Re: Debian m17n method under X with UTF-8

2004-10-15 Thread Arne Goetje
On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:34, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi folks, > > How are you making Debian into UTF-8 and multilingual/multi-locale > system while switching between normal gnome and Xfce? So far, I did > not find this trivial. Well, in my case, I found SCIM to be the best solution. I don't nee

Debian m17n method under X with UTF-8

2004-10-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi folks, How are you making Debian into UTF-8 and multilingual/multi-locale system while switching between normal gnome and Xfce? So far, I did not find this trivial. For now, I made a proof of concept package with simple shell scripts to create my desired environment by heavily using Debian men

Re: linux cookbook package

2004-10-15 Thread David Palmer
Nico Golde wrote: Hello David, ok this explains a deletion of the package, but it isnt fully deleted (it is in stable) but it isnt on the devel page of the maintainer. sorry i dont understand it. The one in stable will be the first edition which was free. Regards, David.

Re: proper handling of distcc in rules

2004-10-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst,,+32 15 27 69 50,+32 3 542 35 14,
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:45:50PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > Hello. > > I've just started using distcc for my compilation (yep... for preparing > packages too), so I wonder if there is any policy about using `-jX` switch > for make? > > May I simply use `make -j4` in my debian/rule

Bug#276716: ITP: hsshellscript -- Utilities for shell-like scripting in Haskell

2004-10-15 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: hsshellscript Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Volker Wysk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.volker-wysk.de/hsshellscript/ * License : LGPL Description : Utilities for shell-like scripting in Haskell

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:23:40PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:19:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > >/etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is "Configuration > >

proper handling of distcc in rules

2004-10-15 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I've just started using distcc for my compilation (yep... for preparing packages too), so I wonder if there is any policy about using `-jX` switch for make? May I simply use `make -j4` in my debian/rules files or it should be put in some #ifdef conditions? If there is some policy about th

Re: linux cookbook package

2004-10-15 Thread Nico Golde
Hello David, * David Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-15 19:50]: > Nico Golde wrote: > > >hi, > >i saw the linuxcookbook package is only available in stable (i mailed > >the maintainer why) but i noticed that the package isnt mantioned on the > >devel package of the maintainer: > >http://qa.de

Bug#276687: ITP: mimetex -- LaTeX math expressions to anti-aliased GIF images converter

2004-10-15 Thread Isaac Clerencia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mimetex Version : 1.50 Upstream Author : John Forkosh Associates Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html * License : GPL Description : LaTeX math expressions to anti-aliased GIF

Bug#276680: ITP: geresh -- A simple multilingual text editor with utf8 & bidi support

2004-10-15 Thread Lior Kaplan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: geresh Version : 0.6.3 Upstream Author : Mooffie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/geresh/ * License : GPL Description : A simple multilingual text editor with utf-8 & bidi support

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-15 Thread paddy
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:47:02PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:09:01 +0100, paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:50:35PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> The clean way would be to build .deb files from the downloaded > >> plugins, and to install them via

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-15 Thread paddy
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:33:40AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can see your point of view here. Ironically, I've been assuming, > > purely on names, that you are more likely to be living in an english > > speaking country (as am I), whilst Sven mi

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-15 Thread Thomas Hood
Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > For what it's worth, hotplug recently had a similar issue on a test > install for me: it actually loaded both OSS and ALSA drivers for my > soundcard. First make sure that you don't have either discover1 or discover installed. Are the modules loaded by hotplug listed in y

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-10-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Hood] > Debconf wasn't designed to serve the purpose to which you are trying > to put it. "Debconf is not a registry." Actually, debconf was designed for first-time configuration of packages, and is well suited for the task. Your mantra "debconf is not a registry" does not apply here. >

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

2004-10-15 Thread Thomas Hood
> So, my conclusion is that debconf is not particularly well suited to > integrating several otherwise-unrelated packages and I am unsure whether > working around the problem, or helping to improve debconf, or doing it > some other way entirely is the better approach... thoughts? Debconf wasn't d

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:19:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > >/etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is "Configuration > > >control definitions for the login package", and many of its > > >para

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > likewise for me. i've found that after a fresh debian install, one of > the first things i have to do is add a bunch of modules to hotplug's > blacklist. the first thing I had to do after a fresh install was to remove discover1 to avo

Bug#276627: ITP: systraq -- monitor your system and warn when system files change

2004-10-15 Thread Laurent Fousse
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: systraq Version : 0.0.20041015 Upstream Author : Joost van Baal * URL : http://mdcc.cx/software/ * License : GPL Description : monitor your system and warn when system files change Systraq daily sends you

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Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > >/etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is "Configuration > >control definitions for the login package", and many of its > >parameters are inapplicable to display managers, or already > >implemented in pa