Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:23:24PM +, Mark Seaborn wrote: > They are unrelated if they do not need to communicate (as an > example). If they do not need to communicate, they may as well run on > different machines, in which case they can use different versions of > libc. But I want to be abl

holding back the tide

2000-12-29 Thread Branden Robinson
severity 80842 serious severity 80843 serious thanks gcc won't build on arm, so XFree86 won't build on arm, so XFree86 can't go into testing, so LOTS of things can't go into testing. Adam Heath, please consider helping the gcc maintainer do some DBS surgery, because it is DBS that is keeping gcc

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. Speaking of which, dome hasn't had a maintainer upload in over four years, and it could do with somebody paying a little attention to it (apart from anything else, it's Standards-Version: 2.1.1.0)

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:23:24PM +, Mark Seaborn wrote: > As I suggested before, it would be easy if different processes could > have different views on the filesystem. This is feasible on the > Hurd. Linux is not as flexible, unfortunately. There are a few ways to do it, but I guess it is

libgd's dependency on xlib stops netsaint from "testing"

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, ist it possible to make libgd not depend on xlibs? This will install a lot of unwanted stuff on servers and it even seems to habe problems with dependencies currently.. looks to me like netsaint which depends on libgd1g is not moved to testing because libgd1g is not in testing, yet. xlibs i

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Clearly, I was confused. excuse me. Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /usr/man and /usr/share/man don't have directories, only man > sections > (e.g. man[1-8]). I think you are confusing /usr/man and /usr/doc. Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you mean /usr/doc.

RE: aacraid driver

2000-12-29 Thread Brian Boerner
I thought since this was the "debian-devel" list that the distro kernel maintainers would be monitoring and/or interested in obtaining official working versions of the source. I'm certainly not interested in trying to hunt down all the distro kernel maintainers. That would be a black hole. -bmb-

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Seaborn
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:03:03AM +, Mark Seaborn wrote: > > > Of course. I know this. It is repeated many times on this mailing > > list. But it does not have to be so. Why should upgrading package X > > affect unrelated package Y? If one use

Re: aacraid driver

2000-12-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOKUBI Takatsugu) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> I'm the developer of the aacraid driver. I've noticed some old posts on > >> your > >> web site w/r/t this driver. If the maintainer of the debian kernel is > >> including this driver

Re: Rambling apt-get ideas

2000-12-29 Thread mechanix
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:08:16PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:22:52AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > > My point being, that yes I already use squid as a proxy server for a whole > > network of apt-geting debian boxes and after only a little work it works > > OK, b

need headers for target architecture: asm/unistd.h

2000-12-29 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I try to build a crosscompiler i386->arm (but also other archs). At one point headerfiles for the target architecture are needed. Where could I find headerfiles for other archs? Are there development packages for this purpose? Who has done this before?

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-29 Thread Evan Prodromou
> "MZ" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MZ> Can you name any Application that is not an Information MZ> Processing Application? A spam filter? It processes un-information. B-) ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFP: secret-agent -- ssh-agent-like system for GnuPG etc

2000-12-29 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:43:59PM +, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > http://www.vibe.at/tools/secret-agent/ > > GPL > > Secret Agent stores your secrets in a secure manner. > > Its main use at the moment is with GnuPG (an e-mail encryption/signation > sol

ITP: packages needed for Slash-bender (Perl libraries)

2000-12-29 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
I'm packaging several Perl libraries needed by Slash code to run. They are the following: libdbix-password-perl (DBIx-Password) libtemplate-toolkit-perl (Template-Toolkit) They are available at http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~jgb/my-debian-pkgs I'm not a developer, but Ferna

Re: FWD: Mirror script (yet another)

2000-12-29 Thread Stephan A Suerken
> Re: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0011/msg01827.html A (eventually updated) version of a "more fully featured" and easier-to-use mirror script can be found here: http://www.Fh-Worms.DE/~inf222/code/script/debian/www/absurd_debmirror I have been testing it for quite a few days now, an

Re: xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread Colin Mattson
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:54:25PM -0600, An Thi-Nguyen Le wrote: > Have you tried xfstt? I think that's the one that adds True Type support > to normal xfs, while xfs-tt is the one that only does True Type; could > be mixing those up, though. xfstt runs in addition to normal xfs to supply True

would anyone like to package Secret Agent

2000-12-29 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
http://www.vibe.at/tools/secret-agent/ GPL Secret Agent stores your secrets in a secure manner. Its main use at the moment is with GnuPG (an e-mail encryption/signation solution compatible to OpenPGP), or PGP 2.6. You can store your passphrase with Secret Agent, and have it provide that passphr

