Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Roger Leigh
t at the limits of many peoples tolerance. Pull another one again, I may be forced to file a request for your expulsion. That might happen for this one yet. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-12 Thread Roger Leigh
hers do their work for them, and unmaintained and buggy packages lower the quality of the distribution. I don't know if you read my other mail, but I do find it hard to cooperate with Ubuntu for my own package, because each time it has been uploaded to Ubuntu it was done my a different person

Re: Cooperating With Canonical Employees

2006-01-09 Thread Roger Leigh
an exception. When I check my own I see that each upload has been by a different person almost every time, which makes it difficult to firstly know who I should contact, and secondly I have doubts about their familiarity with the package if there's no one who really cares for it. Regards

Re: Bug#345977: ITP: polld -- Polling demon

2006-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
g to solve? If the partition table is being changed, the tool that changed it should issue a BLKRRPART ioctl, like fdisk does for example (see ). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Li

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
even mention bug submitters in the Debian changelog, as a way of thanking them for the time they took to identify and investigate a bug. I treat both fellow developers and non-developers the same in this respect. Realistically, what more can we do? Regards, Roger - -- Roger

Re: ITK: debmake

2005-12-31 Thread Roger Leigh
in favor of debhelper. > However, it's not a bug to use debmake. > --- > I should remove last sentence from all translations. It might be better changing it to "It is a bug to use debmake in new packages. New packages using debmake will be rejected from the archive." Re

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Roger Leigh
eady created, it's no longer useful; this will not preclude it being installed by hand on systems with a static /dev. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-28 Thread Roger Leigh
base/standard/optional/extra) policy would be simpler to understand and make use of. The fact of being group-maintained /should/ make it simpler for third-party changes to get into a package anyway (since there are more maintainers to review and commit changes). This should lessen the need for 0-da

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ke, 2005-12-21 kello 10:28 +0000, Roger Leigh kirjoitti: >> For this task, you might find schroot(1) useful. It's a means of >> accessing chroot environments, but it sup

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Roger Leigh
d this to sbuild. [schroot has received some minor criticism for being written in C using GLib/GObject. I have however spent the last week converting it to C++, and I'm just finishing that up now.] Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourc

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-20 Thread Roger Leigh
t; > That's why I'd like to have a check for /run (or /lib/run or whatever) > being empty at the end of the boot process, and complain if it isn't > (possibly also remounting it r/o so abusers break noisily). Wouldn't that break mtab, or will that be mov

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any other defenders of /lib/run? Of /run? I prefer /run. It certainly doesn't belong in /lib (IMO). - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.s

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 19, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> With this example, it's trivial to trigger namespace conflicts and >> break shm_open(). "mkdir /dev/shm/foobar

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
ehind their back. 3) Cause the program abusing /dev/shm to fail as its datafiles are trashed and/or unlinked behind their back. Namespace conflicts aren't pretty. Sure, you can call it "handwaving", but to me it's something that's going to break at some point in the f

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 19, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> If in the future glibc decides to choose some other implementation >> >> for shm_open(), then it has no rea

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
But it has no reason to go away either, since there are many other uses > too for a tmpfs. There are many uses for an ext3fs, but that doesn't mean we only have one ext3 filesystem. What exactly is your reasoning here? - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/L

Re: Please test the new sysvinit

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
ntal, if anyone wants to test them. I did file a bug about tmpfs size limits (#344001), but this is really a wishlist item. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.de

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: [no need to CC me; I'm subscribed to the list] > On Dec 18, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Debian guarantees that it exists on debian systems. >> But wha

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
lso, if and when it's added to the FHS. >> Sounds it sounds to me like it is a bad idea to use it. > Only because you have no clue of what you are talking about. On the contrary, he made several good points, which you would do well to fully consider before dismissin

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 18, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How strongly can I put this? /dev/shm is for *shared memory*, not for >> random junk. /dev/shm is for POSIX shared memory

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
ever written down that any package could use /dev/shm? They can't. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please si

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +0000, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > The

Re: Proposal/Request for Comments: Formally extending package Descriptions to handle bulleted lists.

