Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > > I'm sorry to disagree with you, the GNOME project *does* > > distribute binaries (and packages too), looking > > in http://www.gnome.org/start/ will give you pointers > > to packages for Caldera, RedHat and SuSE distributed > >

Re: Proposed documentation/script changes for potato (ntp/chrony/util-linux)

2000-03-22 Thread andrew
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:56:54AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Attached you'll find context diff files against files in the ntp, chrony and > util-linux packages, as well as a new README.Debian.hwclock file for the > util-linux package. I don't read debian-devel frequently, so I just caugh

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:45:37AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > xrdb: Can't open display ':0' [...] > I have seen a similar symptom on 1 out of three computers that I have > r

ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. License: MPL. Which section would this go? web or text?

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-22 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:53:47PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:21:22 +0200 > From: Lauri Tischler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc > should not use colors) > >

apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Peter Cordes
Hi all, I've got a useful cron job that many of you may find useful. It uses apt-get to download updated packages in the wee hours of the morning while the rest of the internet sleeps (well, at least most of it sleep :). I mentioned it on my local LUG list, and Ben Armstrong gave me some helpfu

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > I've got a useful cron job that many of you may find useful. It uses >apt-get to download updated packages in the wee hours of the morning while >the rest of the internet sleeps (well, at least most of it sleep :). I >mentioned it on

Re: PDQ?

2000-03-22 Thread Randolph Chung
> There is apparently a printing system out there that is designed to > replace lpr-based ones, called PDQ. I notice this is not yet in > Debian. Is anyone planning to package it? Does anyone have any > experience with it? If so, how do you like it? I had some debs at http://master.debian.org/

Orphaning Minivend

2000-03-22 Thread Philip Thiem
I'm formally orphaning minivend.. I've gotten too busy with some programming projects of my own. Though I haven't uploaded any real packages, I do have a preliminary version I had put together a while back. It's a bit outdated by the current upstream version, but it can be found at http://www.umr

quota yet again

2000-03-22 Thread Michael Meskes
I just scanned through the quota bug reports and found that 4 open bugs (34980, 44585, 46610, 48103) are fixed in the latest upstream version. Does this justify a new package in frozen? From the changelog it seems that the only other changes are source code restructuring and one patch: * Added p

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Brian May
> "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Radovan> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May Radovan> wrote: >> For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my >> editor to go to the top of the file, and all of a sudden, the >> escape co

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[Please Cc: debian-sgml for SGML/XML-related stuff.] On Tuesday 21 March 2000, at 22 h 42, the keyboard of =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. > > License: MPL. Good, there is not one entirely free XSLT processo

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:42:38PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. URL? > Which section would this go? web or text? I'd say text. Otherwise we could also dump all databases, scripting languages and most other stuff in web. -- The idea is th

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:33:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Radovan> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May > Radovan> wrote: > >> For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my > >> editor

Re: Proposed documentation/script changes for potato (ntp/chrony/util-linux)

2000-03-22 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:56:54AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I don't read debian-devel frequently, so I just caught up on all this > discussion, however I did file one of the bugs about this. Thank you > for taking on this issue! I have on

5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Igor Mozetic
Richard Braakman writes: > The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide > (do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies), Kernel 2.2.14 is severly broken (OOM problems). We had crashes and killings of essential processes on several machines. I adv

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-22 Thread Martijn van de Streek
Hi Rodrigo! On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other > key. When I do type other key, it beeps and I get no output on > screen. I reinstalled bash, libncurses5, libc6 and already trying > changing my keymap, but I wasn't suc

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-22 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote: > Hi Rodrigo! > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > > get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other > > key. When I do type other key, it beeps and I get no output on > > screen. I reinstall

Man-made stone-Opal Stone widely used on the desk, round, pillar, staircase, counter, cabinet etc

2000-03-22 Thread Ao Bao
OPAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. specializes manufacturing the man-made stone-OPAL STONE. Opal Stone are both excellent in quality and reasonable in price. The Opal is a new kind of decoration material synthesized by nature mineral powder, nature pigment and high function polymer under vacuum and

