Re: Bug#285396: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2005-01-24 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to -arm; please keep the bug number in your followups if you'd like me to see them.] On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:03:59PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:37 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Here are his remarks, recast a bit from

Re: Bug#285396: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2005-01-20 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-arm.] On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:03:59PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:37 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Here are his remarks, recast a bit from IRC-speak into something more > > conventional. > > > > GC

Re: Bug#285396: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2005-01-11 Thread Branden Robinson
ce team on this issue. I'm also curious to know if xterm has always had this problem on Debian ARM, or if it has cropped up only with recent revisions of GCC. Can anyone tell me? For further background, please see the logs of this bug at: http://bugs.debian.org/285396 -- G. Branden Robins

Re: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2004-12-31 Thread Branden Robinson
s. Can someone patiently explain to me why there's no way this could possibly be construed as an ABI change? -- G. Branden Robinson| It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

please build xfree86 4.3.0-0pre1v5 and upload it to experimental

2004-01-14 Thread Branden Robinson
there are any problems/questions/etc. (You can use the following URL to check on 4.3.0's TODO list: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/branches/4.3.0/sid/debian/TODO?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=HEAD ) -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: please build XFree86 4.3.0 for experimental

2003-10-31 Thread Branden Robinson
r people to be spuriously shown dpkg's changed-conffile prompt dozens of times when upgrading from versions of xlibs prior to 4.3.0. - debian/control -0pre1v5 isn't released yet, but the above change has already been made. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Li

Bug#216044: package maintainer concurs

2003-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #216044 [remove xft2 package from sarge/sid] I concur with this request. As LaMont Jones pointed out to me on IRC, the continued existence of libxft2-dev in unstable is causing bustage. http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=xawtv&ver=

please build XFree86 4.3.0 for experimental

2003-10-07 Thread Branden Robinson
ree86 4.3.0 as far as I can tell. * s390 has never tried to build XFree86 4.3.0 as far as I can tell. If you have any questions or experience any problems, please contact the debian-x mailing list. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 173 - trunk/debian]

2003-06-11 Thread Branden Robinson
tt_drv, libafb, + imstt manpage +- start shipping more things that are built for this arch: nv_drv, s3_drv, + calcomp_drv, dmc_drv, hyperpen_drv, penmount_drv, dmc manpage, nv + manpage, penmount manpage +- tdfx driver name corrected to tdfx_drv - -- Branden Robinson <[EMAIL P

Re: please requeue xfree86 for the buildd

2003-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:51:43PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:07:05AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > XFree86 was last attempted on February 26th. > > > > It failed to build because one of its build-deps wasn't yet up-to-date: >

please requeue xfree86 for the buildd

2003-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Would someone please re-queue XFree86 4.2.1-6 for autobuilding on ARM? -- G. Branden Robinson| When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROT

please sign/upload successful autobuild of XFree86 4.2.1-3

2002-10-27 Thread Branden Robinson
scrubbing parts of the build tree before the build finishes, or some other ugly kludge. -- G. Branden Robinson|I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux |not know that music is a higher [EMAIL PROTECTED] |revelation than all

please re-queue xfree86 4.2.1-2 for autobuilding

2002-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please CC me; I do not subscribe to these lists.] These builds failed due to exhausted disk space. Please let me know if all of the buildds for your arch lack sufficient space to autobuild XFree86. http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=xfree86 -- G. Branden Robinson| De

Re: patch for arm link failure & MANIFEST problem

2002-10-04 Thread Branden Robinson
ropped, etc? Yes, this is what happens when translations get out of date. Not much I can do but hope that people send me new ones. -- G. Branden Robinson| It just seems to me that you are Debian GNU/Linux | willfully entering an arse-kicking [EMAIL PRO

Re: xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v2 (source,alpha,i386,hppa,powerpc,sparc) available at the X Strike Force

2002-10-02 Thread Branden Robinson
n of 4.2.1-0pre1v2 with this patch for ia64 and stick it up at the XSF. All right, ARM guys, how about it? -- G. Branden Robinson|If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux |thinking, they'll love you; but if [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v2 (source,alpha,i386,hppa,powerpc,sparc) available at the X Strike Force