Re: out-of-date ftp.debian.org

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:48:55PM +, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > It turns out that although he had received notification that the > updated package had been installed, ftp.debian.org did not reflect > this. I guess this is because ftp.debian.org is only a mirror, like all other FTP Servers, t

Re: 'testing' & dep conflicts

2000-12-29 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:44:55PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:10:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? [ snip ] > First, since you're upgrading from potato to woody (you've changed > distributions), you should use `apt-get

Re: xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread An Thi-Nguyen Le
[Martin Maciaszek - Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:45:17 PM CST] > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:31:05AM -0800, Marc Martinez wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:14:24AM +0100, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > > I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a > > > fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added

Re: xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Martin Maciaszek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a >> fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to >> /etc/X11/fs/config. I restarted xfs and X. Everytime I try to use >> one of the ttf

Re: xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:31:05AM -0800, Marc Martinez wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:14:24AM +0100, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a > > fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to > > /etc/X11/fs/config. I restarted

ITP: TCM -- Toolkit for Conceptual Modelling

2000-12-29 Thread Luca De_Vitis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling is a collection of software tools to present conceptual models of software systems in the form of diagrams, tables, trees, and the like. (See the README file included in sources) license: GPL homepage: http://www.cs.utwente.nl/

Re: xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread Marc Martinez
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:14:24AM +0100, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a > fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to > /etc/X11/fs/config. I restarted xfs and X. Everytime I try to use > one of the ttfs xfs dumps core. Wh

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi Christian, > > we currently have a really huge list of packages that are orphaned and > > so I looked at them to see if we can drop some of them. Here are some > > suggestion and my comments. Any comment from you is appreciated: > >... > > |fnlib (104

Re: Rambling apt-get ideas

2000-12-29 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > In dpkg cvs(what will be 1.9), dpkg no longer calls an external md5sum(it also > doesn't fork for it, which it still does for the gzip above). This isn't as btw, would it be hard to add sha1 support, as an alternative for md5 (i

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:00:29AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I thought of sendmail(1) where you feed the headers with the mail. and > > thats why I didn't send explicit to maintonly. Every mass bag submit > > should be maintonly no matter how you do it technically. > > What's the difference

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Toni Mueller writes: > > RFA: netcat -- TCP/IP swiss army knife > > I'll take a look, maybe i take this over. Already in Incoming ;-) -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: test -d /usr/man && ( mail submit@bugs; apology; )

2000-12-29 Thread Chad Miller
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:00:29AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > How many emails are we talking about? [...] It was about thirty. I'm trully sorry about the whole ordeal. It was stupid of me in several respects. At midday, I just abandoned work until I had a full 8 hours sleep. If I could un

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-29 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:50:58PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > RFA: netcat -- TCP/IP swiss army knife I'll take a look, maybe i take this over. Best Regards, --Toni++

Interbase

2000-12-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, some while ago you where talking about packaging Interbase for Debian. Who is it doing now and if at all, how is it going? yours, peter [please respect the Mail-Followup-To header!] -- PGP signed and encrypted m

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > I thought of sendmail(1) where you feed the headers with the mail. and > thats why I didn't send explicit to maintonly. Every mass bag submit > should be maintonly no matter how you do it technically. What's the difference? I read th

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:03:49PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: > The CTTE recommendation, or DPL order, was that the woody has > the symlinks from /usr/man/ to /usr/share/man/, IIRC. > > Is this changed now ? Can we drop the postinst/prerm requirements > to create/remove those symlinks ? I think

out-of-date ftp.debian.org

2000-12-29 Thread Richard Kettlewell
At http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=79821 you will find a discussion between the X maintainer and me. It turns out that although he had received notification that the updated package had been installed, ftp.debian.org did not reflect this. ttfn/rjk

Re: ITA gtk-doc-tools

2000-12-29 Thread Christian Marillat
"JR" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> We need to wait ? If yes how-many time ? JR> Hmmm. That's not an easy question. Send him another mail, and upload a fixed JR> package. Then wait for response :) JR> -- JR> Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Null

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for December 29, 2000

2000-12-29 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi BugScan! You wrote: > Package: afbackup (debian/main) > Maintainer: Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 77189 afbackup: cartis cannot detect which is the server config file > > Package: afterstep (debian/main) > Maintainer: Steven R. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 69297 afterstep: Pager

