Re: dpkg-dev 1.4.0.30

1998-10-02 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:43:55AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > You have used the "de" locale in one of the LC_* variables, and that is > overriding the LANG=C definition. Try again with LC_ALL=C. That will > override any other LC_* or LANG definition. Yes, you´re right of course. Michael --

what's after slink

1998-10-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: An X version of dselect for slink

1998-10-02 Thread John Lapeyre
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: ezanar>Moving X to the base disks (Auch!) and configuring X just after the first ezanar>reboot (hard task for a newbie). I'm not excited about that. hard not just for the newbie ! I advocate, as usual, a sentence in install.txt asking the user

Developer status before code freeze

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi guys, Sorry to keep nagging about this but I was hoping to get my developer approval before the slink code freeze so that I could get my ACE and TAO packages into slink. Can anyone answer the $50,000 question, is Ossama Othman a developer yet? :-) As far as I know, Debian has everything it n

Business trip from 4rth till 10th oct

1998-10-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am making a trip to the great forzen northlands (well, boston, anyway) next week. Please feel free to make NMU's to any package that seems to require it. manoj who spent the day converting his HiNote VP laptop to dual boot Debian. -- The rule on staying alive

Re: dpkg -S problem

1998-10-02 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:33:07PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: : : : $ dpkg -l /usr/bin/printmail : No packages found matching /usr/bin/printmail. Try `dpkg -S printmail', I think that's what your intention was. Best Regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Gruesse aus Dresden Heiko Schli

Re: Copyrights and licenses

1998-10-02 Thread john
Ian Lynagh writes: > So is it free or non-free? If the algorithm isn't patented you can do what ever you want with it, regardless of what the inventor says. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Hor

Re: An X version of dselect for slink

1998-10-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 03:18:13PM +0200, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: > > Hi, > > Enrique Zanardi schrieb am 02. Oktober 1998: > > > Moving X to the base disks (Auch!) and configuring X just after the first > > > reboot (hard task for a newbie). I'm not exc

[mazzocch@pop.systemy.it: [FYI] Cool Changes in JDK1.2b4]

1998-10-02 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
This comes from the Apache-Jserv list. Now, what I am wondering is if JServ continues to ignore free Java VMs and Sun continues its irresponsible development of the Java "standard" in the same "secret" way it has been, should JServ be considered non-free? In other words, did we decide that if a D

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-02 Thread Darren Stalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Raphael Hertzog, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >What will be done for slink ? I don't know but I'd like to have perl5.005 >because it's better (ie. thread support is really useful). But then all >lib*-perl maintainer will have to upload updated pa

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-02 Thread Joey Hess
Darren Stalder wrote: > BTW, Joey, some of my projects could *really* use threaded Perl as > well. But it's considered experimental in 5.005 and just isn't up to > snuff in a production environment. Do you have any plans to offer it as something like /usr/bin/perl-t? (or would modules need to be

[vernard@cc.gatech.edu: [ale] Loan Equipment to Linux In Action Booth]

1998-10-02 Thread warp
We may want to coordinate with them for some of the machines we will be bringing in, its definitely a worthy cause.. Zephaniah E, Hull. - Forwarded message from Vernard Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vernard Martin) Subject: [ale] Lo

Re: Copyrights and licenses

1998-10-02 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >Ian Lynagh writes: >> So is it free or non-free? > >If the algorithm isn't patented you can do what ever you want with it, >regardless of what the inventor says. OK, that just leaves two questions answered - is srp or SHA non-US and what do

Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?

1998-10-02 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 05:36:37PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Assuming, of course, that Debian will accept them as a developer. > > Are people with legitimate packaging interests being rejected? That's a ridiculously simplistic question that I w