Re: Bug#449317: ITP: zekr-quran-translations-ur -- Zekr Quran Urdu translations

2007-11-11 Thread David Starner
Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le lundi 05 novembre 2007 à 05:18 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : > > According to Wikipedia, the translator died in 1921, which means that > > his translation occurred prior to 1923. In this case, the translation > > is in the public domain in the United States, so the

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

2005-06-07 Thread David Starner
"Thaddeus H. Black" writes: > We are going to support Unicode because we have > no practical alternative. However, Unicode is a bad > standard. It is highly overwrought. Its philosophy is > wrong. Its use complicates many things which do not > need complication. Lots of accusations but no bac

Bug#292643: ITP: cl-s-xml -- simple Common Lisp XML parser

2005-01-28 Thread D. Starner
> This XML parser implementation has the following limitations: > * It does not support CDATA. > * Only supports simple character sets. What do you mean, "simple" character sets? What's the difference between a simple character set and a complex character set? -- ___

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread D. Starner
How is this going to help parents? I don't want my future kids to read Something Positive; it's not pornographic, I don't recall nudity, but that level of cold-hearted cynicism is not something I want my kids exposed to, at least not at a young age. Should we set this up to only grab Garfield, Pe

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread D. Starner
s you too are writing a useless message.) Perhaps you should try politeness to avoid a flame war. David Starner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread D. Starner
things. Just because it's your "right" to hide things, doesn't mean that you must or should. > We do not hide problems, we hide > possible solutions. And that's _so_ much better. David Starner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-06 Thread D. Starner
> I am not sure what you mean by startup. When Linux boots up. > When the libraries were loaded, they started a few daemons, but, I > believe KDE and GNOME libraries do the same thing. Again, how is GNUstep > any different in this regard than the other desktop environments? At one point in time,

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread D. Starner
> I just installed the textedit.app package; it pulled in a few GNUstep > libraries, but not a complete desktop environment. Do the GNUstep libs still start a demon at startup? Last time I checked, they did, instead of starting them only if you were running a GNUstep program, like KDE and GNOME d

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-16 Thread David Starner
This may be somewhat contraversal, but I wouldn't start with C or C++. If you want to learn to program, start with something with bounds checking and other safety guards. To be a serious programmer, you will have to learn C and C++, but learning a programming language is only a small part of learni

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-16 Thread David Starner
Alexander Winston wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 23:17, David Starner wrote: > > If you were a Debian developer, you could fix this by adopting or at least > > NMUing important programs that were unmaintained. Is it easier to stand > > on the outside and complain then actua

Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread David Starner
> Debian 3.0 contains 7 CDs with binaries and Debian 3.1 might contain 10 > or more CDs. How do you explain to a user why there are 10 CDs, but this > popular package is not included, and that package he needs is not > included? > > Saying "The maintainer didn't care enough about the package you ne

Re: Bug#220358: ITP: mecab-ipadic -- IPA dictionary compiled for Mecab

2003-11-14 Thread David Starner
> First, IANAL and not a native speaker nor a regular debian-legal reader, > but I can't see what is exactly nonfree in this piece of licence. In my > reading it just says, > > 1) Do what you want with it > 2) Keep a NO WARRANTY section in the licence > 3) Don't do any illegal stuff The last is

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread David Starner
or actually testing the system in real life situations. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!

Re: Do we need policy changes?

2003-04-20 Thread David Starner
hen neither is not handling UTF-8, considering that's requirement for India, home of over a sixth of the world's population.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-05 Thread starner
John Hasler writes: > Thomas Bushnel writes: > > A program can use the algorithms specified by Unicode without any copying > > of Unicode, and can thus be entirely free. > > What is UnicodeData.txt for? Do programs actually use it in some way, or > is it just a reference for programmers, like the

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread David Starner
> But they clearly do not want you to modify anything, including > character name! Character name is a searchable field, which some > applications may need. It's an English field, for which there is a canonical translation for French, and there should be translation for other languages. > The

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread starner
>> Does this mean every unicode text editor belongs in contrib (depends on >> something non-free)? > >Many (perhaps all) RFCs are non-free as well; does that mean that >compliant implementations must go into contrib or non-free? The problem is, every character in Unicode, all 70,000 of them, has a

Re: kbiff.mo should be removed from kde-i18n-*

2002-04-22 Thread David Starner
ropriate, I suppose. It's an upstream problem, so you might want talk to them (kde-i18n-doc) about it, too. There's nothing that debian-devel can do about it, and it seems likely if you talk to the people responsible for kde-i18n, it'll be fixed without problem. -- David Starner - [EM

Re: Where to place Ada (Gnat) libraries

2002-04-18 Thread David Starner
out all the details for a possible Ada policy or details to add to Debian Policy. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the In

Re: Packages still in Potato

2002-04-17 Thread David Starner
ere has been no new upstream versions for all those packages? I know that mdate has had substaintially newer versions out for almost two years now. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other sid

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread David Starner
.1 compatibile. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-15 Thread David Starner
dest package in Debian to maintain, and Branden is willing and able to do a job most of the rest of us couldn't or wouldn't. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." -

Re: Faster Release Cycle = More Up to date Packages...

