Re: Better communication between projects

2006-01-15 Thread Sami Haahtinen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 1/15/06, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Completely agreed. While I don't object to occasional mails from >>Ubuntu users, I don't generally have a proper Ubuntu contact (or list) >>to point them to. This would he

Better communication between projects [Was: ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-15 Thread Sami Haahtinen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Meskes wrote: >>other field should reflect that. But again, some people are offended if >>the maintainer field is changed to something ubuntu specific for the >>modified packages. As before it's not an easy task, you get burnt if you >>go eithe

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-15 Thread Sami Haahtinen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > It's also about false statements like "We sync our packages to Debian > regularly," because that simply doesn't happen for quite a lot of us, > otherwise all these heated discussions wouldn't happen. They have their own timeta

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-14 Thread Sami Haahtinen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:20:40PM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: >>I read the part about sarcasm and i partially argee with you. But i'm >>with Andreas here. Your post didn't help anyone, the o

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-14 Thread Sami Haahtinen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Suffield wrote: > If you can't understand sarcasm, why didn't you read the part for > people who can't understand sarcasm? I read the part about sarcasm and i partially argee with you. But i'm with Andreas here. Your post didn't help anyone, th

Leadership, collaboration and canoncial

2005-06-05 Thread Sami Haahtinen
Josselin Mouette wrote: > The problem is that the decisions are always taken for the Ubuntu > distribution first. Then, people from Canonical or people wanting to > keep compatibility between the two distributions will always want > Debian to follow the decisions taken for Ubuntu, regardless of t

Re: Upgrade dependencies of a package

2005-04-30 Thread Sami Haahtinen
Shaun Jackman wrote: > Does apt-get have a command to upgrade all the dependencies of a > package? Currently I use 'apt-cache show package' and upgrade each of > the dependencies one by one, but it seems to me this is a job for > apt-get if ever there was one. If this requires a new command, perhap

Bug#219183: ITP: libgetopt-argvfile-perl -- simple supplement to option handling modules

2003-11-04 Thread Sami Haahtinen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: libgetopt-argvfile-perl Version : 1.06 Upstream Author : Jochen Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Getopt-ArgvFile/ License : Artistic Description : simple supplement to option

Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-20 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:33:05PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Sami Haahtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > "lex" is the better word, as it is not only known in English, but also > > > in most other (roman) Languages for law. > > > > Oh righ

Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-19 Thread Sami Haahtinen
h law. This is the first time i've even heard the definition for 'lex', i support naming it debian-law, so that it's clear for the non-lawyers too. Regards, Sami -- Law should serve the people, thus people should understand the law. -- -< Sami Haa

Re: Hardware Compatibility List for Woody (exist)?

2003-04-12 Thread Sami Haahtinen
ration for each boot media and make it spit out a customized compatibility list for that image. There is no such service (not that i'm aware of) but it would be great to have around. Regards, Sami -- -< Sami Haahtinen >- -[ Notify immediately if

Re: Mozilla Calendar?

2002-12-05 Thread Sami Haahtinen
why not > > package it.. > > Regardless, newer versions of Mozilla Calendar don't need it. :) Hmm.. which library do they use then? i know they still use iCal files... oh well.. Sami -- -< Sami Haahtinen >- -[ Notify immediately if you do no

Re: Mozilla Calendar?

2002-12-04 Thread Sami Haahtinen
ooks promising and hope someone packages it. In the past the only thing that stopped me from doing a build of my own from the sources was that debian missed libical.. and now that there appears to be libical-dev, i can't see any reason why not package it.. Sami --

Re: debian jabber packages

2002-11-30 Thread Sami Haahtinen
y supported are db and anon) and all the migration scripts are yet to be written.. also the db fileformat is now (since alpha 2) dependant of libdb4.1 which is yet to be packaged.. This is just a heads up and all. Sami -- -< Sami Haahtinen >- -[ Notify imme

webrt2 packaging, anyone else?

2001-12-29 Thread Sami Haahtinen
. Regards, Sami -- -< Sami Haahtinen >- -[ Is it still a bug, if we have learned to live with it? ]- -< 2209 3C53 D0FB 041C F7B1 F908 A9B6 F730 B83D 761C >- pgpgvd5OqSyAs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Sami Haahtinen
be easily disabled (with update-inetd or something) or removed. This is one of the most powerful features of Debian, why would we want to ruin that? -- -< Sami Haahtinen >- -< 2209 3C53 D0FB 041C F7B1 F908 A9B6 F730 B83D 761C >- pgp0kZN9Lqfen.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:46:35AM +0800, zhaoway wrote: > > how about diffs bethween dinstall runs?.. > > sorry, but i don't understand here. dinstall is a server side thing here? yes, when dinstall runs it would copy the old packages file to, lets say, packages.old and create it's changes to th

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:05:03AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Whats the problem with a big Packages file? > > If you don't want to download it again and again just because of small > changes I have a better solution for you: > > rsync > > apt-get update could rsync all Packages files (yes,

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-04 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:07:00PM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > The only other possibility not yet proposed (?) would be to split the > packages file by section. > > base-packages > games-packages > x11-packages > net-packages > > Then a server that just doesn't do x11 or doesn't go games h

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-04 Thread Sami Haahtinen
he package file, if the file gets corrupted, it would attempt to do a full update. This wouldn't be a big difference in the load that the master-ftp has to handle, atleast when some 7 of these would be stored at maximum. Regards, Sami Haahtinen -- every nerd knows how to enjoy the little things of life, like: rm -rf windows