Re: compressed HTML/dhelp

Joel Klecker wrote: > close 41352 Why is it so difficult to fix bugs instead of closing bug reports without fixing the bugs? > thanks :( > >Please fix bugs! How should the user read compressed HTML > >files? Could you tell me one internet page sending > >compressed html documents to the user?

Re^6: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

Am 30.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH> > (a) symlinks don#t work with the http protocol JH> You know, I've read the http protocol, and I don't recal any mention of JH> such unix-centric concepts of symlinks, especially not any prohibition of JH> them. If you're going to keep

Re^4: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

Am 28.09.99 schrieb martin # internet-treff.uni-koeln.de ... Moin Martin! MB> Marco> localhost/doc/ should point to /usr/share/doc. Please submit a MB> Marco> bug report for your http daemon. MB> The decision was made by the ctte, it is not yet implemented in the MB> policy document, but it will

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

Am 28.09.99 schrieb roland # spinnaker.de ... Moin Roland! RR> > installation process? There#re two better solutions: 1) All programs use RR> > the same file format. RR> Okay, simply change dhelp to use the doc-base directly and were are done. ROTFL, why should I change dhelp to support a broken

Re^4: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

Am 28.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH> > No. A http daemon will never follow this symlinks. They#re 100% useless JH> > when using the http protocol. JH> Balderdash. http://www.apache.org/docs-1.2/mod/core.html#options Somebody told me Debian includes more than one http daemon

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

Am 27.09.99 schrieb GalbraithP # dfo-mpo.gc.ca ... Moin Peter! PSG> I have a recent potato install and dhelp 0.3.14 and _don't_ have PSG> http://localhost/fhs/ support. I don#t have it, too :). Is this directory a Debian standard, Roland? PSG> I could see http://localhost/doc/HTML/, but all new

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

Am 25.09.99 schrieb roland # spinnaker.de ... Moin Roland! RR> > Why? What is the advantage of using doc-base? RR> It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can RR> automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using one RR> special format. No, sorry, but this is wrong. W

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

Am 24.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH> > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for JH> > dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no? I would recommend using dwww and dhelp directly. dhelp#s parser is written in C and uses a databa

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Hi! I've got a problem compiling csound with libc6. The source includes which is not in libc6-dev, but there's a . I've tried to use this one. But the compiler told me that he don't know the size of struct sgttyb. Any ideas? cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fi

Intent to package: csound & cecillia

Hi! I would like to package csound and cecillia. Any comments? cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

LinuxFocus in German?

Hi! Is anybody working on packaging the German LinuxFocus magazine? If not, I#ll do it. cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

l3 - MPEG Layer 3 encoder

Hi! Who maintains frozen? l3 (non-free) has expired. The author (Fraunhofer Institut IIS) has released a new version called mp3encdemo, but this version is limited to 30s of music (so it#s not longer useful) :(((. So please remove my l3 package from frozen. Thanks. cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL

Re: Lists archives outside debian.org

Am 16.04.98 schrieb jdassen # wi.leidenuniv.nl ... Moin [EMAIL PROTECTED] j> http://www.reference.com/ j> and j> http://www.findmail.com/ Nice for spams :(. j> I think it would be useful to archive the Debian lists there too (in j> addition to our www.debian.org archive). No, please

Re: Dictionary Packages

Am 12.04.98 schrieb hilliard # flinet.com ... Moin Bob! BH> provides the source for the client/server software. These BH> dictionaries total about 32 mb in compressed form. Two of them, which BH> amount to about 24 mb, are essential for a satisfactory server, but it BH> would be highly desirabl

sgmltools -> .dhelp, .dwww-index, index.html :)

Hi! You thing it is difficult to support systems like dhelp or dwww in your packages? It#s not :). If your HTML documentation was produced by the sgml-tools (linuxdoc) you can use this new script in your rules file. It creates the needed .dhelp, .dwww-index, and index.html files. Please f

Re: future development of doc-base

Adam P. Harris wrote: > Well, guys, I'm digging into doc-base. Right now I'm focused on > fixing bugs for the freeze. There seems to be a few areas for > interaction between dhelp and doc-base which are tricky to replicate; > and hence, tricky to fix. Thankfully, the code is very small and If

Re: dhelp and doc-base (was Re: [Fwd: dhelp support?])

