Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

2000-08-30 Thread Eric Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent L. Mulhollon) writes: > Perhaps any package can live in unstable, but any package that has a > release critical bug older than 1 week is zapped from stable and placed back > in unstable. Upon next package upload, it will be reinstated into stable. Ack! Can you imagine

Bug#194961: ITP: yaz -- A C/C++ toolkit for Z39.50/ISO23950 applications

2003-05-27 Thread Eric Schwartz
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: yaz Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : IndexData * URL : http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ * License : BSD-ish: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/doc/license.php Description : A

Re: Bug#197907: ITP: quark -- an audio player, for geeks, by geeks.

2003-06-19 Thread Eric Schwartz
On Thursday, Jun 19, 2003, at 00:30 America/Denver, Sven Luther wrote: I have almost a ready package, i just now need a fine short description. How about: simple audio player with detachable GUI It's not perfect, I know. This sounds pretty nifty, actually, but hard to categorize. But this still

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

2003-08-07 Thread Eric Schwartz
On Thursday, Aug 7, 2003, at 02:51 America/Denver, Peter Mathiasson wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:34:28PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Here it isn't. That is because that correspondence is done on company time using company equipment supposedly for company purposes. They have the right to

Re: status of Progeny projects

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Schwartz
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 23:39 America/Denver, Peter Zoeller wrote: Most software installs fail as a result of missing libraries. I would like to see a central repository for all libraries, old, new and development. A repository that when a library dependancy needs to be satisfied, the ins

Re: Hardware Compatibility List for Woody (exist)?

2003-04-12 Thread Eric Schwartz
How can I collect an up-to-date Hardware Compatibility List by inspecting (which) Kernel-Code(-Parts)? (How are the SuSE people for example do this-they have a very big HCL but I don't know if Debian can use the same HCL-?) Nor, nor could they really-- SuSE generates their list by people paying

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-22 Thread Eric Schwartz
I say "it ought to be obvious", because Hans put the message in there intending it to be prominent, rather than (say) putting it in a doc file. It is reasonable to assume that he cared about putting this message in front of everyone who used it. If you can't understand why removing it would annoy