Bug#111658: RFA: knapster2 -- KDE Napster client

2001-09-08 Thread Brian Russo
Package: wnpp I don't use napster anymore, hence I have no interest in knapster2. It's not terribly difficult to maintain, single binary and all. I would simply prefer to focus on some of my other packages. P.S. upstream doesn't like to clean up his tarballs properly. -- Brian Russo <[EMA

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-08 Thread Sebastian Schaffert
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > nfs isn't noted for being fast. > > I agree with most of what you say, but not with this. You can say a lot > about NFS, including that it's bad, insecure, to be thrown away and > changed by CODA or sth else, but not that it's s

Re: Cruft update

2001-09-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:04:37PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >At first sight it would seem logical to simply send a bug report > against cruft with all the updates but I think it would actually make > much more sense to send bug reports against each package so that *they* > and not cruft in

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:38:00AM +0200, Sebastian Schaffert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I've seen data transfers of ~800KByte/s via NFS. Over my 10MBit coax > > network. From a Pentium 166 to a Pentium 133. I don't know any other > > network file

Re: Bug#111274: ITA: doc-linux-ja -- Linux HOWTOs in Japanese

2001-09-08 Thread zhaoway
retitle 110941 ITA: doc-linux-zh -- Linux HOWTOs in Chinese thanks zw Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * #110941: O: doc-linux-zh -- Linux HOWTOs in Chinese

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-08 Thread skaya
> Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: > ># apt-get install package ># # damn it broke my server again!! ># apt-get rewind package IIRC, you can do # apt-get install package=3.2.0-3 or alternatively # apt-get install package/{stable,unstable,testing}

RE: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-08 Thread skaya
> I'm a student [...] and I am looking to find a project that > involves linux development ideally kernel / module based or a port > of software to a specific platform. if you're interested in newtork-oriented things, I'm developing here a test suite to torture-test IP routers. it has s

rm not rm'ing after prompting for confirmation

2001-09-08 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, Has anyone else encountered this problem? If rm prompts for confirmation, either because root has 'alias rm="rm -i"' or because the file is read-only, after saying "y" to the prompt, the file is still there. If I rm -f it, so that it doesn't prompt, the file does get deleted. I am followin

Bug#111688: ITP: prom-mew - procmail reader for Mew

2001-09-08 Thread Taku YASUI
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist prom-mew acts as a bridge between Mew the mailer and e-mail processors like procmail. It analyzes the log generated by procmail, then tells you which letters are unread and where they are. The usage is somewhat similar to that of GNUS/Gnus. Mew is mail user agen

Bug #111652

2001-09-08 Thread Brandon L. Griffith
I know this person, and have tried to help him on this issue. I created an account on my machine named "echo" and attempted to subscribe to several debian mailing lists using that name. I never got a response back on any of them. I then created an account called test, and was able to subscribe fine

Re: http://standard.debian.net/ now available

2001-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > The Packages file, see above. Note that Task: fields tend to appear *after* > the long description. Anything that uses dpkg code to generate PAckages files will do this. dpkg places user-defined fields after all others. Requests to make Tasks a known f

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-08 Thread Shaul Karl
> I wrote a documentation > "How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable". > Have I re-invented the wheel? > > sgml (DocBook) source > http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/apt-gettable/apt-gettable.sgml > > html version (formatted with NewbieDoc style sheet) > http://www.interq.or.jp/lib

Re: Bug #111652

2001-09-08 Thread Santiago Vila
Brandon L. Griffith wrote: > I know this person, and have tried to help him on this issue. I > created an account on my machine named "echo" and attempted to > subscribe to several debian mailing lists using that name. I never > got a response back on any of them. I then created an account called >

RFA: gv -- A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets

2001-09-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-09 Severity: normal I offer gv (and if you want xaw3dg, too) for someone who has more knowledge in both gs and C to fix some of the bugs (upstream is dead since four years). I do not intend to give this package to the first one who says "I want to ado

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-08 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting > my final year project some time next > year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development > ideally kernel / module based or a port > of software to

Request for testers for new gphoto package

2001-09-08 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
I have just compiled a new version of the gphoto package built from CVS sources (and branded it gphoto-0.6). However, since this is a developer's release I'm not confident enough to substitute the current version of gphoto (0.4.3) in testing/unstable with this even if it includes some new cameras,

Bug#111733: ITP: rioutil -- Use the Rio 600, Rio 800 and Nike psa[play MP3 players

2001-09-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-09 Severity: wishlist * Package name: rioutil Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Nathan Hjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rioutil.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Description : Use the Rio 600, Rio 800 an

Re: A script to see how much a package is depended upon.

2001-09-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > 29400691 docbook > > Uh ? There was a flaw of logic, as it were. It should be something around 3000-1. I presume. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ grep-available -F Depends -s Package docbook > Package: cygnus-stylesheets > Package: d