Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
m hat) is that Zstd is a slightly better default option for compression for typical binary files. There are a some special cases in certain contexts where other compressor (even bzip* for source code) can be more sensible, so those option should remain available. But as rule of thumb, Zstd looks like the better way to go. Best regards, Eduard. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
Acquire::https::Force-Proxy-HTTP true; > would probably be more useful for this specific case (not that I think it's > a great idea--too much potential for surprise). I would make it a list of trusted proxy hosts and a special value ALL. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994032 created. Best regards, Eduard.

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
r whatever the current opposite is) out of Debian community? *justfacepalming*, Eduard.

Re: On doing 3000 no-source-change source-only uploads in January 2021

2020-12-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
ago. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mail-expire Apart from that, thanks for tackling this. Best regards, enjoy NYE and have a good start into 2021! Eduard.

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-03-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
excelent opportunity to get rid of many of such workarounds? Also, if the download statistics reveal the then-legacy i386 architecture becoming useless, it could be retired sooner without being sorry. Best regards, Eduard. -- Lambda-Kalkuel ist fuer Hacker so was wie das, was fuer Jedis

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
means binary for general users, which is more appropriate (reduces CPU cycle waste and power consumption, while a "general user" hardly needs to read log files). Best regards, Eduard.

Bug#948701: ITP: libsqlitecpp -- smart and easy to use C++ SQLite3 wrapper

2020-01-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduard Bloch * Package name: libsqlitecpp Version : 2.5.0+git20200112-1 Upstream Author : Sébastien Rombauts * URL : https://srombauts.github.io/SQLiteCpp/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: unsigned repositories

2019-07-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Sam Hartman [Sun, Jul 14 2019, 02:07:55PM]: > >>>>> "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch writes: > > Eduard> Hallo, * Sam Hartman [Sun, Jul 14 2019, 08:46:18AM]: > >> >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Andres Klode writes: >

Re: unsigned repositories

2019-07-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
nce, following the spirit of letsencrypt etc., which handles the snakeoil key handling in a lazy way. Something like: apt-ftparchive ... --auto-sig (create a new PGP key OR load and use the PGP key with identity of the current InRelease file; auto-generated key is stored in user's private keyri

Re: Bug#881896: RFP: src -- Simple Revision Control, single-file and single-user version tracking

2018-11-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
e would be > using nomenclature such as: > > src:src +1 -> Please choose a different package name "src" is as clever as choosing "main" for a C++ namespace and similar unfunny things. Best regards, Eduard. -- Naja, Garbage Collector eben. Holt den Müll sogar

Bug#886599: RFH: broadcom-sta -- Broadcom STA Wireless driver (non-free)

2018-01-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
tains the common files and it should not be installed manually (it will be installed automatically as needed). MfG/best regards, Eduard.

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
arriors from the "weird party". Which is something I am not comfortable with. Regards, Eduard.

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
mostly caused by the storm of IO operations required nowadays. And seriously, today a kernel with a couple of extra modules takes about 200MB. I remember times when you could install a whole desktop installation in that space. Regards, Eduard.

Bug#845245: ITP: node-input-output-return-identity-function-common -- Convert input values to output values using the identity function mapping

2016-11-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
* Package name: node-remove-trailing-separator Version : 2017.04.01 Upstream Author : majorobvious * URL : https://github.com/majorobvious/input-output-return-identity-function-base * License : WTFPL Programming Lang: JavaScript (what else...) Description

Re: Bug#841099: ITP: node-has-values -- Returns true if any values exist, false if empty

2016-10-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
-values, node-copy-descriptor, … +1 Seriously, can we please keep this nodejs stuff out of the main repository? It's not like I don't trust APT guys in finding the right bullet to deal with thousands of trivial packages but do we really have to care about the costs of all that spam littering up our namespace? Regards, Eduard.

Re: using whiptail and translated strings from arbitrary scripts

2016-04-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
to support > the package containing the script? Long time ago, I used bash's builtin mechanism to enable i18n in pppoeconf, and it worked sufficiently well. Not sure about good documents. I remember finding a couple of blog entries documenting the initial process, the rest was usual Makefile

Re: -flto to become more of a routine - any change in opinion since 2011?

