Bug#965022: ITP: apery -- Strong AI for playing Shogi

2020-07-14 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: apery Version : WCSC28+git20191114 Upstream Author : Hiraoka Takuya * URL : https://github.com/HiraokaTakuya/apery * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Strong AI for

Bug#964732: ITP: libosl -- library for Shogi playing programs

2020-07-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: libosl Version : 0.8. Upstream Author : GPS Team * URL : http://gps.tanaka.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gpsshogi/pukiwiki.php * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : library for

Bug#964730: ITP: gpsshogi -- Shogi playing program based on OpenShogiLib

2020-07-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson This is rather an Intent to Resurrect, as gpsshogi was in Debian 2 releases ago. * Package name: gpsshogi Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Team GPS, feat. Daigo Moriwaki * URL : http://gps.tanaka.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Bug#964232: ITP: fairy-stockfish -- chess variant engine derived from Stockfish, including Shogi and XiangQi support

2020-07-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: fairy-stockfish Version : 11.1 Upstream Author : Fabian Fichter (unknown email) * URL : https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description

Bug#924218: ITP: crazywa -- AI engine for Wa Shogi and several other variants

2019-03-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: crazywa Version : 0.0.0~git2018.08.12 Upstream Author : H.G. Muller * URL : http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=crazywa.git * License : GPL Description : AI engine for Wa Shogi

Bug#770509: ITP: uci2wb -- XBoard protocol adapter for chess/shogi/xianqi engines speaking USI/UCCI/UCI-XQ

2014-11-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: uci2wb Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : H.G. Muller * URL : http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=uci2wb.git;a=summary * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : XBoard

Bug#770384: ITP: sjaakii -- computer player for Chess and variants, including Shogi and XiangQi

2014-11-20 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: sjaakii Version : beta2 Upstream Author : Evert Glebbeek * URL : http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Sjaak II

Bug#759519: ITP: shogivar -- UI to play many shogi variants against human or computer

2014-08-27 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: shogivar Version : 1.55a+git Upstream Author : Steve Evans, H.G.Muller * URL : http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=shogivar.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/C-port * License : GPL

Bug#755957: ITP: git-reintegrate -- Git extension to manage integration branches

2014-07-24 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson X-Debbugs-CC: Felipe Contreras * Package name: git-reintegrate Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Felipe Contreras * URL : https://github.com/felipec/git-reintegrate * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:57:01AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:39:00PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:28:33PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > >&g

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:17:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:59 +0100 > Yann Dirson wrote: > > So the question is, is it time to request removal of those packages, > > or is there any remaining reason not to do so that I missed ? > >

Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
[this and the following mails are resent versions, my mails did not make it to the list due to some config problem - sorry for any dups this may cause] Since April 2009, kernel-package has no use any more for the {kernel,linux}-patch-* packages (AFAIK the current recommended way of patching a kern

Bug#474254: ITP: tagua -- Board-game frontend for playing chess variants and other games

2008-04-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tagua Version : 1.0~alpha2 Upstream Author : Paolo Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://tagua-project.org/ * License : GPL Programming La

Bug#421745: RFA: bigloo -- A practical Scheme compiler

2007-05-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: normal My primary focus is on other things these days, and this package would benefit from someone using it more than I do, so this is the formal request for adoption for the bigloo package. Some of the work to do on the package: - package new upstream release - activate t

Re: How to automatically update files on alioth from svn

2005-11-29 Thread Yann Dirson
itory and the > webspace is on different machines. https or svn+ssh to access the repo should provide the level of authentication you need, or do I miss something ? HTH -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linu

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
her with a version range in build-conflicts. There may also be the case where one cannot exactly determine from changelogs (debian _and_ upstream) what version of a builddep is needed, and make a safe bet. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & r

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
hat could be done either by a rebuild, or, less costly, by a simple unpack/edit-changelog/repack. In that case, if we had libfoo0_1.0-1 in pre-testing, and libfoo0_1.0-2 in unstable, we'd end up with libfoo0_1.0-2.0.1 in pre-testing, and libfoo0_1.0-2.0.2 in unstable, whether the latter was re

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Yann Dirson
n systems. What's the problem with daily changing packages ? By nature, only different packages can change each day. That could make it a good compromise between stable and unstable, eg. for people in need for up-to-date desktops. But precisely, one of the problems for those people, is that

What is the default gcc version ?

