Hi,
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:24:09AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the
> installer's
> defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer.
>
> [...] Perhaps people could comment on other things like this which
> they've
Hi Thomas,
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:21:59AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> You cannot distribute GPL'd source which has been modified to link to
> a GPL-incompatible library when the only way the source would be
> useful is if it is, in fact, linked to that library.
Just for me to learn so
Hi Anthony,
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:50:10AM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:09:30PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > As a final note, did anyone from Debian who usually examines licences
> > actually examine this one?
>
> Yes.
What did he/she think about the following
Hi Moritz,
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:50:53PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Glest is a free fantasy 3D real time strategy game with impressive graphics.
> See http://www.josezanni.com/glest/descargas/demoglest_v1.2.mpg for a demo
> video.
I tried the game and found it truely impressive (exce
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:55:40AM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> Indicating that gnugo is the engine is relevant, but specifying that a
> recent version of gnugo need be installed is not. In fact, that part of
> the description could become invalid depending on the development of
> both gnugo and lad
Hello Robert,
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:59:07PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
> > It uses gnugo as its
> > engine and you must have a recent version of gnugo installed in order to
> > run
> > it.
> This statement is unnecessary
Hi Florian,
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> None, many of these examples were created before the collision
> generation tools were generally available. The "exploit" uses some
> properties of Postscript files which make them not very desirable for
> storing elect
Hi!
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:08:45PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> According to slashdot articles you can generate human readable files
> (like the Packages file) with md5sum collision in ~45minutes on a
> modern cpu now.
I found the example at http://www.cits.rub.de/MD5Collisions/ quite
Hi Ryan,
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:38:43PM -0800, Ryan Murray wrote:
> Also, I've investigated the mail backlog on master and found the main
> problem. The mail queue is currently full of email that will never be
> able to be delivered, all for one particular user.
Why would that be?
Could y
Hi Florian,
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:33:53AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Given kasserver.com's recent connectivity issues, I wouldn't consider
> that admissable evidence. 8-P
I thought these were resolved as of 24 October. Were there
problems afterwards?
And then there is still this 5 and a
Hello,
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 07:04:02PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> There were also some bugs for tetex-* that were never sent to the
> Maintainer: field, namely the debian-tetex-maint mailing list.
Here is another one. The following message (related to bug #335689)
spend six days in the vinci
Hi Noah,
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:22:39PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> It depends on what you mean by "up to date". If we're only including
> glibc headers, then we can only use functionality that glibc supports.
> If we bypass glibc and directly use kernel functionality, then we get
> all th
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:04:35PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 September 2005 12:37 pm, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > > This software may not be sold or incorporated into any product which is
> > > sold without prior permission from SoftSound. When no charge
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:43:42PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> SHORTEN SOFTWARE LICENSE
>
> This software is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Tony Robinson
> and SoftSound under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or
> copying this software, you agree that you have r
Hi Goswin,
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:55:19AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> subscribing [the initial submitter] is already the current way.
Really? Since when is this the case?
Jochen
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Hello Mike,
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:02:38PM -0400, Mike Furr wrote:
> Done. Also, adjacent packages in the dependency graph which are part of
> the same source package do not increase the "level" a package lies in
> (as suggested by Jochen Voss).
Very nice. I am happy to
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:12:41AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Especially for cases like where some research is necessary to find out
> what the package actually does. Some randomly chosen examples where
> the function of the package is not clear to me from reading the
> descriptio
Hello Steve,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:25:35PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> I think 2 min/pkg for *spotting* problems is reasonable, but not nearly
> enough for fixing them. Decent writing is non-trivial.
Especially for cases like where some research is necessary to find out
what the package
Hi Mike,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 04:44:11PM -0400, Mike Furr wrote:
> Jochen Voss wrote:
> > Just to let you know: ...
> yep, same bug.
I found another one ;-)
The entry "configlet(configlet-frontends)" should be level 6 instead of 8.
The tree starts out as
configlet-
Hi Mike,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:24:33PM -0400, Mike Furr wrote:
> After starting writing a program to help me track my packages
> dependencies for the g++ transition, I decided to put up the results for
> the entire archive in case it was useful for others.
Looks useful.
Just to let you know:
Hello Manoj,
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:30:57PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Yeah. I should have realized the level of audience I was
> trying to talk to. I'll try to speak in words of fewer syllables the
> next time around.
You are actively damaging the project with remarks like th
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:33:42AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > 7. Fix up the all the silly typos made in every BTS email sent so
> >far and retransmit. (note: this is after the BTS has decided to
> >respond).
