On ke, 2008-05-07 at 11:52 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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I think it would be very nice to press these
On ti, 2008-02-26 at 10:15 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1007 +0100]:
A fluff animal, on the other hand, is for kids. Debian is not.
Debian is for everyone, kids included!
Yes. What I meant to say was: a stuffed animal might belittle
On ti, 2008-02-26 at 10:20 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]:
I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed
animal would belittle Debian.
Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it yet another FOSS
On ma, 2008-02-25 at 15:58 +0100, nic wrote:
hi together,
I'm not quite sure how to properly use this debian-list (I should have
read before, I know...).
I spontaneously thought of an ant: It works hard, it's tough, well, and
with a fat grin on its face. just a first idea: the 'debiant'.
On su, 2008-02-24 at 19:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.24.1316 +0100]:
I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to
the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian
project (in a similar
On la, 2008-02-23 at 09:08 -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:53:15PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
What might work quite well, however, is to have bug janitors (a la
kernel janitors) who look at new bugs that have received no attention
for, say, two weeks. If a bug gets
On to, 2008-02-21 at 22:34 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
But the same it true the other way around. Imho it's also not ok to
insult DDs publically in the way jidanni did. We are all volunteers
after all and ranting on a public mailing list doesn't help to improve
the motivation (and doesn't
On pe, 2008-02-22 at 07:48 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Do you think that there is a chance we find a group of people who really like
mentoring/training others? If so, we could maybe set up kind of a
bug-frontdesk
taking over _all_ new bug reports for a moment and checking them for a the
On to, 2008-02-21 at 08:44 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying if you
don't know what this is, you don't need this defeats the purpose of
packages descriptions.
I completely agree. There are lots of scenarios in which one might not
On ke, 2008-02-20 at 01:56 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
* Decrypt on reading encrypted message
* Encrypt, Decrypt, and Sign Attachments
* Sign messages and verify signatures
I really, really hope it's implementing in some incredibly novel
On ke, 2008-02-20 at 18:44 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Fakeroot-ng is copyrighted (C) 2007-2008 by Shachar Shemesh
..
Changing the line to read:
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 by Shachar Shemesh
pacifies lintian, but I still think this is over sensitivity on its behalf.
I am not a lawyer, but it
On ke, 2008-02-20 at 10:53 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OTOH, it complains about this too (from installation-guide):
The Installation Guide is copyright 1996 Bruce Perens; 1996, 1997 Sven
Rudolph;
1998 Igor Grobman, James Treacy; 1998-2002 Adam Di
On ma, 2008-02-11 at 09:41 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
On Mon February 11 2008 09:08:24 Russ Allbery wrote:
So switch your /bin/sh back to bash when the Release Notes tell you about
the change and move on with your life. That's why it's configurable.
Why force millions of Debian users to do
On la, 2008-02-09 at 19:48 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
The problem is that translate by anibal does only de-en translations,
while my translate offers a wider range of options and conversions (and it's
expandable, through a XML configuration file). Thus I don't believe that using
the
On su, 2008-02-10 at 11:52 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
I believe I can claim the use of the generic name translate.
I think I wasn't clear enough in my previous mail: I don't think anyone
should use the generic name translate, and the fact that it is already
being used is unfortunately. I
On ti, 2008-02-05 at 12:07 +, Matthew Johnson wrote:
Also: * The package format should be standardised such that the same
workflow works for everyone.
If that's a reference to my first post to this discussion, it's not
accurate. I don't care about standardizing package formats, but
On pe, 2008-02-01 at 01:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Hi Lars, I do not get your point.
If you are concerned that the persons who sent you a package to sponsor
have put malicious code in it, what I guess you will first review is
wether the scripts you have to execute to test the packages
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On to, 2008-01-31 at 09:19 +0100, sean finney wrote:
is there any reason why this issue couldn't be solved by amending policy (or
just simply patching dpkg-source) to require that debian/rules patch (or
some less commonly used name if we're worried about existing implementations
of this
On to, 2008-01-31 at 20:03 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
I am wondering if just mandating 'debian/rules patch' to work if
debian/patches exist shouldn't be just sufficient.
