On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 11:59:36AM +0200, Tobias Josefsson wrote:
> I was just wondering when Debian release 2.0 is going to be released...
> Does anyone know?
Yes, I know. When it's ready :-)
Hamish
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James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I never said it was unstable and it isn't. But we haven't used it
> before and I don't care how stable it is, we should not and will not
> start recompiling core applications with a previously unused (*in
> Debian*) library, one month into a freeze. The de
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0
> > because it is quite simply not tenable if you want to release hamm
> > before 1999. You can not simply recompile core applications like
> > shadow and net{base,std} with pam and "hope t
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0
> because it is quite simply not tenable if you want to release hamm
> before 1999. You can not simply recompile core applications like
> shadow and net{base,std} with pam and "hope they work",
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > - pam login doesn't use pam. passwd doesn't use pam. telnet doesn't use it.
> > unless most programs are unseing pam, it's useless.
Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0
because it is quite simply not tenable if you want
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> from a first look at debian 2.0 i'm disappointed. ok, everything is moved to
> glibc, and there are lots of new packages. but where is the enhancement ?
If I recall correctly, the stated goals of this release where upgrade
to glibc 2.0, and variou
> Alex, this is much simpler than you think.
>
> I will give you a simple example: My keyboard has a key for the \~n letter
> (using TeX notation) which is used in the Spanish language.
>
> When I press that key, I *expect* to produce such character.
> Not obtaining that letter but some other is
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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> Yes, but if I sent you a message containing some russian leters you
> wouldn't see them the way I see anyway. The same thing for every other
> language. 8-bit clean e-mail message is not the one to send to
> internati
Adam P. Harris wrote:
> "Richard" == Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[linking shared libraries against other libraries]
> > As far as I can tell, it does not save disk and memory space.
> > However, I am rather new at this. Feel free to correct me.
>
> You are wrong. Shared librar
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> Please note, that we are not talking about `dynamically linked binaries'
> (which has been implemented a long time ago) but about `shared libraries
> being linked dynamically against other libraries', that is, if you, say,
> build the libmysql.so sha
> > You can't satisfy all users anyway. In addition, I would hate to be
> > able to switch to "russian" keyboard mode (by mistake) and enter some
> > letters which look just like English ones in the editor I use for
> > _programming_.
>
> OTOH, many people'd be upset not to be able to insert comme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yukhimets) wrote on 09.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Moin Alex!
> >
> > AY> I would like to question the need for this requirement.
> >
> > ???
>
> Aren't you questioning my right to do that? :)
No, but it hardly seems reasonable to question this requirement.
> > AY>
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote:
>
> "Richard" == Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Shared libraries are linked dynamically against other libraries
> >>
> >> Linking shared libraries dynamically against other libraries
> >> simplifies the upgrading process and saves dis
"Richard" == Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Shared libraries are linked dynamically against other libraries
>>
>> Linking shared libraries dynamically against other libraries
>> simplifies the upgrading process and saves disk and memory space.
>> All shared libraries included in
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Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alex Yukhimets writes:
> > if something
> > bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters,
> > "ls" will trash the console while "ls | less" will show you everything
> > and let you delete it.
>
>?? Why
Alex Yukhimets writes:
> if something
> bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters,
> "ls" will trash the console while "ls | less" will show you everything
> and let you delete it.
?? Why on earth do you need less for that ?
Doesn't "LANG=C /bin/ls -b" do the rig
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters
> out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
> sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
> doing "
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>
> >
> > it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters
> > out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
> > sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Just a note that the testing group would like to have an idea of how to
> > test the individual packages (before we were only seeing if it would
> > install). All we are asking for is a checklist (an
> Shared libraries are linked dynamically against other libraries
>
> Linking shared libraries dynamically against other libraries
> simplifies the upgrading process and saves disk and memory space.
> All shared libraries included in the Debian distribution will be
> compiled t
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just a note that the testing group would like to have an idea of how to
> test the individual packages (before we were only seeing if it would
> install). All we are asking for is a checklist (and a script if you
> want), which in the most general se
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:21:41AM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > > All applications registered to menus
> It's already policy. Check out section 3.7 of policy 2.3.0.1.
Could "applications" be spelt out a bit more? Clearly menu entries are onl
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>
> it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters
> out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
> sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
> doing "less " or, more important - if so
Attention all package maintainers:
Just a note that the testing group would like to have an idea of how to
test the individual packages (before we were only seeing if it would
install). All we are asking for is a checklist (and a script if you
want), which in the most general sense says: "this pr
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > All applications registered to menus
> >
> > The menu package included in the Debian distribution stores
> > information about which applications are installed on the system
> > and provid
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> This one is new to me...I have been waiting for the menu system to
> stabalize. I guess this means that it has?
There have been no changes to the menu package since Oct 1997. There are
several open bug reports, but these will hopefully be fixed now that Joost
is less busy. It
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> All applications registered to menus
>
> The menu package included in the Debian distribution stores
> information about which applications are installed on the system
> and provides this data for X11 window managers or text-based menu
> > > Support of 8-bit characters by default
> > >
> > > Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
> > > clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
> > > need to input umlauts, accented characters, etc. All Debian
> > > packages will b
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > Support of 8-bit characters by default
> >
> > Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
> > clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
> > need to input umlauts, accented
> Support of 8-bit characters by default
>
> Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
> clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
> need to input umlauts, accented characters, etc. All Debian
> packages will be configured to be 8-bit
What's going on is that we will have an alpha-testable system by the weekend
with any luck, and we can then set deadlines.
Bruce
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On 1 Jan 1998, James Troup wrote:
Troup> > And if there was a deadline for me to convert my packages I
Troup> > would of made it.
Troup>
Troup> Ah of course; it's our fault for not setting a deadline. Silly
Troup> me.
Listen, I am not looking for somebody to blame. I am just saying:
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
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On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 05:58:30PM +, James Troup wrote:
> > > Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as
> > > our default MTA?
> >
> > Well... Please take a look at
> > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/ and
> > test the smail inside.
>
> Woul
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as
> > our default MTA?
>
> Well... Please take a look at
> ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/ and
> test the smail inside.
Wouldn't that be better tested if it w
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 05:10:09PM +, James Troup wrote:
> Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as our
> default MTA?
Well... Please take a look at
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/
and test the smail inside.
> > And if there was a deadline
"Boris D. Beletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers who
> > still haven't upgraded their packages to libc6, despite it being
> > available since April.
>
> It will be available in the next few days,
Like Jed was going to be done "thi
On 31 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote:
Troup> "Boris D. Beletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Troup>
Troup> > If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we
Troup> > waiting for?
Troup>
Troup> Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers
Troup> who still haven
"Boris D. Beletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we waiting for?
Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers who
still haven't upgraded their packages to libc6, despite it being
available since April.
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