Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 07:48:28PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > > > What is wrong with distributing an installation package like is > > done with netscape and realaudio? > > Hrm. You know, that didn't occur to me. As long as it contains NOTH

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

Not a bad idea, as long as we don't fall into the trap of having seperate files for each interface configs the way Redhat does. If you DO want to make seperate files for the configs of each interface, as long as the data isn't put in some obscure place like /etc/sysconfig/network, you shouldn't ge

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 > > weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that > > archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes in boot floppies > > (well, for any

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

Hi Ship's Log, Lt. Steve Haslam, Stardate 170599.1408: > > The gpg-pgp script and pgp2 compatibility hackage is in gpg-rsaidea, not > gnupg (afaicr). >From /var/lib/dpkg/diverts: /usr/bin/gpg /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg gpg-rsa /usr/man/man1/gpg.1.gz /usr/man/man1/gpg.gnupg.1.gz gpg-rsa I think you are

Re: VX Chipsets and 2.2.5

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 1999, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > > Michael Beattie wrote: > > >I have been told by an aquaintance that linux 2.1.x or greater kernels are > > >unlikely to boot on a Motherboard that uses a VX Chipset. I have a > > >VXPro... > > Well a

re: ITP: rxvp

>Rxvp is a validating XML parser. It's GPL'd. The code is already present in >Debian in non-free as part of festival (oddly, with a BSD-ish copyright); I'm the author of RXP. Thanks for packaging it. A couple of clarifications: - it's called RXP (the V is a typo). - as you say, Festival is dis

Re: VX Chipsets and 2.2.5

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: > Ahhh... The reason he said this was that OS/2 wouldnt boot... but that was > the latest version... beta even. Uhm. FYI, Warp5 *DOES* boot on VXpro, thank you muchly. I used my screwed up VXpro for a Warp5 machine for a few days. (Then I realized it wa

Performa 63xx Port

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in working on a port to some of the eprforma series because I was donated this performa 6300 and every Mac/PPC distribution I've found has said specificly that they don't support it. any grabs?

Re: Performa 63xx Port

On Tue, 18 May 1999, M. Robert Tomasch wrote: > I was wondering if anyone would be interested in working on a port to > some of the eprforma series because I was donated this performa 6300 and > every Mac/PPC distribution I've found has said specificly that they > don't support it. any grabs? m

[ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

oh, i probably should've mentioned this earlier, but i've been packaging hftpd. i'm mostly done, but need to hack in an /etc/init.d script, and i think i'll be done after that. hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i am going to have a little bit in the postinst that makes note that people r

Re: Bug#34579: Removing ncsa from the dist?

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Richard Braakman wrote: > It's probably a good idea to make an announcment if a package is about > to be dropped, so that others have a chance to maintain it. This would > of course include any prior maintainers. But if the package's maintainer > thinks it should be removed,

Re: The f-word in kernel source (Was: Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6))

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 May 1999 01:50:54 +0200 (CEST), Remco Blaakmeer wrote: >Just for the fun of it, I just counted how many times this word (or any >derivative of it) is mentioned in the 2.2.9 kernel source. I found 24 >files, with a total of 32 occurrences of

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:22:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked at the code (have not run it yet). > > Nice. Well documented, clean. The design seems sound. An up/down > section is also handy. [..] IMNSHO, any replacement for /etc/init.d/network must be able to allow config files

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

The funny manpages (sex, condom, etc) are already in funny-manpages. They probably should NOT be in emacs. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Comes First! -

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

Joseph Carter wrote: > The funny manpages (sex, condom, etc) are already in funny-manpages. > They probably should NOT be in emacs. Hm, here's something interesting. Funny-manpages and sex (the editor) both install a sex.1 manpage, in /usr/man and /usr/X11R6/man, respectively. Man seems to displa

evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/linux/opinion/0,5954,2260109,00.html "On the other hand, those in our world who believe in manipulating language for political means insist on the term GNU/Linux in order to pay forced homage to the FSF and GNU." Mr. Leibovitch is the executive directory of Th

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:21:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > The funny manpages (sex, condom, etc) are already in funny-manpages. > > They probably should NOT be in emacs. > > Hm, here's something interesting. Funny-manpages and sex (the editor) both > install a sex.1 manpage, in /usr/man and /

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > Might I suggest that someone involved with Debian PR contact > Mr. Leibovitch and attempt to open a dialog with him in order to > better educate him on why Debian has made various decisions, and why > Debian is not anti-commercial b