Am 08.01.98 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> Depending on how doc-base is configured, it will convert texinfo files CS> into PostScript, generate info files from texinfo source, etc. But how long should this take? This would slow the installion of Debian. And remember

Re^2: Debian 2.0 release requirements

Am 08.01.98 schrieb aqy6633 # acf5.nyu.edu ... Moin Alex! AY> it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters AY> out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable AY> sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by AY> doing "less " or,

Re^2: Debian 2.0 release requirements

Am 08.01.98 schrieb aqy6633 # acf5.nyu.edu ... Moin Alex! AY> I would like to question the need for this requirement. ??? AY> While this can be of importance to some users, it can be quite AY> annoying to others. ??? Please remember, a lot of languages need 8 bit clean programs. Non 8 bit cl

Re: Anyone using dhelp with netscape?

Am 05.01.98 schrieb meskes # topsystem.de ... Moin Michael! MM> It seems communicator 4.0 doesn't like it at all. As soon as I click on MM> the debian link netscape gets a bus error. I've found the bug (missing fclose). I'll upload 0.2.2 tomorrow. -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202

Re: Anyone using dhelp with netscape?

Am 05.01.98 schrieb meskes # topsystem.de ... Moin Michael! MM> It seems communicator 4.0 doesn't like it at all. As soon as I click on MM> the debian link netscape gets a bus error. The index.html files are all in HTML 3.2 that's no problem :). But there's one know bug in dhelp :(. The last c

Re^4: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

Am 05.01.98 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> > think, we should use this help system in Debian 2.0. Some other CS> > distributions already use such systems (for example SuSE). CS> You should probably not refer to SUSE here. They are know for their quick CS> and _dirty_ so

Re^2: uploaded dhelp (i386 source)

Am 05.01.98 schrieb leutloff # sundancer.oche.de ... Moin Christian! CL> >* cgiparse binary (from CERN httpd) CL> isn't it better to use the correct Recommends/Depends flag instead of CL> doubling the binaries. Because most people use the Apache server and I'm not sure if you can install s

Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

Am 03.01.98 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> We are aware of this problem. The different menu systems (menu, dwww, CS> dhelp, etc.) all have their advantages and disadvantages so I guess they CS> will all stay around for a while. If you know a disadvantage of dhelp pleas

Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

Am 01.01.98 schrieb fog # perosa.alpcom.it ... Moin [EMAIL PROTECTED] f> I like it but... Fine :). f> 1) How about dwww? (Yes, I know dwww needs a web server...) On my notebook dwww is very slow when your're accessing documents. And building the index produces a very high load on this system

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

Am 31.12.97 schrieb borik # isracom.net.il ... Moin "Boris! "BDB> Do we have any dates for Debian 2.0 "BDB> release/code-freze/dead-line/anything? No. "BDB> If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we waiting for? Are really good question. We should hurry a litte bit. cu, Marco --

dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

Moin Moin! Today I've released the latest version of my HTML online help system for Debian. Bugs reports are welcome :). dhelp What's dhelp? dhelp is an online help system for Debian GNU/Linux. A Debian package can register its HTML documents and dhe

Re^4: intent to package: doom!

Am 29.12.97 schrieb harpo # udel.edu ... Moin Will! WL> Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory, which just WL> wouldn't get mirrored (be default) in Germany? That's ok. WL> That way, if a child gets WL> it, they've got to get it from someplace outside Germany, which the WL

Re^2: intent to package: doom!

Am 27.12.97 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH> Good grief. Well, it's already in non-free, I guess that's good enough JH> (since stuff in non-free cannot be safely distributed unless you examine JH> it's license). But non-free is mirrored on several FTP servers in Germany. And a child

Re: intent to package: doom!

