WARNING: xmkmf/imake broken in xutils 4.1.0-12

2002-01-12 Thread Branden Robinson
this directory, or uses it). Unfortunately, only half of the moving took place. I'll roll new packages ASAP. -- G. Branden Robinson| I had thought very carefully about Debian GNU/Linux | comitting hara-kiri over this, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I

Warning to Debian Developers regarding BitKeeper

2002-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
to the requirements of the BitKeeper license are legitimate, valid, or enforceable in any particular jurisdiction. If you are concerned about this issue, please retain counsel. -- G. Branden Robinson|A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux |good idea, because

BitKeeper license not just a theoretical problem

2002-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson|The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux |when they take over a country is to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks

announcing the Debian X Strike Force Subversion repository

2003-06-03 Thread Branden Robinson
other things, understands X-TT better than I ever will; Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, IPv6 integration support specialist; Juliusz Chroboczek, font technologist extraordinaire; Joel Baker, Debian/*BSD assimilator; Branden Robinson, integrator and release

[RESULTS] SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
-legal-200308/msg01214.html [3] http://www.debian.org/social_contract -- G. Branden Robinson|Ambition: an overmastering desire Debian GNU/Linux |to be vilified by enemies while [EMAIL PROTECTED] |living and ridiculed by friends http

announcing public access to X Strike Force SVN repositories

2003-12-12 Thread Branden Robinson
to read Branden's tutorial: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/~branden/svn_pres/top.html If you have more time, a comprehensive manual, written by Subversion's developers, is also available: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ -- G. Branden Robinson| Why do we have to hide from

Italian translation of my DPL platform available

2004-03-04 Thread Branden Robinson
are remaining anonymous for the time being. You know who you are, and you're very kind. Spelling errors are probably the translators' responsibility, but objectionable content is probably mine, so if you have feedback, please raise it on the debian-vote list. :) -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread Branden Robinson
is not well defined. To a certain extent it's not defined at all. I think that's a reckless assertion. In any case, judging by what's already in the distribution, research computing software seems to be fairly distinct from everything else. -- G. Branden Robinson | Reality is what

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Branden Robinson
change soon. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Murphy's Guide to Science: Purdue University | If it's green or squirms, it's biology. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If it stinks, it's chemistry. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | If it doesn't work, it's

Re: Constitution, and SPI section s.9

1998-06-22 Thread Branden Robinson
. Asked? If what Dale says is correct, and I believe it is, you don't have to ask. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | Exercise your freedom of religion. Set [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fire to a church of your choice. http

Re: X-tended input

1998-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:33:13PM +1000, Chris wrote: Where are the extended input modules for X in hamm? I mean the files that lived in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules with bo, like xf86Wacom.so? xext -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | The noble soul

Re: automating the Intents to package was Re: Please follow protocol when you announce your Intents to package

1998-06-25 Thread Branden Robinson
Zone cafeteria, where task after task is getting piled on his tray... :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | The software said it required Windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 3.1 or better, so I installed Linux. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu

Re: X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Branden Robinson
and md5sum of the xbase 3.3.2.2-1 .deb are: 2167928 cea2e2b7047fb37bcbc51342bb714b29 -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | The noble soul has reverence for itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: X is not working after the upgrade

1998-06-26 Thread Branden Robinson
the correct size of xinit, or the other file which could be responsible for this problem, so that I can verify it. If /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc exists, delete it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | kernel panic -- causal failure [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What's a suitable terminal type for xvt?

