the browser plugin): m4_undefine([AC_PROG_CXX]) m4_defun([AC_PROG_CXX],[]) m4_undefine([AC_PROG_F77]) m4_defun([AC_PROG_F77],[]) before invokin

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Hendrik Sattler may or may not have written... [snip] > 64bit kernels are not available in the i386 archive. That makes the 64bit > libs rather useless, doesn't it? No - you could be using a locally-built 64-bit kernel. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at

Re: Status of IPW3945 (Was: IPW3945)

2006-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
too late already :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Exam is a four-letter word for torture... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

2006-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
e newsgroup mirror, particularly when the list address Just Works and extra configuration is required for the newsgroup. Of course, if you're using mail software which doesn't know about Followup-To or has separate mail and news followup commands, this isn't a problem... [snip] --

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-13 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... [snip] > So again I propose that instead of listing features, policy should just > say "maintainer scripts must work with bash, dash [and probably a 3rd > alternative]". busybox? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds a

Re: default ext3 options

2006-11-14 Thread Darren Salt
ck -D on it afterwards. No problems as a result. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. If you can put Wi

Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?

2006-11-30 Thread Darren Salt
ose reassigned bugs still be listed (under a "reassigned" heading)? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Say NO to UK ID cards. http://www.no2id.net/ Invention: the solar

Re: Iceweasel extensions lacking links migrating from firefox. Mass bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Darren Salt
[snip] > iceweasel-dom-inspector See bug 399631. A workaround is provided there. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DI

Re: Bug#402622: bug still not fixed

2006-12-15 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Modestas Vainius may or may not have written... [snip] > Incorrect permissions prevent a user to format removable media Hmm? Preventing a user is required for formatting? :-) s/to format/from formatting/ -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | T

Re: Bits from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porters

2007-02-05 Thread Darren Salt
der is fine, but you should also have used the Sender header. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Lobby friends, family, business, government.WE'RE KILLING THE PLANET. And now

Re: GNOME and trolls

2007-02-17 Thread Darren Salt
> desktop-devel-list. Alternatively, install sawfish. :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 => avoid boiling weather. TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. Change is ine

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-16 Thread Darren Salt
ally generate too > much crap in diffs. I normally let the update-po target at them before committing. That sorts out any formatting oddness and catches any breakage (and I've seen one or two broken files sent by translators). [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. As

Re: EM64T announcement and Linus (was Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit)

2007-03-21 Thread Darren Salt
the architecture was their own invention > Would you have any reference to this? http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/21/110 -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the po

Re: video codecs in HTML 5

2007-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
7;s just another external thing like or - we'd quite likely just continue to use whatever plugins we're currently using. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more effic

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-26 Thread Darren Salt
tema each time > the system boots. If the function number part of the PCI address is different for each of the card's interfaces and is consistent across reboots, you can use that. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbej

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-27 Thread Darren Salt
ds on which driver is used: for example, ipw3945 uses the 'eth' namespace, whereas iwlwifi uses 'wlan' and 'wmaster'. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + T

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-10 Thread Darren Salt
o rumors I heard, it was allowed in since other applications > (xine at least, I think) already included it. So it didn't really make a > difference -- if we're infringing on patents with ffmpeg, we are with xine > as well. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/libff

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-13 Thread Darren Salt
pt* with an install-from-local-package command or adaptation of the install command? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got Shearer, you haven't I'd like

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Darren Salt
. (Closes: #178492). No argument there either from me, so long as the bug being closed is about there being a new upstream version, and the uploaded package is that or a newer version. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RIS

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Darren Salt
> information from there. That and/or search the list archive. But having a build date in the (processed) package control file would mean that the information, or at least a snapshot of it, is available off-line as well. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sa

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Dan Jacobson may or may not have written... > I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the > package justice by giving an adequate description. "I have here a 20K package. Should it have a 1/3-line description?" ;-) -- | Darren Salt

Re: NEWS.Debian support is here

2003-07-08 Thread Darren Salt
>> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured to >> only display news, if the user wants (more useful for stable users). > Kick ASS. What has that poor donkey done to you to deserve such a kicking? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington

Re: ITA: yadex -- WAD file editor for doom-style WADs

2003-07-25 Thread Darren Salt
do this but mumble...) > I've packaged it, changed changelog, and closed the remaining bug > (#138072). 1.6.0? If not, now's as good a time as any :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephen Frost may or may not have written... [snip] > and a consensus reached which approves of the application and it's > needs. ? Almost: s/'// :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
s setgid games, though it could equally well have its own uid and be run setuid. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
27;talks SMTP') are generally not very useful. How about "acts as an SMTP client, acts as an SMTP server, queues mail for local delivery or for forwarding to another server"? Or /something/ like that... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbe

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... [snip] > PS: a hot day or what? If you call 20°C hot, then yes, it has been a hot day ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | de

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-07 Thread Darren Salt
ssary > functionality. > For most people, disks are cheap. Time isn't. Just out of interest, what are your assumptions wrt costs associated with downloading? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northum

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-08 Thread Darren Salt
, though there's one /small/ problem wrt portability: it's in ARM assembly language... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.u

Re: [Fwd: False Representation at Google.com]

2003-09-08 Thread Darren Salt
ld have noticed the gravitational effects by now... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... As the dyslexic Jedi said, "Sith happens."

