Re: Looking for debcheck

On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 08:05:30PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >There are a number of bug reports in the archive that were automatically > >generated by a program named "deb-check". Is this program still around? > >I would like to look at it. >

Re: driver for Epson Stylus 300

On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:38:15PM +0100, David Frey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6 1998 12:18 +0100 "Meskes, Michael" writes: > > I'm not sure about uniprint but the stcolor driver usage in magicfilter > > is outdated, i.e. it uses options no longer avalaible in gs-aladin. > > Sigh. gs-alladin is in no

Re: Bug#16718: kon2: should be Architecture: i386

I Fixed at kon2_0.3.7-4. From: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 06 Jan 1998 23:48:18 + J.J.Troup> Package: kon2 J.J.Troup> Version: 0.3.7-3 J.J.Troup> J.J.Troup> The source for this package has hard coded i386 assembler in it and J.J.Troup> should probably have Architecture: i386 in deb

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Scheetz) wrote on 06.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > > > Do we want all packages to include the Section and Priority fields? > > > > Probably. > > I tend to do it like this

Re: Bug#16663: lyx: depends on xforms0

In a private email to me, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > Btw, I just see the note in the changelog that you dont have time to > maintain lyx... i could take it over. Well, that note was accurate at the time I wrote it. :-) I'm about to start full-time work, so I should have more time to maintain Debian

Re: driver for Epson Stylus 300

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:38:15PM +0100, David Frey wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 6 1998 12:18 +0100 "Meskes, Michael" writes: > > > I'm not sure about uniprint but the stcolor driver usage in magicfilter > > > is outdated, i.e. it uses options no longer avalaible in gs-aladin.

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I know, however it would allow people to much more easily install and > > maintain their own kernel sources for these includes. > > Surely if they're clever enough for that, they're clever enough to > ove

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 06.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 06.01.98 in > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Stephen Zander

Re: boot-floppies progress

Given the .sig on that message, the packages were suprisingly appropriate :) -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Request for BO status files

Hi, If a few of you could send me your status files from a clean bo system that is not running any hamm stuff that also has X windows I would be most appreciative. The file I am interested in is /var/lib/dpkg/status, it contains your package selections. I am going to be using them to test out som

Perl LWP method for dselect

I'm working on an LWP method for dselect. Current code is available at http://biocomp.anu.edu.au/~dld/debian/dpkg-http_0.1_all.deb The method can use any URL supported by LWP. Proxies can be set using ftp_proxy=http://wwwcache and http_proxy=... Multiple sites can be specified during Access

Bug#16727: project: xload is no longer available.

Package: project Version: N/A Xload was removed from xproc 1.2.2-1 However it is not available as a part of any other package. It used to be xcontrib for some time but is no longer there either. -- System Information Debian Release: 1.3 Kernel Version: Linux norwood 2.0.32 #1 Thu Dec 18 13:07:55

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote: > Yes, I know deity will be out soon, but we're paying $0.19/megabyte > here, and caching helps. I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the prefered

Self Referencing depends

Hi, In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: Package: mh Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), mh (>= 6.8.4-11), ncurses3.0 >From a bo system it seems libpaper, xpm4.7 and mh (at least) have this problem. I don't know how dpkg

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for > downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the > prefered method with deity. > Not much experience yet, as the code is less than a day old and ther

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for > > downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the > > prefered method with deity. > > > >Not much

Re: Custom library for emacs 19.34 ?

Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have tried to package custom (look at | http://www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/~flight/debian-private/custom/) so that | it can be dropped in for emacs-19.34 and that works for python-mode.el | 3.28. Still I've heard rumours that custom-1.9961 brea

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done > deliberately. It looks like the

RE: Bug#16727: project: xload is no longer available.

I think we have to report this against the appropriate X package now since procps source does no longer contain xload. Quite some time ago we decided to go with procps' xload simply because it was better than the X one. Now it seems we have to revert that decision. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, P

RE: file descriptors??

Isn't there a bug in the 2.0 series that makes the kernel bomb when too many file-descriptors are used? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146

RE: driver for Epson Stylus 300

As long as it still uses gnu gs too, there shouldn't be a problem. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire!