2002-04-11 Thread David Starner
ery debian list for the past six years. I would wager that there's been a major (50+ posts) thread on this subject on this mailing list at worst every 6 months. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you&#x

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-10 Thread David Starner
is still under copyright in many EU nations (life + 70 years, and Barrie died in 1937.) Also, Peter Pan is under an eternal quasi-copyright in Britain, by a special act of Parliment. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don'

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread David Starner
m what I wrote. Thanks." > > What you're advocating is the evil twin of censorship, namely forced speech. > > I can't see why... are you forced to package anything? So I can't package something because there's something I need to change (to make it Debia

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-09 Thread David Starner
efined, especially not internationally. It's much nicer to have the clear approval of the author. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-09 Thread David Starner
program without worrying (short of libel, of course, but that should be outside the license too.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
of the future. Upgrade your system to Caldera and it will be 35% faster than your older distribution. More packages than blah blah blah ..." then that's a serious annoyance, that I'm going to want to remove or at least move. If the license doesn't let me, then then I don'

Re: GNU FDL

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
gt; acknowledge that things are not quite as clear as they should be for > now. How can you claim that the DFSG, in spirit or letter, encourages non-modifiable material of any sort? Even patch clauses are labeled a compromise by the DFSG. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's n

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
quo and someone's > > interpretation of the DFSG are in conflict at least. > > As far as I can see neither the gcc nor the binutils documentation has > invariant sections. I don't know about KDE. Take a closer look at the GCC documenation, at funding free software. -- David Starner

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
and, as you say, common sense, that's accepted. What does that have to do with other invariant stuff? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (prob

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
-extended Kerbeous (for example) is all right in documentation and not in a comment in source code. I certainly don't want to see non-modifiable fonts or game data in Debian. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
solve it this time around; solving > this would be too much of a distraction from woody. True. Probably better let it all pass for woody, like we did for KDE in the distant past. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't h

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread David Starner
d to pull gcc from main? We just need to pull gcc's documenation from main. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread David Starner
sically proposing a change in the DFSG, or at least the readings or scope thereof. I'd say the onus is on the people who want to change the status quo. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread David Starner
ds to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OK, if Craig hasn't done it by the end of today I will do that. Why? Considering how close to the release we are, and how easy it is, why not do it now? It certainly won't interfer with the maintainer closing them. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Defoma Problems

2002-04-06 Thread David Starner
d I'm sure many other languages, would be equally simple). -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Defoma Problems

2002-04-05 Thread David Starner
. Take a guess. For purely decorative fonts, it probably doesn't matter much. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet)

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-27 Thread David Starner
me > to comunicate in Italian and English. ISO 8859-1 has been the traditional charset of English under Unix. (The alternatives have usually been rough permutations of iso8859-1.) UTF-8 is nice, but too much stuff still spits up over it to make the default. -- David Starner - [EMAIL P

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-24 Thread David Starner
handle sufficently complex scripts. It's a system designed for charcell fonts with a one to one character to glyph correspondence. There's only so much that can be hacked onto it, and scripts that require shaping are generally considered outside that. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread David Starner
ke, since Linux console is probably always going to be LTR, single width, and non-combining. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread David Starner
participants from other countries. And this is because the RTL problem is > shared among Arabic and Hebrew. But RTL is only a part of the problem. Arabeyes is a much better site for general Arabization, including Arabic font making. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: h

Re: default font resolution in X Windows

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
> So, am I the only one that even in 17" monitors uses 75dpi fonts? Come on guys, it's a configuration choice. Change it and go on with your life. It's against Debian's Social Contract to use our proprietary Read Your Mind technology, so we have to pick a default, a

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:20:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > This is, IMO a bogus bug. > Go and fix a real bug. There are enough already. A package that will do grave damage to your system if installed is not a real bug? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
the lists at arabeyes.org (a site for Arabizing Unix.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-19 Thread David Starner
precedented. > en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom. The ISO country code for > the Ukraine is UA. en_UK is not English as spoken in the United Kingdom. The ISO country code for the United Kingdom is GB. UK is not yet assigned, according to /usr/share/misc/countries.gz.

