Re: [gNewSense-users] vrms

[Karl Goetz]

Andrew Wigglesworth wrote:
> On Monday 06 November 2006 22:13, Vim Visual wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > there are a couple of things I don't understand
> >
> > 1- why is the kernel 2.6.15? (is 2.6.18.2 by now)

because we are using ubuntu dapper as codebase, which has a .15 kernel.

> > 2- why not having the latest vim (7.0)?

see above.

> > 3- OpenOffice is also a bit outdated and many other packages

see above.

> > A package I would include per default is vrms. It's the perfect tool
> > to find ou how many packages are free or not in your box (Virtual
> > Richard M Stallman)

yeh, i wouldnt argue actually, but on a free system it seems redundant ;)

> > I would suggest that the project includes it and that it is launched
> > automatically from time to time as a kind of pop-up window (with the
> > option "i don't want any notifications in the future" vailable, not to
> > annoy people)

i will argue this until you kill me off.
poping up windows for no good reason is annoying, and in this case 
blatantly unneeded. vrms emails you a report every month out of the box 
(which wont work on ubuntu and i assume gns because of a broken mail 
server).

> >
Trim a bit.

> How accurate is vms though?
>
> I've just run it on my installation of gNewSense and this was the result:
>
> =============================
> address@hidden:~$ vrms
> vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1231!
>              pkg=[emacs], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[]
>                Non-free packages installed on vostok
>
> ttf-gentium               Gentium TrueType font
>
>   1 non-free packages, 0.1% of 1266 installed packages.
>
> ===============================

I had the same error, but i dont know what causes it (i didn't 
investigate or file a real bug at the time).

as for finding ttf-gentium, thats a bug thats been filed in ubuntu+debian.
in the last few days an email went to debian-mentors asking for someone 
to upload an updated package, but not sure if it fixes this bug.
kk

> I've just checked and according to:
>
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
>
> Gentium is released under the  SIL Open Font License, which is fine according 
> to the FSF.
>
> I don't know what the "Badly formed dpkg-status entry" means for emacs though?  
> I uninstalled emacs and the message went away, reinstalled and it came back 
> again.

somethign messed up there... bug report material.

>

link to changes.
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/debian/vrms_1.12_i386.changes

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Karl Goetz
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