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

Package: funny-manpages Joseph Carter wrote: > > Hm, here's something interesting. Funny-manpages and sex (the editor) both > > install a sex.1 manpage, in /usr/man and /usr/X11R6/man, respectively. Man > > seems to display the /usr/X11R6/man one in preference to the other. Unless > > you use man

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

Joey Hess wrote: > > The emacs page is in section 6.. Maybe the funny manpages version should > > move to section 6 as well? > > That seems like an excellent idea. However, I think we might still have a more general problem with this type of man page conflict. A quick check of my local system tu

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > Might I suggest that someone involved with Debian PR contact > > Mr. Leibovitch and attempt to open a dialog with him in order to > > better educate him on why Debian has made various d

Re: Solaris NFS problems with potato / Release Notes

I remember a while back when looking at using NFS to share files between Linux and Solaris 2.6 under the Linux 2.0.x kernels. There was mention of there being no NFS.lock daemon running on the Linux side when trying to use Linux as the NFS server. From the limited experience I have had with the 2

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

Jonathan Walther wrote: > Thus, server foo in France will not download the ssh package, but if the > maintainer of ssh always uploads to the Incoming on a canada.debian.org, all > mirrors that are allowed to will hit every server in the master.list that > might have the package until it finds the o

Re: Putting distributed-net back up for adoption

Adam Klein wrote: > number of bugs filed against it, and it's been exhibiting some weird > behavior (apparently caused by the glibc2.1 move). Really? That's odd since it is a statically linked binary. I don't see how libc could affect it. -- see shy jo

Re: (MIRROR ADMINS) Correct non-US solution

Jonathan Walther wrote: > Another concern noted was that if we require special mirroring software to > mirror Debian, many hardnosed sysadmins will take some convincing to use our > script. > > That is not our problem. Either they use our mirroring script, or use their > regular script to mirror f

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

Hi, From the tone of your remarks, it appears that you expect laws to be reasonable and logical. Unfortunately, that expectation may be unrealistically optimistic. manoj >>"Jonathan" == Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> No. The scheme makes us less liab

[potato]: Broken version on kernel-package (6.09,6.10) uploaded yesterday

Hi folks, I uploaded a broken version of kernel-package to potato yesterday. A new fixed version (6.11) has been uploaded to master, and should be in the Incoming mirrors. It should get installed tomorrow. In the meanwhile, the patch below shall fix the problem. The inconveie

intend to package 'country'

I am ready to upload "country". country(1) is a tiny utility that finds the ISO 3166 codes for countries -- that's the two-letter TLD name. It will also work in reverse to find the name of a country if you know its code. I wrote this trivial program, as a script and as a C program. This is

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

> "jim" == jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jim> If this is the case, It is & I'm awaiting Sun permission to distribure the jdk with a licence that allows redistribution in some form. -- Stephen (jdk maintainer) --- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier

Re: Putting distributed-net back up for adoption

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:41:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Klein wrote: > > number of bugs filed against it, and it's been exhibiting some weird > > behavior (apparently caused by the glibc2.1 move). > > Really? That's odd since it is a statically linked binary. I don't see how > libc could

pcmcia and kernel 2.3.*

Does anyone have a patch for pcmcia 3.0.9 to work with kernels 2.3.1+? Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Use Po

locale problem with latest packages

I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erke

Intent to orphan ncsa

The subject pretty much says it all. It's got a weird thing with glibc2.1 where the group must be set in the config file, and it doesn't seem to set[ug]id correctly. adam -- a jolly daemon kin

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Well what do you do about a mirror in the US that can import software but > cannot export it? You either have to somehow validate all downloads of that > software from the mirror are from people in the US, or you leave the mirror > open to downloads from ev

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

Jonathan Walther wrote: > I would think that if a mirror couldn't export a peice of software, it just > wouldn't host it. The logistics of figuring out which country every IP is > in are... daunting, to say the least. Well then your proposal doesn't do away with the non-us division. Every county

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Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

Sorry, I was in a bit of a heated state when I wrote the below. No, I don't have any hope for the state of law making. But I do know the power and effifacy of keeping your head down, chin tucked in, and staying mum. My scheme helps us tuck that chin farther in. Jonathan On 17 May 1999, Manoj

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so fine-grained that it disappears into the rest of the distribution. Or am I

optimisation??

