Re: Question on automatic migration of Debian packages into Ubuntu

2009-06-03 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David MENTRE dmen...@linux-france.org wrote: Hello Onkar, Many thanks for you detailed explanations. It is much clearer now. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:05, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: If you wish that graphviz should be built against latest ocaml

Re: Adaptation of ocaml_transition_monitor to Ubuntu

2009-06-03 Thread David MENTRE
Hello Stéphane, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 13:23, Stéphane Glondu st...@glondu.net wrote: What about waiting for OCaml 3.11.1 (it looks like it will be out soon), and doing the transition at the same time in Debian and Ubuntu (so that we solve problems for 3.11.1 once and for all)? I don't know.

Re: On apturls and repositories

2009-06-03 Thread Andrew Sayers
Assessment of PPAs sounds to me like peer review. That would be a big job to implement, but IMHO benefits would go far beyond a web of trust. Of course, I'm not volunteering to do it :) - Andrew -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Derek Broughton
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Derek Broughton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: You've completely missed what the whole thread is about. The age old and faulty convention is base2 for space and file sizes. That is what the Ubuntu team wants to get rid of. But thanks for supporting my

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/6/3 Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk: Now that you have yelled till you are blue in the face about disk manufacturers using proper SI units and therefore we should although file and filesystem space are still being calculated in base2 units...may I ask how you

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Matthew East
Christopher, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: You're nuts. ... What on earth is wrong with you people? ... Geez. Your interventions on this thread have been unnecessarily aggressive and, at times, personal. Please have a read of the

Re: Issues with pycaml in Karmic (was: Re: Adaptation of ocaml_transition_monitor to Ubuntu)

2009-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
David MENTRE wrote: Hello Dmitrijs, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 15:23, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Not an expert nor a DD nor anything in Ubuntu. But this could be either a gcc4.4 transition/bug or a python2.6 et al bug. Does exactly this package compile fine in Sid

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Christopher Chan
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Ok can we at least fix applications to use Ki Mi etc prefixes when they are counting in base 2? That might actually be the best for now if there is not going to be any public fanfare about Ubuntu taking the lead in returning to standards and dropping convention.

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Jones
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Max Bowsher m...@f2s.com wrote: Mike Jones wrote: Do we have agreement that the correct prefixs for units that are counted in powers of two are kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and so on? Not really, no. Some of us, myself included, are somewhat annoyed at

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Christopher Chan
Mike Jones wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Max Bowsher m...@f2s.com mailto:m...@f2s.com wrote: Mike Jones wrote: Do we have agreement that the correct prefixs for units that are counted in powers of two are kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and so on? Not really, no.

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Evan
I have been hesitant to add my voice to this discussion thus far, but I think there has been some confusion as to what we are debating. There are really two entirely separate issues at stake, and it would be nice to clarify them. The first issue is how various things such as disk space should be

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Christopher Chan
Evan wrote: I have been hesitant to add my voice to this discussion thus far, but I think there has been some confusion as to what we are debating. There are really two entirely separate issues at stake, and it would be nice to clarify them. The first issue is how various things such as