Re: Bug#215103: ITP: gmasqdialer -- gtk/gnome client for masqdialer server

2003-10-16 Thread Darren Salt
talking about GNOME) is 35 characters long. I think that GTK/GNOME is valid: a program may make use of GNOME features if the relevant libraries are installed, but still work without them. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
e helped my friend at all because he was > unlucky enough that the *first* version of libc6 from unstable that he saw > happened to be the buggy one. That doesn't really happen that often to > libc6 so he had particularly bad luck there. Perhaps it should be the default that, when i

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > What does that mean? It's (more or less) from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The bit in question c

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Matt Zimmerman may or may not have written... > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:20:18PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> I keep some around. I'd prefer better management of this, though: ATM all >> that I can do (with apt-get/aptitude) is remove all older versions or >

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> BTW, no need to Cc: me - or did Gnus not notice the Mail-Followup-To >> header? > Uhm. What Mail-Followup-To header? I didn't receive one on this message, > p

Re: Why you are wrong [Was: On linux kernel packaging issue]

2003-11-10 Thread Darren Salt
at once, then it's more efficient to do a partial > loop unroll, and thereby have faster code, because of more efficient > parallization. Converting some multiplies to shifts (or shift plus some other arithmetic), or arranging that one of the source registers normally contains the lower value

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces (was Re: Programming first steps.)

2003-11-18 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Steve Lamb may or may not have written... [snip] > if foo > bar > else > baz fi -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let'

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-18 Thread Darren Salt
me visual style. I find myself wondering if Duff's Device is implementable in Python... -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion I can't reach the brakes on this piano!

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Darren Salt
se they > don't have any :-) Some of us have to *buy* them before we can spend them ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... This was the most unkind cut of all.

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-14 Thread Darren Salt
H NO_BREAK SPACE > [...] Slightly rusty: since that's at the start of the string, it's telling you which endianness is in use in the string. (ICBW, of course.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS |

Re: d-i using kexec

2004-10-28 Thread Darren Salt
dev/hda1 to be mounted as /boot if you want to do this from Linux. In the MBR, there's no loader program to worry about ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www

Re: Which 2.6 kernel for Sarge on a Via C3?

2004-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ron Johnson may or may not have written... [snip] > But really, does the kernel use MMX? Here, at least: linux/arch/i386/lib/memcpy.c -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Darren Salt
b? AIUI, main. I'd only say contrib if *all* of the hardware with which it works requires a firmware upload in order to be useful. [1] Go on, use gxine. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Darren Salt
as ARM7 code, and generally > "thumb" (the 8-bit ARM instructions). No. THUMB is a 16-bit instruction set. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Josh Triplett may or may not have written... [snip] > This criteria covers "These criteria cover", surely - unless you mean "criterion" :-\ -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
time-based charges on a dial-up account I'd say that a local cache is needed, though whether it's used should be up to the local admin. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got Shearer, you haven't Since you're going to die anyway, can we use you as a shield?

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:42:07PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >>> Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> Tha

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
bad as a bad > equipped mail server. Thus, Rumsfeld's words are applicable here, as Thomas > want to do. No. I think that his words were about a badly equipped army (relatively speaking), not a bad, equipped army... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, s

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
None at all, but you may want to tweak things in /etc/modprobe.d/ instead. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... rm -rf /

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] >> Fetch every time and fetch once. That looks like a difference to me... > How could

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:22:20PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] >>>&

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... [snip] > I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release readiness. So, to go > out on a limb: > Debian 3.0 (codenamed woody) will release on May 1st, 2002. Oh good. What will it be releasing? :-)

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
during the > first fly-through) > http://www.fachschaften.uni-muenchen.de/~erich/debian/woody.avi xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | dem

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that tony mancill may or may not have written... > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Darren Salt wrote: >> xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ > FYI, aviplay (in the avifile-player package) plays the animation just fine. Bug 141319 (no dependency on libavifile0.6) bi

Re: Antigen found =*.pif file

2002-04-20 Thread Darren Salt
m RFC 2822: >"In all cases, the "From:" field SHOULD NOT contain any mailbox that >does not belong to the author(s) of the message." Why is it that your attention is directed at the From header instead of the lack of a Sender header? -- | Darren Salt | lin

Re: lack of libbz2 bindings [Was: Packages.bz2, ...]