Hi all, I've seen quite a couple of packages, and was not too happy when I see the -O2 -g cflags, with which was compiled. 1. Why do you use the -g flag? A simple user will NEVER debug a binary. But wants it to run fast and be small. Because of the -g flag gcc will be unable to perform some opti

Re: VX Chipsets and 2.2.5

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > Ahhh... The reason he said this was that OS/2 wouldnt boot... but that was > > the latest version... beta even. > > Uhm. FYI, Warp5 *DOES* boot on VXpro, thank you muchly. I used my screwed > up VXp

Re: y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

> Linux is almost completely y2k compliant BY DEFAULT. Any y2k issues that > haven't been fixed by now will get fixed in SLINK, not just potato. We > don't know of any that remain however. If something binary only in > non-free breaks, you are on your own unless someone else fixes it. > You d

Re: optimisation??

Horvath Akos Peter wrote: > I've seen quite a couple of packages, and was not too happy when I see > the -O2 -g cflags, with which was compiled. > > 1. Why do you use the -g flag? A simple user will NEVER debug a binary. > But wants it to run fast and be small. Because of the -g flag gcc will be

Re: Performa 63xx Port

well I guess there was a misunderstanding here, but I was planning on keeping the box where I was and mainly workingo n it as much as possible, but I am working on getting the specs right now. still I need all the help I can get. "Phillip R. Jaenke" wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 1999, M. Robert Tomasch

pending normal debian bugs for debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Severity: normal Status: pending This mail is being sent to you because the indicated bug reports have been marked as overdue (i.e. has been open longer than 9 months). Overdue reminders are repeated monthly. #20567 general logo license

Intent to package: Puzzle ([Biology] Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees)

[Please Cc: my personal address, I'm far from my normal mail and have difficulties reading Debian lists.] [Cc: to debian-legal because there is a small legal problem. Advices about it should go to debian-legal, not debian-devel.] I intent to package the Puzzle program, which is a biology prog

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

"Seth M. Landsman" wrote: > > > Basically, we're in BLATANT violation of the license currently. It states > > quite clearly that redistribution is prohibited. So, plain and simple, > > we're shit out of luck. As someone else pointed out, Kaffe is just as > > good, with better response. But either

Re: Unidentified subject!

ZHUANG, Hao spake thus: > unsubscribe > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I urge you to read the last two lines of each -devel message :)) Leon -- Leon Breedt | Develop

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

Package: ssh Export-Restricted: United States Import-Restricted: Russia, France ssh is a bad example, since it is non-free software everywhere in the world. It is restricted by its developers. Version 2 is even more restricted than version 1. However, the general idea seems like a r

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

Since the main (but not exclusive) use of non-US right now is for crypto software, we might want to create a Crypto-Regulations package which contains references to which countries restrict import and export of crypto, and how, with references to appropriate legislation and document

Re: y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:55:14AM +0100, John Lines wrote: > > Linux is almost completely y2k compliant BY DEFAULT. Any y2k issues that > > haven't been fixed by now will get fixed in SLINK, not just potato. We > > don't know of any that remain however. If something binary only in > > non-free

Re: intend to package 'country'

In addition to the master.debian.org/~ioannis location, the 'country' package is also available at http://www.cse.fau.edu/~itambour/ . Both are temporary locations until 'country' is accepted by the distribution and thus fetchable by apt-get(1). -- Ioannis Tambouras Signed pgp-key on key ser

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:43:36PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > I hereby officially propose that the education of Mister Leibovitch begins > with a sound *THWAPPING* upside the head using a hard-copy of both the GNU > Manifesto and the GNU GPL, and done in tandem by two very large and well >

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

Joseph Carter wrote: > > > IMNSHO, any replacement for /etc/init.d/network must be able to allow > config files which "do stuff" on start or stop of the service... Meaning > I should be able to give it something that will be run before or after > the initial ifconfig-and-route-type stuff has bee

Re: optimisation??

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:05:04AM +0200, Horvath Akos Peter wrote: > 2. Why use just -O2? The egcs people have been working for years to make > the compiler better. For us (too). -O6 makes faster binaries. Because anything higher than -O2 can cause some problems not related to the compiler, but i

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented > stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme > proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so > fine-grained that it d

Uploaded gdb 4.18-1 (source i386) to master

All the standard debian patches have not been re-applied yet, but this version should already be a vast improvement on the current potato version (Fixes: #34839, #35574, #36661, #37700, #33868, #35952, #37420, #32586, #34055). I'm going to gradually integrate the other patches (objective-C suppor

Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

[Please Cc: me when replying, I have difficulties reading debian-devel at this time - but I'll try.] I want to setup an apt-compatible directory of my Biology packages , so that users can use apt to install them, without waiting the relea

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

Hello, I am with the LXNY and other free software clubs in NY and we are 100% against certification, the sheer stupidity of evan's statement is all you really need to know. I personally had a really bad experience w/ Caldera after 3 years of preparing to become a channel partner. Below is a l

Re: Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

>> "SB" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> The problem is the versioning. How to choose the version numbers SB> in the two sets so that users will automatically get the potato SB> package when they will choose to replace 'stable' by 'unstable' SB> (or when potato will become s

glibc2.0-2.1 incompatibility: _xstat?