2016-03-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
ed to pthread) in release build (-O2) but not in debug mode without optimization. At least it compiles today with gcc-5.x without issues. With 4.x, there were either creepy linking errors or the program was not running stable (semi random crashes, probably related to the mentioned valgrind findings). Regards, Eduard.

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
of life or > death Nonsense. You can see these patterns everywhere. The next thing coming to my mind are holy wars about bike chain maintenance... http://sheldonbrown.com/chains.html > [And a comment from John Allen: the problem becomes religious because it > addresses mysteries of exis

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Sun, Jan 03 2016, 02:15:31PM]: > Eduard Bloch, on Sun 03 Jan 2016 14:06:22 +0100, wrote: > > OTOH UsrMerge breaks some habits, i.e. going to /share/doc/foo feels > > UsrMerge proposed by Marco is the converse. > > It is *not* putting a /usr ->

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
> break systems if we don't adopt these massive changes. For me, sloppy workmanship is building a special setup in a crude way while not being able to adapt it to a slightly modified base configuration, considering all tools we have nowadays. It's not like we just entered Y2K... Regards,

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
ood for ATM is being and information source, to see what's the really important s..t without using extra tools. OTOH UsrMerge breaks some habits, i.e. going to /share/doc/foo feels weird. Which is a human issue, already spreading in the crowd of anti-systemd lunatics. Regards, Eduard. -- Sicherheitshinweis: Achtung: Die grundlegenden Partikel dieses Gerätes werden durch eine Gluonenkraft zusammengehalten, über die wenig bekannt ist. Ihr fortdauernder Zusammenhalt unterliegt daher nicht der Garantie. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: service failures should not fail dpkg installation

2015-09-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
ings to fix that require your attention: ", and when the admin solved the problem, he can close the ticket with the imaginary tool. > Should I open a wishlist bug against the developers reference pointing > to this discussion? Feel free. Best regards, Eduard.

Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends

2015-09-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
dules/.../source (or build) symlinks as the one and only source of information? Not having those links is like a normal case with kernel+header packages built with make-kpkg on a fast remote remote machine. Regards, Eduard. -- Und im irc hat man dir noch nie eine manpage lesen ans Herz gelegt? habe nie gerafft was die wollen

Re: version format for git snapshot

2015-09-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
). > Is there any established best practice? > > Have a nice week, Yoo too... Eduard.

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-07-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
, "Open" can be like OpenGL consortium or Open Automomotive Alliance or Open Mobile Alliance. Yeah, fully open, just pay a little fee and don't disclose anything unless they are also "true open"... Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Bug#793404: massive waste of CPU time in debian/rules by inline commands

2015-07-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
better idea or could point to an existing concept or implementation, please tell me. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
available to all potential users of that library... even if there are no users who care! And won't care in future because it's clear that upstream is not using a stable API. If it isn't clear, than making it clear should be the easier mission. Regards, Eduard. -- Erst wenn de

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
a lot of evil kludges obsolete RSN. And: thanks, buxy! Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150419112450.ga27...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
e a cookie, STFU and go away. Thanks. Deleted the rest of unfunded crap. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150217170822.ga7...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
s been > lovely on this list without you lot. +1, please! (And if you still want to start a crusade against system libraries, please try practicing first with more famous targets like libselinux1 or even libpthread... nobody needs this dependency hell, right?) Regards, Eduard. -- To UNS

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

2014-10-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
understandable for average user and mention all relevant dangers without goind too much into details. So, I suggest this new version. Added below for review; I consider uploading this to Experimental and submitting for l10n in a couple of days. Regards, Eduard. Template: encfs/security-informati

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

2014-09-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Eduard Bloch [Thu, Sep 11 2014, 04:55:14PM]: > > (What would be the right way to do that? Lower the severtiy of the bug? > > Add a jessie-ignore tag?) > > > > To notify users about the potential security issue, a NEWS file could > > be added, or one could

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

2014-09-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Holger Levsen [Thu, Sep 11 2014, 06:42:32PM]: > Hi Eduard, > > On Donnerstag, 11. September 2014, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > In fact, that is what I considered as workaround, and even harder: add a > > debconf message with priority critical telling exactly those deta

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

2014-09-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
harder: add a debconf message with priority critical telling exactly those details. Unless someone cries out loudly I will continue with this plan in a couple of days. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#756430: ITP: bcmwl -- Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source

2014-07-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduard Bloch * Package name: bcmwl Version : 6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu3 Upstream Author : Broadcom Corporation, http://www.broadcom.com * URL : http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php * License : open

Re: how to add my project?

