Re: Intel f90 compiler for Debian.

2003-12-06 Thread Lukas Geyer
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > > As an > > aside, I don't quite understand why Fortran is still so popular in the > > numerical mathematics community... :) > > There still are a lot of Fortran libraries which

Re: Intel f90 compiler for Debian.

2003-12-06 Thread Lukas Geyer
alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Intel has a powerful f90 compiler, the only one freely available on > the market, as far as I know, which runs under Linux. It is an > extremely important tool for those who run numerical simulations for > scientific purposes. > http://www.intel.com/software/p

Re: ftpmaster accepts packages that have been rejected a few days ago

2003-11-13 Thread Lukas Geyer
"Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it was probably proven that oxygen was > better thatn flogiston (I don't really know what both are) He, this would be a great signature... (Luca, oxygen is the quite essential stuff you breathe, constitutes about 20% of the air around

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

2003-11-10 Thread Lukas Geyer
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get source kernel-image-* doesn't bring me the real source. Instead, if > I want the real source I must be root and install a binary package. Do you > deny that this is confusing? I don't understand why you must be root, could you elaborate? I am no

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Lukas Geyer
Peter Busser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I volunteered to make a package for exec-shield because it meets > > the Debian criteria, I have time to do it, and it interests me. > > PaX would take much more time so I can't do it. > > You cannot do it or you don't want to do it? In fact, anyone ca

Re: Other nethack options

2003-10-19 Thread Lukas Geyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:11:15AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > hjkl is extremely newbie-unfriendly. > > And? Come on, this is *nethack*. It's the hardest game I know of, bar > none. You have to learn a pile of keystroke commands when you first > sta

Re: ITH: gnugo, gnugo-dv

2003-10-19 Thread Lukas Geyer
Martin Godisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to hijack the gnugo package, and to ask for removal of the > gnugo-dv package. Both packages were updated last time around 18 months > ago, there are outstanding bug reports, none with a maintainer's comment, > and I'd like to get the new upstr

Re: Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Lukas Geyer
"Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, > > namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment > >

Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Lukas Geyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's trivial to reconfigure it in nethack's option screen, just like any > other option. I'm not sure why this one should be special. > > IMO, leave it at the upstream default; you'll surprise nethack players > coming from non-Debian systems less that wa

[OT] American version of Harry Potter (Was: Debian should not modify the kernels!)

2003-09-21 Thread Lukas Geyer
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bad analogy. Consider the way that the Harry Potter books have been > modified for the limited vocabulary of the American audience. Ha, the Australians want American kids to read sentences like "Fred and I managed to keep our peckers up somehow." (In t

Re: LWN subscription for Debian developers

2003-08-30 Thread Lukas Geyer
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bdale> ... I announced a group subscription to lwn.net for Debian > Bdale> developers, sponsored by HP... > > Debian may be seen as supporting non-disclosure conditions / > protected proprietary information / trade secrets / etc. whatever. What are you

Package removals and the BTS

2003-07-11 Thread Lukas Geyer
Hi all, I was looking for old posts, because I was sure that this must have been discussed before, but I could not find any. When a package removal is requested, there is a bug filed against ftp.debian.org. Following procedures, the maintainer should also know about it (either filing it himself o

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Lukas Geyer
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >wavtools (#155263), orphaned 342 days ago > > Description: WAV play, record, and compression > > Just like sox! Not really... Well, wavtools is a pile of crap, as detailed by Daniel Kobras in #97589. I just filed for its removal.

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-01 Thread Lukas Geyer
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, how does one find the rest of the packages on one's system that > "Conflicts:" with genuine GNU alternative packages. > > From the tone of your message, I bet there are lots that you fellows > have pre-chosen for us new debian users. So far I have d

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-30 Thread Lukas Geyer
Millis Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've already spoken to the upstream author, and he does not see > mwilling to convert to a DFSG license. Probably the only thing I can > do is to make it suitable for the non-free section for the time > being. Can you indicate to me how the license shoud

Re: Changelog issues with (among others) tkdiff 1:3.08-4

2003-06-02 Thread Lukas Geyer
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really enjoy reading a well-written changelog (and I'm subscribed to > d-d-changes so I tend to read them all), so I'm interested in improving > the quality of ones that aren't quite up-to-par. If there's a consensus > that it's futile or pointless eff

Re: Jumped up developers [Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness]

2003-04-21 Thread Lukas Geyer
"Matt Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately your choice is rather weak and doesn't back up your > argument so I feel obliged to continue the thread a bit further > (plus its giving my brain some exercise). > > [Oh yeah, the quotes are from some developer who's name I've > promised not

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Lukas Geyer
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You'll note that ReiserFS anticipated the GNU GPL V3 by including > > clauses that forbid removal of credits in its license, and for a long > > time I have been telling Stallman that he needs to get V3 of t

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-28 Thread Lukas Geyer
Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:58:38 +1100 > Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was referring to your own post to my "DAM approval wait time" > > outburst. Before this email, I had made some attempt at contributing > > to the discussion with two posts in t

Request for gnuchess packaging change

2002-04-10 Thread Lukas Geyer
Hi, after unsuccessful attempts to contact the maintainer of gnuchess, Martin Mitchell (he did not answer at all to my emails), I would like to propose a change to the packaging of gnuchess. Andreas Tille did at least do an NMU to update to version 5.03 which fixes several outstanding bugs. One re