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
"Martin Bialasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So a note that GNOME packages are available from the regular Debian > mirrors would be sufficient, no? Perhaps linking to an up-to-date list, like http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=gnome&searchon=names&version=unstable&rel

Re: Novell: NDS eDirectory for Linux

2000-03-22 Thread Adam Cassar
Yes it is possible and I have used a similar configuration in the past. The key is to use pam i cannot remember the exact login configuration but something like auth required pam_ldap.so in /etc/pam.d/login and in /etc/pam_ldap.conf something like host ldapserver base o=TREE_NAME with Nove

Re: quota yet again

2000-03-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:13:03PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just scanned through the quota bug reports and found that 4 open bugs > (34980, 44585, 46610, 48103) are fixed in the latest upstream version. > > Does this justify a new package in frozen? From the changelog it seems that > the

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik was heard to say: > An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character "escaping" the > next > char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and what we know as an escape character > would be represented as Esc Esc. > > But this would pr

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Richard Braakman was heard to say: [snip] > 59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir FWIW, I've never seen this bug. > Package: rep-gtk (debian/main). > Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build er

Re: Proposed documentation/script changes for potato (ntp/chrony/util-linux)

2000-03-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This advice ignores the admonitions I've read in many places that one > should never adjust the system clock discontinuously, especially not > backwards. Do you have any thoughts on this? Check into ntp, that will do the right thing. (It slows your clock down

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > Package: autofs (debian/main). > Maintainer: Justin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon > crippled > [STRATEGY] Patch available, waiting for reply from upstream We should probably go with the

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. Out of curiosity, what is XSLT? Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Miguel de Icaza wrote: > Sadly, those packages are seldome updated, and there is not an ongoing > effort to keep them up to date. I tried to assemble such a team, in > the gnome-packaging-list, but that group never produced binaries. [.. snip snip ..] > Because nobody did contribute t

Compiling Error

2000-03-22 Thread Michal Fecanin Araujo
The following reports an error during compiling: -- #include FILE *output=stderr; int main() { fprintf(output,"Hello World\n"); } -- The problem is that its not possible to initialize outp

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. > > License: MPL. > Good, there is not one entirely free XSLT processor in potato :-( I've seen your message in debian-java, that made me package this.. =) > > Which section would this go? web or text? > I would say "text", XML is not Web-s

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Petr Cech
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100 , Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > > Package: debianutils (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59121 run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs > > This is a nasty one.. Hmm. Why not go with the p

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Ben Collins
> > Package: cvs (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist > > Isn't this just "cvs init"? I think this is supposed to be a script that creates the repos that you listed in the configuration (debconf). Doesn't appear to eexitist even

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. > Out of curiosity, what is XSLT? It's a standard language to describe a transformation among two XML documents. It's used as a styleseet, because you can do XML -> HTML, XML -> FO -> PDF, XML -> whatever. If we had an XML Packages.gz, we co

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. > URL? I really don't remember. I've checked out the code from the mozilla CVS. > > Which section would this go? web or text? > > I'd say text. Otherwise we could also dump all databases, scripting > languages and most other stuff in web.

Re: Compiling Error

2000-03-22 Thread Ben Collins
Read the gnu libc FAQ, it contains info about why this happens, and it pretty much explains that the first example you show is not valid ANSI C. So in affect, it is a bug in the program to do that (since std{out,in,err} are not really constants, but are runtime dependant). The example you show bel

Re: Compiling Error

2000-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:15:01PM +, Michal Fecanin Araujo wrote: > -- > #include > > FILE *output=stderr; > > int main() > { > fprintf(output,"Hello World\n"); > } > -- > > The proble

ITP: hlatex

2000-03-22 Thread Changwoo Ryu
HLaTeX is a Korean TeX support macros & fonts collection. You can see it in CTAN. The license is GPL. The only problem is its size, if it's really a problem. The total size of the 3 hlatex packages is 50 megabytes. So it requires additional 100 megabytes master space including the sources. (F

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:54:54AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Package: rep-gtk (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build error (prototype mismatch) > > This appears to be an upstream problem specific to that version, whi

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Yes, given docbook*, task-sgml, psgml, yasgml, and especially jade, are in text, I'd concur that transformiix should go there too...

