Re: how to divert /etc/profile?

Lars Wirzenius wrote the following on 04.07.2011 12:33 Hello On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:50:58AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: I would like to install a private package diverting /etc/profile (to support /etc/profile.d). Problem: There is no owner for this file. Stock Debian already supports

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

Chow Loong Jin wrote the following on 02.03.2011 18:51 Hi, On Thursday 03,March,2011 12:02 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: [...] - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a big sync() right before carefully

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

Josselin Mouette wrote the following on 27.02.2010 21:03 -- snip -- Indeed it is not sufficient for gcc-4.4. But I still think it is sufficient for gcalctool. I have just downloaded the lenny gcalctool_5.22.3-2_i386.deb. Where in /usr/share/gnome/help/gcalctool do you read about the file

Re: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team

Benjamin Drung wrote the following on 01.02.2010 20:34 Hello I would like to ask 2 question as user regarding your proposal. -- snip -- Binary package name === The Mozilla extension packaging team decided to use xul-ext- (instead of mozilla-, iceweasel-, etc.) as prefix

Re: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team

Benjamin Drung wrote the following on 01.02.2010 21:50 Thanks both Benjamin and James for your replys. I gone a live with it. -- bye Thilo 4096R/0xC70B1A8F 721B 1BA0 095C 1ABA 3FC6 7C18 89A4 A2A0 C70B 1A8F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Linux image packages going to depend on python

Noah Meyerhans wrote the following on 30.11.2009 17:42 On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 02:15:41PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Perhaps you should consider making the script just create a ./fstab.new file, and not overwriting /etc/fstab? makes it easier to test the script out without

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

Hello Christian Perrier wrote the following on 15.11.2009 07:13 Quoting Kurt Roeckx (k...@roeckx.be): * I don't think we need more than 2 of these. They are still useful for servers or when some disaster happens in the GUI, but who opens 6 console sessions nowadays?

[DSA 1916-1] New kdelibs packages

Hello i have a question regarding above named DSA. It has been announced on October 23th but still the mirror i am using doesn't have it: $ apt-cache policy kdelibs kdelibs: Installed: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2 Candidate: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2 Version table: *** 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2 0

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

Luca Capello wrote the following on 23.10.2008 10:53 - *snip* - That should be good enough to install, and then add non-free to sources.list and get the firmware required for the driver to work (absent a non-free debian installer that bundles non-free bits). This is no different

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

Manoj Srivastava wrote the following on 23.10.2008 19:06 - *snip* - Look, I am not proposing we have a GR for every upload. I am saying that non-free bits in main are a bug. A serious bug. A RC bug. It is a big fucking deal. It comes to the core of what Debian is. Now,

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

Manoj Srivastava wrote the following on 22.10.2008 15:28 - *snip* - That should be good enough to install, and then add non-free to sources.list now it gets really absurd. Either be free and clearly tell the people that you are not willing to support their hardware or don't blame

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

- *snip* - That should be good enough to install, and then add non-free to sources.list now it gets really absurd. Either be free and clearly tell the people that you are not willing to support their hardware or don't blame RMs for the same thing you did above. Everything