2012-12-25 Thread Eduard
Hello John Paul Adrian! Thank You for this information and for your help! best regards, viele Grüße, Eduard Am 23.12.2012 13:03, schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: Hello Eduard, On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Eduard wrote: Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel

Re: how to add my project?

2012-12-25 Thread Eduard
thank you! благодарю! :) Am 23.12.2012 11:43, schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Eduard wrote: Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel repository? For example, my program is the based on httrack library tool, the GUI for it, it's the clone

how to add my project?

2012-12-23 Thread Eduard
Hello! How can i add my project into debian-devel repository? For example, my program is the based on httrack library tool, the GUI for it, it's the clone from WinHTTrack tool, classical for windows systems. This project was programmed in Qt4 without any KDE or Gnome dependencies, source code i

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Colin Watson [Mon, Aug 22 2011, 09:35:14PM]: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:49:04PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * Colin Watson [Mon, Aug 22 2011, 09:27:25AM]: > > > I don't want to add more linkage, especially in light of Adam's point

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
ete patch for man-db which dlopens on-the-fly. Let me know if I should proceed with that. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
"zcat", I think that's a better idea > than proliferation of bzcat, xzcat, my-newest-formatcat. ucat from the unp package does just that - print with any streamable format unp knows about. Regards, Eduard. -- * h01ger winkt Tolimar und seiner zukünftigen Ex-Freundin :) -- To UN

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
n something like "socket -q localRocketFastSystem" instead of xz on the build machine. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110815000109.ga11...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
respect that you tell them (yes, them, not some blog/mailing list) that there is a problem? Regards, Eduard. -- kde und tastatur? passt doch nicht mit dem nutzerprofil "windepp" zusammen :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
the radar for many people for months/years. Regards, Eduard. PS: and... yeah, this time you won't send me a idontlikeyourcourtesycopy reminder... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
an cope with the changes as soon as possible. If done properly, they could actually provide a transparent bridge to the new functionality for legacy clients. Regards, Eduard. -- Halloechen, ihr Spinner, so frueh auf? nein, wir schlafen alle im kollektiv mein alkoven ist kaputt alkohol kaputt? --

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
les. Nope. Those Release files in debian-installer subdir are just stubs and don't contain checksum information. And there was nothing for installer-$ARCH subdirs and the image files therein. Instead, there are MD5SUMS files there which were not covered by signatures in the main Release file. Rega

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
but is not it easy to check for this right before unpacking? If you want to have that level of control, why don't you just check it manually? Use --download-only with apt-get (no dpkg locking this way) and when it's done, use apt-get without it to install the packages after making sure t

Re: Bug#594808: ITP: xvba-video -- XvBA-based backend for VA API

2010-08-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
wrong. Please add more words mentioning something that most users would want to do with it, like "fglrx" "AVC" "acceleration". Regards, Eduard. -- Naja, Garbage Collector eben. Holt den Müll sogar vom Himmel. (Heise Trollforum über Java in der Flugzeugsteu

Re: APT do not work with Squid as a proxy because of pipelining default

2010-05-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
the requests in the pipeline can require much more resources on the proxy side. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100519184903.ga3...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Raphael Geissert [Sun, May 09 2010, 01:19:31PM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > with concurency: 30s > > with concurency and without readahead: 28s > > Interesting, a regression. Is that readahead from readahead-fedora? > > Were the 30 seconds measured by foll

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
ency (try 2): 31 sec. Similar results here: without concurency: 35s with concurency: 30s with concurency and without readahead: 28s Not that much difference, IMHO. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
ion? How is that question related to his statement? Even if it was, it's up to you to show the POSIX part which makes v6/v4 mapping mandatory. > I can hardly believe this could ever happen. Not sure about POSIX but an example for such insanity in popular APIs comes quickly to my mind...

