Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-21 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have them beat out on shear size, quality, integration of packages, > and ease of updating. Don't forget the most important aspect, security! :) -- - ___ Debian GNU/Linu

xanim and the dotofiles

1998-06-21 Thread Michael Dietrich
no, that's not a new boygroup, it's a copyright problem. for special decodings xanim uses non-free software. i found the needed .o files for alpha. perhaps now is the moment to get xanim multi-platform ready. there is a server with a lot of objects including the missing for debian. the question now

Re: Intent to package: ud

1998-06-21 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Fredrik Hallenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to package ud, the uptime daemon. This package should be ready in > a few days. Great, I think... What does it do? Got any addresses for more info? -- - ___

Re: xanim and the dotofiles

1998-06-21 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:44:41 +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote: > no, that's not a new boygroup, it's a copyright problem. for special > decodings xanim uses non-free software. i found the needed .o files > for alpha. perhaps now is the moment to get xanim multi-platform >

Intent to package: t1lib

1998-06-21 Thread David Huggins-Daines
Preliminary, unofficial packages (t1lib0, t1lib0-dev, t1lib0-bin) are on my website at http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672/linux/ $ dpkg --status t1lib0 Package: t1lib0 Status: install ok installed Installed-Size: 204 Maintainer: David Huggins-Daines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: t1lib Version: 0.7-1 D

Re: New gnome packages

1998-06-21 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Am I correct that we currently do not have a complete desktop with gnome? > > Since there is no wm yet, it's pretty difficult to judge it. > >

RE: Intenet To Package: Electric Eyes

1998-06-21 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- > > On 19-Jun-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yes, I did check the WNPP this time! ;) Thanks for pointing out my error, > > everyone on debian-private. > > Maybe you missed

LyX: just about the only word processor in debian

1998-06-21 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am just, out of my inherent curiosity, curious whether LyX still exists in the hamm distribution. This was the only available word processor that came with Debian. I know that it is technically a "pain in the ", and that anyone who can type > 50WPM can

Re: MetroX installer.

1998-06-21 Thread Johnie Ingram
"G" == G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Has anyone looked into a MetroX installer package, or the like? G> It comes tar'ed or rpm'd . I'm thinking of all the Thinkpads with I made and uploaded one something like a year ago. Turned out that xfree was better for my purposes though.

Re: Intent to package: t1lib

1998-06-21 Thread Rob Tillotson
David Huggins-Daines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the dependency on gsfonts | xfntscl too bogus? (It needs Type 1 fonts > to be at all useful, and the demonstration program "xglyph" in t1lib0-bin > will spit out rude error messages if it can't see any fonts). I'm just a new guy, but I think i

packaging PAM modules? anyone?

1998-06-21 Thread Gregory S. Stark
I asked once earlier, but no one responded: Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? Where should they be installed? Is there some way to register them, or some script to run to offer the sysadmin the option of making the new module the global default? Personally I think PAM modules

Successful install from 2.0.7 bootdisks

1998-06-21 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
i downloaded the drv1440.bin and resc1440.bin and base_2.0.tgz files from Engrique's archive at molec2.dfis.ull.es. Used dd to write the raw images to floppies. Machine 486/100 with 100M /dev/hda1 [DOS] 408M /dev/hdb1 / and 32M swap 1.2G /dev/hdc /usr 96M /d

Re: xanim and the dotofiles

1998-06-21 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 12:00:59AM -0300, Igor Grobman wrote: > If they all have the same copyright as the 3 i386 ones that are currently > compiled in, we can't include them. I asked the author of xanim, and he told > me that he got exclusive permission to distribute them, but he can't pass it

libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. Dale has just released libc6 2.0.7. Congratulations!! The version number is just "2.0.7-1", which avoids ugly things like "2.0.7r-1", "2.0.7rel-1" or "1:2.0.7-1". However, since dselect does not automatically upgrade from 2.0.7pre1-4 to 2.0.7-1, it would b

Copyright bug in cti_ifhp?

1998-06-21 Thread Michael Bramer
Hello The cti_ifhp package is in main and I have work with it. cti-ifhp-2.1.8/COPYING say: :GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE : Version 2, June 1991 : :-) but: cti-ifhp-2.1.8/src/copyright.c say: :" = (C) Copyright 1995, Computer Technology Institute (CT

Re: LyX: just about the only word processor in debian

1998-06-21 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 04:32:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My package database lists LyX in the "obsolete" category - IMO > this is a shame. If it has disappeared from debian, I believe something > *needs* to come up soon to replace it. There's LyX and KLyX, a KDE version o

Re: Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools

1998-06-21 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I han't checked.. my mistake :) I'll take a look at it (and grab the Deb package :) As for Libjava and libC++ y don't remember their correct names, but they are libraries in java and C++ for creating VRML apps. Their real names aren't those, I might have confused you a bit

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Rob Browning
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, since dselect does not automatically upgrade from 2.0.7pre1-4 to > 2.0.7-1, it would be worth to explain our kind hamm users (before they > complain :-) that this time they have to upgrade by hand. > Dale, do you plan some kind of announcement

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-21 Thread Olaf Weber
Christoph Martin writes: > A normal user could replace the file with a link to some other file > say /vmlinuz or a file in another user homedir. Then if root or this > other user tries to write ls-R he/she would write to /vmlinuz or > other files. mktexupd checks for a magic string, and won't ch

Re: xanim and the dotofiles

1998-06-21 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Sun, 21 Jun 1998 10:15:50 BST, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 12:00:59AM -0300, Igor Grobman wrote: > > If they all have the same copyright as the 3 i386 ones that are currently > > compiled in, we can't include them. I asked the author of xanim, a