Re: ITA gtk-doc-tools

2000-12-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:25:04PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> I intent to adopt this package. > >> > >> This package isn't orphaned, but Steve Haslam is MIA since more one year. > >> > >> I'll upload a new release before the new millennium. > > JR> He actually isn't all that dead, he

Re: ITA gtk-doc-tools

2000-12-29 Thread Christian Marillat
"JR" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JR> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:10:23PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: >> I intent to adopt this package. >> >> This package isn't orphaned, but Steve Haslam is MIA since more one year. >> >> I'll upload a new release before the new millenniu

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:46:10AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > for package in dpkg apt libc gpg bplay etc ; do > > > > sed [...] bug.template | mail ; > > > > done > > > > > > You'd better use [EMAIL PROTECTED], else you need a very > > > good asbestos suit ... > > > > Too late. }:) >

Re: ITA gtk-doc-tools

2000-12-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:10:23PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > I intent to adopt this package. > > This package isn't orphaned, but Steve Haslam is MIA since more one year. > > I'll upload a new release before the new millennium. He actually isn't all that dead, he managed to orphan a cou

Re: xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:14:24AM +0100, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a > fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to > /etc/X11/fs/config. I restarted xfs and X. Everytime I try to use > one of the ttfs xfs dumps core. Wh

ITA gtk-doc-tools

2000-12-29 Thread Christian Marillat
Hi, I intent to adopt this package. This package isn't orphaned, but Steve Haslam is MIA since more one year. I'll upload a new release before the new millennium. Christian

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Peter Makholm
Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for package in dpkg apt libc gpg bplay etc ; do > > sed [...] bug.template | mail ; > > done > > You'd better use [EMAIL PROTECTED], else you need a very > good asbestos suit ... Whatever, the above won't work for other reasons (It just tries

Re: Packages file not updated for pool

2000-12-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Nils! On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > Why is the woody Package file not updated when Files enter the Package pool? > Or is there still another Package file that I need to use? The only Pool > files that had mad it into the Package file are libc6 and spong. woody is not unstable:

Re: 'testing' & dep conflicts

2000-12-29 Thread Peter Makholm
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? > >$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Upgrade will never install new packages. So packages with changed depends-fields will not be upgraded by this command. Read the manual you can read it there.

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 04:21:39AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > InfoProcApp: Information Processing Application > > The box indicates a "generic ontology package" here named > InfoProcApp. Here is a candidate ontology derived from InfoProcApp > [...] > Now imagine this higher level hierarch

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:03:49PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: > The CTTE recommendation, or DPL order, was that the woody has > the symlinks from /usr/man/ to /usr/share/man/, IIRC. > > Is this changed now ? Can we drop the postinst/prerm requirements > to create/remove those symlinks ? /usr/m

Packages file not updated for pool

2000-12-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Why is the woody Package file not updated when Files enter the Package pool? Or is there still another Package file that I need to use? The only Pool files that had mad it into the Package file are libc6 and spong. Or did I miss something? Nils -- *New* *New* *New*- on shellac records Win

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Fri, 29 Dec 2000 01:50:36 +1100, on Re: test -d /usr/man && mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:13:32AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > > I noticed that the FHS2.1 doesn't have /usr/man -- only /usr/share

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > for package in dpkg apt libc gpg bplay etc ; do > > > sed [...] bug.template | mail ; > > > done > > > > You'd better use [EMAIL PROTECTED], else you need a very > > good asbestos suit ... > > Too late. }:) >... Grrr... He filed them: - witho

Re: Rambling apt-get ideas

2000-12-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Glenn McGrath | If you accidentally deleted gzip or tar how would you recover ? use sash or a rescue cd. | You couldnt build them from a source package or or extract it from a | binary package because you need both tar and gzip to extract them. nope. on my local gnu mirror, I've got tar as

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: > Hi, Hi Christian, > we currently have a really huge list of packages that are orphaned and > so I looked at them to see if we can drop some of them. Here are some > suggestion and my comments. Any comment from you is appreciated: >... > |fnlib (104 da

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-29 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
!ocseirF iH On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, esoR ocsirF wrote: > Graphics > |_Gimp > |_Xfig > etc... Why dont you use existing hierarchies? I like those of Freshmeat and even more the Sourceforge Trove. Bastian

xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread Martin Maciaszek
I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to /etc/X11/fs/config. I restarted xfs and X. Everytime I try to use one of the ttfs xfs dumps core. What can I do? Cheers Martin -- fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too hig