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
ile refers to .bz2. Such usecase based advertising would be much more effective and more nice to live with. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100328095247.ga4...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de

Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2009-12-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
ere? > > What you're missing is that gdb's scripting facilities were pathetic, > and Python integration finally fixes that. And people who don't care shouldn't be forced against their will. Why don't we provide a gdb-tiny package, in the same fashion as vim-tiny

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2009-12-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
got burned by the problems described above and don't rely on transparent v4 mapping anymore (IIRC I had to fix some code last year when getaddrinfo output changed the sort order, some assumptions in the code didn't work). Regards, Eduard. -- Alfie: ;) naja, wir sind nicht in Redm**

Re: Unversioned .so file in /usr/lib vs dh_makeshlibs vs postinst-must-call-ldconfig

2009-11-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
27;s wrong with package-private libs in /usr/lib? > > It’s a recipe for failure. It’s a private interface, not defined to > remain compatible. If you make it available in a public place, people > will use it. If people use it, it will fail. C'mon, you are making

debian php5-fpm deb package

2009-09-08 Thread Eduard Nemours
Hi, this is a feature request to integrate php5-fpm packages into. It is currently in (final) development for Ubuntu 9.10. The developer believes that the package is ready. php5-fpm comes as a patch file, and new build target to the existing php5 source package. Now that they have a newer up

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Guus Sliepen [Sun, Jan 04 2009, 10:45:23AM]: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > PS: I plan to hack it a little bit and use syssconf function on Debian > > systems to determine the real number of CPU cores (#x) since pigz's

Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduard Bloch * Package name: pigz Version : 2.1.4 Upstream Author : Mark Adler * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : ZLib license Programming Lang: C Description : Parallel Implementation of GZip pigz

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

2008-12-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
e fan base among Debian developers including leading ones (hello Vorlon). And, after all, JMS created a good space opera reflecting many issues of today's politics and human interaction. But if you dislike SF by heart, take any real example of never ending blood feud. Regards, Eduard. -- HE: od

Re: Building only one package from control file

2008-12-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
r argument to dpkg-buildpackage? Depends on what you are using to build the package. If that's debhelper, read debhelper(7) to learn about the -p option and others. And please ask on the debian-mentors ML next time. Regards, Eduard. -- Bietet Debian eigentlich auch die Möglichkeit, Sound

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Cyril Brulebois [Fri, Dec 19 2008, 09:35:24AM]: > Eduard Bloch (18/12/2008): > > * Russell Coker [Thu, Dec 18 2008, 11:04:24PM]: > > > http://discuss.itwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=7991 > > > > I would like to know what exactly Steve told them.

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
ut somewhere > > else. > > Please use gender-neutral language when addressing a diverse audience. Please just heed his advice. Regards, Eduard. -- Windows zu benutzen ist wie Bungy-Jumping ohne Seil. -- Jörg Gerbracht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
t if that's the case then I am sorry about that. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
d them. The major tone WRT OSS on that page seems to be pretty harsh, close to FUD and trolling. So how did Steve feed them, did he at all? Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
s woman or man or whoever you are, there is no need to polarize the discussion. Regards, Eduard. -- wie führt man noch mal ein shellscript aus? ausdrucken, einstecken, zum italiener gehen, auf nen stuhl legen ... und sag ihm ein paar nette Sachen, das mögen sie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
and I had to reread the mail header a few times. ROTFLMAO, Eduard. -- Madkiss: Niemand kann so die Nachrichten mehr aufbereiten, dass Otto-Normal-Bürger die versteht, da dieser viel zu dämlich dafür ist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
not displayed anywhere on the web. For external observer this would not change the current situation but provide DDs the flexibility requested in this thread. Regards, Eduard. -- Ganneff: passt auf, ich bin blond, habe keine ahnung von computern, aber einen client kann ich einrichten, so