2003-06-30 Thread Yann Dirson
some light on this issue ? [please CC me on followup] Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratu

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
Adam wrote: > So doing bts work is worthless? :) Hey, someone once wrote similar scripts to count how many bugreports were reported by anyone ! /me rejoices recalling he was ranked 3rd by the number of open bugs :) Well, never mind :) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |W

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
t NMUs on arch kernel-patches to be quite rare anyway. And we could give a NMU numbering-space with 2 dots, by making the 1st revision of an arch patch to be -8.0 at first. Does it make sense ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related:

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
may have noted that dh-kpatches supports declaring such patches since recently). I hope you're not suggesting all mixes of sub-patches of the debian patch should be supported - this idea would have no chance to survive long :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |W

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
s to order the patches by hand, instead of declaring explicit dependencies (much like sysvinit and others do, and like the patch-ordering facility in make-kpkg). If the above is correct, I'd see that as a step backwards. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why mak

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:37:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:23:27AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:00:06PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > > > We could get around Guido's point mentionned above by having a

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
f dh-kpatches will work in the same stage as make-kpkg does, it may make sense at some point to have a look at something like a merge of this part into make-kpkg. But since this is all about things yet to be written, we'll see later. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
a to work toward at this time, > however. Yes, a new generation of source packages is needed, but if we could settle the kernel-packaging issue without this, that would at least help to get it running for sarge... Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bi

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
level architecture support, just like it does not use make-kpkg-level kernel-version support. Although that may not look like a big deal, that seems to show that at some time a redesign of the interface between make-kpkg and the patches themselves would be a good idea. Regards, -- Yann Dirso

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
which would by default contain the debian patch. Additionally, with things done this way, we're not even forced to update the whole kernel-source-2.4.20 seven times or more, we just have to update kernel-source-debian-2.4.20, which I believe would be good for the health of our network pipe

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
s have proven deficient in some way, but I probably missed many things - I am even under the impression their construction is not even done by make-kpkg itself. Could someone elaborate on that ? (Herbert ? Manoj ?) Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill ric

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
ay, and having the various kernel-image-whatever build-depend on this kernel-source and any necessary kernel-patch packages. If this understanding is correct, I admit I don't see why the practice has diverged from this idea. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-

Bug#157729: ITP: gatos-drm-source -- DRM modules source from the GATOS project, with support for recent ATI chips

2002-08-21 Thread Yann Dirson
: DRM modules source from the GATOS project, with support for recent ATI chips -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultan

Looking for a builder/uploader to fix RC bug on gcompris

2002-04-20 Thread Yann Dirson
y, it will be great - otherwise I'll do that monday, but every day counts for woody... TIA, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-03 Thread Yann Dirson
should give better euro support I guess. There's already an entry in the BTS. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, St

Bug#112478: ITP: thoteditor -- customizable editor for structured documents

2001-09-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-16 Severity: wishlist Package name: thoteditor Version : 2.1e Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://opera.inrialpes.fr/thot/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/editors/ Licen

Re: console-tools vs kbd

2001-01-04 Thread Yann Dirson
. If it is not fixed in your version of the package (hm, did I already upload a fixed one ?), just adding 2 dummy parameters at the end of the command-line should do the trick. HTH, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Yann Dirson
ut this rationale into console-data's README.Debian. Best regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Cheaper, more Pow

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:39:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > Probably this should be discussed here and if noone objects changed ASAP, > > so that any problems get caught quickly. > > Don't

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-08 Thread Yann Dirson
needs to be rewritten, which I have started to do - I did not put much time here however. Basically, /etc/console-tools/config should end up being generated by the postinst from debconf-entered information. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ?