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread David Starner
ily increasing amount of memory.) It's apparently a malset COLUMNS variable. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread David Starner
an wasn't happy, and neither was top. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-16 Thread David Starner
iption.) None of them were essential. If I'm in a documentation reading mood, I may as well pick up the README file and other stuff in the /usr/share/doc/foo directory. I don't see the reason to single out the README.Debian file. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http:

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
em, that would be one of the first files I read. As I don't run sawfish, I really don't care. > In the above text I wrote "at installation time", meaning when a package is > initially installed, not "everytime I upgrade". Which doesn't solve this problem

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
everytime I upgrade xfree86-common, and I seriously doubt I would catch anything important and new. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
x, so I can anticipate problems (like this one), so the changelog is usually more interesting than the README.Debian. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact,

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread David Starner
display changes to README.Debian. I rarely read README.Debian after first installation, so IMO, it's a bad place to put things that change after installation. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
reever possible, why don't we just have the LaTeX/Texinfo/Tex/Docbook/whatever source, with instructions on how to build ps/pdf in README.Debian? (The instructions are nesseccary, unless you expect everyone to know how to build Docbook and whatever other obscure formats.) -- David Starner - [EMAI

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:39:10AM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > (by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post > display completely on your screen ?) Here it does. The message I got was properly labeled as ISO-8859-1, too. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PRO

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:01:12AM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 20:32, David Starner wrote: > > > is enm_UK (assuming that the locale system uses 3 character codes > > where a 2 character one is not available), not en_UK. > > hey, i&

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David Starner
poor? I don't think so. I understood perfectly what you meant. > english is _also_ how the americans call their language, but > i think it was called english even before Colombo, right? It's en_UK, btw. And the locale code for pre-Columbus English is enm_UK (assuming that the local

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-13 Thread David Starner
of the system, and that English is LC_MESSAGES=C, not LC_MESSAGES=en_UK. If we're changing this for GDM, it'd be better for GDM to call English C or en_US, so there's no changes. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care i

Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like "tail -f", but works on truncated files, directories, more

2001-09-07 Thread David Starner
PROTECTED]:~]$ > > > 417 (!) > > It hardly convinces me. And? If that's what the upstream wants, I hardly see reason enough to change it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has

Re: Fonts working "out of the box"

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:14:26PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > One worry I have, is that we don't really want Debian to have a > large number of 'junk' fonts. Which may be a bit panicy on my part. The same thing could happen with themes, yet we don't have a problem w

Re: Fonts working "out of the box"

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
{ 0x201C, 0x201E }, { 0x2020, 0x2022 }, { 0x2026, 0x2026 }, { 0x2030, 0x2030 }, { 0x2039, 0x203A }, { 0x20AC, 0x20AC }, { 0x2122, 0x2122 } }; -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-06 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:37:02AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > So, lets fix one problem by creating another problem! ECN isn't there > anymore! So? Neither is a lot of options. You can recompile a kernel just as well as anyone else. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless we

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-05 Thread David Starner
n was rude. But the fact that grisu's emails are sometimes hard to understand has been a stumbling block for me; it would certainly help to get a translator/editor for the full blown proposals. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't car

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-05 Thread David Starner
n is to encourage developers to offer to make a NMU rather than just let bugs set. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: ddts: notification about pt_BR-translation of the hello-debhelper description

2001-09-04 Thread David Starner
re many discussions on the ramifactions. Anyway, grisu is offering working code. There is no working dpkg solution, nor consensus that a dpkg solution would be better. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread David Starner
policy and interpretation > differ aren't we supposed to change one of them? Because it's a very minor deviation from policy. Policy wasn't meant to be chains; it's meant to be a way for us to build a consistent well-designed OS. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointl

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread David Starner
.gen file; heck, SUPPORTED doesn't even include half my locales (mainly UTF-8). How does making it a conffile hurt things again? (locale.gen attached as an extreme example that needs to be supported.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread David Starner
GE=xo:eo_EO:de_DE:en date -h date: Ungültige Option -- »h« Mit `date --help' bekommen Sie mehr Informationen. ~ $ -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-01 Thread David Starner
ons will break something, and so should be shunned." -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: dhelp and kdict: conflicting directories?

2001-05-10 Thread David Starner
uter, I just wanted to make sure that we had our directories straight. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
27;t care about that - I can't think of a time where it would actually matter - then you could just use es_ES.ISO-8859-15 -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:08:42PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El 09 May 2001 13:51:15 -0500, David Starner escribió: > > Yep. If you go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/, there's a number of files > > with locales listed in them. Add [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PR

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
g /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-15/Compose, which specifices compose+C+=, compose+=+C, compose+e+=, and compose+E+= as the compose keys for the Euro. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
so8859-15 rxvt. That doesn't make it right; in particular, any decent mailer will display it as currency characater, and display an iso8859-15-tagged text with the same byte stream with a Euro, and be able to handle a UTF-8 email with both of them. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Point