Re: Packaging a project using cmake

2008-06-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
t beat http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258723 ;-) Regards, Eduard. -- Ja, da hast Du Dich mal wieder nur von meinen riesigen sekundären Geschlechtsmerkmalen leiten lassen ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .desktop files for x-www-browser and x-terminal-emulator

2008-03-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
ch web browsers and > > terminal emulators: how come? > > Could you please care to explain what they would be useful for? Window Managers. http://bugs.debian.org/472209 opened in the meantime, detecting some resistance. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: .desktop files for x-www-browser and x-terminal-emulator

2008-03-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
I was looking for a reliably available icon for the x-www-browser shortcut in IceWM, and that was also troublesome. I think we should have a small package shipping such meta files for Debian specific wrappers. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: apt-get and SOCKS

2008-03-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
ven not everywhere). > Adding support for SOCKS would avoid the need of wwwoffle in these cases. apt-cache show tsocks You configure ssh to do "dynamic port forwarding" and point tsocks to localhost at the defined socks port, then run apt-get through tsocks. Regards, Eduard. -

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
n can be used by new tools or > augment existing ones. Do that please but keep your fingers off the Packages files. The value of your meta information is not worth the costs of its distribution to every user's local system. Just keep such data available on an visible location like it's d

Re: Bug#448910: ITP: urandr -- resize your screen and set up multiple screens

2007-11-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
useful details to the description. Mentioning them only here flavored with some rants is not a real help to the potential users of your package. Regards, Eduard. -- Naja, Garbage Collector eben. Holt den Müll sogar vom Himmel. (Heise Trollforum über Java in der Flugzeugsteuerung) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
on certificate. It does (less or more) when you recompile it with SSL support. We just cannot distribute it. This would be a pretty good case for "risky" package, IMHO. Regards, Eduard. -- -!- Znarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] has joined #debian.de hallo! join #debian ls hello quit -!- Zna

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
hich one ? vpnc does not handle connection based on certificate. > > racoon. Try "apt-cache search racoon" then. Eduard. -- Okay... und jetzt bitte fortunes tauglich zusammen fassen ;) Tolimar: "*prust*" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#447514: ITP: apt-cacher-ng -- Caching proxy for distribution of software packages

2007-10-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ben Hutchings [Sun, Oct 21 2007, 11:38:25PM]: > On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 21:43 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: apt-cacher-ng

Bug#447514: ITP: apt-cacher-ng -- Caching proxy for distribution of software packages

2007-10-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: apt-cacher-ng Version : 0.0.8 Upstream Author : myself * URL : http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/ * License : BSD, original Programming Lang: C++ Descr

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
easy to implement. Almost zero effort compared to the damage done by > corrupting tapes. Oh, come on. People who put $TAPE into the default environment may also link /dev/null to /dev/hda (or /dev/sda) and complain to the coretutils maintainer because ln isn't unable to think for them. Eduard.

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
s usually among the tasks of a serious maintainer. If you are not able to do that then I doubt you will become one. Eduard. -- irgendwie wird das hier immer schlimmer mit solchen leuten... ich glaube, ich geh wieder ins qnet, da ist wenigstens noch ein gewisses niveau :-/ -- To UN

Re: Package cache

2007-08-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
analyzed daily in order to give the users advices to uninstall certain packages and give the maintainers advices to split or merge other packages. Kind of popcon but placed a bit deeper in the system. Eduard. -- Hah! Ich hab das Monster php gebändigt! * Joey . o O ( Rhonda is now known a

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
play the type and icon, I wanna enter this filename manually. I wonder what the people are smoking anyway. Few years ago, performance of kfm in KDE 1.x sucked because it tried to read every file. Looks like GNOME people urge to repeat their mistakes. Eduard. -- Ich find die Domain auch scheisse

another "just deinstall" crap: x-session-manager

2007-07-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
of usin a WM has to be disabled in this situation, I got an answer like: "because if something else handles startup it has to comply with X Session standard". No explanation of apples-oranges situation helped the maintainer to understand. Eduard. -- diese netzverbindung ist aber schon n