Suggestions for new packages

1999-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
+ app which stores incoming calls in either an mSQL or a mySQL database, and announces the call both visually and audibly. The user can change the names on calls, and set the spoken greeting. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

e2fsprogs 1.12 into hamm ? (Was: Bug#27401: fsck.ext2 segfaults)

1998-10-15 Thread Yann Dirson
enough. Maybe it can be pushed into updates to the stable tree now. Any objection ? -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more p

Re: office package

1998-10-12 Thread Yann Dirson
to order a source CD. Any help appreciated on this. TIA, -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/>

Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Alexander E. Apke writes: > I propose xbase allowing people to choose between black or white > background during postinst or maybe in some kind of xbaseconfig script. I think it's not necessary. I did not test, but the following (or a similar setting) should work well and please most peopl

DO NOT UPGRADE TO PLAN 1.6.1-4.2 ! USE -5

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
suffered from this. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check

Intent to package TEI P3 + LSD

1998-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
ll then to fix the last important bug on `plan' (even though it's not marked as such ;), and handle any such new bug on my hamm packages if any. Should there be no answer from me within 2 days to such a report, consider I'm too busy and feel free to do a NMR. -- Yann Dirson<[

Re: 19980623 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
te for the full listing ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
and kbd_0.96a-4. It does occur in all versions bewteen and including 0.96-1 and 0.96a-3. Filling a Fixed-in-Version field with either of 0.95-16 or 0.96a-4 would be wrong. We don't want that. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email:

Re: JED anyone?

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
so someone else with less plans than me could have a try a jed... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more st

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
> > > I would advise for 2.0.7final instead. IMHO 2.0.7r looks much like an > > additional patch-level. > > Um. f comes before p in the alphabet, whereas r comes after p. > > 2.0.7final < 2.0.7pre < 2.0.7r Aïe, where did I leave my head... Craig Sanders wr

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
deb-policy. You're welcomed to comment other points there ! Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Rob Browning writes: > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [Note: I don't know much about the internals of the BTS; I hope this > > will be accurate enough, though] > > > > * These fields would be named by the codename of the dist >

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
amm sparc identified) (hamm i386 m68k clear)" Don't know how easily the DB engine used by the BTS can deal with this data format, though. Is there some lisp query engine ? :) Each bug report in the current WWW pages could be associated with a 2-dim array showing the status. Some new

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Craig Sanders writes: > how about using "2.07pre8-1", "2.07pre8-2", and so on for the next set of > glibc pre-releases? Seems like it doesn't work: $ dpkg --compare-versions 2.07pre8-1 '<<' 2.0.8 && echo yes || echo no no -- Yann Dir

Handling of pre/alpha/beta (Was: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
t include in my 1st summary; I will probably issue an updated one shortly. A number of us are of the opinion that we should take a decision on this once and for all, and that it gets included in the Packaging Manual. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & ric

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Dale Scheetz writes: > In the mean time, unless anyone can object within the next several hours, > I will construct and upload a new release of glibc with the version > number: 2.0.7r-1 I would advise for 2.0.7final instead. IMHO 2.0.7r looks much like an additional patch-level.

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
a > > clarification about the version number in the extended description. Well, it is know solution, but with a disavantage: we don't use upstream version number... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-22 Thread Yann Dirson
eport bugs when the hit one, and it is IMHO an important issue to let them new quickly about related reports, without forcing them to get through all the thread when not needed. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL

RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: > Sure, but it would be nice to have some sort of a mechanism to help us > to deal with bugs and dists. > > I think that we should keep the state of each bug-report regarding > each dist (stable/frozen/unstable/experimental). Thinking backward, I don

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-16 Thread Yann Dirson
hat has happened to the periodic WNPP listing ? This kind of package really needs a new maintainer ! Well, IMHO, at least... Maybe I'll volunteer, but not right now... anyway it's too late for hamm :( -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & rich

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-15 Thread Yann Dirson
x27;t know, don't have joe installed any more), uses S-lang, is emacs-likee, has vi emulation AFAIK. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
ould be managed easily with > the maintainerdb whose development has stopped because it was based > on a non free SQL db and the maintainers were fucked up by the rant. What db engine did they use ? We have postgresql in main... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop ma

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
This message is mostly aimed at netgod. Martin Schulze writes: > On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:14:19PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is > > however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in

