Re: aacraid driver

2000-12-31 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> "Brian Boerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> Well, if you want it, take it up with the Kernel maintainer -- that >> >> is, file a bug on kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-compact or >> >> kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 or whatever. >> >> >> >

ITP: libapache-mod-backhand - load balancing module for Apache

2000-12-31 Thread James Bromberger
I intend to package libapache-mod-backhand. I have altered wnpp bug#71457 from RFP to ITP. I am in the nm queue, and intend to package mod_backhand (www.backhand.org). Mod_backhand is an apache module for load balancing web server farms. It is released under an apache licence. Source: http://

Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, now that testing is in place I have several questions and remarks. Maybe it would be great to put such a FAQ (I remember seeing a short one on DWN) somewhere online with a link from the developers corner on the website. 1. What arches are required (supposing the package is arch: any) so that

DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread GBechly
Hi, I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail concerning "disappeared packages" and because the issue is important I decided to try it again with shouting ;-). Here is the problem: Three packages (w3mir, we

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi GBechly! SCHREI NICHT SO! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad > netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail > concerning "disappeared packages" and because the issue is important > I decided t

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Peter Palfrader wrote: >> There is a further weird package disappearance in unstable: all mgetty >> packages (execept mgetty-doc) are gone! > >http://bugs.debian.org/80640 > > >> Hey, these are important packages. > >mgetty is not important,

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:46:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > SCHREI NICHT SO! Vielen Dank für Deine prompte und ausführliche Antwort. Wenn Du auf mein erstes (ungeschriehenes) Mail zum selben Thema so geantwortet hättest, dann hätte ich jetzt nicht schreien müssen. Also hat es ja immer

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad > netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail > concerning "disappeared packages" and because the issue is important > I decided to

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tinguaro Barreno Delgado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I maintain a rsync mirror of potato and woody (i386) and this week the >distribution has lost +50 packages. They aren't in ftp.debian.org (I'm >rsyncing from ftp.de.debian.org). Can anyone explain this? Yes. Th

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad > netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail > concerning "disappeared packages" and because the issue is important > I decided to try it ag

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Tinguaro! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Tinguaro Barreno Delgado wrote: > Hello all. > > I maintain a rsync mirror of potato and woody (i386) and this week the > distribution has lost +50 packages. They aren't in ftp.debian.org (I'm > rsyncing from ftp.de.debian.org). Can anyone explain this? Have

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Oliver! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> There is a further weird package disappearance in unstable: all mgetty > >> packages (execept mgetty-doc) are gone! > > > >http://bugs.debian.org/80640 > > > > > >>

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Guenter, On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: > I suggest that the intent to > remove a package should always be filed as a bug to this package or even > better as a bug to wnpp-peudopackage, so that the information can be > traced with rea

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
Happy new year from this side of the world, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Three packages (w3mir, webmin, and fancylogin) that were definitely > available in Debian main some time ago, and that are still present > in the BTS (all have outstanding bugs), COMPLE

Re: Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:14:01PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 1. What arches are required (supposing the package is arch: any) so that >the package can go in testing ? Is arm required ? It's a little more dynamic than that, actually. Basically, all you need to do is make sure that the pac

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi GBechly! >> Fancylogin is reported to be in >> unstable and there also is a package page, but the package is not >> found from the download page and is also not present in any of >> the mirrors. > >marvin:~# apt-get

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:40:41PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not > > in the directory pointed to. > > Seems like packages.debian.org is broken then. If it's not reportet yet, > maybe someone should do. It is! Several times!

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Guenter Bechly
Hello again, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > FWIF I'ld really like to see removal of packages beeing announced to > debian-devel-changes and debian-changes repectivly. Maybe we could > bug the ftp admins to send such mails? Agree. Will you do it, or shall I ? >

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Josip! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:40:41PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not > > > in the directory pointed to. > > > > Seems like packages.debian.org is broken then. If it's not r

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Guenter! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Guenter Bechly wrote: > Hello again, > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > FWIF I'ld really like to see removal of packages beeing announced to > > debian-devel-changes and debian-changes repectivly. Maybe we could > > bug the f

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi Peter, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > You file the wishlistbug against ftp. and I bug the admins, deal? Deal is deal! Best wishes, Guenter -- Linux: Who needs GATES in a world without fences?

console-tools vs kbd

2000-12-31 Thread Sam Vilain
Hi there, I'm using a non-standard keyboard that sends odd scancodes. I wrote a startup script that does a whole heap of "setkeycodes" commands, but I've found that the version of "setkeycodes" in the console-tools package does not work with kernel version 2.2+. The one with the "kbd" package

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jim Lynch wrote: > In my (potato) /var/cache is... My mistake, /var/cache is still allowed, /var/state isn't. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-31 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) writes: > Bdale hates dbs, doesn't know what it is I don't hate dbs. I just get annoyed when packages with complicated build-time patching schemes won't build. My sense is that each of these schemes increases the probability of build-time failures by deferring wor