The only big problem I have with that is that is required some unknown
subset of build-dependencies to be installed, and to
On to, 2008-01-31 at 23:17 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
I do not know if it would be reasonnable to extend the scope of the
discussion to third-party packages.
Third-party packages such as... sponsored uploads?
The process you propose for verifying that a source package can be
safely unpacked
On ma, 2008-01-28 at 16:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
We can't get too rules-bound here.
As someone who's occasionally done some bug fixing to random packages,
I'd really like to see some solution that allows us to mandate that the
following sequence must work for all source packages:
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On la, 2008-01-26 at 20:37 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:58:27PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
I just tried this on madwifi, and it only pulled me contents of debian/
directory. Now I can't use that to anything, since there is no matching
upstream sources
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On la, 2008-01-05 at 13:43 +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
As you might expect (as I was the requester for this feature) I'd
*really* prefer the former option. My initial reasoning for it is that
I want to make it immediately visible to sponsors if a package has
suppressed lintian warnings. If
On la, 2007-12-22 at 20:06 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Brian M. Carlson]
Note that the w* packages provide word lists, which are important to
many programs. One could argue that a standard Unix system should
have a word list; at least, every Unix system I have used provides
one.
-By: Lars Bahner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
libvarnish0 - Shared libraries for Varnish
libvarnish0-dev - Shared library for Varnish
varnish- A state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator
Changes:
varnish (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
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* New upstream release
* Renamed
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Changed
On su, 2007-12-16 at 14:08 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote:
How does unperish make life easier than make dist and debuild? This
is unclear if you only look at the description.
You're right, I shall elaborate:
Unperish takes care of all the repetitive, mechanical steps of releasing
and building a
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: unperish
Version : 2.2
Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://liw.iki.fi/liw/unperish/
* License : GPL-2+
Programming Lang: Python
On la, 2007-12-15 at 00:34 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
Thank You for the link, however I consider my proposal actual
nevertheless. Because using of testing area will provide some guarantees
for the gcc-snapshot package to be workable.
Having packages in testing that are not meant for the
On to, 2007-12-13 at 16:49 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
* Enrico Tassi [Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:47:32 +0100]:
Oops, I've just discovered that inpatient means something completely
different then the Italian impaziente...
There is impatient, though, with m. :-)
The impatient inpatient in
Bah, sorry about the previous mail, sent it before it was finished.
On pe, 2007-12-07 at 15:28 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
On Friday 7 December 2007 11:52, Enrico Zini wrote:
If we want to implement a feature such that we can see what packages are
localised for a given language, that
On pe, 2007-12-07 at 15:28 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
On Friday 7 December 2007 11:52, Enrico Zini wrote:
If we want to implement a feature such that we can see what packages are
localised for a given language, that should be done differently, most
likely by building a database scanning
On ke, 2007-12-05 at 21:11 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
IIRC we cannot assume that debian/rules is a makefile and pass them as
macros directly, so we have to pass them as environment variables.
Debian Policy, 4.9, Main building script: debian/rules:
This file must be an executable
ti, 2007-10-23 kello 12:35 +0100, Matthew Vernon kirjoitti:
The Authorized Version of the Bible isn't covered by Copyright in
the
conventional sense. The Queen's Printer (currently Cambridge
University Press) has an exclusive commercial right to print the AV
(and the BCP, but that's not
ti, 2007-10-23 kello 09:44 -0500, Steve Greenland kirjoitti:
But the license on the package itself doesn't make that restriction.
If I have understood things correctly, in England (and the rest of the
UK?) the copyright is owned by the crown and therefore it is the crown
that sets the license.
pe, 2007-10-19 kello 18:29 +0200, Adrian von Bidder kirjoitti:
Seriously: I think exactly this kind of not really much new stuff going
on, but here's what we're continuing to do kind of information should be
more visible, because it, too, is valuable information to somebody who is
not
1.4.5b.
Patch against 1.4.5 is attached.
