Re: CD images of Slink

1998-10-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:01:09AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > just for curiosity's sake, editors, four different emacsen > x11 xbooks > doc the gimp manual > devel seem to be the lots of -dev and -dbg stuff (don't take me wrong, all of this is good!) I do think rethinking what's "extra

Re: dh_make

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Craig Small wrote: csmall>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csmall>> I have recently created a debian/rules file with dh_make, it used "-g" for csmall>> CXXFLAGS and "-g -O2" for CFLAGS. Is there any reason for not using -O2 for csmall>> C++ compilation? Also do we really want debugg

Re: intent to package c-client-dev

1998-10-05 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Now heres a question, this library is really only of interest to people > creating custom mail handling clients. Do I need to make a c-client1 > package containing a shared library? Policy would seem to say yes but I > notice for instance that libinn.

Re: CD images of Slink

1998-10-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Laurenti wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will > > > main fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty > > > late (main, contrib, non-fre

Re: dh_make

1998-10-05 Thread Craig Small
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently created a debian/rules file with dh_make, it used "-g" for > CXXFLAGS and "-g -O2" for CFLAGS. Is there any reason for not using -O2 for > C++ compilation? Also do we really want debugging symbols in all the > binaries? > > The C++ code compiled with -O

Re: Libtool 1.2b static lib problems

1998-10-05 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Hi! > Ossama Othman writes: OO> Has anyone tried building static libraries with shared libraries OO> disabled with libtool 1.2b? If I enable static library creation OO> and disable shared library creation, e.g.: OO>./configure --enable-static --disable-shared OO> My static library

intent to package c-client-dev

1998-10-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
This is another split from the imap package. At the request of a user, I'd like to make c-client.a and its header files into a package called c-client-dev. Like imap, it's copyright is DFSG free. Now heres a question, this library is really only of interest to people creating custom mail handli

Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Galbra>What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising it Galbra>was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the Galbra>cursor on the `Download it!' ftp link and seeing the non-free part in the Galbra>path.

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread john
Matthew writes: > How about naming it [Debian releases] after species of penguin? *Excellent* idea. I suppose it's too late to rename 2.1? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Re: Linus is on a powertrip..

1998-10-05 Thread john
Brent Fulgham writes: > Witness the latest bloodletting that involved three of the founding > project members leaving after shouts of "lawsuits" and other hysteria > against them. The only mention of lawsuits that I recall was the fear expressed by them that they might be sued by a third party for

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:24:37AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > > > > How about naming it after species of penguin? Hey, the first VERY GOOD idea ! read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-05 Thread Christopher Barry
It seems the whole point you are making is that there is nothing old, slow, lowmem machines can't handle that should be bzip2 compressed, but my point is that if there is no package that a slow, lomem machine can't handle, like an X or Emacs source distribution, then the slow, lowmem machine could

Re: gnome .debs

1998-10-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MS" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> I and Marcus have trouble with cvs-buildpackage. Better Martin> wait/contact Manoj before you get into the strange problems Martin> we have. I seems that a conf_prefix='debian' is needed in /etc/cvsdeb.conf. With this line, everythi

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This a kind of interesting looking package. It is GPL'd but > > depends on a no-source-available library. I just reread the relevant > > portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar. > > Can the GPL be pr

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:43:29AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I had to deal with this idiocy back in the eighties when I was building > > > computers which may have qualified as 'munitions'. > > > > And remember that books are the purest form of evil and should always be > > burned if they ha

Re: problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaleh> libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime (>= 1.1.3.v2-1) jdk1.1 Shaleh> conflicts with jdk1.1-runtime jdk1.1 provides Shaleh> jdk1.1-runtime Shaleh> jdk1.1-dev depends on jdk1.1 (= 1.1.6v4a-3) Shaleh> So I cant install

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > > Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good > > reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the > > LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let'

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 08:22:00PM +0100, Tom Lees wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! > > BTW that was Mavin (the paranoid android not the martin). Don't > > forget Slarty Barfast (I know I spelled that one wrong). >

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > libjpeg6b is broken and shouldn't be used by any new packages. It > > > doesn't respect the upstream maintainers choice of soname, namely > > > libjpeg.so.62, and hence makes Debian incompatible with Red Hat

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Tom Lees
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! > BTW that was Mavin (the paranoid android not the martin). Don't > forget Slarty Barfast (I know I spelled that one wrong). And Trillian. And Agrajag. etc. etc. etc. I think this is the best i

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good > reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the > LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let's do so before the > freeze. Alright. Who wants to

Re: problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Shaleh wrote: >The libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which tries to remove the -dev file >s >needed to actually write Java apps. The jdk1.1-dev provides the runtime, bu >t >is not able to provide the numeric version needed. Once again lack of >versioned provides rears its h

Re: glimpse on CD?