RE: driver for Epson Stylus 300

Apparently the 300 is not compatible to the 600. When I use the stcolor driver with 720x720 dpi I just get white paper, but lots of that. In fact the printing doesn't finish before I switch of the printer. When using 360x360 I get correct output but always using color ink to print black (hmm, even

Isaac Asimov and the millenium bug [offtopic]

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > Continuing off-topic, I remember that when I was young (very young) I > read a nice proposal for a reform of the calendar, made by Isaac Asimov. > I cannot find it anymore and, for some strange but human reason, I'm no > more in the possibility to ask

Re: Ian Jackson back

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'm now properly back. I'll try to catch up on the mailing lists in > the next few days. Great! Will you be so kind to: a) Put bug web pages in normal order. and b) divert all those 300K reports from debian-bugs-dist

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 06:35:30PM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote: >I suspect we'll get better cache hit rates if everyone in Australia > [the world?] uses the same sites (ftp.debian.org.au and nonus.debian.org), ftp.debian.org.au == ftp.debian.org; ftp.au.debian.org is different though. It has n

Is xforms0.86 save to install?

BY the way, I don't feel comfortable about posting to the developers's list, although I do lurk there. I had some trouble installing some packages that needed xforms0.86. xforms0.86, in turn, needed elf-x11r6lib, which apparently is obsolete. Is it safe to install xforms0.86, not including th

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schwarz) wrote on 06.01.98 in <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>: > > > (b) We set up a certain directory (say /usr/lib/cronjobs) where each > > package can install its own crontab file (/usr/lib/cronjobs/foo). > > Use /etc/cron.of

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > > > I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug a

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >For the moment, I'm using the standard MIME-Base64 and libwww-perl perl > modules (/usr/local/site_perl/...). I'm expecting the Debian modules to > be functional soon (libwww-perl is a bit behind, and mime-base64 is m68k > only). The latest libwww-p

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Do we want all packages to include the Section and Priority fields? > > Probably. > > > > If so, then I think it is far more effective to change dpkg's default > > behaviour so that it does include these fields, rather than req

Re: file descriptors??

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i've tried applying the "gt256 fd patch" but that causes some NFS >problems (i use nfs to mount my debian mirror for upgrades) which would >probably go away if netstd and netbase were recompiled with the new fd >limit. What

Re: file descriptors??

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Meskes, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Isn't there a bug in the 2.0 series that makes the kernel bomb when too >many file-descriptors are used? Not if you use the right patch to raise the number of file descriptors (search for filehandle.patch.linux, or look in

Re: Self Referencing depends

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For instance, take "unzip". The "unzip" and "unzip-crypt" (on non-US) > packages both provide the virtual package "unzip", so that other packages > can have a "Depends: unzip" (the virtual one), without having to kno

Re: file descriptors??

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Sanders) wrote on 07.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 7 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > > > > > >> And thus spake Craig Sand

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > Do we want all packages to include the Section and Priority fields? > > > > Probably. > > > > > > If so, then I think it is far more effective to change dpkg's default > > > be

perl5.004 for bo

Greetings from Kansas, I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has been included in the "stable" release, currently named bo, I think. A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you have noticed on your security page. However, the IRC people told me that 5.00

Re: file descriptors??

On 7 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i've tried applying the "gt256 fd patch" but that causes some NFS > >problems (i use nfs to mount my debian mirror for upgrades) which would > >probably go away if netstd an

Re: perl5.004 for bo

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 08:18:22AM -0600, David Morton wrote: > I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has > been included in the "stable" release, currently named bo, I think. > > A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you > have noticed on your security

Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07

This is a list of packages in the main distribution that need work to be fully libc6-based. I base it on the Packages file at my local mirror, so it may be a day or two out of date. If you have questions about why a particular package is on the list, or if you think there is an error, don't hesit

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides > unzip make unzip to be a virtual package? Yes. Though other packages can still have "Depends:", "Conflicts:" etc. with the concrete pkunzip package if there is

Re: Question/request concerning master

On 6 Jan 1998, Rob Browning wrote: > Or if you use X, just put: > > exec ssh-agent ~/.x-common-startup > > in your .xinitrc. Then you can run ssh-add once after logging in, and > never type the phrase again until you log out. I have been looking al over for this trick... Tried this one to, w

Re: perl5.004 for bo

At 8:18 Uhr -0600 07.01.1998, David Morton wrote: >Greetings from Kansas, > >I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has >been included in the "stable" release, currently named bo, I think. > >A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you >have noticed on your

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I will also never feel comfortable with an automatic process editing my > lilo.config file. I do agree on that... :) > I am set up to boot several linux partitions as well as > a dos partition and a loop-root system. I am much happier editing that > beas

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > > > I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

Dale Scheetz wrote: > I believe that if these fields are provided in the "package" paragraph, > that dpkg should automatically include them in the control fields for the > package. So do I. I don't see any reason why it should not. > On the other hand, what's 4 characters in the rules file cost

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > > > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > >

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides > > unzip make unzip to be a virtual package? > > Yes. Though other packages can still have "Depends:", "Conflict

Re: file descriptors??