1998-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
. -- G. Branden Robinson |One man's magic is another man's Purdue University |engineering. Supernatural is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |null word. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Robert Heinlein pgpRpZEk7v9WU.pgp Description: PGP

Re: X window logo

1998-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
to do it for your own machine(s), there's nothing to stop you. -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are venerable Purdue University | because they are more fruitful than the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | truths of little men. http

Re: Bugs with X

1998-10-16 Thread Branden Robinson
figure out how. -- G. Branden Robinson | Never underestimate the power of human Debian GNU/Linux| stupidity. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- Robert Heinlein http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpraPbH8QMqG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:25:57AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Jstk.so I have always gotten this error. I don't know how to fix it, but it doesn't seem to hurt anyone

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:02:15AM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:25:57AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information usr/X11R6

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
(and thus startx) from xserver-common to xbase-clients, so this no longer necessary. Nothing in xserver-common depends on the X libraries, which was the original intent of the package. XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v4 is available at http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ . -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: agreeing with the DFSG (was Re: non-free -- non-dfsg)

1999-01-21 Thread Branden Robinson
ha. :-P If you reply to this mail, I cannot guarantee a response in kind. -- G. Branden Robinson |It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux |emacs is always overkill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Stephen J. Carpenter cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu

the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-22 Thread Branden Robinson
that their contents do change in the future. -- G. Branden Robinson |I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux |above, but it is too long to fit into [EMAIL PROTECTED] |this .signature file. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpUOwUrQMK6I.pgp

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-22 Thread Branden Robinson
alternative ideas. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | The noble soul has reverence for itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpwaJvcmOBnh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-24 Thread Branden Robinson
if I removed the Provides: but left the other two? How about the Conflicts:? -- G. Branden Robinson |Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux |Biology is really chemistry. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Chemistry is really physics

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-24 Thread Branden Robinson
it as a direct result of issues raised by the reorg. -- G. Branden Robinson | I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux | confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-25 Thread Branden Robinson
to the point where someone else will do it if I don't, then I will do it. I'd still rather we explored alternatives. -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cut with axe

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 12:59:00PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: Yes, but if it gets to the point where someone else will do it if I don't, then I will do it. I'd still rather we explored alternatives. I think it got to that point. Well

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
it without some more cause to do so. -- G. Branden Robinson |Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux |of truth than lies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Friedrich Nietzsche cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpZYWSzabHyb.pgp Description

Re: Release notes for slink

1999-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
is back in xbase-clients. I'm getting ready to release -9. -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when you Debian GNU/Linux | pry it from my cold, dead brain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Adam Thornton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Branden Robinson
in xserver-common once it's ready for prime time. -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are venerable Debian GNU/Linux | because they are more fruitful than the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | truths of little men. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
but indulge in arrogant condescention. Such tactics are not how mature people settle technical disputes. * (From Branden Robinson) Ok, don't worry, I think I should be the one to do it, since I'm the X maintainer. Barring a better solution, I will be the one to do this. The xbase dummy package

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
for installation if the corresponding oldpackage is not present. Thanks. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If God had intended for man to go about [EMAIL PROTECTED] | naked, we would have been born that way. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what you think. They're yours. God save us. -- G. Branden Robinson | You can

XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

1999-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
changelog, look at the many bug reports that are referenced, and attempt to confirm the fixes. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |// // // / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
. It *was* a joke, you know. And people who'd like to fix bugs in XFree86 are most cordially invited to submit working, tested patches to fix them. -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god that Debian GNU/Linux | behaves any better than a spoiled child

Re: Intent to package : xmem

1999-01-29 Thread Branden Robinson
, or is it its own thing? As far as I know, there aren't any X clients in the X sources that I don't ship (with the exception of xdmshell). -- G. Branden Robinson | If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux | thinking, they'll love you; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stupid stats (was Re: xfree86_3.3.2.3a-9 (source i386 all) uploaded to master)

1999-01-31 Thread Branden Robinson
-- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will @goH7OjBd7*dnfk=q4fDj]Kz?. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpg3kd2DT50o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:54:20AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change. [41] (Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]) xdm 29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking [77] (Branden Robinson [EMAIL

Re: Bug#29166: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Branden Robinson
solved by making xbase a pseudo-package), but with the font package name changes. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |kernel panic -- causal failure [EMAIL PROTECTED] |universe will now reboot cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |

Re: PROPOSAL: preparation for freezes, release coordination

1999-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson
of xdm and the X server. The X server might be straightforward, but apparently there are deficiencies in the design of xdm as far as good PAM support is concerned. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux | know that music

Re: xfonts-package-name

1999-05-10 Thread Branden Robinson
should go ahead and get some policy in place, however, for font packages that are packaged in the future. -- G. Branden Robinson |Damnit, we're all going to die; let's Debian GNU/Linux |die doing something *useful*! [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Hal

Re: Current problems with libc6_2.1.1-2

1999-05-10 Thread Branden Robinson
been tracking potato pretty closely. -- G. Branden Robinson |Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux |I met a man who wasn't there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |He wasn't there again today, cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |I think

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Branden Robinson
versions of my potato XFree86 packages available at http://www.netgod.net/x/. -- G. Branden Robinson |Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux |I met a man who wasn't there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |He wasn't there again today

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: xfntbig I put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger, cackling with glee. Package: xfonts-cjk Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 2467 Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-18 Thread Branden Robinson
developer spamming people who, say, have had bugs open for over a year. Such people have (rightly) come under fire in the past. It's time to do away with grandfather clauses. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux | know

Re: gpm problems in potato

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
xfree86-common package (3.3.3.1-3). -- G. Branden Robinson |There's nothing an agnostic can't do Debian GNU/Linux |if he doesn't know whether he believes [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in it or not. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Graham Chapman

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
. There is no way I will ever forget. -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when you Debian GNU/Linux | pry it from my cold, dead brain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Adam Thornton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpzOpZmTsldO.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
of code is seen from them. It is impossible, IMO, that you can't engage in this endeavor without learning a lot, and likewise so will the people who see your code. So, Godspeed. I look forward to hearing about your progress. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no gravity in space

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
to that. -- G. Branden Robinson |Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux |I met a man who wasn't there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |He wasn't there again today, cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |I think he's from the CIA

Re: time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
can provide for your arguments is to redesign and reimplement the Debian packaging system yourself (or with people you recruit to the task). So get to work. If you reply to this message, do not be surprised if I don't to yours. -- G. Branden Robinson |A committee is a life form

Re: Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
and packaged before I release -5 (probably next week), that may have the fix. This bug did not crop up in slink/stable because GNU gcc was still the standard compiler at that point (I think -- my memory can't hold anything prior to about 2 previous Debian X releases :) ). -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:40:44PM -0500, David Starner wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: There is apparently an egcs optimization bug that miscompiles a few object files that are included in the X libraries. Could you just compile those object files with optimization off? Yes

Re: [ITP] xfonts-jmk-charcell

1999-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bill Clinton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpWYeYjIYt5E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Intent to package: gtk-doc

1999-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: Maybe keep the source called gtk-doc and call the binary gtk-doc-tools... Suggestions welcome. That sounds good to me, so there's one vote in favor of it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: ...])

1999-09-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:57:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:12:44PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: No, I knew what the rationale was and I don't agree with it one bit. In short, their rationale is wrong and we're repeating the mistake. Well, I'm glad

Re: warning: update-menus may thrash system

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
into fixing this as soon as I can, but you might want to put menu on hold over the weekend. Yes, I noticed this and howled loudly on IRC about it. See attachment. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny that Debian GNU/Linux | reading

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
-compliance and this for -2). -- G. Branden Robinson | It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux | screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on the pavement, where used to lie the cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | carcass

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
of following the list. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |If existence exists, [EMAIL PROTECTED] |why create a creator? cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpjGqWW2OJJA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2). Err, can you please wait for this until a) debconf has

Red Hat XFree86 security update

1999-09-20 Thread Branden Robinson
User-Agent: Mutt/1.0pre2i Hi Preston, In Red Hat's recent announcement, there is the following text: Thanks go to Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] for discovering a possible symlink attack in the xkb extension initialization at server startup time. I appreciate the mention, but I cannot claim