>
> ! [1]
>
> > 8. upload the changes to source code.
>
> > 9. reali
Hello,
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:20:47AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:42:40PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > There is also the quite important point that even the most stupid of the
> > attackers could just look at ~/.bash_profile instead and get all or most
> > of the
Hello Martin,
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:51:38PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> It's fixed in debconf 1.4.44 which just got accepted today.
Thank you for the quick answer.
> * Fix a rogue quotation mark intorduced in the translatable string patch
> in the previous version. Closes: #293666
Hello,
suddenly I start to get mighty frightening error messages:
plonk:~# apt-get install --reinstall dpkg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1656kB of ar
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:34:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> >If you want to make policy that /usr/bin should only contain executables,
> >go ahead, make a policy proposal,
>
> There is no policy issue here -- the FHS is already entirely clear on
> this; /usr/bi
Hello John,
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:46:12AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Jochen Voss writes:
> > Any references for this? I was a little bit disappointed that the FHS
> > was so unclear about /usr/bin and I do not know where else to look.
>
> While the FHS is not as ex
Hello Santiago,
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:06:31PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Because we already have /usr/bin for that and there is no need to
> change every script that uses gettext.
The "for that" is my question. Do you have any reference
for this usage of /usr/bin? Is this suggested to pu
Hello John,
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Jochen Voss writes:
> > until now I was under the impression that /usr/bin/ should only contain
> > programs which are expected to be directly called by users.
>
> > In bug #292759 the maintaine
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:40:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> You forgot to quote last thing I said when closing the bug.
>
> So I'll repeat: Please read the logs for non-bug Bug#292759, where the
> author explains the rationale for putting gettext.sh in /usr/bin.
Sorry, I did not find relevant
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:31:52AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> looking at the script snippet in question, all it does is set a couple
> functions/variables, so it certainly should not be in /usr/bin. hell,
> it's not even executable.
Yes, this was my point.
All the best,
Jochen
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Package: gettext-base
> Version: 0.14.1-8
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> the gettext-base package installs the file gettext.sh into the
> /usr/bin/ directory. The file looks like a shell sc
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:57:00PM -0500, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: fl-cow
> Version : 0.4
> Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi
> * URL : http://xmailserver.org/flcow.html
> * License : GPL
> Descripti
Hello,
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:30:02AM -0700, BugScan reporter wrote:
> Package: screen (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Adam Lazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 269366 [] [U] screen: ftbfs [sparc] no tgetent - no screen
Where does the [U] come from? I do not see the upstream bug tag
set on
Hello,
A minor fix for the common blurb of all the descriptions:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:52:13AM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> 3Dwm is the Three-Dimensional Workspace Manager. It defines a full user
> environment with support for three-dimensional user interfaces using a 3D
> widget kit. It a
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:29:31PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Real men use hjkl.
And Real Real Men even use a German keyboard for this,
where Y and Z are exchanged. So going to the north-west
ist more fun :-)
Jochen
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Hello,
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Which is better? I like the default keys because you learn how to use
> nvi very efficiently knowing the hjkl-style keys :)
I am in favour of both :-O
* The hjkl style keys are really impossible to remember.
So of course the
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:20:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> So Debian users in Angola or East Timor would have to click on either
> "South America" or "Europe" to be shown a Portuguese language option,
> since there are currently no d-i translators for either of these
> locales?
Yes, I s
Hello,
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:13:33PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> One posts suggested that fr_FR would be on the lists for both America
> and Asia. Portuguese is spoken on four continents, and I think the
> Brazilian Portuguese translations are sufficiently complete that many
> other Portu
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:33:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sort using what locale?
>
> How many users know the locale name of their language?
>
> Sorting has big problems.
What about grouping by continent and only
sorting within these groups? This would be
comprehensible by the user and l
Hello,
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:46:18PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> Not in Debian at least. XML catalog support is a work-in-progress at
> this point. Last time I checked, neither docbook-xsl or docbook-xml
> registered themselves using update-xmlcatalog.
>
> I've been meaning to write some p
Hello,
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:41:36PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> snip -
> Package: popsneaker
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: mail
> Installed-Size: 159
> Maintainer: Stefan Baehre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Version: 0.6.2-1
> Dep
Hello,
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:48:24AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:20:36PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
>
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > >
> > > That sounds backwards. "Component" is the one recognized by apt, and
> > > (naturally) the one used by official Release f
Hello,
by accident I discovered bug #200180 at the fdutils bug report page
http://bugs.debian.org/fdutils
I was surprised to see this, because I never got a notification for
this bug via email (despite the fact that I'm the package maintainer).