I have motif 2.0.1 and xrt libraries that define _xstat. This symbol is not defined anymore in glibc-2.1; there, __xstat is defined. In glibc-2.0, _xstat is defined as a weak alias for __xstat. What does the weak_alias of _xstat mean? Is there a workaround, so that I can continue to use these l

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Alexander N. Benner wrote: > >From /var/lib/dpkg/diverts: > /usr/bin/gpg > /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg > gpg-rsa > /usr/man/man1/gpg.1.gz > /usr/man/man1/gpg.gnupg.1.gz > gpg-rsa Not true with my version anymore. The files are only under /usr/doc/gpg-rsa/examples.

Intent to package xmanpages-ja

Hi, everyone. I'm now packaging "Japanese translated version of X related manpages". These manpages has been translated by "X Japanese Document Project" (http://xjman.dsl.gr.jp. Sorry written in Japanese only). I'm member of this project. This version is based on XFree86 3.3.3.1 manpages. I

Re: locale problem with latest packages

Le Mon, May 17, 1999 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes écrivait: > I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale > de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. > Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? What environment variabl

Re: locale problem with latest packages

>>>Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Mon, May 17, 1999 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes écrivait: > > I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale > > de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. > > Others like date just refuse to use it. W

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

> > For the record, kaffe is *NOT* as good as the blackdown JDK. I > > have used both, and, as it is, kaffe crashes before my research system > > loads, yet the blackdown jdk works flawlessly. > > So report the bug to the kaffe people, and then they'll fix it, and then > kaffe will work f

Re: Debian coding style?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7 May 1999 15:45:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amy Fong) said: > > Amy> Query, is there actually a coding style guideline for debian > Amy> stuph? Basically I'm with the Corel Linux group and this is > Amy> what t

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

Hi, >>"Jonathan" == Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> But I do know the power and effifacy of keeping your head Jonathan> down, chin tucked in, and staying mum. My scheme helps us Jonathan> tuck that chin farther in. Quite. Unfortunately, practicing law without a

Re: locale problem with latest packages

At Tue, 18 May 1999 16:31:44 +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have another problem with internationalization. In the gnome > panel (or any gnome apps that uses standardized strings, ie the name > of the menus), i've got empty string instead of the localized version. Did you i

Re: weekly policy summary

* JH => Joey Hess JH> Let me know if you're finding these useful. Very useful indeed, thank you. I'm unsure about how to second formal proposal, I hope this message will suffice. JH> Bug: JH> Title: Patented software == non-free? JH> Posted: 10 May 99 JH> Proposer: Joseph Carter JH> Seconde

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham) wrote on 16.05.99 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >=20 > > > abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did that,

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 > > > weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that > > > archive changes at any point in freeze

How to create those "Packages" files?

How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? TIA! Thomas -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer PGP public key http://www.debian.org/ KeyID 2EA7BBBD

Re: How to create those "Packages" files?

Thomas Schoepf wrote: > > How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a > .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? dpkg-scanpackages from the dpkg-dev package creates the Packages file. HTH, -Remco

Re: How to create those "Packages" files?

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf was heard to say: > > How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a > .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? > I believe that dpkg-scanpackages, available in the dpkg-dev package,

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

Justin Maurer wrote: > consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel, > when > one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those > who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan > to order myself a machine when

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

Gentlemen, that is what i got today Today, May 3, is last day for Pre-Reg Savings. Register at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99 1999 USENIX ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE June 6-11, 1999 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California NEW *BSD AND DEBIAN LINUX RELEASES GIVEN AWAY USENIX is

Re: new arch required

Justin Maurer wrote: > i'd like to request debian/pa-risc. i am packaging binutils as we speak. > after this, i will package egcs. however, there will not be a working kernel > for a number of months. with egcs and binutils, packages should be able to > built even before there is a working kernel