Am 24.12.97 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH> Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current JH> x11 elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will JH> probably pattern it after the quake packages, with a seperate package for JH> levels

doc-linux-{zv,jp,sv}

Hi! Is anybody working on doc-linux-{zv,jp,sv} packages? If not I'll do it, Phil. cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

Debian entry in the German Distribution HOWTO

Hi! It would be nice if anybody could write a new official entry for the Debian distribution for my German Distribution HOWTO. Thanks. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 Hersteller: The Debian Linux Association Software in

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

Am 01.12.97 schrieb bruce # va.debian.org ... Moin Bruce! BP> We've been having a logo contest for a long time. It failed to generate BP> a consensus on a logo for the project. It got to the point where people What's wrong with the logo on www.debian.org? BP> I chose this logo because it is a s

Re^2: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

Am 29.06.97 schrieb clameter # waterf.org ... Moin Christoph! CL> There is no need to much up any links. The web-browser should simply check CL> if a .gz file exists if the file referenced by the link cannot be found CL> and decompress the file with a tagged on .gz on the fly. That is the way CL>

Re^2: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

Am 28.06.97 schrieb clameter # waterf.org ... Moin Christoph! CL> It will still serve the .html file (now uncompressed) containing .html.gz CL> links which are not understood by web-servers outside of the Debian realm. Maybe we could use the following: 1.) Change the links inside the documents

Re^2: End of Documentation Discussion

Am 28.06.97 schrieb alegre # saturn.superlink.net ... Moin Fernando! a> 1) The default format for online documentation is HTML. A web browser a> (lynx) and a very small web server (boa) will be in the core distribution, a> marked important. But a lot of people don't want to have a WWW server on

Re^2: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

Am 28.06.97 schrieb clameter # miriam.fuller.edu ... Moin Christoph! CL> 200Mhz Pentiums are the standard fare today. And I am running CL> the boa webserver for example on some low memory 486DX66s with I'm using a 486/100 and a 486SL/33. In my opinion we should avoid using the server to uncomp

Re^2: End of Documentation Discussion

Am 28.06.97 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> > Would not texi-html or html-texi be a better name? CS> What do the others think about this? I would vote for /usr/doc//html. cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http:/

Re^2: How about e2compr? Was: fixhrefgz debate

Am 28.06.97 schrieb clameter # miriam.fuller.edu ... Moin Christoph! CL> : Don't worry: gzip is part of the base system. CL> Your word needs to be in Microsoft's and Apple's ear. But why should a Windows User browse the Debian online documentation? CL> I like the idea and debianized it but aft

NEW: debian online help system (dhelp)

Moin Moin! Yesterday I released the first version of my Debian online help system called dhelp. You can download this experimental version from: http://www.tu-harburg.de/~rzthmb At the moment the system is supported by doc-linux-de and selfhtml. What's dhelp? dhelp is an online help syst

Re^2: End of Documentation Discussion

Am 27.06.97 schrieb jgoerzen # complete.org ... Moin John! JG>better. And, keep in mind that TeX and SGML/LinuxDoc can be JG>converted to HTML on-the-fly if somebody writes a simple CGI JG>program. That's not true. You can't convert TeX or SGML on-the-fly, because the converters p

Re: Documentation Policy

Am 23.06.97 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> Option 3: We ship .texi files and produce HTML and/or info files on CS> demand (in the postinst script). Oh no. That's a very bad idea. All converters like latex2html, sgml-tools, texi2html produce not very per

Re^6: Status of Debian Policy

Am 23.06.97 schrieb pdm # informatics.muni.cz ... Moin Milan! MZ> - It's non-free. That's a real problem. MZ> - It's big. But not bigger than xemacs! MZ> - It can't run on text console. But lynx can. MZ> - Limited possibilities of handling gzip files (typing xxx.html MZ> doesn't find xxx.

Re^2: Documentation Policy

Am 25.06.97 schrieb joey # kite.ml.org ... Moin Joey! JH> I haven't been following this thread closely (catching up on mail backlog JH> after vacation), but the reason I've heard why it's not acceptable to ship JH> only info files and convert to html on the fly is because the converter in JH> dww

Re^2: Documentation Policy

Am 26.06.97 schrieb alegre # saturn.superlink.net ... Moin Fernando! a> If we want to have HTML as the default we would have to put some effort a> into fixing bugs in the converters. A converter fixed means many documents a> fixed, while a document fixed is just one document fixed. We would have

Re^8: Status of Debian Policy

Am 26.06.97 schrieb liw # iki.fi ... Moin Lars! LW> Nothing, as far as I know. dwww, however, fixes thing correctly. That But dwww is very slow (on my 486SL notebook). LW> doesn't help people who wish to browse documentation without using a Right, for this people I've written an online help sy

