Re: RFP: EVMS

2001-12-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:28:47AM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > > > The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled > > > flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for > > > easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume > > > management. > >

anyone interested in maintaining cvsweb?

2001-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
I wonder if anyone has any more interest in maintaining cvsweb than I do? I feel viewcvs has thoroughly superceded it in functionality, and if I could come up with a transparent rc file converter, I would just make the cvsweb package sidegrade to viewcvs. Failing that I'm still looking for some way

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:11:15PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > print Dumper($virtula1); > > I spent some time try to understand why it was failing ;) oops. yeah. i should have cut-and-pasted the script i got working in /tmp instead of what i originally typed in the message. there

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-28 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Quake and doom have been released for ages. I am not aware of any > way to play them without using non-free data files. There was a group > that was trying to put together free data for Quake, but I don't > think they're close to

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-28 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:53:06AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Several emulators (apple2, atari800, gnuboy, gsnes9x, gtkiemu, nestra > pose, uae, vice, and xtrs) from contrib should also move to main > immediately then, as you can't argue that there will never be free > ROMs for those either. Fu

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Herbert Xu wrote: > This is bogus, anything can die in an OOM situation. Are you going to > put all daemons into inittab? True, true. However, sysklogd and klogd are logging daemons. They deserve some special treatment IMHO. Actually, I am pondering doing such a thing to ssh

Re: Bug#126750/749: klogd/sysklogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > What do people think? Go for it. The OOM killer will hit just about anything which is not a kernel thread, and losing syslogd and klogd is a major no-no. I do thing one should warn about the change on upgrades through a debconf high-priority note, tho

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Herbert Xu
> Florian Weimer wrote: >> Package: klogd >> Version: 1.4.1-8 >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: security >> >> The package installation scripts should offer to run klogd from >> inittab, since klogd regularly dies in OOM situations and is not >> restarted if the current mechanism is used. This is bo

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-28 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, that can't be right. Aren't the brits complaining about the US > wanting to execute terrorists, because of conflicts with EU declaration > of human rights? But the terrorists (well, except for any British nationals among them) can't be tried for tre

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Ganesan R
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:58:34PM +0100, Tom Jongsma wrote: > Hello, >   > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian Woody, but > I don't have a free internet connection. > Can I update my potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine > at home? > I can't

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-28 Thread Brian Wolfe
This is why I labeled it as "if it were me". Of course I tend to take a harder view of whats the programmers responsibilities when releasing a package than most people. Maybe it has to do with my overbuilt sense of getting things done right and not being blamed for breaks too frequesntly

Re: visual c

2001-12-28 Thread Erik Steffl
> "Ing. Luis Chávez Romo" wrote: > > I am tired of been a windows user. Let me know if there is an easy way > to move > an aplication developed in visual c to linux. it depends on libraries used, if the libraries are not available for linux than it might be quite hard. Another option is to h

Bug#126798: ITP: sjog -- A program to use the "Jog Dial" on Sony Vaio Laptops

2001-12-28 Thread Hugo Haas
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: sjog Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Sylvain Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sjog.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A program to use the "Jog Dial" on So

visual c

2001-12-28 Thread Ing. Luis Chávez Romo
I am tired of been a windows user. Let me know if there is an easy way to move  an aplication developed in visual c to linux. Thank you for your help. Luis Chavez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:58:34PM +0100, Tom Jongsma wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian Woody, > but I don't have a free internet connection. > Can I update my potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my > machine at home? > I can

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Lammerts
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tom Jongsma wrote: > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian > Woody, but I don't have a free internet connection. Can I update my > potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine at > home? I can't find cd-images (iso's) of debian

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:58:34 +0100 "Tom Jongsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian > Woody, but I don't have a free internet connection. Can I update my > potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine at > home? I can't

Re: Bug#124624: foiltex: Spelling error in description

2001-12-28 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:44:19PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - font, options for setting normalsize at 20pt (default), 17pt, 25pt or > > + font, options for setting normal size at 20pt (default), 17pt, 25pt or > > I got an above reports and I

from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Tom Jongsma
Hello,   I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian Woody, but I don't have a free internet connection. Can I update my potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine at home? I can't find cd-images (iso's) of debian woody. Aren't there cd-images of

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
What do people think? Please copy mails that you consider important in this context to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] so they get recorded properly. Regards, Joey Florian Weimer wrote: > Package: klogd > Version: 1.4.1-8 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: security > > The package i

Bug#126775: omniorb-doc examples don't compile

2001-12-28 Thread W. Borgert
Package: omniorb-doc Version: 3.0.4-2.4 Tags: patch I have adopted the examples to autoconf/automake. This works very well. Maybe one can push this to the upstream developers? What I did: All files dir.mk, dir.mak, GNUmakefile, *.module, *.pkg, and the obsolete directories lifecycle and partcl

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:02:29PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > my %virtual1 = {}; [...] > $virtual1->{$user[0]}->{$fields[$_]} = $user[$_]; [...] > When running the script using this module, I get this error: > > mrmime_SLASH:/# install-slashsite > Global symbol "$virtual1"