Re: Orphaning Minivend

2000-03-22 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm formally orphaning minivend.. I've gotten too busy with some > programming > projects of my own. Though I haven't uploaded any real packages, I do have > a > preliminary version I had put together a while back. It's a bit outdated > by the current u

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-22 Thread Stuart Auchterlonie
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:35:04AM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote: > > Hi Rodrigo! > > > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > > > > get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other > > > key. Whe

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-22 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:38:58PM +, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:35:04AM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote: > > > Hi Rodrigo! > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > > Package: autofs (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Justin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon > > crippled > > [STRATEGY] Pa

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > > Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59592 grmonitor needs to depends on libgl1 instead of mesag3 > > Is this release-critical? Not sure. It's only a recompile btw. > > > Pa

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-22 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > > > Did you look at your ~/.inputrc file? > > Yes. I even created a new user with no .inputrc and no $INPUTRC (no > .bashrc, .bash_profile too). I don't know what kind of stuff could be > in my files to screw up only letter E. The problem occurs in console and in > xterm.

of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Chad Miller
I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of some programs in 'sbin' directories. For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in /usr/sbin). Other (questionable) ones mi

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Gore
Chad Miller wrote: > Which is wrong? Is it bash' assumption that "only the superuser executes > stuff in sbin," or that "these programs should be in sbin?" Essentially, > by question boils down to "To which packages should I apply a bug > report -- bash or the others?" > This has been discuss

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Jordi
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > Which is wrong? Is it bash' assumption that "only the superuser executes > stuff in sbin," or that "these programs should be in sbin?" Essentially, > by question boils down to "To which packages should I apply a bug > report -- bash

running potato dpkg in slink

2000-03-22 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Mar 21, Robert Thomson wrote: > In /etc/apt/apt.conf > DPkg > { > Options {"--force-confdef";} > } > > This will automatically choose the default action.. if the conffile > has been modified, the default is 'N'. If it hasn't, the default is > 'Y' (99% sure) This is in only as of potato

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > > I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the > superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of > some programs in 'sbin' directories. > > For instance, a program joeuser uses ofte

100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-22 Thread Tim Sailer
Hi folks. I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story: I have a rack of 20 machines needing to talk to a Pix firewall with gigbit interfaces on it. To do this, we set up a test rig using an Alteon switch with 1 gigabit interf

ITP : Lua

2000-03-22 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi, This is an intent to package Lua : an extensible language. I do not use it, but my package clanlib uses it and I did not find it in Debian. If anyone is already working on it, speak now or stay silent forever. Regards, Vaidhy PS: Website is at http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~lhf/lua/

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Chad Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the > superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of > some programs in 'sbin' directories. > > For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (whi

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and > traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or > /usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is that things that > could be needed to rescue a broken system sho

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Robbins
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote: > Any suggestions/comments? I'd be surprised if I'm the first person to > think of this, but I didn't see anything that suggested it anywhere. One suggestion: for some people, it makes sense to use the `apt-move' package after downloading the .debs. Apt

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03 +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide > (do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies), > and perl-5.005. > Package: g++ (debian/main). > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMA

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and > > traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or > > /usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbi

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread KUSANO Takayuki
> > > Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. > > URL? > I really don't remember. I've checked out the code from the mozilla CVS. The 'readme.html' of TransforMiiX is available as . KUSANO Takayuki http:/

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Chad Miller
Gak! I'd like to unask the question (and I do promise to have myself flogged soon) except for Jacob's sub-topic: On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different > catagory that ping? That, I think, is a good

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Scott Jennings
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:33:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character > "escaping" the next char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and > what we know as an escape character would

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Miguel de Icaza
> We have done, in the past. I started a movement which ended with > gnome 1.0 debs on gnome.org, if I remember correctly. Miguel - if, at > release time (e.g. of 1.2 or 2.0) you want debian packages, the place > to bug is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am sorry, but I can not chase people down, much less

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Chad Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OTOH, i would leave ifconfig in /sbin, as it _is_ about this system, and > it doesn't provide (much) information that DNS doesn't, unless there's > sysadminning to be done. (There's also a huge amount of inertia that it > be in /sbin/ .) inertia aside,