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
. It is going to clutter the freedesktop menu > with tons of useless entries with ugly icons and make it as useless as Make it short, what is your point? Not allowing others to play in your GNOME sandbox? Eduard. -- Arghl. Ich wunderte mich gerade über *sehr* ekliges Perl... bis ich das fand:

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bernhard R. Link [Sat, Jul 14 2007, 04:26:50PM]: > * Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070714 14:44]: > > #include > > I also suggest moving away from the Debian menu files to .desktop files > > because of more flexible format. Therefore, if the menu using p

Re: New Debian Menu & Apps/Tools

2007-07-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
r Please put those into some "Configuration" submenu by any means. I still cannot understand which justification does this stuff have to have a separate _top level_ submenu. Eduard. -- zobel: ich habe gerade noch ein paket auf dak.ganneff geladen, kannst du das bitte hochl

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
any people are also lazy and don't read manuals or upgrade notes. Realistically, there is no way for you to get away from those complaints, unless we go the way [1] and maintain XMMS until the end of times. Eduard. -- Computer sind letztlich ein Mittel zum Zweck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * William Pitcock [Sun, Jul 15 2007, 12:06:47AM]: > Eduard Bloch gmx.de> writes: > > > > > I see this in strace output with default configuration. Switching the > > setting between on-display and on-load makes it even worse, then it > > opens e

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
onally > start a new session to better match the user's environment) but I don't > think this justifies adding these entries to all users' menus. If you don't like seeing them, move them to the Settings submenu. Eduard. -- Weasel: schreib mal da hinein, daß ich im IRC i

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
style-menu-generators can use those files unless real versions are provided by the correspondig package. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#category-registry Regards, Eduard. -- Wie man sein Kind nicht nennen sollte: Gerold Steiner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Josselin Mouette [Tue, Jul 03 2007, 09:37:55AM]: > Le mardi 03 juillet 2007 à 08:18 +0200, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > Audacious, like many other players, has this stupid concept of reading > > every file from the filelist to get the metadata. Not really realistic >

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
alistic when acting on slow filesystems. But this is something that made XMMS so much superiour over others, it was fast and lightweight. Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
e a problem there even now then I doubt I can help you with understanding. > You're going to have some trouble convincing me of that. :) Me? No comment. If I missed an irony tag somewhere then it is hidden really well. Eduard. -- Die einfachsten Menschen hör ich die feinsten Vermutu

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
that I, like several > other people here, I don't *have* said problems with the programs I use, > and I don't particularly care to have that "fixed". Just because you can't > tell whether the output of ls -lh is using binary or decimal prefixes > doesn't

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
, or on Unicode, etc.etc. > >>How about using these prefixes to unambiguously refer to powers of 10? > >>kd kidi10^3 > > > >Like in kidigram and medameter? What comes next, midroutopicans? > > Yes, my intention was to make a silly set of prefixes

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
ituations. The people who really need binary units can make clear what they are doing there. Otherwise they would deliberately create confusion. You like to be among them? You like chaos and cheating? > How about using these prefixes to unambiguously refer to powers of 10? > kdkidi10

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
be necessary. Because the Windows Explorer kept displaying sizes with GB suffix while meaning 2^9 bytes. Which is understandable because they didn't have a better term back 15 years ago. What is not really understandable is why this stupid naming has been kept in Windows XP. Eduard. -- Wiss

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
te temporary stuff during installation which you cannot predict well, or even persistent data (index caches etc.). So this information in the packages is not more than a coarse grained estimation of the required disk space. Eduard. -- TV ist Zeitverschwendung * micsch muss auch nochmal seine TV-Kart

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
w a real-world prefix can be abused in computer world has burned so deep into the minds of even respectable people that it seems to need another four decades to make people use the correct terms again. Eduard. -- Getty: Solche Aussagen tätigt man hier nicht - sonst kommt wieder der weasel daher und zitiert einen auf der #-Seite! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
hat aptitude is perfect? I can remember a not so nice evening few months ago when aptitude (on Ubuntu) tried to remove half of the distro when installing simple packages. The reason was the forgotton source line for the previous release in sources.list - but still, it should cope with that and not w

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