Best Regards,
Lars
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ti, 2007-10-09 kello 18:33 +0200, Kurt Roeckx kirjoitti:
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:44:47PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
How to help listmasters against spam
* If you notice a spam in the list archives, press the 'Report As
Spam'-Button.
address as follows,
it's still correct: My full name is Lars Ivar Wirzenius, and you can
send me e-mail by taking my initials and putting them in front of the at
sign and iki.fi after it.
Mind you, I don't like obfuscation, and I think it's a nuisance myself,
but we shouldn't violate people's wish
ke, 2007-09-26 kello 13:49 -0700, Tyler MacDonald kirjoitti:
Yep... but I still find it a bit annoying that I have to override
binaries
like start-stop-daemon or invoke-rc.d when building a chroot. I wish there
was a way to just set a flag that means dpkg, don't start/stop any
services!...
ti, 2007-09-25 kello 11:55 +0200, Simon Richter kirjoitti:
Hi,
Sebastian Dröge schrieb:
does somebody know about a solution to check whether one runs in a
buildd chroot or not? I need this to prevent hal from starting in buildd
chroots (via invoke-rc.d from postinst) as it breaks there
ti, 2007-09-25 kello 08:18 -0500, John Goerzen kirjoitti:
I don't really think that chroot is the appropriate tool for this.
Why not
something more strongly isolated, such as vserver, OpenVZ, or even Xen or
UML for this?
If the chroot has a policy-rc.d that says not to start daemons, any
pe, 2007-09-21 kello 16:44 +0200, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti:
* Christian Perrier [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:56 +0200]:
Again, please comment,
Personally, I think the change that should really go first is lintian/linda
(emitting a warning for packages that put the homepage in the description),
to, 2007-09-20 kello 07:05 +0200, Christian Perrier kirjoitti:
Of course, a mass bug-filing could also later happen but that would
probably be a *huge* bug filing which should be avoided now. Entering
a transition period where all communication media towards develpers
are used to suggest
ma, 2007-09-03 kello 23:40 -0400, John Kelly kirjoitti:
On Sep 3, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
That is arguably better than having passwords which can be guessed by
doing brute-force attackes over ssh.
I stop brute force attacks by sending auth log messages to a FIFO which I
read with a perl
ma, 2007-09-03 kello 09:30 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen kirjoitti:
I've been told that the schools using Debian Edu in lower grades pick
very simple and short passwords for the kids, and this will become
harder if the minimum lenght is increased. Thought it was best to
bring that up publicly.
ma, 2007-09-03 kello 16:04 +0200, Michael Banck kirjoitti:
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:57:38AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
The bug is that although the mpich-bin package uses
update-alternatives --install on postinst for all these files, it uses
update-alternatives --remove only on
ma, 2007-09-03 kello 08:33 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker kirjoitti:
Especially when the most common response I've seen to a system saying
that a
password is not long enough is to start adding easily guessable extension
strings to the password the user already picked, NOT to sit back down and
ti, 2007-09-04 kello 10:17 +0900, Miles Bader kirjoitti:
If the system is excessively anal about what passwords it will let you
use, people will just start writing them down...
That is arguably better than having passwords which can be guessed by
doing brute-force attackes over ssh.
--
su, 2007-09-02 kello 12:47 -0700, Steve Langasek kirjoitti:
Does anyone else have a reasoned argument why Debian should have a weaker
password length check than upstream (4 chars instead of 6)? If not, this
will be changed in the next upload of pam.
What's the justification of not using a
ke, 2007-08-29 kello 18:00 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson kirjoitti:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately
/dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform,
if -f is not given?
ma, 2007-08-27 kello 13:57 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti:
Why is the Opera browser not included in Debian?
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
It is not free software. I had a quick peek at the license in the .deb
available from Opera's
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su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti:
Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea.
Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with moving
homepage urls out from Description and into their own header?
--
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su, 2007-08-19 kello 10:50 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti:
Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea.
Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with moving
ma, 2007-08-20 kello 09:53 +1000, Paul Wise kirjoitti:
I suggest that the homepage does not belong inside the package at all
(because it can change separately to the package) and would be better
off being maintained on packages.debian.org and merged into the
Packages files similar to how
la, 2007-08-18 kello 10:16 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli kirjoitti:
One of the reason is that no one yet showed code implementing this in
dpkg and we don't know a timeframe for this, while we know how to get it
working right now with dh_md5sums. The other reasons is that once we
have the support
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:07 +0200, Romain Francoise kirjoitti:
It seems to me that the time spent to generate it on the buildds is
probably insignificant compared to the total time needed to build
the package... And since generating it can be done with a trivial
shell command, it's not a
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:58 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli kirjoitti:
I fail to see any of those. I think that most of the packages without
the md5sums just happen to have been packaged before dh_md5sums was
available,
There's also a number of packages packaged without using debhelper.
(Mine is,
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 17:05 -0500, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti:
I'd opt for dpkg generating the checksums upon _extracting_ the .deb
file. We already claim that the md5sums file isn't supposed to be any
kind of security thing. Why bother to ship it? It is redundant
information which can easily
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:12 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
Some packages (aspell and ispell packages in particular) ship files that
they then modify in maintainer scripts and intentionally exclude them from
the md5sums file for that reason. lintian has special code to deal with
this case. A
On ke, 2007-08-08 at 14:12 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
Without that structure, and a strict policy of being *only* an index
to existing documents, I don't see how this project would avoid
creating yet-another-document to read, compounding the problem you
initially described.
I think it makes
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libclearsilver-perl - perl bindings for clearsilver
python-clearsilver - python bindings for clearsilver
Changes:
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.
* New
On to, 2007-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
I am trying to figure out why texmacs has not entered into testing. I
visited http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texmacs but there I
was not able to find any useful information. All it says is
* trying to update
On to, 2007-06-21 at 17:01 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
1) How can I request for a new build on ia64? or will it happen
automatically?
This is outside my area of expertese, but I would assume that the
buildds don't automatically re-try a failed build. Instead, they'll wait
for the
Little useful or helpful has been said in this thread for a while now.
Please don't continue the discussion, at least on debian-devel.
(Sorry to be so blunt.)
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On ti, 2007-06-05 at 10:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
We also have some funny 3D games with huge data packages. So
were is the borderline for this. Does it make sense to install
a data repository that is not mirrored?
I suggest that it makes sense to a) package the data as .debs, for
On ma, 2007-05-28 at 00:25 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
piuparts:
Looks at first 'deb' line from /etc/apt/sources.list
- Can't handle /etc/apt/sources.list.d
- Assumes that the top entry is the best
I didn't want to have piuparts use all sources.list
On su, 2007-05-27 at 18:05 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
That would be very handy! The default could then be the
closest/quickest primary mirror. It would be important (from my
perspective) that this default is required to be a primary mirror -
maybe offer the user only the list of primaries and
On su, 2007-05-27 at 20:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
Unless your own mirror supports all Debian architectures, you will
still need a primary for emdebian-tools. Do you test build your own
Debian packages against your own mirror? Is that wise?
I don't use emdebian in any way, so any
On ma, 2007-05-21 at 20:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
The description for -curiosa does not suggest it to be appropiate for
the kind of off-topic discussions going on on -user.
Your conclusion is correct, and I'd like to suggest a corollary: there's
no Debian mailing list where advocating
On ke, 2007-05-16 at 23:17 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
That's trivial to check. Just feed it to recode and specify UTF-8
Hexadecimal input:
You might also be interested in isutf8 from moreutils.
--
Never underestimate the power of a small tactical Lisp interpreter.
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To
On ke, 2007-05-16 at 16:26 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
We should expect that given the same source, headers, and libraries, we
would get the same bytes out of a build every time. Any deviation from this
would indicate something different, or erratic. If it doesn't cause
problems, fine, but
On ma, 2007-05-14 at 10:51 +0200, ar wrote:
Still get no subscribing confirmation mail.
Please see my bugreport on that problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420261
The bug is still open for me.
That bug is from April. Did you try again after Frans announced it as
On to, 2007-05-03 at 13:39 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
My ideal output format would just list subsystem OK
While we're daydreaming, I'd like an empty screen with a timer counting
down how long (in seconds) I have until I can actually use the machine.