Package Maintainer Changed

I am very very hard in my main work. And I can not maintain some packages: canna, canna-utils, im, kon2, konfont, kterm, libcanna1g, libcanna1g-dev, locale-ja, mew These package maintainance is continued by ISHIKAWA mutsumi<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Thanks. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

qt2beta_2.0_19990516 for potato available

=> http://master.debian.org/~heiko/qt2/ Thanks to Ivan E. Moore II and Russell Cooker for giving me access to their potato systems. Best Regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Gruesse aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann -- [internet & unix support - Heiko Schlittermann] [h

Re: Package Maintainer Changed

Yoshiaki Yanagihara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Subject: Package Maintainer Changed Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I am very very hard in my main work. >> And I can not maintain some packages: >> canna, canna-utils, im, kon2, konfont, kterm, >> libcanna1g, libcanna1g-dev, l

Re: Configurator Panel

> "Diego" == Diego Delgado Lages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Diego> I'm making something like a Control Panel for Linux (for Diego> Debian), and I would like you to test me and send me Diego> comments. Have a look at 'http://papadoc.strul.net/programs/xadmin/'. It's not fully Debi

Re: intend to package 'country'

At 20:37 -0400 1999-05-17, Ioannis wrote: I am ready to upload "country". country(1) is a tiny utility that finds the ISO 3166 codes for countries -- that's the two-letter TLD name. It will also work in reverse to find the name of a country if you know its code. I wrote this trivial program, as a

email for bruce

My DSL provider has gone out of business, apparently, leaving me with no connection. Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you need to reach me. Thanks Bruce

POP3 server for debian.org mailaddress

Do we have a POP3 or IMAP or whatever server running on the debian.org domain so I can fetchmail my debian related mail? Background is that I would like to get rid of my local provider and thus would lose my mailbox there. The new (cheaper) provider would only offer net connectivity but no mailbox.

lost packages

I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): conf gtkicq libjpeg-gif communicator/netscape*45 snd xfntbig xadmin manpages-net Anyo

Re: locale problem with latest packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:31:44PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > What environment variable did you set to de_DE ? It does work fine > for me with LC_ALL=fr_FR ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printenv|grep DE LC_ALL=de_DE Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str.

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:44:36AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Not true with my version anymore. The files are only under > /usr/doc/gpg-rsa/examples. Hm, I still have a diversion from /usr/bin/gpg to /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg, where /usr/bin/gpg is a script to load the rsa/idea extensions and add the

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine > are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. > Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): > > conf > gtkic

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > gtkicq replaced by gnomeicu > communicator/netscape*45 new version is out(46) -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://www.cicat.com/

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine > are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. > Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): > > gtkicq repl

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > "Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and > research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail > and commercial fields." Wow, I always thought that this is was Microsoft says about Lin

Re: locale problem with latest packages

Le Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:42:58AM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI écrivait: > Did you install gconv-modules? No, but that wasn't the problem. My problem disappeared just after an apt-get upgrade. I had locales-2.1.1-3 and libc6-2.1.1-5. Now I have that : $ dpkg -l | grep 2.1.1-5 ii gconv-modules 2.1.1-

capabilities

What would you all think about a patch to start-stop-daemon to remove capabilities from spawned daemons? Whith this patch many daemons would not need uid=0 anymore. -- ciao, Marco

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

>> (me saying a bootable kernel is still quite aways off) > I wonder if this ITP is a little bit early then... well, sort of. i can still package the cross compilers and such, so that we will all be ready for it. but the new arch obviously is still another relase or two away. i have binutils pa

Re: locale problem with latest packages

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 18:08:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale > de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. > Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? The requirements have been st

Re: new arch required

> If you have a compiler packaged, somebody else is working on kernels, i am not sure when the kernel changes will be merged into the linus kernels. > I'm trying to aquire some machines as well, I wonder if it would be > time to start debian-hppa as porters mailing list with a roughly > periodica

Re: lost packages

>> "MM" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> gtkicq is now gnomeicu MM> communicator/netscape*45 Was removed, *46 is now in the archive. MM> xadmin Was discontinued because of serious bugs IIRC. Ciao, Martin

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:45:04PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: > well, for the cross compilers, i'm doing /usr/lib/parisc-xxx > e.g, > /usr/bin/parisc-egcs > /usr/bin/parisc-as > etc. You should really use standard gnu style, such as parisc-linux-{gcc,as,ld,...} and /usr/parisc-linux/{lib,bin,incl

Re: Configurator Panel

Have you done this program, or have you packaged it? If you packaged it, could you package my Configurator Panel, because I tried, but it didn't work at all... :((( Diego Lages On 18 May 1999, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > "Diego" == Diego Delgado Lages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > xfntbig I put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger, cackling with glee. Package: xfonts-cjk Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 2467 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sour

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