Re: static user IDs

1999-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
I nominate this guy for Debian's Most Promising Newcomer Award. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Because we use vi, son. They use cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-23 Thread Branden Robinson
. The marker file used to generate this can also be viewed: http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.coords Hmm. I get a 404 on this. Great work, thanks to everyone responsible for this, it is cool. We probably should whack the old xearth stuff from the site now. -- G. Branden Robinson

possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Branden Robinson
apocalypse ~ ls -dl /usr/bin/perl-5.005 -rw--- 1 root root 534844 Aug 19 04:29 /usr/bin/perl-5.005 -- G. Branden Robinson | I came, I saw, she conquered. The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
with a receiver even 10 feet away. But the airlines don't expect flight attendants to comprehend such things and don't have to, since their passengers don't raise enough fuss to get the policy changed. As portable computing devices become ever more ubiquitous, this may change. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
, on the other hand... -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] |with remaining eye. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpiv2fqJar7l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
if something that can do the job is already present? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bill Clinton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgprrIapNJF5t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
() { grep -i ^$1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab; } -- G. Branden Robinson | Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Because we use vi, son. They use cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | emacs

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:04:46PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:57:31PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: Mind you, I'm not cheering for the FCC here -- in fact that I think their restrictions on output power for private radio transmitters are hideously excessive

Re: [RHSA-1999:035-02] Updated XFree86 3.3.5 packages available

1999-09-28 Thread Branden Robinson
announcement, there is the following text: Thanks go to Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] for discovering a possible symlink attack in the xkb extension initialization at server startup time. I appreciate the mention, but I cannot claim credit for having discovered this vulnerability

Re: ITP: actx

1999-10-02 Thread Branden Robinson
a window sitter is. I think I'm up on my jargon, but I don't know what you're talking about here. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux | then believe; if you wish to be a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | devotee of truth

Re: recompile needed for xlib6g (= 3.3.5-1) instead of (= 3.3.2.3a-2) ?

1999-10-06 Thread Branden Robinson
of the potato libraries shortly before the potato freeze? Mixed slink/potato systems are temporary things. Potato will be around for a long time. So let us please make it internally consistent. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Consistant Keyboard Configuration (was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
people should be assiduous about filing bugs against the KDE packages. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will happen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bob Church roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: Packages to remove from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
of their connection? SSH doesn't tell me the key length of connections *except* in this one case--which is not consistent, and which is not unambiguously *right* behavior. I disagree with your analysis, but nevertheless... Use the Source, Luke. Quit whining and start coding. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:19:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: As I understand it, pdftotext is a new tool available in 5.5 but not 5.0. AFAIK pdftotext is included in xpdf - it's not part of gs 5.5. The differences

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:59:01AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: Eh? There would be no real code changes at all. As I understand it, the license on 5.5 is all that has changed. So why not move it from non-free to main for potato? The Release

So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's patches, #130 or #131, is probably the culprit since I think these are the only two changes that happened to the xterm sources between 3.9.18 and 4.0. -- G. Branden Robinson|Men use thought only to justify their Debian

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
Today's news flash: omitted words can really change the meaning of a sentence. On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: They're not available yet, so I am sending this message to apprise Debian users my fellow developers of the situation. ...users AND my fellow

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
basically deep in the guts of it right now, figuring out how I need to break it up for packaging. -- G. Branden Robinson| I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Debian GNU/Linux | for malicious intent is nothing more [EMAIL PROTECTED] | than sheer

Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
sensibly on details of what the final packages will look like. -- G. Branden Robinson|The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux |is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Oscar Wilde roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpzN0zGoQNCy.pgp

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
see that xega is not even in the archive now.) I still have an old DOS game called EGATREK lying around someplace. I sure would like to play it again sometime. I wonder if dosemu can give you ega graphics in an X window? :) -- G. Branden Robinson|Human beings rarely imagine