2002-10-01 Thread Branden Robinson
p" flags in $DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS - explicitly tell dh_strip to strip the modules in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/{drivers,input} * debian/xserver-xfree86.config.in: tweak validation of BusID specifications to permit exactly one to three digits in each field of a PCI bus spec -

xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v1 (mips,mipsel,m68k,powerpc,sh4) available at the X Strike Force

2002-09-17 Thread Branden Robinson
eep out of the S/390 guys, who haven't built any of my 4.2.x pre-releases. Come on, guys, spare X a few cycles on those big time-shares, will ya? ;-) -- G. Branden Robinson|I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux |above, but it is to

Re: xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v1 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
roceed to completion despite MANIFEST differences. Please let the debian-x list know if anything other than the imstt driver or its manpage is a difference between debian/MANIFEST.$(ARCH) and debian/MANIFEST.$(ARCH).new. -- G. Branden Robinson| Never attribute to malice that Debi

please build XFree86 4.2.0-0pre1v3

2002-08-27 Thread Branden Robinson
an proceed with better information. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux |Yeah, that's what Jesus would do. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpCVFggHbr7s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Why does anyone need to read megabytes of urandom? Nobody does. Or, at least, xdm doesn't. Markus is opining without the benefit of having checked the facts. -- G. Branden Robinson| What influenc

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this.. > > > > I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Branden Robinson
idea this > really is, to show upstream the error of their ways. Well, I hadn't reached that conclusion a priori. > I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this.. I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Branden Robinson
uch all modern UNIX platforms? > > *shudder* I see you haven't read the thread. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpWdYAQuxvpA.pgp Description: PGP signature

a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Branden Robinson
t;fragile" helps it 4) if scenario 3) causes problems, what the last line of output was Remember, this program must be run as root. If normal users can read from /dev/mem on your machine, you're in trouble. :) -- G. Branden Robinson| No math genius,

Re: Bug#107311: xdm: crashes inside a select() on remote XDMCP connection

2002-08-14 Thread Branden Robinson
'll check this out. If you've found the problem, you rock. :) -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He [EMAIL PROTECTED] | makes us suffer Christianity. http://peo

XFree86 4.2.0-0pre1v1 available for Alpha and ARM

2002-08-04 Thread Branden Robinson
/ -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Extra territorium jus dicenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] | impune non paretur. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpfy9xIjeS2Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#143534: Build failure of python-opengl on arm

2002-04-22 Thread Branden Robinson
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc python-gnome |1.4.2-3 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Er, well, I guess python-gnome was taken care of by someone manually. -- G. Branden Robinson|A committee is a life form wi

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-15pre16v1 available for testing

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:09:14PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 18:17, Branden Robinson wrote: > >* patch #068: treat errno of ENODEV as non-fatal when trying to access > > I/O > > ports; based on a patch by Philip Blundell (Closes: #1413

XFree86 4.1.0-15pre16v1 available for testing

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
/ Source: xfree86 Version: 4.1.0-15pre16v1 Urgency: high Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Closes: 136615 136937 138325 141116 141357 141412 141413 141415 141636 Changes: xfree86 (4.1.0-15pre16v1) unstable; urgency=high . * patch #065: updated comments to point to Debian m

build wanted of ctwm 3.5.2-5

2002-03-10 Thread Branden Robinson
* ctwm (3.5.2-4 to 3.5.2-5) + Maintainer: Branden Robinson + 13 days old (needed 10 days) + out of date on arm: ctwm (from 3.5.2-4) + Not considered According to buildd.debian.org, this package was successfully built on Feb 24 21:35. Does someone just

xfree86v3 not autobuilding

2002-03-06 Thread Branden Robinson
their lists for building (I don't think they do), it can safely be removed. -- G. Branden Robinson| No math genius, eh? Then perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | you could explain to me where you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | got these... PENROSE

please resubmit gengameng to your buildd

2002-01-13 Thread Branden Robinson
build. -- G. Branden Robinson|You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian GNU/Linux |you pry it from my cold, dead [EMAIL PROTECTED] |brain. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Adam Thornton pgpiczdWPxj78.pgp Description

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-11-01 Thread Branden Robinson
atch, and turned off loader debugging in -9pre10v4. Source and binaries for i386 are current at the X Strike Force repository (see my .sig). If someone can roll up arm binaries I'll be happy to put them up at the XSF. -- G. Branden Robinson| I had thought very careful

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: help for arm]

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Misdirected, I think. -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that Debian GNU/Linux |he is half an animal is only half a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |man. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Thornton Wilder --- Begin Message