2002-08-31 Thread Darren Salt
]) since this should allow those of us who are running stable [2] to grab the occasional binary package from testing or, possibly, unstable. [1] As opposed to "after sarge releases". [2] On humanbrain-linux, if you're wondering. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, |

Re: Ask yourself some questions

2002-11-24 Thread Darren Salt
ghing out loud at most of them. > Sadly, my coworkers think I'm going insane rather than laughing at a good > joke. :) Talking to the monitor can't help that too much either... Has it ever answered? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Linux PC, Risc PC | Nort

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Darren Salt
mmer who'll be interested in hearing from you ;-) > He's talking about the envelope sender address on the confirmation > messages, which is empty (<>), the same as for bounce messages. That doesn't matter (much) wrt address/location checks... -- | Darren Salt

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
avetable synthesis daughter board, and playmidi is the only thing I've > found that can use it. Hmm... another reason to keep it, then. [snip] > For instance, what are some good replacements for magicfilter? apsfilter seems to work well. > Or linuxconf? A text editor :-

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-13 Thread Darren Salt
ould get things up and running without any need to modify (m)any packages. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG k

Re: multiarchitecture binaries - technical obstacles?

2003-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
d that would solve/help what exactly? *I* don't have a s/390 at home to > produce such packages. And I'm sure people don't want to wait for all > buildds even for unstable... Not to mention download times. Here I am, stuck with a 56K modem... -- | Darren Salt | nr.

Re: why do we care about configuration files?

2003-04-20 Thread Darren Salt
, and he finds it harder to follow when it's formatted like that... 5) Said user happens finds your message and some followups, and agrees that you were probably too tired to think straight... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoki

Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-20 Thread Darren Salt
ot;proposed handling" posting (which looks like it'll become Something Useful), that looks like "look, things are heading in the right direction again". Maybe you were too quick to criticise Matt and to distance yourself? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) a

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-22 Thread Darren Salt
ove it later once your repositories are safe. One other small change: s/loose/lose/. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion Nothing is as

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have also sent directly to me despite my not having requested this... > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote: >> Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); >> have you tried 2.4 with

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Darren Salt
gt;> Is there much performance improvement in dropping i386 in favour of i486+? > - Integrated math coprocessor ( why does libc still check for its > availability? ) [...] 486SX. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking |

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Bart Trojanowski may or may not have CCed to me WITHOUT MY ASKING FOR THAT... > * Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030426 10:26]: >> I demand that José Luis Tallón may or may not have written... >>> At 19:55 26/04/2003 +1000, you wrote: >>>> On S

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-27 Thread Darren Salt
RM710 in this thread? :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Hugh of Borg: "Resistance is futile. I will assimilate you."

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-14 Thread Darren Salt
ED] -s "Misplacement of apostrophes" Package: doogie "developers' brains", surely. Cc: $ ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-27 Thread Darren Salt
^']*'|[^':]*)/g; # split, leaving 'quoted' as is foreach (@host) { $_ =~ s/^'(.*)'$/$1/; } # 'quoted' => quoted I /think/ that what's happening is that all parenthesised expressions in the regexp are being assigned to @host, whether defined (

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-31 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Colin Walters may or may not have written... [snip] > No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e. > sizeof(char) == 1. Yes, but who's to say that a byte is 8 bits wide? :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-02 Thread Darren Salt
ake us > just as bad as Microsoft where standards are concerned? There is precedent for this elsewhere; the E**o character appears at 0x80 in RISC OS 4's Latin* character sets. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberla

Re: Sponsor for gkrellm-newsticker

2002-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
1.2-1 These don't: logjam3.0.1-2 It looks as if both logjam and gkrellm-newsticker have it wrong, *but* I think that it'd be easier to use the Provides option. (For some reason, packages.d.o doesn't seem to want to return 'came' in the package search resul

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
he *BSD's ports systems, > specifically their 'distinfo' files. SHA1 is not enough, imho. For *xine* releases, I use MD5, SHA1 and SHA256. The hashes are then signed using gpg. That's mainly for others, though; I Don't Need to check them when doing packaging work for

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-28 Thread Darren Salt
ht solution? > Are there other options I haven't seen? Of those listed above, I'd agree with option 3 or some optimisation of it – option 2, modified to do the migration at runtime if /etc /default/foo has been modified since last seen, would cover that, I think. [snip] -- | _ | Dar

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-16 Thread Darren Salt
ad shape soon as nobody who /could/ upload > feels responsible for it and those who care /can't/ upload. Packages get left to rot. DMs don't bother with them because they've been (effectively) ignored before; some may create external repositories for the packages instead... [sn

Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

2009-07-25 Thread Darren Salt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill * Licence : BSD-style single

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