1998-10-05 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:36:57AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : I just noticed that glimpse is *not* on my _official_ LSL Debian 2.0 disk : set. Strange. : : I wonder what else I'm missing. It's in non-free. And it depends on the CD vendor which parts of non-free are included Bes

Re: problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime (>= 1.1.3.v2-1) jdk1.1 conflicts with jdk1.1-runtime jdk1.1 provides jdk1.1-runtime jdk1.1-dev depends on jdk1.1 (= 1.1.6v4a-3) So I cant install libpgjava w/ losing the -dev. On 05-Oct-98 Stephen Zander wrote: >>

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:57:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had to deal with this idiocy back in the eighties when I was building > > computers which may have qualified as 'munitions'. > > And remember that books are the purest form of evil

Re: problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaleh> libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime (>= ??.??). Shaleh> jdk1.1-dev provides jdk-runtime. However the dependency Shaleh> resolution tries to install jdk1.1-runtime because of the Shaleh> versioned depends and jdk-runtime

Re: pine in other distributions

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 04:20:20PM -0400, Kikutani Makoto wrote: > I see. > > According to the past pine discussions, it seemed that Pine must be > distributed with its source. Is this correct ? > I couldn't read such restriction directly from Pine's CPYRIGHT. > The reason why I'm asking this is

Re: problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime (>= ??.??). jdk1.1-dev provides jdk-runtime. However the dependency resolution tries to install jdk1.1-runtime because of the versioned depends and jdk-runtime removes jdk-dev. So if I install libpgjava, I lose the java compiler and what not, which means I can

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
> Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good > reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the > LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let's do so before the > freeze. > Agreed Jim. Would the libjpeg maintainer care to step up and explain why a

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Jim Pick
Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > libjpeg6b is broken and shouldn't be used by any new packages. It > > doesn't respect the upstream maintainers choice of soname, namely > > libjpeg.so.62, and hence makes Debian incompatible with Red Hat. > > (RedHat does use the the upstream soname.

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 01:03:10PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote: > Please people, don't upload NMUs without at least trying to discuss it > with the developer. If I wanted to deal with "anyone can upload a new > version anytime he/she feels like it", I would be making RPMS. That was the main thrust o

Re: problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaleh> The libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which tries to Shaleh> remove the -dev files needed to actually write Java apps. Shaleh> The jdk1.1-dev provides the runtime, but is not able to Shaleh> provide the numeric versio

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:57:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had to deal with this idiocy back in the eighties when I was building > computers which may have qualified as 'munitions'. And remember that books are the purest form of evil and should always be burned if they have not been pu

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 10:49:26AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you brought it with you (and can PROVE it) there is probably no > > problem in theory. > > It doesn't matter where he got it. It is entirely legal for anyone to use > or distribute strong crypto in the US. The only restric

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. > > BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium > > this summer.) Glad people like the idea

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Alexander Koch écrivait: > Now. Who comes up with a Perl 5.005_02 for experimental? > I'd like to run it against the walls to see if it does > anything "not-so-nice" or something. [I don't answer, I try to summarize] AFAIK, Darren Stalder (the perl mainta

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. > BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium > this summer.) > -- > > How about namin

Intent to package BERT Lite [TM]

1998-10-05 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
Bert LITE is a tool from Paralogic: it checks Fortran 77 code to see whether it is worth parallelising it. Non-free: it consists of a binary with no source and is commercial code. There is an .rpm - this package is on the Extreme Linux CD and would be of interest to people using Fortran on clust

RE: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Bill Moshier
We could just start using names from the new AntZ movie. -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 10:07 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: what's after slink The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! BTW that was Mavin (t

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Why don't you guys start using the names of the girls Clinton has de-flowered. Peter -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 12:07 PM Subject: Re: what's after slink >The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium this summer.) -- How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! BTW that was Mavin (the paranoid android not the martin). Don't forget Slarty Barfast (I know I spelled that one wrong). - there is always: Debian Zaphod, Debian Arthur, Debian Prefect, Debian The-Paranoid-An

lyx?