According to Craig Sanders: > > What I do is something different. I put this in /etc/initscript: > > > > # Set # of fd's to 256 for all processes. > > ulimit -S -n 256 > > > > That sets the soft limit for all processes to 256 fds. It can be raised > > by an individual process if needed. My /etc/i

intent to package quake2, qwcl, qwsv and unixded

I'm going to start working on packages for quake2, qwcl (the Quakeworld client), qwsv (the Quakeworld server) and unixded (the Quake dedicated server). I spoke to Joey Hess, he said he doesn't intend to package any of them. All of these packages will have to go in non-free. What should the packa

Re: Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > This is a list of packages in the main distribution that need work to > be fully libc6-based. I base it on the Packages file at my local mirror, > so it may be a day or two out of date. If you have questions about why > a particular package is on the

Re: Isaac Asimov and the millenium bug [offtopic]

On 7 Jan, Juan Cespedes wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > >> Continuing off-topic, I remember that when I was young (very young) I >> read a nice proposal for a reform of the calendar, made by Isaac Asimov. > > Isaac Asimov suggests that we should always use the decima

Re: AucTeX

[Removed CC to ] [You ("Davide G. M. Salvetti")] >1) AucTeX has many .el's which should be shipped byte-compiled: should I >compile them with some specific Emacs flavor or doesn't it matter which >Emacs I'll use? (Please consider that, AFAIK, XEmacs comes with its own >AucTeX, so AucTeX should p

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I am set up to boot several linux partitions as well as > > a dos partition and a loop-root system. I am much happier editing that > > beast myself thankyou ;-) > > A loop-root? > With a small patch to

xtar, xtar-smotif, xtar-dmotif orphaned

The source package "xtar" and resultant binary packages "xtar-smotif" and "xtar-dmotif" are now orphaned. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > > "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob> Assuming you're right, and movemail is used for all mail > Rob> locking, then if we patch movemail to use liblockfile, we > Rob> should be fine. > > I volunteer to try rol

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I believe that if these fields are provided in the "package" paragraph, > > that dpkg should automatically include them in the control fields for the > > package. > > So do I. I don't see any reason why it should not. > >

loop-root (was What's Debian's /usr/src policy)

[You (Dale Scheetz)] >On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> A loop-root? >With a small patch to the kernel and some modification of the loop device >code, you can create a file-system-in-a-file. You can do this already in stock debian (rex and hamm) with mount -o loop -t Why d

auto-pgp

Michael Meskes: > Is auto-pgp still an active package? Or is it as outdated as it seems > to be. That means it is the only package on my machine that still has > an AOUT binary. I don't know about anyone else, but I still use it. If noone else wants it, since I'm the upstream author, I could qui

Re: Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07" of 6:22 AM -0800 1/7/98, Richard Braakman wrote: > vgrind-5.7-10 I have uploaded a libc6 build of vgrind, and have adopted the package. - -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: Self Referencing depends

The meaning of self-referencing dependencies is as follows: A (version x) --Depends-> A (no version specified) A (version x) --Depends-> A (satisfied by x) A (version x) --Provides-> A (version x) Useless, but should be allowed and ignored. A (version x) --Depends-> A (not satisfied by x)

Re: loop-root (was What's Debian's /usr/src policy)

Quoting Adam P. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [(Dale Scheetz)] > >With a small patch to the kernel and some modification of the loop device > >code, you can create a file-system-in-a-file. > > You can do this already in stock debian (rex and hamm) with > mount -o loop -t > > Why do you ne

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > The meaning of self-referencing dependencies is as follows: > > A (version x) --Depends-> A (no version specified) > A (version x) --Depends-> A (satisfied by x) > A (version x) --Provides-> A (version x) >Useless, but should be allowed and ignored

Re: Is xforms0.86 save to install?

> "Alan" == Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> Is it safe to install xforms0.86, not including the dev Alan> package? I've recently uploaded re-done and working versions of both libforms0.86 and libforms0.88. They're sitting in Incoming now, and work fine. :) -- Bro

netpbm status?