2005-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
el of indentation required. Specifically regarding bullets: We now have UTF-8 encoded control files, so why not simply use the UCS bullet character (U+2022)? Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-28 Thread Roger Leigh
he differences as much as possible. Perl being Perl, so far all the merging has been by hand, and going through the remaining huge diff by hand will take some time. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ D

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-26 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:02:36AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > If you NEED to do a manual binNMU it is pro

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-24 Thread Roger Leigh
age (buildd-tools CVS). BTW, are there any good reasons why the autobuilders don't use the packaged version anywat? The differences are minimal. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-24 Thread Roger Leigh
rd to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by policy. ACK. I certainly care about security, and I'll sign my packages just as soon as debsign supports it. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian

Re: UTF-8 for debian/control

2005-11-06 Thread Roger Leigh
filed against them, which should be upgraded to serious as soon as this is fully mandated by Policy (what happened to the proposal for that we discussed last year? I don't recall any objections). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-04 Thread Roger Leigh
. Anything not falling within the scope of the DFSG is not of any interest. Your many (somewhat confused) posts seem to be asking us to be doing a lot of relicensing *for you*, but quite what we gain is not clear. Working on proprietary software is not what we do. Regards, Roger - -- Roge

Re: New XTerm package, independent from X.Org, in experimental.

2005-10-05 Thread Roger Leigh
nly compiled for i386. O:-) Built and uploaded to experimental for powerpc. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign

Re: bogus lintian warning

2005-10-01 Thread Roger Leigh
res these lintian warnings as one knows it >> comes from the upstream tarball. > > I'd rather not have warnings that must be ignored 99.9% of the time. You could add a lintian override. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourcef

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-24 Thread Roger Leigh
ase for CUPS, but is now fixed upstream. See http://www.cups.org/str.php?L989+P0+S1+C0+I0+E0+Qrleigh.debian The sad thing is, this is special cased primarily because of broken /etc/hosts files preventing reverse name lookups... Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Notice that the /etc/schroot/setup.d/30passwd was used to sync the >> passwd and related files by copying them into the chroot f

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Roger Leigh
mount block devices on demand, and (later tonight, once I write it) create, mount and destroy LVM snapshots on the fly. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh: > >> We can't provide proper security support, and by now, libc5 is likely >> full of holes, so IMO it's best if we drop it. It's not like there's >> any active maintenance or w

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
com/pub/contrib/libc5/i386/ libc5 hasn't been updated since 1998, and dependent packages mostly not since 97-98, with some in 99 and 2 in 00. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/ No trace. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/i586/ No trace. - From w

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-29 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:26:16PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Some packages chose to place random junk in there (e.g. resolvcon

Re: incoming

2005-08-28 Thread Roger Leigh
is from > oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_ia64.changes 20-May-2005 04:32 You could upload a .commands file. See the README in incoming. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.or

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-28 Thread Roger Leigh
han abusing a location intended for a specific, unrelated, use. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encryp

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I often do "debuild -us -uc -nc" outside the chroot till i get the > package to build and then build just source and dum

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:57PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Not a kernel feature, but see >> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/schroot > > Does not help, each chroo

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
random breakage. > If users can make the changes they want, than Debian is NOT free. I think you got that backwards ;-) Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
can start with a clean environment for each build, and at the end, you just throw away the snapshot. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -- To

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
res and regressions over the last year while porting for amd64. The fact that many maintainers have not yet applied, or at least carefully reviewed and applied amended patches, is a pity. As the bug lists at http://bts.turmzimmer.net show, most of the RC bugs currently have patches. Grab yours toda

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-22 Thread Roger Leigh
It just needs to run 'sbuild -A'. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Roger Leigh
n account isn't that essential. I had packages in Debian for at least a year before I was invited to join the project. The additional 11 months I waited in the NM queue didn't stop me doing useful work. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sour

Gutenprint entering unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Roger Leigh
nterested in either should get in touch. I would also highly recommend any maintainers of printing or printing-related packages to subscribe to debian-printing. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: New gimp-print packages in experimental

2005-07-16 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:24:18PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> gimp-print (renamed to gutenprint) is near its 5.0 release. I've >> uploaded a prerelease to experimental, which is a

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Roger Leigh
font is now less good. I also get screen corruption with the Radeon driver: http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/Screenshot.png Galeon is also similarly afflicted. It's either a GTK+ bug, or a Radeon bug (ati driver). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? h

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-11 Thread Roger Leigh
> versions should be shipped or dropped. We even have GCC 2.7.2 in unstable (gcc272). Does anyone actually use this anymore, or could it be removed for etch? - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhtt