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, since dselect does not automatically upgrade from 2.0.7pre1-4 to > 2.0.7-1, it would be worth to explain our kind hamm users (before they > complain :-) that this time they have to upgrade by hand. > Dale, do you plan some kind of announcement

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 03:35:53PM +0200, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > Unfortunately, dselect not only doesn't upgrade from 2.0.7pre1-4 to 2.0.7-1, > but it wants to upgrade FROM 2.0.7-1 TO 2.0.7.pre1-4 now! And moreover I have > broken dependencies now, since apt_0.0.16 depends on libc6 >=2.0.4

Re: Linuxconf

1998-06-21 Thread Rob Browning
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But you can do a lot with a decent parser. But what do you do about config files that are just perl, or python, or elisp? There's no way you can write a parser that can predict what the code in the file will do in the general case, and we can't really ma

Re: LyX: just about the only word processor in debian

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am just, out of my inherent curiosity, curious whether LyX still exists > in the hamm distribution. > This was the only available word processor that came with Debian. > I know that it is technically a "pain in the ", > and that anyone who can type > 50WPM can b

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals > >(writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, >

Re: Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools

1998-06-21 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > I han't checked.. my mistake :) > I'll take a look at it (and grab the Deb package :) > > As for Libjava and libC++ y don't remember their correct names, > but they are libraries in java

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't like my last propos

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 03:35:53PM +0200, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > > Unfortunately, dselect not only doesn't upgrade from 2.0.7pre1-4 to 2.0.7-1, > > but it wants to upgrade FROM 2.0.7-1 TO 2.0.7.pre1-4 now! And moreover I > > have > > b

[OFF-TOPIC]: Meet me in Cambridge (PGP, etc)

1998-06-21 Thread Edward Betts
I noticed that quite a few debian developers have .cam.ac.uk addresses, and I wondered if anyone would like to meet with me on tuesday. I am going to Cambridge on Monday/Tuesday to have a look around on a university (well Sidney Sussex college really) open day. I thought maybe some people could sig

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > OK, I knew this was comming, but I really don't have a choice about what I > did. Let me put my point of view clearly on the table. This is exactly why we have epochs, there is nothing wrong with making the new glibc 1:2.0.7-1 Jason -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Intent to package: t1lib

1998-06-21 Thread David Huggins-Daines
On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 03:02:49AM -0500, Rob Tillotson wrote: > David Huggins-Daines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is the dependency on gsfonts | xfntscl too bogus? (It needs Type 1 fonts > > to be at all useful, and the demonstration program "xglyph" in t1lib0-bin > > will spit out rude error

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > Unfortunately, dselect not only doesn't upgrade from 2.0.7pre1-4 to 2.0.7-1, > but it wants to upgrade FROM 2.0.7-1 TO 2.0.7.pre1-4 now! And moreover I have > broken dependencies now, since apt_0.0.16 depends on libc6 >=2.0.4pre1. It > implies th

Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: > I asked once earlier, but no one responded: > Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? You can look at Red Hat for examples. > Where should they be installed? Is there some way to register them, or some > script to run to offer the sysa

Installation instructions for GNOME

1998-06-21 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Under "Installing GNOME" on the gnome web it says: Debian Systems (need someone to contribute instructions) There are instructions for RH. Need I say more... Is anyone doing this? -- Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
Peter Maydell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> man-db installs Spanish, Italian and German versions of its manpages, > >> as well as English ones. > > > >This is one of the goals of Debian. > >It is surely t

Re: Installation instructions for GNOME

1998-06-21 Thread robert havoc pennington
On 21 Jun 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Under "Installing GNOME" on the gnome web it says: > > Debian Systems (need someone to contribute instructions) > > There are instructions for RH. Need I say more... > Is anyone doing this? > The instructions are just "install the Gnome packages, if an

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Scheetz wrote: > In both cases 1 and 3 at least the glibc packages need to be upgraded by > hand. > > This should be advertised heavily. No. We should not break the system in this way. We should support the already large installed base we have for hamm, and not make them do things by hand. T

Re: RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

1998-06-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will do, then. This leaves me one big question, though. This is going > to require mixing four things: > (A) apache 1.3.0 > (B) netgod's massive apache diff > (C) mod_perl upstream -- probably going to version it by date and use > the CVS tree instead

dupload question

1998-06-21 Thread Shaleh
dupload's man page states that --nomail will cause dupload to NOT send an e-mail. However, this option gives an error and as far as I can see, is not in the source. What has happened? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

problem w/ dh_movefiles

1998-06-21 Thread Shaleh
I am packaging fnlib for E (doing it right for once) and have run into a snag. There are a fwe files that fnlib uses that have odd names. Things like '{.tiff', and ".tiff and even ..tiff. When dh_movefiles tries do do its work, it fails with a "unexpected EOF". I am sure it is due to the odd na

Re: problem w/ dh_movefiles

1998-06-21 Thread Joey Hess
Shaleh wrote: > I am packaging fnlib for E (doing it right for once) and have run into a > snag. There are a fwe files that fnlib uses that have odd names. > Things like '{.tiff', and ".tiff and even ..tiff. When dh_movefiles > tries do do its work, it fails with a "unexpected EOF". I am sure i

PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: > I asked once earlier, but no one responded: > Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? Gregory, I'm sorry I cannot provide good technical information. I do know that we had backed out PAM-ifying hamm sometime last year. I think we shou