Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 05:04:19PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Rev> It does that, but sometimes that is not always a good thing. > Rev> Take for example the libreadline library. It is GPL, not LGPL. > Rev> In order to link this library which is somewhat standard (IMO at > Rev> least) your sof

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-24 Thread drow
On %M 0, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote (that I had a broken mutt setup...) > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Manoj Srivastava, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > > That's a reason not to make it a binary. Even reading a config file > would probably be too slow. Hmm. Mayb

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I checked, Debian and Red Hat were not compatible. (e.g. libpng and > > libjpeg have different sonames.) > How did this happen? Shouldn't we try to rectify this ASAP so that there is > binary compatibility? O

Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve Dunham wrote: > > The soname issues are with libjpeg, libgdbm, libncurses. > > DebianRedhat > == > libjpeg.so.6a libjpeg.so.6 > libgdbm.so.1 libgdbm.so.2 > libncurses.so.3.4 libncurses.so.3.0 > > For now, most of these i

Re: Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Shaleh
Only if we are wrong. We should endeavor to do what the upstream maintainer does unless it is flat wrong. We are not RH, maybe they should make their sonames match ours. No, we should both do what is right. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Debian frozen & postgresql

1998-04-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian, Please, please, PLEASE, get rid of postgresql-6.3-2 from frozen. I keep on getting bug reports, and they are fixed in slink. There are seven binary packages involved. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://w

Re: Paging Dan Quinlan

1998-04-24 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:58:57AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I have been getting bounced mail from the testing mailing list sent to Dan > Quinlan. Can anyone verify that he has indeed left the project, or give me > a new address for him? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ still has a mailto [EMAIL PR

Processed: Re: Processed: f

1998-04-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > merge 21253 20587 Bug#20587: There's no current libg++ package Bug#21253: gperf can't be installed with libstdc++ Merged 20587 21253. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs

packages by FTP

1998-04-24 Thread Julien Ortega
I would like to create a ftp site only for the package i want to install on a machine (there will be a lot of machine to install so i dont want to select every time the wanted packages). with this i would be able to intall industrialy this distrib. my problem is to generate the Packages, Packages.

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-24 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Manoj Srivastava, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > I know that. The accepted way of using less used to be to use > a upstream filter. Right now, it is done like so: >__ >__>

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Oh. Well, I have a local lessopen script that takes precedence over the /usr/bin things. I like seeing as much of the stuff as possible (like looking at tar files one can read the README file without having to untar and read and delete stuff later?) I do not think my particu

Re: packages by FTP

1998-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 10:29:38AM +0200, Julien Ortega wrote: > I would like to create a ftp site only for the package i want to install > on a machine (there will be a lot of machine to install so i dont want > to select every time the wanted packages). > > with this i would be able to intall in

Re: Debian frozen & postgresql

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Meskes
Oliver Elphick writes: > Brian, > > Please, please, PLEASE, get rid of postgresql-6.3-2 from frozen. > > I keep on getting bug reports, and they are fixed in slink. > > There are seven binary packages involved. Please, do install 6.3.2 into hamm since it fixed several bugs upstream as well. I

packaging pilot-manager

1998-04-24 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've mentioned this on debian-pilot but I should probably also mention it here. I'm packaging pilot-manager (http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/) for debian. It's actually packaged already and waiting on the new pilot-link to come out... Darren - -- <[EMAIL PRO

Maildir patches for procmail.

1998-04-24 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello. A user has asked me to add maildir support for procmail. The patch: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/distrib/procmail-maildir/procmail-maildir.patch is extremely clean and simple, and since already existing .procmailrc files do not use maildir folders (wh

x 3.3.2-4

1998-04-24 Thread Michael Meskes
What happened? Were the files simply removed? I was just downloading them to test the new version. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuers

Re: Vim @ bzip2

1998-04-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vaclav Hula wrote: > During reading the bzip2 thread, because there is no bzip2 > support (at least until bzip2 is integrated in gzip), > I added folowing in vimrc: I added this to vim and will upload a non-maintainer package today. Wichert. -- ==

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]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: deb

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread Jules Bean
--On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 12:25 am + "Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 05:04:19PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Rev> It does that, but sometimes that is not always a good thing. >> Rev> Take for example the libreadline library. It is GPL, not LGPL. >>

Re: Debian frozen & postgresql

1998-04-24 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I was confused at first when I first read this message. I thought Oliver wanted to upload his latest PosgreSQL package (6.3.2-2) only to Slink. In any case, I have understood everything now :-) He wants the 6.3.2-2 version that is sitting in Incoming to be installed in Hamm because it's been

Re: Problems with ae and xterm

1998-04-24 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:22:32PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Since ae has been converted to slang I have been having many problems with > the keybindings for ae. I have just done a NMU of slang1 for slink; please check if using that makes a difference. Greetings, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION

21164 must be fixed before 2.0.34 comes out!

