On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:58:11PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> It proves that the user interface of gawk is more friendly, nothing
> more.
>
> And users that do not know the difference between mawk and gawk are
> not necessarily looking for performance, but may prefer a software
> with a user fri
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:26:48PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> || What program should a user use to post a message from the command-line,
> || then? I've always used inews for this, and I think it's quite reasonable
> || for user
Hi, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Gimp and many others software creates dotfiles. Because from the start
> you configure it (cache size, temp dir).
>
Why should I want a per-user configuration option for temp file location?
> For their size? Apart from web browser cache, what can be so big?
>
So? Browse
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:58:11PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> And users that do not know the difference between mawk and gawk are
> not necessarily looking for performance, but may prefer a software
> with a user friendly interface.
Then they have no business using awk.
--
.''`. ** Debian GN
Le lun 30/06/2003 à 18:58, Mathieu Roy a écrit :
> It proves that the user interface of gawk is more friendly, nothing
> more.
>
> And users that do not know the difference between mawk and gawk are
> not necessarily looking for performance, but may prefer a software
> with a user friendly interf
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I object to this ITP. The software in question is both trivial and
> non-free. Those features which are not a subset of mime-construct
> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) are either irrelevant to Debian
> systems (direct SMTP-based mailing) or a bad idea (encoura
On Monday 30 June 2003 15:36, Josip Rodin wrote:
> And this proves exactly what? Someone who knows shit all about awk sure as
> hell ain't gonna learn it from that help output. Nor are they supposed to!
More along the lines of behaving nicely on the command line, i.e. to support
--help and --vers
> The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has
> temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says:
>
>Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to
>the Date::Manip module, most of them because of xmltv bug reports
>sent by users. Ra
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews
> should be seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to
> what sendmail is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that
> allow you to post message
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews
> should be seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to
> what sendmail is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that
> allow you to post message
Millis Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've already spoken to the upstream author, and he does not see
> mwilling to convert to a DFSG license. Probably the only thing I can
> do is to make it suitable for the non-free section for the time
> being. Can you indicate to me how the license shoud
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You wrote:
> I object to this ITP. The software in question is both trivial and
> non-free. Those features which are not a subset of mime-construct
> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) are either irrelevant to Debian
> systems (direct SMTP-based mailing) or a bad idea (encouraging users to
> store
On 2003-06-29T12:40:56+ (Sunday), Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been
> >> possible recently due to sysvinit.
> > I've noticed that waldi already did
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:27:20AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > I`ll proceed in the time order of events:
> >
> > Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:52:38 +0400:
> > I`ve produced a testcase for make which causes it to bail out
> > with a
> > *** Virt
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 02:13:48PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:24:23PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:44:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> > > > ports - NetBSD giv
On Jun 30, Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i dont know anything about perl, but might it be possible to add the
>forked module to the xmltv package, in some way that doesnt conflict
>with the libdate-manip-perl that exists in debian?
Sure, it can be installed in a private directory a
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Millis Miller wrote:
> What other package would you suggest that does the same functionality then
> insteard? I specifically was interested in this one because of the mime
> encoding of the signature/encryption functionality.
apt-cache show bash
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003, Julien LEMOINE wrote:
> gcc -o osd_clock osd_clock.o -L. -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lpthread -lXt
> -lXinerama -lxosd
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/s390-linux/3.3/../../../../lib/libxosd.so: undefined
> reference to `XineramaIsActive'
Did you try to put -lXinerama after -lxosd
Graham Wilson wrote:
> i dont know anything about perl, but might it be possible to add the
> forked module to the xmltv package, in some way that doesnt conflict
> with the libdate-manip-perl that exists in debian?
Should be possible if you use a different directory (one with a higher
priority)
#include
* Adam Heath [Mon, Jun 30 2003, 12:05:06PM]:
> Well, if we had voting on NEW packages, this would be first on my list of
> software never to be allowed into debian. The name is wrong, and the author
> appears to have a bubble on his neck that needs to be burst, if he thinks
> otherwise.
Millis Miller wrote:
> I've already spoken to the upstream author, and he does not see mwilling to
> convert to a DFSG license. Probably the only thing I can do is to make it
> suitable for the non-free section for the time being. Can you indicate to me
> how the license shoudl be changed to be
What other package would you suggest that does the same functionality then
insteard? I specifically was interested in this one because of the mime
encoding of the signature/encryption functionality.