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
module loader would be broken. I need an arm hacker to go through the arm-specific patches in debian/held-patches an re-merge them with 4.1.0. Also, I'll turn on loader debugging for ARM (patch #999); it's already enabled for m68k since the loader doesn't work there, eit

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
e.mit.edu/~powell/debs/xfree86_4.1.0-2.binary-arch.log Thanks! I'll check this stuff out. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Woody, security and architectures

2001-08-13 Thread Branden Robinson
uilder support? -- G. Branden Robinson| Never underestimate the power of Debian GNU/Linux | human stupidity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpWwnb3lkOu5.pgp Description: PGP signature

XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v5 now available; 4.1.0-1 imminent

2001-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
7;s module loader, which cannot handle PIC information). -- G. 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. http://pe

XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
l). If I don't get any, the next release will be 4.1.0-1. -- G. Branden Robinson |You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux|Or you don't live long. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~brand

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for i386 at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:22:14AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Here's the first cut of 4.1.0. > Is there a way to avoid downloading the complete source again? I have 4.0.3, > maybe I can rsync of

xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for i386 at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-12 Thread Branden Robinson
s manpage [i386 only] * debian/xserver-xfree86.templates.gl: cleaned up some between-template whitespace that an old version of debconf shouldn't have cared about, but did -- Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 12 Jun 2001 03:39:52 + -- G. Branden Robinson |

XFree86 4.0.2-13 in auric's incoming

2001-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
d prerm scripts just as we do the well-known /usr/doc/package -> /usr/share/doc/package compatibility symlink (Closes: #92074) -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked like Debian GNU/Linux| in a spotlight. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

STOP THE PRESSES Re: XFree86 4.0.2-12 release and architecture status

2001-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
oked by the person doing the NMU [see debian-devel for a discussion of this subject].) I'm tempted to go with solution 2) because it is the least effort. Here's your chance to express your opinion on this subject. -- G. Branden Robinson|

XFree86 4.0.2-12 release and architecture status

2001-03-27 Thread Branden Robinson
ions exist, and I haven't heard anything back with respect to success or failure on these architectures since I integrated the fixes that were sent to me. In short: alpha, arm, and m68k, please build 4.0.2-12. That will be sufficient to get 4.0.2-12 into testing. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: xserver-xfree86 configuration on ARM

2001-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
back in when it's fixed > DRIVER_LIST="fbdev, glint, sunbw2, suncg14, suncg3, suncg6, sunffb, > sunleo, suntcx" > ;; > + arm) > + DRIVER_LIST="fbdev" > +;; >*) > exit 0 > ;; -- G. Branden Robinson

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#89992: patches for arm]

2001-03-20 Thread Branden Robinson
Sending to the ARM porters list per Bdale. I do not subscribe to this list. 4.0.2-11 is out as of today. - Forwarded message from Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROT

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 status

2001-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
on number despite the fact that your source doesn't match the official one). I know that's technically illegal but as long as you send me all the changes everything will be fine. Again, please, do NOT upload anything but 4.0.2-1. Otherwise you will keep X, and everything that depends on it,

XFree86 4.0.2 status

2001-01-05 Thread Branden Robinson
f the alpha or m68k people are having compile-time problems, I haven't heard a peep out of anyone about it. I'd really like XFree86 4.x to go into testing. But it's not going happen until these 3 architectures build it. -- G. Branden Robinson| You should try

the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-06 Thread Branden Robinson
forthcoming. Thanks to changes upstream, it is possible that xfs and startx behave differently or are broken. Here's the carrot: S3 Savage users should try these out; there is now a driver for your cards. -- G. Branden Robinson|A great work of art has never caused any Debian GNU/

pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-03 Thread Branden Robinson
x for the next release, I've made 4.0.1-9pre10v1 available at the X Strike Force Repository (URL below). I've got i386, sparc, and powerpc covered. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux|If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XFree86 4.0.1 architecture status

2000-11-26 Thread Branden Robinson
pport recently got merged into upstream CVS, so I'm going to wait until we have packages based on that code to ping those guys. Also, hurd is still part of sid... -- G. Branden Robinson| "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Debian GNU/Linux | origi

Re: X rebuilds

2000-11-23 Thread Branden Robinson
s a heart attack. Changes from 3.3.6-11 are minimal. -- 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 http://www.deb