1998-04-24 Thread erikyyy
bug 21164 does not seem to be a bug in the libc. it is instead a kernel bug. ( new information can be found at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/21/21164.html unfortunately the bug tracking system is slow, so you won't see my message yet. basically the new message sais the following: ) i first tried

Re: Paging Dan Quinlan

1998-04-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
This whole thing is even stranger than that. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not on the distribution list for debian-testing. In fact there are no addresses to that domain in the list. I have no idea why murphy is trying to send these e-mails in the first place, much less why they are causing bounces. On

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-24 Thread Carl Mummert
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > > > I am bemoaning the fact that lesspipe is not directly usable > > by me anymore, since all the stuff got added to it. > > I'm open to suggestions on how to change it so that everybody is > happy... > > What about an environment variable about what items t

Rescue disk crashes with mem=128M or mem=32M or mem=64M

1998-04-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line option "mem=128M" (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the same way (see below)). This system has 128M of RAM, but the BIOS only reports 16M to Linux. When I try to correction this on the boot disk command-li

Re: Rescue disk crashes with mem=128M or mem=32M or mem=64M

1998-04-24 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:53:19AM -0400, Chris Fearnley wrote: > Hi, > > The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line > option "mem=128M" (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the > same way (see below)). > > This system has 128M of RAM, but the BIOS only r

Re: x 3.3.2-4

1998-04-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 12:25:56PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > What happened? Were the files simply removed? I was just downloading them to > test the new version. Oops. Sorry, yes, they were, hence my "WITHDRAWN" message on debian-devel-changes. xbase-configure was stupidly broken. More omi

Re: Mirror of Incoming

1998-04-24 Thread James A . Treacy
> There's one here: > > ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming > Added. > Maybe some list of such mirrors could be added to the Developper's > Corner ? > from developers_corner.html: There are a number of mirrors of Debian's Incoming directory I am working on reorganizing the Developer

Re: Mirror of Incoming

1998-04-24 Thread James A . Treacy
> ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming > Actually it was already on the list... Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 02:22:39PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > >>On the contrary. This is an excellent point you made. ncftp > >> is now under GPL!! Yay! libreadline not being under LGPL worked! > >> Hurrah! > > > > Um, 2.x is GPL. 3.x is not, afaik. > > Certainly the version of 3 in hamm

Re: Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Only if we are wrong. We should endeavor to do what the upstream > maintainer does unless it is flat wrong. We are not RH, maybe they > should make their sonames match ours. No, we should both do what is > right. I definitely advocate following the upstream

Re: License advice

1998-04-24 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you > disagree. > > > Copyright (c) 1997-1998 by Armin Biere. > > Author: Armin Biere. > > Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any > pu

/tmp, O_CREATE -> libstress

1998-04-24 Thread d-nlattp290homo23-joostwitteveen
Hi, yesterday evening I read your thread about /tmp and O_CREATE. Very nice, and I created a "libstress" pacakge, now available on: ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/upload It toesn't do very much (amongs others, it doesn't overload fopen(), only open()), but I've already found a bug the man p

Re: `Usenix-88-lexic.pdf': Paper refered to in gcc texinfo manual.