Is anyone maintaining netpbm? AFAIK the current version is still libc5 based. I've recompiled it for libc6 here and cold upload it if noone objects. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to yo

Re: Question/request concerning master

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: |On 6 Jan 1998, Rob Browning wrote: | |> Or if you use X, just put: |>=20 |> exec ssh-agent ~/.x-common-startup |>=20 |> in your .xinitrc. Then you can run ssh-add once after logging in, and |> never type the phrase again until you log out. | |I have bee

Re: Question/request concerning master

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Amos Shapira wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > |On 6 Jan 1998, Rob Browning wrote: > | > |> Or if you use X, just put: > |>=20 > |> exec ssh-agent ~/.x-common-startup > |>=20 > |> in your .xinitrc. Then you can run ssh-add once after logging in, and > |>

Debian and memory

Hello, i have only one problem. My computer has a memory amount of 128 mb, but linux(debian) only recognizes 64 mb of memory. I would be very pleased, if you can send me a e-mail with the solution of my problem. My e-mail adress is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Thank you very much -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: Debian and memory

First, you need to send mail to the correct mailing list. This is debian-devel; questions like that should go to debian-user, or should be answered by one of the many available FAQs. Add append="mem=128m" to your /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo and reboot (test first though by adding it to the kern

Re: Debian and memory

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, APreusse wrote: > My computer has a memory amount of 128 mb, but linux(debian) > only recognizes 64 mb of memory. Add the following line to your '/etc/lilo.conf': - s n i p p - append="mem=128Mb" - s n i p p - Or, at your lilo prompt: 'mem=128Mb'...

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

Christian Schwarz wrote: > Yes, that's very important to point out: Anacron will only run scripts in > the /etc/cron.period directories. Therefore, only jobs which can safely be > ignored if the system is powered down can be placed into /etc/cron.often. > (What about "/etc/cron.generic" ?) How ab

Anybody tried to compile COAS ?

Has anybody tried the COAS 0.09 snapshot with Debian ? With a few small modifications it compiled and installed for me. Many of the tests succeed, but the `table' UI test with qt interface hangs, all UI tests with curses interface segfault or dump cores, and all python programs with UI don'

Re: Custom library for emacs 19.34 ?

Hannu Koivisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in reply to me: > If it does no big damage, I'd like to suggest to include this in > hamm somehow (either as separate package, or as addition to > emacs). Sorry, but you don't get my vote with this plan. Unless you provide at least G

Re: Self Referencing depends

On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 11:49:46AM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > > > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > > > > > I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done > > > deliberat

Re: Custom library for emacs 19.34 ?

Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't it a pity that there's no established way to package elisp for > Debian in a way that supports all emacsens, as far as possible. It's in the works. We've recently had an initial discussion about the problems involved in supporting all the ema

libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

i think we're going to need some sort of auto-upgrade script to include on the hamm release CD rom, because dselect just can't do the libc6 upgrade safely (AFAIK). The CD will also Need a top-level README.NOW file saying run this script first or suffer the consequences...would be nice if we could

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:30:00AM +0100, Sten Anderson wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yesterday, I wrote a script that scans our whole archive for .dsc files > > (Debian source package description files) and outputs some statistics > > regarding the `Standards-Versio

Debian Release Roadmap

Hi folks! We had a discussion on debian-private in the last days about the release of Debian 2.0. I decided (with agreement of the other developers) to continue Brian's "Upcoming Debian Releases" postings for now. The goal is to get Debian 2.0 released in a reasonable time while keeping the high

Debian 2.0 release requirements

Hi folks! [This is the 2nd mail concerning the new Release Roadmap. I suggest that you read the mail with subject "Debian Release Roadmap" first.] First step towards a stable Debian 2.0 release in time is to have a consensus about the release requirements. (Note, that I changed the term "goal" i

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cd /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386 Grr. cd /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-$(dpkg --print-installation-architecture) -- James - Hardcoded-i[345]86 detection alarm triggered -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

My Epson Stylus (color 600) config

I thought the small trick I've installed on my box would be of interest. Maybe not as such, because the few bytes spared from printcap are replaced by an additionnal script, but as an idea of future directions for magicfilter. It makes use of a lprng special feature, and uses the uniprint driver;

Re: loop-root (was What's Debian's /usr/src policy)

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote: > > [You (Dale Scheetz)] > >On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > >> A loop-root? > > >With a small patch to the kernel and some modification of the loop device > >code, you can create a file-system-in-a-file. > > You can do this already in st

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

> 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

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

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

Re: Is there a maintainer for the install doc?

> Is anyone maintaining the Debian installation manual? > I know that Sven is no longer doing it. If not, > we will need a volunteer. I'd like to maintain it. I plan to be active on the testing front, so I should be aware of all the quirks with the installation and upgrading. BTW, are the .

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

> > > 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

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

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