The BTS claims to have sent the norification m
Hello,
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:45:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> I'm going to focus only on your claim that this page shows an example
> of the violation of monotonicity by Manoj's proposal.
>
> Monotonicity (http://electionmethods.org/evaluation.html#MC) requires
> "With the relative order
Hello,
For those of you, who want to make a well-informed decision
in the upcoming general resolution about our voting system,
the following web page should be interesting.
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/comp/vote.html
There I put together pointers to all relevant information
Hello Raul,
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 04:57:18PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> "Hard to understand"? We'd require a certain level of voter approval
> before we'll consider an option -- options which don't achieve that
> can't win. How is this "hard to understand"?
The thing which is hard to understa
Hello,
I think that John's modification is a good thing.
Hereby I second the amendment quoted below.
Jochen
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> --- proposal-srivasta Fri May 16 09:42:59 2003
> +++ proposal-jaqque Mon May 19 11:43:13 2003
> @@ -1,139 +1,139 @
Hello,
a friend of mine recently bought some Debian woody CDs.
Because the CDs do not look very official she wants to
verify that these are really Debian CDs and not something
trojanized.
I suggested to her to compare the output of
md5sum /dev/cdrom
with the corresponding values from
h
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:13:33PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> There's now a 'submitter' command, so you can do something like:
>
> submitter 34363 Oskar Liljeblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> It notifies the original submitter, and doesn't affect merged bugs in
> the way close/reopen does.
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:27:47PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Unfortunately, version 1.0.3-2.2 is disappearing from mirrors,
> leaving only 2.1.0-1 and 0.9.6-1. I was lucky to be able to
> get version 1.0.3-2.2 from a slow-to-update mirror.
You can always retrive old files from http://snapshot.de
Hallo?
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:20:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, [...]
Huh? At what time do you live?
Confused,
Jochen
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Hello,
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:13:40PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Jochen writes:
> > I think I incorporated all gdialog patches you sent to the BTS. Or did I
> > miss something?
> All those bugs appear to have been fixed, though I see no mention of my
> patches in the changelog.
Sorry! Maybe
Hello,
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:34:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Sean Middleditch writes:
> > Perhaps bugs should be filed against them, for their lack of
> > compatibility, if indeed there are problems?
>
> I filed a bug against gdialog (gnome-utils, to be exact) with a complete
> set of pa
Hello,
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:09:47PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote:
> Package: pgi
> Version: 0.9.6
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss
Just for the record: I got bitten by this, too.
(But I had a backup for most of the stuff :-)
Jochen
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:04:15AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:50:31PM +0200, Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
> > --> size doesn't match for /home/debian/devel/sanduhr_1.0.orig.tar.gz
> If the .orig.tar.gz
Fri Apr 12 16:40:59 2002 CEST using DSA key ID 211B1025
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Hi Bastian,
I tried to test your omniorb packages,
but did not get far. Compiling IDL files
into stubs does not work for me:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/zzz] omniidl -bpython /usr/share/idl/sanduhr.idl
sh: /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/omnicpp: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden
omni
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Sean Neakums wrote:
> > How about listing packages that are orphaned on DWN once, when it
> > happens, with a pointer to the full list of orphaned packages?
> > Something like:
> >
> > Three packages were orphaned this wee
Hi,
there used to be a package called "dput",
but now I cannot find it anymore. For example
visiting
http://packages.debian.org/dput
shows the message "No responses to your query"
and aptitude lists it as an obsolete package.
What happened to this package? Was it renamed?
Or did a do somet
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:
>
> > Description: a caching wrapper around compilers to speed up compilations
> > Compilercache is a wrapper around your C and C++ compilers. Each
>
Hi,
there is an 103 days old IPT for a compilercache package (bug #100538).
I asked the submitter whether he is still interested in this,
but got no answer. So I would like to package this myself.
Description: a caching wrapper around compilers to speed up compilations
Compilercache is a wrappe
Hi,
for me the dhelp package does not work at all, because of the problem
described in bug reports 109207, 109849, 110411, 110433, 110538,
111044, 112614, and 112659. My question is, does the package work for
anybody at all? Is there any easy way to make it work again?
Otherwise all these bugs
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:46:19PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Please note that did not ITPed it since I'm not sure people except
> from me are interested in such a browser. And It does not seem to make
> you very happy. Unless people are interested to see it in debian
> I won't uplo
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