Re: Find complete set of debs

2007-09-07 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ckages, or up to date unstable versions). > > The problem occurs right after I've installed some software, so all the > necessary data is still available in current testing/unstable/wherever. apt-get --download-only install \ $(apt-cache showsrc $PKG | grep Binary: | cut -d':' -f

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread Peter Mathiasson
. > > As pointed out several times, the source package in the ubuntu archive > is NOT different to the source package in the debian archive. The > binary package have been rebuilt in an different environment, which > can caus different dependencies on the resulting binary package. You sai

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

2003-08-07 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ed manually (in which case it is read anyway) it > can be saved. Then perhaps you should use an encrypted tunnel to a safer location. I wouldn't send mails through that channel, even if it was work related. You should value your integrity more than that. -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson

Re: libraries being removed from the archive

2003-08-04 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ode across the network for each job." Sounds like it might work out of the box if you just exclude "localhost" from DISTCC_HOSTS. -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228

Re: libraries being removed from the archive

2003-08-04 Thread Peter Mathiasson
e > biggest problem will probably be (a) getting all those pathnames right. Wouldn't it be possible to use something like distcc for this? -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228

Re: Packages preventing other packages from going into testing (fwd)

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Mathiasson
programs for pleasure. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/stalls.html ? -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228

Re: Non-DFSG-free package in main

2002-12-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
houldn't be > > shipping it in sarge if it's non-free.) > > Why not move it to non-free? Or you defining sarge as main only? > We haven't voted to remove non-free yet. I thought non-free wasn't part of Debian. -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, h

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-29 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ut the machine > name. I thought it was about the service name, the machine already got one. Quoting Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The machine itself has a name already (quantz)." -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprin

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:19:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > NMUer time is better spent on really unmaintained packages. Amen. -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgpydQfe90SCO.

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ol. For you the NMU seems like a waste of time, but it was not a waste of _your_ time, nor of the current maintainers (except for looking at a diff which changed nothing but the build-depends field from what I can tell, w/o looking at neither the package nor the NMU). -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mat

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
would have been good, it wouldn't have made the maintainer aware of the problem earlier (unless the NMU was delayed until the maintainer had a time to fix it himself, of course). -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F

Re: Should we customize apps for a common "debian-look"?

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Peter Mathiasson wrote: > Because some admins, unlike the rest of us, thinks users want's to have s/want's/wants > software in their local language and use local keyboard layout, then we > indeed want's to have our software in

Re: Should we customize apps for a common "debian-look"?

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Mathiasson
their local language and use local keyboard layout, then we indeed want's to have our software in english and us keyboard layout with local as an switchable option, right? -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Peter Mathiasson
atter of HOURS (well, that didn't work for me, dunno why)." -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgp3nT5ZfeSil.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Mathiasson
(plex86 development is a bit stalled at the moment). IMHO it's > very usable, bochs is more stable but slower. For all supported > systems read the documentation of the packages. plex86 is Debian specific isn't it? Because, if it's not, I'm sure plex86 got some mailing list

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ws XP, FreeBSD, etc on any of them. Is it at all possible? Useable? -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgpyCBIaqXJdT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-04 Thread Peter Mathiasson
t-cache` apt: /usr/bin/apt-get apt: /usr/bin/apt-cache -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgpoSivUMfSFb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: potential runtime problem on arm, powerpc and s390 due to incorrect assumption on char signedness

2002-01-13 Thread Peter Mathiasson
original post said: "and the EOF is ignored. The correction is to make the type of variable c int." I guess that's why it says "in OTHER contexts". -- Peter Mathiasson | GPG Fingerprint: E-Mail: peter(at)mathiasson(dot)nu | A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 W

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Peter Mathiasson
://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities > > > > But it exists here: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags > > "help" is a tag, not a severity level. > > Well now I'm confused. I can now see help but in the severity section. > So it is a