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:18:00AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > > We have done, in the past. I started a movement which ended with > > gnome 1.0 debs on gnome.org, if I remember correctly. Miguel - if, at > > release time (e.g. of 1.2 or 2.0) you want debian packages, the place > > to bug is

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and > > traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or > > /usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is that things that > > could be needed

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Dylan Paul Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different > > catagory that ping? traceroute is "deeper" than ping. It exposes things that the casual user neither sees

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-22 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Carter wrote: > IMO, dist and a half is mostly fluff as far as press releases go. potato > and a half would be a potato dist with a 2.4 kernel, possibly some new X > stuff if it can be done and a new apache. It's still out of date potato > otherwise. I want a REAL upgrade! In the case of

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 21-Mar-00, 20:06 (CST), Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Linux text console is readable (barely), but xterm uses and even worse > colour for ANSI blue. (assuming black background). The fix for this > is to change the colour used by xterm for ANSI blue, instead of changing all >

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Steve Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One suggestion: for some people, it makes sense to use the `apt-move' > package after downloading the .debs. Apt-move will move the .debs out of > the cache into a Debian archive hierarchy & naming convention. > > This is quit

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Burrows wrote: > It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to > actually > catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses (and > slang?) were modified to handle this, most programs would inherit the changes, > and (b) even among the progr

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Package: hostname (debian/main). >Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59410 hostname: found how to set domainname for linux That is not a bug at all - I've mailed an explanation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and set the

xfce package

2000-03-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi everybody, the package xfce seems no more maintained by Kevin Donnelly, someone should take it over. The maintainer seems MIA ... trivial bugs are not corrected for more than 172 days. Anyone wants to take it over and package the new upstream version ? it should be quite easy to do since there

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Mar-00, 05:50 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > > Package: cvs (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist > > Isn't this just "cvs init"? > > > 59909 cvs: cvs segfaults

Re: quota yet again

2000-03-22 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:43:45AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > Not unless the listed bugs are release-critical. Are you sure that the I though bug fixes were allowed into frozen at any time. Ah okay, there is one new feature. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:15:42PM -0800, Joey Hess was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to > > actually > > catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses > > (and > > slang?) were modified to

Re: ITP: solfege

2000-03-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:30:03AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: > Gary Willis (www.garywillis.com) did a little ear training thing on > his web site; he is a master level bassist (really, master among > masters) and is also very generous with info about how to play. The > ear training drills are geared

ITP: bnc

2000-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
I'm packaging the bnc IRC bouncer. -- ciao, Marco

Re: xfce package

2000-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 21:19:36 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we > should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as > suggested in the bub report #60258. I'd second that suggestion. Unlike the old ver

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dylan Paul Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > > > at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different > > > catagory that ping? > > traceroute is "deeper" th

Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:23:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > garabik> >COLOR:1:cyan:black > garabik> >COLOR:5:brightcyan:black > > The same can be said about the default "ls" colors. > It shows directory names with blue on black. yep, i forgot to mention that until after i'd sent the

Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:21:22PM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote: > > The same can be said about the default "ls" colors. > > It shows directory names with blue on black. > > These must be set up by some bug-eyed alien with colour-resolution > going well into ultraviolet. :) now that you have discov

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Tom Lees
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:43:08AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Package: cvs (debian/main). > > > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist > > > > Isn't this just "cvs init"? > > I think this is supposed to be a script that creates the repos that

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:50:10AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > Chad Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users > > and the superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the > > placement of some programs in 'sbin' directories.

Re: xfce package

2000-03-22 Thread Fabrice Gautier
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:19:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi everybody, > > the package xfce seems no more maintained by Kevin Donnelly, someone > should take it over. The maintainer seems MIA ... trivial bugs are > not corrected for more than 172 days. > > Anyone wants to take it over a

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > in short, add the sbin directories to your PATH and move on. > hey, i no more want to participate in a flamewar than the next guy. :-) i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the normal user's path by default. i see your

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 04:59:23PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > i don't think appending to the default path would break anything. > anyone have a problem with that? nope. in fact, i routinely edit /etc/profile on new systems to do that (i pre-pend the sbin directories, not append them). it only