Unless there's a problem, of course, in which
On su, 2007-04-15 at 19:33 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Are there any objections to us changing this setting in the default
/etc/login.defs file?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -ld /usr/bin/X11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2007-04-12 21:08 /usr/bin/X11 - .
Anything found via /usr/bin/X11 will be found
On to, 2007-04-12 at 10:12 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:12:00PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
This would reduce our archive size by some 20% if all packages moved to
bzip2.
Why not lzma? It reduces size even more and doesn't suffer from the all our
code belongs to
On to, 2007-04-12 at 12:16 +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
* 2007-04-12 12:09, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
As long as we don't use that to collect sensitive information, it would be
ok IMO. (Of course, a preseed question could avoid it completely too)
I think Google Earth for Linux does the
On ti, 2007-04-03 at 16:28 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
To install a cross-building toolchain, apt/aptitude needs to be told
about the Emdebian [2] toolchain repository [3]. Currently, that is done
by the emsetup program in emdebian-tools but I'm wondering if it is
better done in postinst. The
This ITP was (obviously) an attempt at an April's Fool joke. Some time
ago I played a bit with Markov Chains, which are a method for taking an
input text, and generating output that uses words from the input, but is
gibberish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_Chain). I got the idea
that it
On ma, 2007-04-02 at 19:26 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
Given how easy it is to canonicalise the timestamp data, the fact that
it's data loss and the questionable utility of the information why is it
worth it?
Maintaining status quo is easy. Making programs that compare timestamps
understand time
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* Package name: gtkcanvas-muxitex-slur-k
Version : 4.1
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* URL : N/A
* License : CDDL
Programming Lang: C#, with Markov Chain support
On ke, 2007-03-28 at 14:57 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
just want to give my vote and concentrate on the rankings I want to give
and not learn about tools to submit my vote.
From memory (my shell history isn't long enough), here's what I did:
1. Copy ballot to text file (vote.txt).
2. Edit it
On pe, 2007-03-23 at 10:32 +0100, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote:
Debian Project Secretary wrote:
At the end of voting, with 313 Ballots resulting in 260 votes from 257
developers, General Resolution: Altering package upload rules has
carried the day.
Please forgive me if this is a stupid
On pe, 2007-03-23 at 21:05 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On pe, 2007-03-23 at 10:32 +0100, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote:
Debian Project Secretary wrote:
At the end of voting, with 313 Ballots resulting in 260 votes from 257
developers, General
On to, 2007-03-22 at 10:43 -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
Is 'forced to relay through a gateway' an instance of 'thoroughly
misconfigured'? Or is it just a corner case not worth bothering for?
(I'm not _quite_ trolling. I'd like to know if I ought to spend the
effort to change my
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:11:54 +0200
Source: enemies-of-carlotta
Binary: enemies-of-carlotta
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.2.6-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changed-By: Lars
On to, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
A GUI version of reportbug would be nice, though.
On pe, 2007-03-16 at 13:03 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:23:09PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
A GUI version of reportbug would be nice, though. Having to open a terminal
and deal with clumsy line based user interfaces is not a hindrance, but
it is an obstacle, to me
On ma, 2007-03-12 at 09:45 +0100, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:
Hello Developers,
How can I close bug #387858 which is a duplicate of already closed
#406404?
bluetooth-alsa package contains software for both SCO and A2DP profiles,
and thus new package btsco is no longer need.
If it's the
On ma, 2007-03-12 at 20:29 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
Does 'allowed' just mean 'it's impolite to close other peoples' bugs'
or 'the BTS will stop you'?
It means it's impolite The BTS software doesn't care.
--
Fundamental truth #5: Always ask the simple troubleshooting questions
first.
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:03:57 +0100
Source: varnish
Binary: varnish
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.0.3-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Stig Sandbeck Mathiesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changed-By: Lars Bahner [EMAIL
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:41:10 +0100
Source: varnish
Binary: varnish
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.0.3-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Stig Sandbeck Mathiesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changed-By: Lars Bahner [EMAIL
On ma, 2007-02-26 at 23:09 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:28:28 +0100 Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote:
Command line scanning sofware for AES2501B usb fingerprint reader.
The ouput are gray pnm files with quite good quality.
Please mention Authentec (the vendor) and the
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