Re^8: Status of Debian Policy

Am 26.06.97 schrieb branden # purdue.edu ... Moin! b> For every .html request that comes in (or perhaps for any request in b> general), look for a file fitting the traditional spec. b> If that fails, look for a .gz version of that file in the same directory. b> If that fails, return the usual 404

Copyright question

Hi! I've got a copyright question. The selfhtml (doc section) package, that I'll release the next days, has got a copyright that forbid changing the files. Should I put the package in unstable/stable or in non-free? In my opinion the package should go to unstable/stable because it's not ne

Re^2: Documentation Policy

Am 21.06.97 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> 2. The new "deity" (dselect successor) will simplify the handling of CS> >1000 packages very much. I had another idea: Perhaps we could deity CS> adopt to have an overall switch about which documentation the CS>

Re^2: Info or HTML: which should be the default, which in a separate p

Am 21.06.97 schrieb storm # gate.net ... Moin "Scott! "SKE> Except for those of us who don't want DWWW, don't want a web server, but "SKE> do want to browse HTML under lynx. Then the links break if you compress "SKE> it. That's not true. We could compress the HTML files and browsers like lynx,

Re: Documentation Policy

Am 21.06.97 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> However, HTML is getting more and more popular these days and I think it CS> would be very unwise not to choose HTML as "preferred document format". Right. A lot of companies will use HTML for their programms. CS> To summariz

Re^2: Debian's mail daemons

Am 20.06.97 schrieb kai # khms.westfalen.de ... Moin Kai! KH> I completely fail to understand why a professional system administrator KH> would _want_ to use a MTA that's _that_ notorious for security holes. My KH> idea of professionalism seriously clashes with this. Who tells you that the other

Re^4: Status of Debian Policy

Am 21.06.97 schrieb edd # rosebud.sps.queensu.ca ... Moin Dirk! DE> But they get html via the dwww package! Which gives them _more_ DE> documentation then there is in html only. But this requires a www server! Not a good idea for slow systems like my notebook. And the result doesn't look great

Re^4: Status of Debian Policy

Am 20.06.97 schrieb pdm # informatics.muni.cz ... Moin Milan! MZ> There is one good info browser: GNU Emacs. On the other side I don't MZ> know any good browser for HTML, that's the main problem of HTML MZ> documentation. Your're kidding ;-)? There're several really great HTML browsers like n

Re^4: Status of Debian Policy

Am 20.06.97 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ... Moin Christian! CS> Just unpack all .tar.gz files in the same directory and use the file CS> "HOWTO-INDEX-3.html" as "index.html". It contains an overview over all CS> available HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs and hyperlinks to them. Oh no, that's not a g

Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

Am 16.06.97 schrieb sanvila # unex.es ... Moin Santiago! SVD> The simplest solution is to ship html in a different package. This way SVD> the user will be able to choose to not install the html docs if he/she SVD> believes info2www is enough. Ask the users! The most people hate the info format a

Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

Am 16.06.97 schrieb liw # iki.fi ... Moin Lars! LW> It was decided many moons ago that Debian would use HTML as its LW> primary on-line documentation format. HTML should be the default. That's right. But a lot of important packages like doc-linux don't use HTML. LW> is done with texi2html. Fo

Re^2: Debian's mail daemons

Am 16.06.97 schrieb efraim # argh.org ... Moin Alexander! AK> sendmail: too complicated That's wrong. It's very easy to configure sendmail with the m4 scripts for a leaf site. And professionell system adminstrators will use sendmail because it's the standard MTA. And you should remember that

Re^2: Debian's mail daemons

Am 16.06.97 schrieb efraim # argh.org ... Moin Alexander! AK> sendmail: too complicated That's wrong. It's very easy to configure sendmail with the m4 scripts for a leaf site. And professionell system adminstrators will use sendmail because it's the standard MTA. And you should remember that

selfhtml

Hi! Is anybody already working on a debian package containing the selfhtml manual? This is a real great description of the HTML tags in German language. If not I'll make a package. I'll upload my first debian package (doc-linux-de) in the next days. Bug reports are welcome ;-). cu, Marco