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
-defaults. I remember that me being against something actually serves to you as an endorsements to do it, Heh heh heh heh heh heh... -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that he is Debian GNU/Linux |half an animal is only half a man. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
what has broken. So, Dark, what should I do? Let's boycott the fuckers! Drop the package and swear to never support Real until they discard their patents and free their software! G! P! L! G! P! L! CHAGE! -- G. Branden Robinson|I just wanted to see what

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
proposal incorporating your suggestions. -- G. Branden Robinson| I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux | confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpv5mHi93o7V.pgp

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
internationalization of computer software to mean -- it makes localization transparent and possible. -- G. Branden Robinson|Men use thought only to justify their Debian GNU/Linux |wrong doings, and speech only to conceal [EMAIL PROTECTED] |their thoughts

Re: xfs question

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Like Unix shell login sessions, which are customized by a file like Like the Unix filesystem, windows in X are laid out like a tree with a FontPath unix/:7100 Yup. I sometimes wonder why I bother maintaining that FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Branden Robinson| If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux | thinking, they'll love you; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | but if you really

Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
seems to be a `wild beast'. Tom Dickey is also the upstream xterm maintainer. He and I have exchanged mails several times over the past couple of years. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will happen

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
to -devel-announce or -announce. -- G. Branden Robinson|Murphy's Guide to Science: Debian GNU/Linux |If it's green or squirms, it's biology. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If it stinks, it's chemistry. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |If it doesn't work, it's physics

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato - potato)

2000-03-22 Thread Branden Robinson
environment variable. [1] /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz -- G. Branden Robinson|It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux |screaming mob pounding on a greasy spot [EMAIL PROTECTED] |on the pavement, where used to lie

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
-- this affects every Debian user in the world, and most of the world isn't France. I guess some people take the figurative expression lingua franca too literally. :) -- G. Branden Robinson|Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux |computer science

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
recent XFree86 packages. Potato will ship without it. -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that he is Debian GNU/Linux |half an animal is only half a man. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Thornton Wilder roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
been bugfixes. I'm sorry if you've grown attached to some of X11R5's bugs. Please keep replies out of my personal mailbox. I read the lists. -- G. Branden Robinson| Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux | of truth than lies. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
be enabled. The default is ``true.'' -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Russian saying roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpqJWcVx3zVE.pgp Description

Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing Obsolete package base kills a system)

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:53:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Yes, because Santiago Vila doesn't want it and because it looks like a crude hack. There is no correlation there. Or if there is, it is a negative one. -- G. Branden Robinson| If a man ate a pound of pasta

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
Depends: vim Conflicts: nvi, emacsen and leaves everything else the same. You can only achieve fairly petty vadalism with this, but it would still be nice to avoid it, IMO. What a deliciously evil idea. -- G. Branden Robinson|Reality is what refuses to go away when Debian GNU

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
and window managers are different things. See the Debian X FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson|You don't just decide to break Kubrick's Debian GNU/Linux |code of silence and then get drawn away [EMAIL PROTECTED] |from it to a discussion about cough

Re: ITP: tinydns and dnscache

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
for running tinydns). Since the letters djb appear here, I guess it goes without saying that these will have to go in non-free, but please mention the license when posting ITP's. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux

Re: woody mutt users, please read

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:38:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: You have to change all lists commands in your ~/.muttrc in subscribe. I have both. Do you mean I can get rid of lists altogether? Last time I read the docs, they appeared to do slightly different things. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: keyring-maint@debian.org

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson|It's not a matter of alienating authors. Debian GNU/Linux |They have every right to license their [EMAIL PROTECTED] |software however we like. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Craig Sanders, in debian-devel pgplftmyZQTZm.pgp

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
installed). Also in the 0.0.4a version a split screen view with package details and a key help menu is missing. It would really suck to ship without a help screen. Dark might be persuaded to let in such a documentation-only revision. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux

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