1998-04-24 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> Ok, I will do that when `master' is repaired. http://master.debian.org/~karlheg/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: License advice

1998-04-24 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 07:00:24PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you > > disagree. > > Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any > > pur

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread Martin Mitchell
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 02:22:39PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > >> On the contrary. This is an excellent point you made. ncftp > >

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 04:27:20AM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote: > > 3 was yanked from hamm (hardly usable) and 2 was put in main. I think it > > uses an epoch, which should make it install even though versionwise it's > > older. > > Hm.. I'm the ncftp maintainer and the version in hamm/non-free

Latest APT release

1998-04-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Scott has prepared 0.0.7 - I only have a few more things to fix up before this will be unleashed into slink. Everyone who was using an older version should upgrade - be sure to report bugs :> There are still no known serious flaws.. Be sure to read the Users's Guide (/usr/doc/apt/guide.text) I d

Re: Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaleh) writes: > Only if we are wrong. We should endeavor to do what the upstream > maintainer does unless it is flat wrong. We are not RH, maybe they > should make their sonames match ours. No, we should both do what is > right. And,

Processed:

1998-04-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 9294 general Bug#9294: abort() Bug reassigned from package `base/kernel' to `general'. > reassign 10087 general Bug#10087: Permissions and files in /dev Bug reassigned from package `base' to `general'. > reassign 11903 general Bug#11903: more

Re: Processed:

1998-04-24 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > [Bugs #10087 #11903 #13017 #15267 #17647 #18416 #9294 reassigned to general]. Clarification: All these bugs are already closed, just that I don't want to see them in my we

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Igor Grobman writes: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> igor wrote: > >a new license yet, but here it is: >> > >> >/* = >> > * Copyright (c) 1998 Moxa Technologies Corp, LTD. All rights reserved. >>

Re: elvis package

1998-04-24 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raul Miller writes: >Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that a program must be either entirely GPLed, >> or contain no GPLed parts. > >More precisely, the non-gpled parts must not have terms which prevent >compliance with the gpled

wu-ftpd important bug(s)

1998-04-24 Thread Hugo Haas
Hi. Is anyone working on wu-ftpd? It has 41 bug reports opened, and it seems that one is quite easy to fix (important bug #17401, #17508, #17622, #17742, #17753, and so on...): I think that manpage ftpd.8.gz just have to be renamed into wu-ftpd.8.gz. I read an email of Heiko Schlittermann (packa

Re: wu-ftpd important bug(s)

1998-04-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Hugo Haas wrote: : : It has 41 bug reports opened, and it seems that one is quite easy to : fix (important bug #17401, #17508, #17622, #17742, #17753, and so : on...): I think that manpage ftpd.8.gz just have to be renamed into : wu-ftpd.8.gz. : : I read

Re: wu-ftpd important bug(s)

1998-04-24 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Hugo Haas wrote: > : > : It has 41 bug reports opened, and it seems that one is quite easy to > : fix (important bug #17401, #17508, #17622, #17742, #17753, and so > : on...): I think that manpage ftpd.8.

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread cpbs
I (foolishly) wrote: > Urk! It's the Obnoxious BSD Advertising Clause, back to haunt us. > Including the OBSDAC would make Moxa non-free. James wrote: > Say _what_? I do *not* think so. (Hint: look at glibc's copyright file) And, of course he was right. Sorry to post without thinking first.

Re: wu-ftpd important bug(s)

1998-04-24 Thread Hugo Haas
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > > Yes, wu-ftpd is depreciated, since all it's functionality is in > wu-ftpd-academ. The only problem is: how can I handle this? > > I itend to create an empty package, depending on wu-ftpd-academ. This > empty package then may remove itself. W

ncftp status? (was re: Intent to package moxa radius)

1998-04-24 Thread Jules Bean
Hmm.. I don't see any version of ncftp 2 in frozen? Someone said it was GPL (and hence free) now? And someone else said it had gone into hamm/main, but I don't seem to have it in my packages file... Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka

Re: ncftp status? (was re: Intent to package moxa radius)

1998-04-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > I don't see any version of ncftp 2 in frozen? > > Someone said it was GPL (and hence free) now? And someone else said it had > gone into hamm/main, but I don't seem to have it in my packages file... It's there. In main, I believe sec

why not mingetty??

1998-04-24 Thread Shaleh
Why is our default not mingetty. Several other dists use this. For almost all Linux boxen this is the right choice. It is easier on mem and cpu than agetty. Anyone who needs the other gettys also knows how to change their getty. I have been running mingetty for a year now and have had no probl

Re: ncftp status? (was re: Intent to package moxa radius)

1998-04-24 Thread Jules Bean
--On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 9:34 pm + "Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: >> I don't see any version of ncftp 2 in frozen? >> >> Someone said it was GPL (and hence free) now? And someone else said it had >> gone into hamm/