Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:15:32PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Henning Makholm wrote: > > > Another related bug type that I found lurking in my packages when I > > investigated the warnings in this list, is trying to format a size_t > > value with a %u or %d format string, which will break if si

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
> [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: > > #!/bin/sh > # Do the Solaris Dance: > if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then > exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@" > fi > sigh.. okay, my "correction" had bugs, too :-) better as if [ ! -d ~root -a -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ; then -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: > > #!/bin/sh > # Do the Solaris Dance: > if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then > exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@" > fi Umm.. Ick it woudl be better as if [ -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ;

Re: W3C recommendations

2003-04-14 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 07:38:00AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > (Personally, I'd vote against a proposal to make it mandatory. We have more > than enough release-critical issues at the moment - cleaning up > documentation to conform completely to W3C standards and recommendations is > probab

Re: keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:29:31PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > I have only ever seen browsers do this kind of nonsense. I have never seen > nslookup, dig, or host, attempt such lame lookup methods before. live and learn: -- Script started on Tu

Re: keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:15:47AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > ... > > Particularly since I found it by doing a dns lookup of > > keyserver.debian.org > > keyring.debian.org is the secret sauce > perhaps the appropriate person for debian might put in a CNAME record?

keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Brown
Has anyone noticed that someone has pseudo-hijacked keyserver.debian.org.com Is this supposed to be there? It seems to be kinda worrying that someone has registered that hostname. Particularly since I found it by doing a dns lookup of keyserver.debian.org and the host I'm on, fell through to au

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:50:51PM +0200, Stefan Schwandter wrote: >... > And it doesn't make sense if I compile the program with lesstif, as long > as upstream doesn't want to support it, because if people file bug > reports against snd in debian, and I forward it to him, he'll most > probably not

Re: mailing-list mgmt (was: Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long))

2001-01-04 Thread Philip Brown
[ Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr writes ] > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:43:05 -0800, > Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So headers should be optimized for group discussion. > > Replying to individuals is a secondary function. > > not at all. replying

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Philip Brown
[ Craig Sanders writes ] > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:26:25AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > And in the case of the debian mailing lists, you should "reply to" the > > list. > > bullshit. > > some replies should go to the list, and some replies should be pri

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ D-Man writes ] > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:30:39PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > Funny, you just did exactly that. If your mailreader was better, you would > > have a better functioning group-reply. > > Umm, no I wasn't complaining about my mailreader, but one

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ D-Man writes ] > > A different list that I am on does the Reply-To munging. This means > that if I hit group-reply (when I use an MUA that doesn't understand > lists) the list will get 2 copies : 1 in the To and 1 in the CC field. > Is this really what you want? Getting double mail on the list

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Miles Bader writes ] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: > > I guess YOUR mailreader is "too old or disfunctional to be worth > > discussing" > > > > I did not request you to Cc me. > > But you replied to the list AND me. > > Because tha

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Nathan E Norman writes ] >... > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:11:21PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > I guess YOUR mailreader is "too old or disfunctional to be worth > > discussing" > > > I did not request you to Cc me. > > But you replied to the list AND

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Miles Bader writes ] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: > > As opposed to the current scheme, which also requires "annoying manual > > editing of addresses" to reply to the list, if your mailreader does the > > reasonable thing and assumes you want to

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Miles Bader writes ] > Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Which reminds me, why doesn't this list just set: > > reply-to: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > Because it's completely wrong. > > Doing so takes the choice of who to reply to (the sender or the list) > out of the hands of th

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ D-Man writes ] > ... > Try mutt and its "L" command. The "L" command means "list-reply", aka > only send a message to the list, not to all recepients. It also sets > a header flag so that other well-behaved MUA's don't send you an extra > copy of their replies since you will get it on the list

Re: menu-policy: education

2000-12-28 Thread Philip Brown
[ Ben Armstrong writes ] > > So, for subsections perhaps: > >... > Education/Language > qvocab I'd love an Education/Language section too. I'm not really happy with any of the Menu choices available for my "kdrill" program, which is a vocabulary quiz program,and dictionary for kanji.