Millis
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:42:28PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > Great, for a default application...
> > (ok, man mawk...)
> >
> > I wonder what makes the following more convenient for a default
> > application to me...
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ g
Just an update--
As I mentioned previously, I am working for NASA over the summer. The
contract they gave me assigns copyright to any computer code I write
this summer to NASA; since it's only for 2.5 months, I didn't bother
making a fuss about it. However, that does mean that I won't be doi
I object to this ITP. The software in question is both trivial and
non-free. Those features which are not a subset of mime-construct
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) are either irrelevant to Debian
systems (direct SMTP-based mailing) or a bad idea (encouraging users to
store pgp passphrases on disk). With
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:13:08PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
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>
> * Package name: email
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> * License
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:42:28PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Great, for a default application...
> (ok, man mawk...)
>
> I wonder what makes the following more convenient for a default
> application to me...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gawk --help
> [...]
And this proves exactly what? Someone wh
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 07:52:57PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Version 3.39-1 of the file utility changed the format of the output line
> for MIPS shared libraries again.
>
> Older versions of libtool.m4 use the file utility and a regular
> expression to determine if something is a shared
>From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews should be
seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to what sendmail
is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that allow you to
post messages, but not supposed to be called directly by the end user.
As such, the
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Millis Miller wrote:
> I've already spoken to the upstream author, and he does not see mwilling
> to convert to a DFSG license. Probably the only thing I can do is to make
> it suitable for the non-free section for the time being. Can you indicate
> to me how the license shoud
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:49:46PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Friday, Jun 27, 2003, at 11:05 US/Eastern, Luca - De Whiskey's - De
> Vitis wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Millis Miller wrote:
>>> * License : Custom
>> Its license is non-free, not "Custom":
>>
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I am the maintainer of osdclock, and there is a problem with Xinerama
on S390
build [1].
There is several undefined references to Xinerama symbols. I don't know
where
are theses symbols.
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> I`ll proceed in the time order of events:
>
> Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:52:38 +0400:
> I`ve produced a testcase for make which causes it to bail out
> with a
> *** Virtual memory exhausted. Stop
> message on a perfectly valid, sane
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> Dan Jacobson (2003-06-28 07:57:55 +0800) :
> > Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to
> > take extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as
> > some other leading brand alternative was in its s
Le ven 27/06/2003 à 15:25, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:53:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > The swallow applet can "eat" any X11 window into the GNOME 2 panel. The
> > application then displays inside the panel instead of being in a window
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:21:05PM +, Bruno Rodrigues wrote:
> With which apt version ?
> I don't find any usr/lib/apt/methods/rsync :(
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg00176.html
Regards
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Hi,
Adam Heath wrote:
> this is a bug in apt. dpkg correctly handles this case(it breaks the dep loop
> randomly, which means postinsts of the affected packages need to be aware of
> the issue.
>
> The apt developer has refused to fix apt to work around this non-problem in
> the past, I suggest
Morgon Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
> This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Last year I discovered mawk sitting there until I banished it away with
> > apt-get install gawk.
>
> Mawk is smaller and faster, so it makes sense that it's the default
> awk
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Dany Vanderroost wrote:
> Dear Sir, Madam,
> I have just received a windows macro virus/virus from you,
That's odd, because debian-devel@lists.debian.org is a mailing list run on a
Debian GNU/Linux machine, which is immune to windows macro virii. The list
software also doesn
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 05:33:36PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote:
> Shouldn't there be a policy to check for packages that depend on a
> package BEFORE its removal from the distribution, and to notify
> maintainers ahead of time that their packages will break? Such was
> the case with the disappearance
> >> I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been
> >> possible recently due to sysvinit.
> >
> >I've noticed that waldi already did a NMU.
> >I'm moved. It's free-software and cooperation at work.
>
> Yes, NMUing essential packages without bothering to contact the
> maintain
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Messages that close bugs are, however, the place for documenting why
> bugs are being closed and when those messages come from changelogs that
> means that the changelogs ought to be more explicit too.