1998-10-05 Thread Michael Meskes
Is anything following the lyx development? It seems there hasn´t been a development release for almost half a year. What's going on there? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire!

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun 04 Oct 1998, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > I just talked to Shaleh, the previous Imlib maintainer. It was > > intentional to use libjpegg6a for imlib. 6a and 6b do not play > > well together. Your NMU > Is it necessary that they play _together_

problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
The libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which tries to remove the -dev files needed to actually write Java apps. The jdk1.1-dev provides the runtime, but is not able to provide the numeric version needed. Once again lack of versioned provides rears its head.

Re: pine in other distributions

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 11:34:18AM -0400, Kikutani Makoto wrote: > I'm sorry, Pine again (and again and...). > > Does anybody know if other distributions (RedHat, slack...) > have Pine package ? yes. > If they have it, I assume their license policy is not hard as Debian. Either they break the

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 11:23:52AM -0400, Kikutani Makoto wrote: > > > I'm a Japanese living in the United States, but not a permanent > > > resident. I've heared that the usage of PGP in the States by > > > a person like me is controversial. I posted this qestion to some > > > related Mailing-List

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 05:38:02PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > The namespase lasts for five more releases. Or do I misunderstand > > something? > > On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies > now that Bruce is gone? Does it really matter? pgpGlHXoyGpzD.pgp

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 5 October 1998 13:24:56 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Yes, if we do nothing for slink then we will have to make perl5.005 (and > all perl package after 5.005) conflict with a list of 35 package with > precise version. Yep. Seems more of a hassle to me. > Perl 5.005 is stable. If we us

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Alexander Koch
[snip] Now. Who comes up with a Perl 5.005_02 for experimental? I'd like to run it against the walls to see if it does anything "not-so-nice" or something. Alexander -- Heute nacht war mir fuenf Minuten langweilig... -- Gabriel Krabbe Alexander Koch - <>< - aka Efraim - PGP - 0xE7694969 - Hanno

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 5 October 1998 19:52:23 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Posh... After 5 more releases of Debian the Spice girls will be history and > we can name versions after their replacements! Please, don't. Alexander -- "Video killed the radio star ... then the Shite Girls killed the rest." Alexand

gtkglarea description typo?

1998-10-05 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I was looking at the newly available slink packages and noticed the following in gtkglarea: A GTK widget for use with OpenGL, an unlicensed Mesa clone Shouldn't this be: A GTK widget for use with Mesa, an unlicensed OpenGL clone Thanks, -Ossama _

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
I am afraid that every Imlib using app is link w/ -ljpeg. Hence all of GNOME, wmaker-conf, Enlightenment, Eterm, chameleon, perl-imlib, python-imlib, and Fnlib will all break from the 6a->6b change. Tynian is going to begin the 6b move over last I spoke to him. All package maintainers will be gi

Re: CD images of Slink

1998-10-05 Thread Marcelo E. Laurenti
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main > > fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, > > contrib, non-free) and the

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread ijr
On 05-Oct-98 Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sun 04 Oct 1998, Brian Almeida wrote: > >> I just talked to Shaleh, the previous Imlib maintainer. It was intentional >> to >> use libjpegg6a for imlib. 6a and 6b do not play well together. Your NMU > > Is it necessary that they play _together_ ? > >> b

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 11:29:51PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > Its funny, I read on slashdot that fltk is going non-free, but > there is a September 23 release which is still under the GPL . Bill Spitnak won't be working on it anymore because Digital Domain (his employer) won't allow him t

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread john
Ruud de Rooij writes: > I seem to recall that transfer of cryptographic software to a non-US > citizen is already considered export in the US. No. Transfer of cryptographic software to a non-resident alien may expose one to proecution if and only if the alien subsequently exports the software. B

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread john
I wrote: > You heard wrong. Your nationality and residency status is irrelevant. Gregory S. Stark writes: > It might not be legal for someone to give him PGP or explain how crypto > works even while he's in the US. > ... > In any case it wouldn't be you breaking the law, but the person helping >

Re: Re: Linus is on a powertrip..

