Re: Bug#513272: Availability of roundl() on armel?

2009-09-11 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Michael, I am trying to fix #513272, a FTBFS on armel. The problem basically boils down to the following snippet failing to compile on armel (tested with a Debian lenny on a qemu-emulated armel system): see /usr/include/bits/mathdef.h on armel: ] [...] ] #ifndef __NO_LONG_DOUBLE_MATH ] /*

Re: ecki is retiring (Debian RT)

2008-06-13 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, ircii - needs maintainer taken. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Klaus, from the bash manpage: /dev/tcp/host/port /dev/udp/host/port This has been discussed several times [1][2], and the outcome was every time that this should not be a feature of the shell, but of more specialized tools like nc. Use those or recompile your

Re: Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-12 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, Bug#392665: O: nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi I'll take nvi if no one objects. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-20 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Qingning, Yes, mrxvt is quite nice with its tab support, and other features. And, mrxvt is being actively developed by the upstream authors. Unfortunately, I have not been able to spend much time on mrxvt lately (being busy with the real life). Indeed, I would like to give mrxvt away to

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-19 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, * rxvt as a user of rxvt I like to see it remain in Debian. I'm not a Debian developer Same for me. I'd also take rxvt and am no DD either. Michael, maybe you'd like to agree on some kind of team maintenance? My workload is quite low at the moment, but will rapidly increase in about four

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-19 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Josip, If you two don't manage to get to it, I'm a backup. :) We need an O wnpp bug report to record this... may I take that as an offer to sponsor us? :) I've created an ITA bug against wnpp now. (Don't know the number yet, the BTS bot is slow, and I'm in a hurry...) Regards, Jan

Re: Self-conflicts and self-depends

2006-07-24 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, I've noticed that some packages conflict or depend on themself. As far as I know, this makes no sense and the dependency (of conflict) should be removed, but I prefer to ask here before filing useless bug reports. This is a list of the packages: [...] unison: Conflicts on unison

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi DDs, [[ Marc Haber ]] Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers themselves and their closest environment uses experimental packages. [[ Simon Huggins ]] See this worries me a bit. I'd love for Debian users to test some more cutting edge versions of packages

Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
the maintainer some work and tag the bug fixed-in-experimental myself (together with a short explanatory message to the bug log), but am unsure whether I'm allowed to. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
hijacking someone's package. As for my contribution: I'd be happy to do more, and I'm monitoring wnpp for packages I feel knowledgeable enough about to offer my help and/or ask for sponsoring, but the right one just hasn't come across yet. ;-) Thanks again, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx

Re: Closing bugs as submitter?

2005-10-16 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
-header giving the version in question). Ah, thank you for the pointer - my memories of the changes made to the BTS[1] were not as vivid as I had hoped them to be. Regards, Jan [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00010.html -- Jan C. Nordholz jckn At gmx net