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Adam! You wrote: > I agree. Although we should perhaps have a second mailing to > debian-devel listing packages that have been unmaintained for a while, > and are getting old enough to remove. I'm currently working on this. See also the threads on -qa on this (some weeks ago). -- Kind rega

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.28.1648 +0100]: > This was a bug in kernel-package, but it should be fixed now. > > (kernel-package 7.75) okay, i got 7.76 yesterday because of the failure to build kernel-source. nevertheless, it isn't fixed: [abridged...] piper% dpkg -l ke

Re: RFP: EVMS

2001-12-28 Thread Kevin Corry
> > The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled > > flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for easy > > expansion or customization of various levels of volume management. > > > > Think of it as LVM done right. > > I heard about this at Linux Kong

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread Guy Geens
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> *except*: kernel-image-2.4.17+fishbowl writes its modules to martin> /lib/modules/2.4.17, but e.g. the pcmcia-modules package that martin> i generate puts its modules under martin> /lib/modules/2.4.17+fishbowl. This was a bug i

Bug#126748: ITP: wmpload -- a program to monitor network device statistics

2001-12-28 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package: wmpload Version: 0.9.5 Author: Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/ License: GNU General Public Licence Description: a program to monitor network device statistics Wmpload is a Window Maker dock application to mon

Bug#126747: ITP: pload -- a program to monitor network device statistics

2001-12-28 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package: pload Version: 0.9.5 Author: Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/ License: GNU General Public Licence Description: a program to monitor network device statistics Pload is a program to monitor ppp network devic

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Wolfe) writes: > Actualy, I believe that the mkisofs maintainer should have seen that a > new option was created and notified the maintainers of anything that > depended on mkisofs ... That's pushing it, I think. I've had several experiences as a maintainer where somet

ITP remstats, ITP bcp

2001-12-28 Thread Robert Jördens
retitle 77533 ITP: remstats -- RRDtool-based network-monitor that can launch alerts retitle 113051 ITP: bcp -- Copies files over links so lossy TCP does not work pgp33O6D5iCT4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:29:49PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > The last time I checked the maximum sentence for treason in Great Britain > was death... Hmm, that can't be right. Aren't the brits complaining about the US wanting to execute terrorists, because of conflicts with EU declaration of huma

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:31:01AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: [...] > > you can verify that this does what you want by using the Data::Dumper > module. e.g. by adding something like the following lines to the script: > >

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:53:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:49:12PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:19:16AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > My own approach? Write your own parser for a simple 'key = value' style > > > confi

Re: Build systems (was Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.))

2001-12-28 Thread Matthias Klose
Adam Heath writes: > On 27 Dec 2001, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > * Adam Heath > > > > | dbs(doogie build system, debian build system) > > | > > | See autofs, apache, x(contains a pre-alpha version of dbs). > > | > > | Do NOT see glibc, gcc. Those use dpatch, which was around before dbs. > > Db

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:31:01AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: [...] > > my %virtual1 = {}; > > while (<>) { > chomp ; > s/#.*//; # strip comments > s/^\s*|\s*$//g; # stri

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-28 Thread Davide Puricelli
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:20:30PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > Perhaps a per-maintainer listing would be helpful here, then: [snip] > Davide Puricelli (evo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > xchat Version affected by this issue were 1.8.6-1 and 1.8.6-2, 1.8.6-3 comes with a patch that fixes the problem.

Re: Debian Weekly News - December 27th, 2001

2001-12-28 Thread David N. Welton
Christer Gundersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tried FreeBSD? Seen the ports? Take a look at www.freshports.org, > what about something like that? that will help people a lot. at > leased me :) I made an attempt to create a 'Debian Package of the Week' page, but I don't have time to maintain it

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-28 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:40:28AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > This leads me to suspect that you might have the same problem. > > Can you test to see if it works in the console or not? As well, can you > > test to see if you've been getting double tabs in your terminal? (Which > > termina

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-28 Thread Simon Law
I just got this message from debian-devel: If you are running gnome-terminal, then can we merge the two bugs together and call it fixed? Simon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:54:59 -0800 (PST) From: Michael P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#126716: ITP: quake2 -- popular 3D first person shooter game (engine only)

2001-12-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: quake2 Version : 3.21 Upstream Author : iD Software (unmaintained) * URL : ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/q2source-3.21.zip * License : GPL Version 2 Description :

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread Neil Spring
from "man make-kpkg": --flavour foo This option is now deprecated in favour of --append_to_version. --append_to_version places modules in the place you expect, and coexists well with modules. I use it all the time. -neil On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:25

Re: Bug#124624: foiltex: Spelling error in description

2001-12-28 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#124624: foiltex: Spelling error in description Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:21:17 -0500 > --- orig/foiltex Mon Dec 17 15:52:33 2001 > +++ corrected/foiltex Mon Dec 17 15:59:03 2001 > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > Package: foiltex > Description: A colle