Re: Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 01:22:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > then you need to either update sparc and alpha, or you need to bug the > ftpadmins to remove the binaries from those architectures if the package Actually If I look at the ftp.denian.org Bug List there are quite a lot of open bugs, a

Problem with pcmcia-modules and kernel-image

2000-12-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi folks, i'm running unstable and i can't get pcmcia-modules-2.2.18 to work with kernel-image-2.2.18. I always get unresolved symbols (script log attached). And I had the same problem with 2.2.18pre21 but 2.2.17 is ok. I didn't report it for 2.2.18pre21 because I thought that this was a temporary

Re: ITP: libapache-mod-backhand - load balancing module for Apache

2000-12-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 06:52:30PM +0800, James Bromberger écrivait: > I intend to package libapache-mod-backhand. Great ! > I have altered wnpp bug#71457 from RFP to ITP. I am in the > nm queue, and intend to package mod_backhand (www.backhand.org). If you need a sponsor, I can upload the pack

Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Raphael Bossek
http://master.debian.org/~bossekr/ hi Debian users, for all of you looking for a graphical start screen, this is the right patch. I've modified it a little bit so more init scripts are supported and a additional patch against the latest linux-2.4.0-test12 is part of this tarball too! The offic

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:12:44PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > for all of you looking for a graphical start screen, this is the right patch. > I've modified it a little bit > so more init scripts are supported and a additional patch against the latest > linux-2.4.0-test12 is part of > this tar

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
Hello again. On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:22:45PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > Yes. The structure of the archive has changed because of 'package pools'. > You need to mirror 'pool' as well. > > Also, "woody" is no longer "unstable". "sid" is. "woody" is "testing". > > Mike. > Ok. T

Possible problem about to occur in incoming?

2000-12-31 Thread Gordon Sadler
If you look at incoming.debian.org/REPORT it will show the following: gcc_2.95.2-21_i386.changes SKIP (too new) Rejected: gcj_2.95.2-21_i386.deb Old version `1:2.95.3-2' >= new version `1:2.95.2-21'. Rejected: gcj_2.95.2-21_i386.deb Old version `1:2.95.3-3' >= new version `1:2.95.2-21'. Rejected:

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Erik
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:16:33PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:12:44PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > > for all of you looking for a graphical start screen, this is the right > > patch. I've modified it a little bit > > so more init scripts are supported and a additi

ITP: ttf-xtt, xfonts-xtt

2000-12-31 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I'll package ttf-xtt and xfonts-xtt. ttf-xtt is Free Japanese TrueType fonts include watanabe-mincho and wadalab-gothic (converted by me, used cb2ttj) xfont-xtt is psude package to use ttf-xtt on X. It includes fonts.scale and fonts.alias Package: ttf-xtt-wat

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Erik wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:16:33PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > That patch has the ability for startup scripts to display messages to the > screen (for such things as "Initializing network", "Initializing Sound", etc. > > I dont see why the same thing couldn't

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Dec 31, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:12:44PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > > for all of you looking for a graphical start screen, this is the right > > patch. I've modified it a little bit > > so more init scripts are supported and a additional patch against the > > lat

Re: Problem with pcmcia-modules and kernel-image

2000-12-31 Thread Brian Mays
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm running unstable and i can't get pcmcia-modules-2.2.18 to work > with kernel-image-2.2.18. I always get unresolved symbols (script log > attached). And I had the same problem with 2.2.18pre21 but 2.2.17 is > ok. I didn't report it for 2.2.18pre21 b

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > AFAIK there is a problem with this patch since some of the copyright > messages of the drivers are not displayed anymore. since some of them > require the Copyright announcement, this is a violation of the license. As > far as I know that was the reason for not putting that

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-31 Thread Brian May
> "Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bdale> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) writes: >> Bdale hates dbs, doesn't know what it is Bdale> I don't hate dbs. I just get annoyed when packages with Bdale> complicated build-time patching schemes won't build. My B

default mailbox for Netscape

2000-12-31 Thread developer list
I am running exim for my local network and would like to be able to pop mail from the mail machine using netscape. What is the default mailbox netscape tries to open on the mail server? Thanks. Art Edwards

Re: default mailbox for Netscape

2000-12-31 Thread Daniel Stone
> I am running exim for my local network and would like to be able to pop mail > from the mail machine using netscape. What is the default ma ilbox netscape tries to open on the mail server? what the hell is this? a) it's simple, RTFM RTFM RTFM. b) the sender name?!? c) wtf is this kinda crap doi

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-31 Thread John Lapeyre
*Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. I know that In case someone wants to pick up a package, I'll note which packages (of mine) I think are likely to have some reasonably sized user base. Some others may be popular too, I just don't know about the

Re: Possible problem about to occur in incoming?

2000-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:45:51PM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: > If you look at incoming.debian.org/REPORT it will show the following: > > gcc_2.95.2-21_i386.changes > SKIP (too new) > Rejected: gcj_2.95.2-21_i386.deb Old version `1:2.95.3-2' >= new > version `1:2.95.2-21'. > lots of the same >