About 2.0.34 not being perfect

1998-06-12 Thread Yann Dirson
an 2.0.33 (console crashes within a few hours). As I did not receive any answer to it yes, I include it so it is know on Debian (I only sent a copy to Brandon as it's somewhat triggered under X) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email:

Re: Boot Dependancies - a weird wacky wonderful new idea

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
ake a /bin/boot-make that would have small footprint both in RAM and in / ? But maybe it's not worth the time to do it ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email:

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Wichert Akkerman writes: > Previously Yann Dirson wrote: > > It does not seem that we have currently any conventions regarding the > > packaging of kernel modules. I just tried the new alsadriver from > > slink, and, for the same reason I could not use the packaged joyst

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
ars to be on my machine. Hm, I quite skeptic. We'll have to have eg. a try at loading the 2.0.33-compiled ones in a 2.0.34 kernel... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
t suggestion of mine ("An idea for the BTS (Was: Weeding out slink bug reports)", archive/latest/6227) to really add support for distributions in the BTS. Nobody seems interested in talking about that, though... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer &a

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
is in the "To:" or "CC:" fields, ie. when he's in the *original* recipients, which is usually not the case for a bug report, addressed to "{submit,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Or do I miss something ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bil

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
hange > and not just closure. What about another one: building a deb of it ? I would be of interest to people basing a new dist on Debian - it would also make it easy for people willing to study it and submit small patches (eg. the "Fixed" severity) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL

RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
ress: STATUS [EMAIL PROTECTED] [AT ] STATUS ALL AT This proposal is probably not fully optimal; I may have overlooked some interesting possibilities. Any comments ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: ftp server layout

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
out to without success... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirso

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
ared libraries. Maybe, but 2.0.7pre3 is not what we have in hamm. It's pre1. I don't see it as a good idea to switch from pre1 to final while in the deep freeze. > [on Debian] the upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 goes very smoothly. Nice to hear that, anyway. -- Yann Dirson<[E

RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
that I had the idea of packaging alsa myself, but I wanted to discuss these issues first... What do others think about this problem ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, isp-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian

dpkg and alpha/beta versioning (Was: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1)

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
only be used IMHO as an internal (ie. for dpkg and developpers, and not for users) representation. If we're at last going to discuss these issues, I'm volunteering to coordinate the discussion and post summaries of the discussion's progress. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
et into the LSB. Will this upgrade not imply that we recompile and test the whole of the dist, to make it sure hamm is self-compilable ? If not, every bugfix upload will possibly break something because of a possible glibc change... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-B

An idea for the BTS (Was: Weeding out slink bug reports)

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
d take their values in the set current of severities. The still missing "Fixed" severity would be used to tell a dist is clear wrt this report. A bug will then be allowed to be closed only when all dists list "Fixed". Any comments ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1998-06-06 Thread Yann Dirson
the version when out of beta (I'll use this for fweb) * consider alpha/beta to be based on previous version. I use this for e2fsprogs 1.12-WIP, which I numbered 1.10-1.12-WIP- Note that the 1st one is not incompatible at all with other ones ;) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maybe alpha should be in hamm? (was: Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?)

1998-04-30 Thread Yann Dirson
release hamm/alpha or hamm/whatever later on, maybe even if slink/i386 is near release. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Languages for Description (Was: language for changelog)

1998-04-29 Thread Yann Dirson
ng to deb-policy, so warn your CC: - I only added it in mine so that people who raised an interest in such issues in the previous thread read it] -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Deb

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Yann Dirson
arking it as a conffile, would be interesting. If this file is going to be modified only by the registering interface, then this should not be necessary. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: RFC: dpkg and handling of the Unconfigured state

1998-04-28 Thread Yann Dirson
configuring alot of stuff as it is unpacked. Ah. That may be another problem, which probably comes from the fact that dpkg is not able to do multiple install/configure cycles in one run. Once that is fixed, I think the problem you mention will go away. Right ? -- Yann Dirson <[

RFC: dpkg and handling of the Unconfigured state

1998-04-27 Thread Yann Dirson
e given special treatment in this case, in that they would not be subject to these manipulations. This proposal only concerns executables. Maybe other things can be done, eg. for shared libs, but I'm no expert here. Any comments on this ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Looking for xemacs20 user wishing to help