Re: [Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

2005-07-11 Thread Roger Leigh
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 05 Jul 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Rob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:27 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: >> >> At Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:11:22 +0100, >> &g

Re: [Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

2005-07-05 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:27 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: >> At Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:11:22 +0100, >> Roger Leigh wrote: >> > This mail is just to test the water to see if there is

New gimp-print packages in experimental

2005-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
ur reproduction, usability, integration with other packages etc. will also be very helpful. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB84

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-28 Thread Roger Leigh
iously ... > > So is debian "business apps only" now? No, but it doesn't hurt to exercise restraint before packaging every tiny utility out there. Debian is already too big. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforg

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread Roger Leigh
gt; > I guess the tools aren't capable of this, but AFAIK you could just do > (manually) something like /usr/i386/bin and /usr/ppc/bin The whole cpu-manfr-opsys triplet would be better. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

[Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

2005-06-26 Thread Roger Leigh
drivers in the mail. Please CC any other maintainers you feel might be interested.] Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB8

Lintian tar error outdated?

2005-06-21 Thread Roger Leigh
sed, is it OK to use newer tar formats? Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BE

Re: Bug#315104: ITP: schroot -- Execute commands in a chroot environment

2005-06-21 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Upstream Author : Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot/ > * License : GPL > The above URL is temporary. It should

Bug#315104: ITP: schroot -- Execute commands in a chroot environment

2005-06-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: schroot Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot/ * License : GPL Description

schroot: a replacement for dchroot

2005-06-19 Thread Roger Leigh
ing. Comments welcome! Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

2005-06-14 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> That's true, but for the majority of code, which just uses existing >> GtkObjects, conversion is no much more involved than >>

Re: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

2005-06-14 Thread Roger Leigh
ut for the majority of code, which just uses existing GtkObjects, conversion is no much more involved than search-and-replace. Plus, if you don't bother with the full conversion, there's quite a lot of compatibility functions to make things easier. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-10 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23.32, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:02, Roger Leigh wrote: >> >> Exi

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Jun 08, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Wrong. The problem is packages which need to interact with text files, >> > mail and usenet messages generate

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:28:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Eh? You can't change that around just like that, it will b

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
ocales were UTF-8 by default. We should have done this long before sarge was released. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:02, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Existing installs are already configured with debconf. Their >> /etc/locale.gen will not be touched. >> >> If you do dpk

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh > > | - When UTF-8 is the default locale, it shouldn't need a .UTF-8 suffix, > | e.g. en_GB will be UTF-8, and en_GB.ISO-8859-1 will be Latin-1 (the > |

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 22:10, Roger Leigh wrote: >> - When UTF-8 is the default locale, it shouldn't need a .UTF-8 >> suffix, e.g. en_GB will be UTF-8, and en_GB.ISO-8859-1 will be La

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
or sarge, I found that the DocBook toolchain is quite broken WRT text encoding support. It doesn't put the encoding in the generated HTML, which nowadays is not acceptable. See gnupg-doc for examples. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http:/

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-02 Thread Roger Leigh
t I personally would like to see ubuntu patches filed directly as wishlist bugs against my packages, and wouldn't consider it mass bug filing (they are mostly separate issues, to be dealt with separately). The worst I can do is disagree with the change and close it, but the norm would be reviewi

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-01 Thread Roger Leigh
to the BTS at the time of the > upload). One small step down that road, anyway. I agree strongly with this. However, it's only fair to post the patch to the BTS to give the maintainer a chance to respond before uploading at all. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-05-30 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:07:50PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> The BTS does not currently support this. For example, if I upload a >> fix to unstable, I have to manually

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-05-30 Thread Roger Leigh
and certainly deserves serious consideration. The BTS does not currently support this. For example, if I upload a fix to unstable, I have to manually reopen it and tag it sarge. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:46:33PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote: >&

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Roger Leigh
think that being fluent in english should be a >> requirement to be treated nicely on a development list... > > I *could* have simply ignored him. That would have been much better; please do so in the future. If you don't have anything worthwhile to contribute,

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-17 Thread Roger Leigh
tegorised junk into one big festering sore: /usr/lib. Making it a little tidier by categorising some of its contents slightly differently is not a bad thing. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxh

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-17 Thread Roger Leigh
rectories it is about > creating a new one. Not really; it's already in common use. However, all packages committing the sin of using it have to be specially patched or configured to remove the taint. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourcefo

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Roger Leigh
nd would support using it in Debian. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEGI

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-07 Thread Roger Leigh
ange it at this late stage. Have you considered the huge impact of changing the version number? It's to no-one's advantage to do this. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: Bug#304521: ITP: wanna-build -- Database management for package (re-)compilation/status control

2005-04-13 Thread Roger Leigh
n-admin/ If you haven't already, you might like to pick up the manpages I wrote from here: http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/buildd/ I posted this to the buildd-disc list quite some time ago, but they were never committed. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printi

Re: How to output Unicode?

2005-04-12 Thread Roger Leigh
appropriate place to ask this sort of question. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encry

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-28 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Mar 26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm asking because of obstruction (from upstream) regarding the >> application of a simple patch to allow

Policy for devfs support

2005-03-26 Thread Roger Leigh
y obstruct furthering the integration of the system. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-21 Thread Roger Leigh
they were originally created. This should also lower your packaging overheads, since you won't have to re-patch for every new Debian revision. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debi

Re: Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-02-28 Thread Roger Leigh
less as a "standard", since ANSI standardised many different things. Perhaps you mean it implements ISO-6429 (ECMA-48) SGR control sequences, or maybe something entirely different? Either way, it would help if you were much more specific. (This applies equally to the other

Re: Bug#287839: ITP: mxml -- small XML parsing library

2005-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
gt; it. Really :) I would certainly be interested. I may even be able to get libgimpprint using it (instead of the customised form we have embedded currently). I also have uses for it in other projects, where libxml2 is not suitable. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Prin

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
is a feasable goal for etch, as is recoding everything to UTF-8 (where it makes sense). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Pl

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Roger Leigh
t our users understand it. I also agree with this, and think your proposal would be very useful. I don't think the package in question furthers our production of a free software operating system in any way. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Roger Leigh
ot;my first shell script" or minor variations on common programs. I'd like for the bar for new packages to be set rather higher than it is at the moment, and if it doesn't add any value over existing equivalents or have much general use it doesn't get in. Regards, Roger - --

Re: NMU for libpaper

2004-10-22 Thread Roger Leigh
def $(srcdir)/printers.xml ../printdef/printdef < $(srcdir)/printers.xml > print-printers.c CLEANFILES = print-printers.c Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82; bug #235522?

2004-10-07 Thread Roger Leigh
nstallation and reinstall it again to ensure it's working correctly--if you've done a lot of tinkering, you'll start in a known good state. If you can't get the basic Gimp-Print CUPS driver going as above, please file a bug report against cupsys-driver-gimpprint. Regards,

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [I am not subscribed to debian -bsd.] > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:30:48PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I'm not opposed to anything else you've said. I do

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
FÃanor that might also qualify. However, there may well be copyright issues. "Slink", "Woody", "Potato" and "Bo" etc. aren't exactly unique, but you would be hard pushed to find another book with "ManwÃ", "OromÃ", etc. in it. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Roger Leigh
name, or otherwise. Which to people of several religions are > _not_ cute. Thanks for raising this point. I'm very interested in the Debian GNU/*BSD efforts, but if named as such I would never consider using them (the BSD daemon is, to my mind, only borderline acceptable as it is). I&#x

Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?

2003-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
limit, any user can kill the system by creating a huge file in there. It's much nicer to get ENOSPC than a kernel panic. The installer could pick a sensible limit based on, for example, 20% of the combined core+swap size. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> In late 2001, I spent several weekends hand-building quite a large >> chunk of woody (over 200 source packages). I found quite a number of >> serious bug in several packages, inc

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> apt-fu installs binary packages of build-depends first to avoid circular >> >> build-depen

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
t build unless the same version was also installed (due to a shlibs problem requiring the just-built library to be installed for shlibdeps to be computed). This sort of automated source building is a very good idea--it will root out a lot of build bugs, and will improve the quality of Deb

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-19 Thread Roger Leigh
of operations, etc. Further to that... would it be acceptable to upload the new stable libpqxx release (2.0.0) built against 7.4 once 7.4 has entered unstable. It would be fantastic to have the new libpqxx in sarge, too. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-pri

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