1998-10-05 Thread Brent Fulgham
>This is from the linux kernel mailing list. I find it pretty completly sums >op my thoughts on all the new constitution and voting and policy voting >stuff that we've been setting up. I haven't been vocal about this, but I >think we've been moving in the wrong direction. > >Of course, this came up

Re: CD images of Slink

1998-10-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main > fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, > contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best. I have. Slink's main se

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 04 Oct 1998, Brian Almeida wrote: > I just talked to Shaleh, the previous Imlib maintainer. It was intentional to > use libjpegg6a for imlib. 6a and 6b do not play well together. Your NMU Is it necessary that they play _together_ ? > breaks every Imlib-using GNOME package out there. Th

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... "I like my new debian emperor system" ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841

Re: Right way to sync

1998-10-05 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Singer) wrote on 04.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)? > I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for > installing new packages than keeping in sync with the most recent > versions. > >

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread servis
How about naming the releases after current developers last names sorted by date of becoming a developer and then sorted by alpha(if two or more were activated on the same day). Debian Murdock (an exception but appropriate) : Debian Jackson : Debian Schulze etc. That should last about forever as

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-05 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 04 Oct 1998, James Troup wrote: > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. > > Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent > with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times. Took 5 days,

Re: ISDN problem ....

1998-10-05 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sat 03 Oct 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "MD" == M Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MD> when installing isdnutils from slink, MAKEDEV complains about > MD> device names - something like 'don't know how t mail isdnctrl0' or > MD> something (don't remember exact device name). > >

Re: texconfig runs

1998-10-05 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 06:47:46PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > It runs (it's own copy of) 'texconfig init' rather than just > generating .fmt's for what it is installing (jadetex and > pdfjadetex). Solution: instead of 'texconfig init', do 'fmtutil --byfmt formatname', where in jadetex's case f

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Vincent RENARDIAS wrote: >On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Ben Armstrong wrote: >> On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: >> > 2.2 potatoe >> > 2.3 andy >> > 2.4 davis >> > 3.0 sergeant >> > 3.1 hannah >> >> Bo was taken, but how about "Peep"? > >Not a good idea considering what it (phone

Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I was surprised that glimpse was not on my Debian CD, so I downloaded it from the Debian web page. Until [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me it was non-free. What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising it was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the cur

CD images of Slink

1998-10-05 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best. Or is this problem completely obsolete with Apt? Thanks. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechner

glimpse on CD?

1998-10-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I just noticed that glimpse is *not* on my _official_ LSL Debian 2.0 disk set. Strange. I wonder what else I'm missing. Peter

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > 2.2 potatoe > > 2.3 andy > > 2.4 davis > > 3.0 sergeant > > 3.1 hannah > > Bo was taken, but how about "Peep"? Not a good idea considering what it (phonetically) means in French... (Or we might as well call

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 07:52:23PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > >> > As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been > >> > popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be > >> > good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:-> > > > >> how about endangered

Re: Right way to sync

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:50:19AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "MS" == Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MS> What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)? > MS> I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for > MS> installing new pac

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about pop stars? We could have Debian sporty, Debian Ginger, Debian > Posh... *bang* -- James

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your mighty 386/25 ^ a) cut out the sarcasm, it's uncalled for. b) get your facts right, it's not a 386, it's a 386/25 equivalent[1] as I said already. > with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution and custom kern

Re: korganizer debian package

1998-10-05 Thread Rainer Dorsch
> On Sun, 04 Oct 1998, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >I packages korganizer for Debian. Currently it is not on the Debian > >ftp server, because of license problems (GPL programs linked against > >commercial libraries). > > Hi Rainer, thanks for the package and the announcement. Just one minor detail: >

Re: Right way to sync

1998-10-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MS" == Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)? MS> I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for MS> installing new packages than keeping in sync with the most recent MS> versions. apt-get update &&

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 01:57:46AM -0400, Adam P. Harris écrivait: > C'mon, let's be realistic. Introducing a new perl right now would > basically blow a 1998 stable slink out of the picture (as would PAM, > of course), IMHO. It's not just a question of re-uploading 35 > packages, but also of tes

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Russell Coker
>> > As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been >> > popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be >> > good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:-> > >> how about endangered species. e.g. tigers, cheetahs, whales, microsoft, etc. > >Gnome seems to

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

1998-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 03:33:27PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Some time ago, xterm's terminal emulation changed, and the "xterm" > terminfo entry changed with it. Since xvt implements the emulation > associated with the old version of xterm, I changed its terminal type to > "xterm-old".