1998-04-27 Thread Yann Dirson
pt installed if possible) who would like to run some elisp code for me, and send me back the list of those files. Thanks by advance, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU

Re: Mirror of Incoming

1998-04-24 Thread Yann Dirson
There's one here: ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming Maybe some list of such mirrors could be added to the Developper's Corner ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Nice stuff to package: Open C++

1998-04-21 Thread Yann Dirson
... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Yann Dirson
.tar file instead of the compressed-tar file's. This would allow arbitrary (as long as supported by dpkg-source) compression tools to be used. Let's say .bz2 files on ftp sites, and .gz files on CD's ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer &am

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Yann Dirson
in the console-tools package (see slink - still in Incoming for now), as function findfile() in libctutils (/usr/include/lct/utils.h). Note that I stillconsider this to be in alpha stage - it has to be made more modular. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-09 Thread Yann Dirson
uot; that's sufficient to tell not every machine is a router. Same regarding all firewalling options in the kernel. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux

Re: ksymoops packaged ? System.map issues ...

1998-04-08 Thread Yann Dirson
be specified by using the -k switch on the command > # line. If a symbol file is not explicitly specified the > # following filenames will be tried: > # > # /boot/System.map > # /System.map > # /usr/src/linux/System.map The manpage is

Offering package tkman (non-free)

1998-04-07 Thread Yann Dirson
e upstream author of the usefulness of any of my suggestions, so I guess this will have to be done by the Debian maintainer of the package. I'll gladly offer my tkman mail folder, containing most of my ideas, to the new maintainer. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-08 Thread Yann Dirson
esn't "LANG=C /bin/ls -b" do the right job for that ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

My Epson Stylus (color 600) config

1998-01-07 Thread Yann Dirson
s a case-like structure on the printer-name. It will prevent to have many filters differing only by the resolution used. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-em

Re: Dependencies

1998-01-01 Thread Yann Dirson
ies etc. change during package installation. Yes, that's how I interpret the problem with e2fsprogs. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[

Dependencies (Was: timezone/timezones problems)

1997-12-31 Thread Yann Dirson
ard of anyone else speaking on this) while upgrading e2fsprogs to 1.10-9. I thought it might have been a bug in dpkg's dependency mechanism; I guess I reported that, but can't find out a copy in my folders, neither can I find it from the headers in "Unanswered pbs"... Does so

I LOST mail between 21 Dec and 24 Dec.

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi all of you, I had a mail problem with my ISP between the 21th and the 24th of december, which ended in >300 mails lost. If some of you emailed me any message during this period, there are good chances I didn't get it, and you should probably resend it. Thanks, -- Yann Dirson

Re: tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: > I cannot have the ygoth fonts to work correctly, and would appreciate > some very-very-quick help. OK, thanks to all for your quick answers, and especially to Olaf for the fix. For those interested by the fix, here it is: Manually apply thefollowing diff t

tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
ch in font /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr10.600pk . [1] Here are the versions of tetex I'm using: base: 0.4pl8-4 bin: 0.4pl8-3 extra: 0.4pl8-2 BTW, I didn't find a way to access the changelogs from the packages WWW pages. It would be nice to add that, if I didn't miss t

Re: Uploaded wwwoffle 2.0-1 (source i386) to chiark

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Federico Di Gregorio writes: >* Added cron job to purge wwwoffle cache. Isn't it automatically handled by wwwoffled ? There is a "Purge" section in /etc/wwwoffle.conf (v1.3) that seem to indicate there's an internal mecahnism for this. -- Yann Dirson <[EMA

Re: Libc6 progress for contrib and non-free (Dec 1997)

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: > non-free: xforms0.86-0.86-2 xmysql (contrib) is not listed, but depends on both libc6 and xforms0.86. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debia

Re: debian-kbd needs M4 hacker

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
27;m not really a guru, but I had the opportunity of writing some M4 macros to work with autoconf. I may help, if you wish. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian G

Re: options for menu packages

1997-12-17 Thread Yann Dirson
see that before starting such work ;) But I must admit the current solution works OK for me, and is a very low-cost one ! Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux

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