Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-18 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Seconded, heartily. Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To sum up, what I'm saying is this: I think a Debian window manager policy > should say that window managers should be given higher priority if they > DON'T mangle localized information that they are intended to pass along to > t

Re: ITP: texguy

2000-03-18 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ITP: texguy Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:17:30 +0900 > Unless someone else is already working on it and I missed the ITP (checked > on the wnpp list already) then I am going to be packaging up texguy It seems TeX-Guy is already packaged or ITP'ed by

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > During the slink freeze there

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Fabien Ninoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:35:52PM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > > > I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed > > > > > > It's in > > > ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:35:52PM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > > I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed > > > > It's in > > ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/dists/rain/main/source/ > I must have missed it... An

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Robert Ramiega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my > system... Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( > it's in dpkg-dev. -- (jacob kuntz)[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net (

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Mar 18, BugScan reporter wrote: > Package: mkhybrid (debian/main) > Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60119 mkhybrid: patch required for making sparc bootable CD's Just uploaded with this patch; it's now in Incoming. Chris --

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

2000-03-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Thanks to all who replied about this. The problem was solved by reducing the dot clock from 75.0 to 65.0. This gave a much better picture than I used to have before I upgraded xserver-svga. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > > Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which > > only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These > > are sorted out using procmail (which is

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:23:50AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed > > It's in > ftp://download.stormix.com:/storm/dists/rain/main/source/ I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my system... Searcher on Debian W

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Lees
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which > only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These > are sorted out using procmail (which is not supported by my usual mail > server) and a

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Ben Collins
Just some notes to avoid duplication of effort. > Package: freewnn (debian/main) > Maintainer: Keita Maehara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59450 freewnn: fails to build, tries to chown a bin to a non-existant user Already NMU'd > Package: prc-tools (debian/main) > Maintainer: Stephen Zander <[EMAIL P

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted > > bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages > > installed/uploaded to all architectures.

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted > bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages > installed/uploaded to all architectures. Funny, I don't notice any such messages going to -

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote: > As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released, > these lists would be split by architecture, and anyone interested in > more than one architecture could subscribe to as many lists as > required. I am sure that the overwhelming majori

Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures. As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released, these lists would be split by architecture, and an

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Collins wrote: > try running: > > dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir You are aware that that uses a completely different codepath to extract the package, right? Wichert -- / Generally uninteresting signatur

Re: mod_perl unhappy with libxml-parser-perl

2000-03-18 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Hi! Is there any way I can help you (as maintainer of libxml-parser-perl)? Thanks, Ardo Robert Coie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed a conflict between the versions of Expat in apache-perl > 1.3.9.10-1.21-6 and libxml-parser-perl 2.27-6 that causes memory > corruption. I assume tha

Re: ssh & master

2000-03-18 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:10:20AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > No, just from you.. > > Mar 17 00:57:44 master named[1815]: bad referral (de.colt.net !< > host.DE.COLT.net) > Mar 17 00:57:44 master sshd[4266]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: > can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(h-62.96.162

Re: xfs question

2000-03-18 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 07:27:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I think the answer is in the FAQ: Oops. I didn't know there is a FAQ. > zgrep -i unix /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz > Like Unix shell login sessions, which are customized by a file like > Like the Unix filesystem, windows

Re: nasty slink -> potato upgrade problem

2000-03-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:57 +1100 2000-03-12, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >Also, libc6 tries to restart some NSS-using services, but never seems >to succeed in restarting sshd. I end up with it refusing connections, >although sshd still appears to be running (the original process and >not a new one). I guess that means th

ITP: texguy

2000-03-18 Thread Ryuichi Arafune
Unless someone else is already working on it and I missed the ITP (checked on the wnpp list already) then I am going to be packaging up texguy TeX-Guy is a set of DVI file controlling programs for X-Window and printers This package contains: xgdvi --- A simple DVI previewer with GTK+ (the GIMP

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Erik
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:12:28PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. > > It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. I doubt it, because i installed on a machine ... and

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

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:42:12AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > IIRC, Thomas Dickey is ncurses upstream maintainer... frankly, it has been > practically orphaned for a long time, due to Galen Hazelwood's apparent > AWOLness. And recently Espy offered it for adoption, again... that package > really s

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy > that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Then dpkg should have failed to install it since it is a truncated file. > Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually Ben> extract, which unpacks the tarball itself. Ben> Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to Ben> track it down. It is easy for me to reproduc

Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-18 Thread Scott Jennings
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:41:11AM -0800, brian moore wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:52PM -0800, Bill Jennings wrote: >> Previously Scott Jennings wrote: >>> I've written an M4 file for sendmail 8.9.3, and packaged it up as >>> a debian package. >> >> Configuration on a per-user basis is t

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: >> i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh >> installs of potato from the netboot test cd on >> cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the other

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco Ben> wrote: >> [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a >> look at this?] >> >> > Unpacking replacement man-db ... > dpkg-deb: sub

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Maybe in the time you downloaded the new file your mirror Jason> fixed itself. That error means the .deb it fetched was too Jason> small, ie still being downloaded. I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to insta

Re: Need help with OpenSSH & X authorization

2000-03-18 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:08:34PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 105 > Error: Can't open display: ...:10.0 Did you look at /usr/incluse/asm/errno.h for the error codes? errno = 105 does look like some weird memory problems. The other errno

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > >> libtool 1.3.3-9 [177kB] Failed to fetch > >> > http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb > >> Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with > >> --fix-missing? >

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done >> The following NEW packages will be installed: libtool 0 >> packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to

Re: I don't get copies of bug reports to my packages

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josip> I noticed that [EMAIL PROTECTED] bot processes the messages you Josip> send to id silently, then processes it again, but this time Josip> mailing the report to you. I have noticed something similar myself, ie I try to reo

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

2000-03-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
Here is one more response that I got from the gentleman - Forwarded message from "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) D

Uninstallable Task Packages

2000-03-18 Thread Peter Ganten
Hello, I reported the same problem in some different context allready, but since there was no answer, here it is again: After a fresh install of a potato system with boot-floppies 2.2.8 (i386) and no packages installed, besides those in the base-system, it is unpossible to install certain task

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Mar-00, 21:33 (CST), Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I said though, I am not messing with any of this until potato is > released. Oh, absolutely. However, Wichert wrote "woody+2", which seemed excessive (at current rate of release, that's about 2003.) -- Steve Gre

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Galloway
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:52:23PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. > Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of > the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. Yuck. Mo

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

2000-03-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:48:30PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be > > addressed. Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if > > they're involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are > > supposed

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:52:23PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. > Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of > the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. > [Note: t

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian Kimball
Ben Collins wrote: > That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually extract, > which unpacks the tarball itself. > > Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to track it > down. For the record, I did a clean install yesterday with the standard boot floppies and experien

Bug Reports and Upstream Authors

2000-03-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
In the course of my job as bugmaster of the BTS, I got this response. (The gentleman was trying to respond to bugs by sending [EMAIL PROTECTED] the comments). I'm not sure what packages he's refering to or who the maintainers are but if one upstream author feels this way...??? The key that I'd l

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Can we drop Netscape Navigator and Communicator ? Adam is busy, obviously. Mozilla will do just as well for most things (and is free) - some of the bugs on Navigator/Communicator are for obsolete versions anyway. [Note: this need not be a permanent drop, but a temporary measure to get potato out

Need help with OpenSSH & X authorization

2000-03-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
severity 59862 normal thanks To the Release Manager: This is an RC bug I cannot reproduce, it seems rare and probably relates to differences in local configuration or something like that. I'm not very enthusiastic about getting this fixed for potato (and Branden se