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > 2.2 potatoe > 2.3 andy > 2.4 davis > 3.0 sergeant > 3.1 hannah Bo was taken, but how about "Peep"? Ben -- nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chebuctohttp://

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 02:18:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) It is a violation of US law to export any kind of pgp from the US. >This is true even if you brought it here in the first place. This reminds me of a joke; unfortunately I couldn't track it down in a quick look on altavist

Re: Craig Small here?

1998-10-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 05:24:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Christian Schwarz wrote: > > [Please CC: any replies to me, since I'm not subscribed to your list] > > > > Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent me mail about the Debian CD web > > pages on www.debian.org. Unfortunately, this addres

[Milan Zamazal] Re: Intent to package sabre

1998-10-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Milan Zamazal wrote: > I'd like to package sabre if nobody objects. > sabre is an svgalib flight simulator. > License: GPL 1. > > Milan Zamazal > > -- > "Having GNU Emacs is like having a dragon's cave of treasures." > Robert J. Chassell -- VFS:

Re: Intent to package: Debian-Bookmarks

1998-10-05 Thread dsb3
On 5 Oct 1998, Frederic Lepied wrote: >CH> /usr/bin/bookmarks-convert >CH>Converts html pages to bookmarks for several browsers like >CH>netscape, lynx, > >CH> /usr/share/debian-bookmarks/debian-bookmarks.html > >Why don't you put it under the web hierarchy (/var/

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
On 4 Oct 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote: gsstar>a fltk package based on the last stable release (i think) of it before it went gsstar>non-free. It's a nice lightweight LGPL'd toolkit which is nearly drop-in gsstar>compatible with libforms. According to http://fltk.easysw.com/ , you did ge

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Adam P. Harris
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I thought 2.2 was going to be "rc", and 3.0 would be "woody". Johnnie > > > Ingram was pushing for that one, as were a few others. > > > > But didn't an even earlier discussion c

Re: Right way to sync

1998-10-05 Thread Adam P. Harris
Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)? > I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for > installing new packages than keeping in sync with the most recent > versions. > > The main thing I'm trying to avoid

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Adam P. Harris
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:32:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: > > I agree. > > I do not. Perl 5.005 and the new perl-thread seems to interest a lot of > people. But if we don't switch to perl5.005 right now, they would presumably > download

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Ruud de Rooij
On 1998/10/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kikutani Makoto writes: > > Yes, my PGP is an international version which was built in Japan, and I > > brought it in my laptop. > > The international version infringes the RSA patent and so the owner of the > patent (PKP?) could theoretically sue you for

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
On 4 Oct 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote: gsstar>However, a better solution would be to try compiling it against fltk. We have gsstar>a fltk package based on the last stable release (i think) of it before it went gsstar>non-free. It's a nice lightweight LGPL'd toolkit which is nearly drop-in gsstar

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This a kind of interesting looking package. It is GPL'd but > depends on a no-source-available library. I just reread the relevant > portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar. > Can the GPL be properly applied to this ? > > http:/

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Kikutani Makoto writes: > > I'm a Japanese living in the United States, but not a permanent > > resident. I've heared that the usage of PGP in the States by a person > > like me is controversial. > > You heard wrong. Your nationality and residency status is irrelevan

Re: intent to package tochnog

1998-10-05 Thread Jamey Sharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > License: GPL That's good. > The author calls the executable 'tn' . I should probably change > this to 'tochnog' or 'tng' or something. Do you suppose the correct way to do this would be to place the real binary in a directory outside of the standard bi

Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
I just talked to Shaleh, the previous Imlib maintainer. It was intentional to use libjpegg6a for imlib. 6a and 6b do not play well together. Your NMU breaks every Imlib-using GNOME package out there. Therefore I am overriding it. Please go through the correct channels next time, instead of goi

Stepping down as Enlightenment maintainer

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
I am stepping down as the maintainer of the Enlightenment debs and the libraries that go with it. It has become apparent that E and I are going in two different directions. So I have found two people who I have known for a good while and are both very eager to help Debian and Enlightenment. Tyni