Re: Re-enter a package previously dropped ?

Hello! Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2009 schrieb Xavier Maillard: > Concerning my ITP, is it alright ? I mean, is it good practice to > put a previously dropped package into Debian again ? The reasons given for dropping the package were: * Package is out of date. * Upstream appears inactive since 2003. *

"Gänseblümchen" and the startup process

Hi! I wanted to set the background image of kdm's login screen to a file called "Gänseblümchen.jpeg" (Gänseblümchen is German for daisy flower), but I had to find out that l10n isn't set up that early. The bug (#528937) is closed now, but I feel it should not be the responsibility of kdm (gdm, x

Re: Programming first steps.

Andrew M.A. Cater schrieb: > They may be right - but, as noted elsewhere, much C++ is written by > C programmers who don't necessarily use all the features of C++ > anyway. ...so don't become one of those and learn C++ _first_. Ciao, Eike PS: I hope I got the message references r

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

Ben Burton schrieb: > The difference is probably that men have somewhat less of a history of > being evaluated this way when people aren't joking. Not sure. Perhaps, men just recently found out that they are evaluated. *g* Ciao, Eike (m)

Re: Victory Abah

Aaron M. Ucko schrieb: > The offer is almost certainly a scam; please see > . You really mean he doesn't want to pay 152 million dollars to everyone of us?!? I'm very disappointed! Ciao, Eike

Re: Bug#220289: general: make a new section: gis, for Geographic Information System packages

Hi! Simon Richter schrieb: > How about "science/geography"? Establishing subsections? Or as a section name? Either way, we should use "science/math", "science/pysics", "science/biology", "science/whatever..." as well then. I think geography&co neatly fits into the current science section. Ciao,

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

Ben Gertzfield schrieb: > good question. How do we deal with this situation for other source > projects that contain things like encryption that are outlawed in > countries X, Y, and Z but OK in the US? Establish non-non-US? ;o) Ciao, Eike

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

Mathieu Roy schrieb: > As far I know, there are still no patent for software in Europe, > whatever an European institution know to fail to comply to European > rules may do. Neither GIF nor LZW is software, though. The patent is about the LZW compression algorithm. Ciao, Eike

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

Ben Gertzfield schrieb: > As I mentioned in a response to the bug report, this is mostly a > nonissue, since the LZW patent has expired in the US and I've merged > the -nonfree package back into the main package in the unstable Debian > distribution. As far as I know(*), the patent is still valid

Re: status of Progeny projects

Peter Zoeller schrieb: > I have been long time user of linux and I find the greatest weakness to > be the ability to easily install applications which seems to be the > intent of this group. I allways found it less easy to - go to mozilla website - find the appropriate binary - download it - r

Re: Bug#220289: general: make a new section: gis, for Geographic Information System packages

Dan Jacobson schrieb: > Debian needs a new Packages section, named gis, or perhaps geography or > cartography, to prevent the mapping related packages from being > scattered in sections graphics and science, and misc, etc.? as at present. I'd consider this section much too special. Why not sort ou

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

Robert Millan schrieb: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:17:10PM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote: >> Robert Millan schrieb: >> > I don't see why. I have a bunch of resources to find a solution for >> > this trivial bug. [...] > I didn't want to imply that. I was referri

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

Robert Millan schrieb: > I don't see why. I have a bunch of resources to find a solution for this > trivial bug. You are implying the other DDs are your ressource for finding what you are calling "trivial bugs". They are not. It's your duty to think of most of it beforehand. If you didn't want to

Re: possible compromise for ITP: linux?

Andreas Metzler schrieb: > Eike Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There already are several packages with complete >> kernel sources which take as much place as his package >> would, right? > Robert does not propose to remove the existing kernel-source packages

Re: possible compromise for ITP: linux?

Andrew Suffield schrieb: > He doesn't need to, he can be slapped down. "Keine Gewalt!" ("No violence!") > We don't ignore minor issues just because there are major ones. So let's hope Robert can cope with minor issues and only talk about the big ones for now. > - this packages adds nothing, a

possible compromise for ITP: linux?

Hello! The discussion doesn't seem to be very productive any more. Time to come to a compromise? Obviously, Robert is not going to retreat. He has put much time in posting already and hopefully will spend much more time in making a good package (if this is possible). So let him build his packag

Re: On linux kernel packaging issue

Nikita V. Youshchenko schrieb: > Seems that someone without any sort of complete knowledge of the problem, > decided to maintain one of the most important parts of the system. And the > way he chooses is "removing everything that I don't undestand". This looks > like a disaster. If I didn't get it