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
s and display just about everything. (You may have to switch to a UTF-8 locale; I don't know, I just always run in one.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread David Starner
ree having a few ISO-8859-15 fonts. Any TrueType font server will be able to provide ISO-8859-15 fonts, and you can probably find a few on the web. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread David Starner
ulate that; Unix needs a reasonable sort order that works for a shell and keeps an alphabetic order people (of that language) would consider reasonable. If sorting the dots in made more people happy than not, it would be good, but most of us seem to not care in most sorting situations, except the s

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server > > written in python. > > > >

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
ith one module. If you send a more detailed description to debian-legal, I'm sure we can give advice. If it's just Python, I'd say "with the exception that it can be linked with Python". The LGPL is about the same as your current license, but a lot clearer. -- David Starner -

Re: problems with atari800

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:40:24PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Anyone have any idea what the chances are of getting Atari to release some > of this stuff into the public domain? It'd be Hasbro now, and from what I've heard, not great. Still might be worth a try. -- David

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-29 Thread David Starner
-essential packages are listed in the build-essential package, it's easy to check if you aren't sure. * The essentials list is a little old, and it includes ldso and update, which apparently aren't build-essential anymore. Bug-report time . . . -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ITP: ghfaxviewer - the GNU HaliFAX Viewer

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
> Don't CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when mailing debian-devel. Instead, mail [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > only and put 'X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the headers. Whatever happened to just leaving debian-devel out of it and using debian-wnpp? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fortunes-atheist copyright again (would be FW: Re: copyright)

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
. If you feel you need a CYA license, use the BSD one; the GNU one makes a lot of distinctions that are absurd in these conditions. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
libraries, at the cost of depending on those libraries, which many of my users may be using anyway, I'll pick the second. My time is far more important than saving memory - my two-year-old computer has 128 MB - what's an extra 4MB of shared libraries. -- David Starner

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Starner
o break stuff manually configuring your kernel instead of going apt-get install kernel-2.8.88-i686. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread David Starner
e. But I haven't, even for a speed-up that maybe as big as what the kernel will give you, and I would reckon that most of the other people that had the libc-i[56]86 packages installed haven't either. It's analogous to the kernel problem. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poi

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:12:45AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:47:22AM -0700, erik wrote: > > I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the > > unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last > > straw B

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
e KDE in a matter of what, a week?). You sounded like some wild-eyed fanatic, not someone pointing out a real problem and discussing solutions. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in spa

New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-12 Thread David Starner
I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check, checkmp3, or all the above? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-12 Thread David Starner
;fixed" events in the Jewish calendar. > > > >Julian > > And events in the Wicca 'calendar' are based on the solstices and > equinoxes and would not be fixed either. Instead of doing this every year, why not write small programs to generate a new Wicca

Re: gettextized console-apt

2000-09-11 Thread David Starner
bugreport. http://bugs.debian.org has complete instructions on how to do that, or you can run bug if it is installed. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning.

Re: ITP: Sword, GnomeSword

2000-09-09 Thread David Starner
hat downloads them & installs them. (Or > both.) If the program needs one to run, then at least one should be packaged. I'd prefer not to see a lot of installers that download free software - the one's that download non-free stuff are annoying and cause enough problems as it is. -

Re: ITP enhydra

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
would want to regenerate them, not edit the > unwieldy auto-generated code. Then it could go into contrib. It's free, but depends on something outside of Debian to build. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org I knew all of the floors in my high school, and none of

Re: ITP lame

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
t. > We have pandora for that, and I remember Wichert agreed to this use. > What still needs to be done to have a debian section for software > covered by software patents? The problem is not "patents", it's that this particular patent also applies in Germany, meaning we ca

Re: build question

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
nstable libraries. If you want to build them so that potato users can use them, do so and store them in a directory on master or a private machine and tell people how to get them. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:21:02AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:05:27PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > > > I guess RevKrusty may want to put his packages into Debian? > > > > > > He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it w

Re: Qt2.2 released under the GPL

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
hed over to the GTK plugin, not because it looked better (because it doesn't), but because QT is 5 MB in memory, more than GTK + Glib + Gnome libs. At least we can stop the idelogical arguments. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-05 Thread David Starner
er science lab. Regularly too, I might add. I take it this is LART-worthy incident, as I don't think I can load my .xsession in under 6 seconds. Since *dm requires you get a username and password (bwahaahaa!), use it. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was sta

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
didn't see if it was installed. I was wondering what happened to it? It didn't appear in the archives, it wasn't moved to REJECT or DONE, it just disappeared. I was wondering if there was some long flame war on debian-private that I was missing. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Beware helix packages) Re: [CrackMonkey] The right to bare legs

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > packages into unstable. Helix is too stable for unstable, and too unstable > for stable. Not exactly true, as Helix Gnome is usually more cutting-edge than unstable Gnome. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

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