IMHO the only reason why a bug should be closed is th
I`ll proceed in the time order of events:
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:52:38 +0400:
I`ve produced a testcase for make which causes it to bail out
with a
*** Virtual memory exhausted. Stop
message on a perfectly valid, sane and real-world Makefile.
link: http://mail.gnu.org/
On Jun 29, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel,
>> inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds
>> nice.
>and of course it must be installed in /usr/sbin/ in that case, just like
>/usr/sbin/sendmail.
On Jun 27, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have
>three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews,
>while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how
I'd say fix inews/cnews. inews has
I've already spoken to the upstream author, and he does not see mwilling to
convert to a DFSG license. Probably the only thing I can do is to make it
suitable for the non-free section for the time being. Can you indicate to me
how the license shoudl be changed to be suitable for the non-free sec
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:57:55 +0800
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to take
> extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as some
> other leading brand alternative was in its stead.
>
> So what is the single com
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:59:49PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>
> I have a package ready that allows ifupdown to do much more magic.
> That package is in use for one and a half years at the site I work
> for, but it needs the patch (better said, the current version of that
> patch) from Bug #88948 a
Dan Jacobson (2003-06-28 07:57:55 +0800) :
> Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to
> take extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as
> some other leading brand alternative was in its stead.
>
> So what is the single command to apt-get install all the
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:20:18AM +0200, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
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> I'm trying to advocate a developer, although my recomendation bounces from
> nm.debian.org, with following message:
I think you should send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] inste
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:26:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel,
>> inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds
>> nice.
> and of course it must be installed in /usr
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Millis Miller wrote:
> OK, let me see if I can address all the comments I've received so far.
[...]
Thanks, for your explanations, but i think that the most important issue here
is the license.
You'd better keep in touch with upstream author and try to con
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has
> temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says:
>
>Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to
>the Date::Manip module
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has
> temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says:
>
>Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to
>the Date::Manip module
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> For libgdbmg1-dev (excluding packages with Build-Depends on
> "libgdbm-dev | libgdbmg1-dev"):
apache-perl
libapache-mod-perl
We have this already done in our CVS. It should be uploaded in a
relatively short time.
Thanks
Fabio
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Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Julian Mehnle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030627 21:05]:
> > [...]
>
> Thanks for your proposal. IMHO it is important that we are going to
> adopt one or the other proposal rather soon, so that it could be used in
> sarge.
I agree.
> Now to comments:
>
> > Every base arch (al
Shouldn't there be a policy to check for packages that
depend on a package BEFORE its removal from the distribution,
and to notify maintainers ahead of time that their packages
will break? Such was the case with the disappearance of
perlapi-5.6.1.
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 03:21, Bruno Rodrigues wrote:
> Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To do this, just replace http with rsync in your sources.list
>
> With which apt version ?
> I don't find any usr/lib/apt/methods/rsync :(
Seems I was
If you're going to leave out any architecture-specific packages from
your uploads, please still include at least the arch-all packages,
since the autobuilders skip them.
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:53:56 -0600
Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No it doesn't. I've yet to even hear of an architecture that NetBSD runs
> > on but which Linux doesn't. They just have a different definition of
> > "architecture" than us. (ie: our "hppa" may be three or four arches to
>
Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> > Do I look in Packages.gz for Conflicts:, and then look in Description:
> > for "this is the GNU version of..."?
>
>No need for such a fastidious search. Use this instead:
>
> apt-get install `a
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 07:57:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> So what is the single command to apt-get install all the GNU versions
> of everything?
Just create and maintain a meta-package that Conflicts/Depends on the
stuff you want. See the harden package, which has similar funcionality,
AFAIC
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Daniel Schepler wrote:
>
>> I don't know why my previous message on this topic didn't get
>> through, so let me try again...
>
> murphy has been having load issues, amoung other things.
>
>> I'm planning to file bugs against source pack
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
> Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to take
> extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as some
> other leading brand alternative was in its stead.
>
> So what is the single command to apt-get install all th
This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Last year I discovered mawk sitting there until I banished it away with
> apt-get install gawk.
Mawk is smaller and faster, so it makes sense that it's the default
awk for a base system. Even in the GNU installer packages for
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> I'm trying to advocate a developer, although my recomendation bounces from
> nm.debian.org, with following message:
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been
>> possible recently due to sysvinit.
>
>I've noticed that waldi already did a NMU.
>I'm moved. It's free-software and cooperation at work.
Yes, NMUing
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