Re: no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?

On Sunday 6 January 2002 12:09, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Egon Willighagen wrote: > >... > > That makes me wonder: is it possible that i am imagening things, and that > > the upgrade went well, even though my HD was full? Did it actually > > install files then, or did it not overwrit

Re: Theory

To try and respond briefly, don't forget organizations that are using Debian. For a lot of organizations, it's neither practical nor safe to do a nightly upgrade on your hundreds of computers. Also, don't forget that a lot of the reason "stable" is stable, is because it sits frozen for a while an

[ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

I forgot to cc debian-devel on this: I think that the best solution to the problem would be for me to upload a new version of libqt2 2.3.1 compiled against libpng2. Due to the potential problems with upgrading from stable (potato) to the future new stable (woody). I will do this tomorrow morning.

iproute critical bugs (was: Some thoughts about problems within Debian)

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:24:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > iproute: 118424, 119601, 123224 I merged 118424, 119601 and provided a patch. For 123224 the fixed should be to remove the -Werror, but I could not test it, cause it seems to require 2.4 kernel source, which is not present on

Re: 1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO that should be updated to nfs-utils-1.0 from upstream, if it > only were for the psychological impact of the 1.x version number. 'psychological impact' isn't a valid argument for putting new versions of software in stable. -- Når folk spørger mig

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

David Schleef wrote: > Perhaps some day, we might have cross-compiling as part of Debian > policy (or at least a tag for cross-compiliability), but I > certainly wouldn't advocate that now, as it would cause too much > turmoil. Things I've noticed: (1) Original software is not ready for cr

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Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:35:20PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > A Debian native source package is one which has no .diff.gz, because the > > Debian source code and the upstream source code are the same thing. This > > means that the source tarball contains a debian/ directory with the > > necess

Bug (?) on Debian website

If I search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for the package openmcl, nothing turns up. I wonder if it's because it's a powerpc-only package. Anyone know why? -- Jonathan Hseu <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG ID: 5228D713 GPG fingerprint: 220B A4EF

Re: Bug (?) on Debian website

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:34:28AM -0600, Jonathan Hseu wrote: > If I search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for the package > openmcl, nothing turns up. I wonder if it's because it's a powerpc-only > package. > Anyone know why? packages.debian.org uses the i386 packages file. -- "Y

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I forgot to cc debian-devel on this: > > I think that the best solution to the problem would be for me to upload a > new version of libqt2 2.3.1 compiled against libpng2. Due to the potential > problems with upgrading from stable (potato) to the future

Re: 1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Martin Schulze] > > For further explanation please check the detailed report at > > . > > libc6 is still not mentioned on this list. Is this on purpose, or did > someone forget to let you know? No package --> no mention. Nobod

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:14:46PM +0200, Ari Makela wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:24PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > As far as I know most keyboards don't have an AltGr key.. > > In North America that's probably correct (what would they do with it?) > but it's essential with Europe

Re: Still no fam in Woody

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Joerg Wendland wrote: >... > > I do not understand the unsatisfiable depend error. The program was > > successfully compiled on hppa. Is the problem gcc-3.0 >= > > 3.0.3-0pre011214 missing in Woody? This seem to be a problem on arm > > and m68k, and should not affect hppa, o

New project: Debian-Med

Hello, a new year seems to be the right starting point for a new project :). So here we are: _ _ __ ___ | _ \ ___ | |__ (_) __ _ _ __ | \/ | ___ __| | | | | | / _ \| '_ \ | | / _` || '_ \ _ | |\/| | / _

Re: Evolution and GnuPG

Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 06:38, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I've noticed that Evolution (1.0-4) is very prone to report bad > > signatures. To start with I thought it was down to use by the sender of > > a particular mailer, but I am beginning to doubt that. > >

Re: New project: Debian-Med

"Tille, Andreas" a écrit : > > > I'm looking foreward for comments, suggestions and most importantly - help! > > Kind regards > > Andreas. Minoru Development strongly supports this initiative. I can announce today that the Debian-med distribution will become a key part of the Openhealt

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

On Mon, 07 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > should i file this bug against both packages, or which one should get > precedence? i feel like postfix will be losing out... > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/smtpd_2.0-4_i386.deb > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/smtpd.8.gz

/dev/plex86 permissions

Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really desired? Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default to mode 660 and group plex86? -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:06:27AM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: -snip- > > Sounds good to fix all the current problems... however how are we > going to handle the libpng2 -> libpng3 conversion ? Your solution just > seems to postpone the problem. libqt 3.x already uses libpng3 so that looks like

Re: Many .changes not being sent to debian-devel-changes

Le Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:32:44PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman écrivait: > > I can dig up more if needed (counting only packages I have installed > > I've found 15 today). > > I suspect it's a broken mailsetup somewhere in debian.org, I have > gotten all dinstall mails from friday somewhere on saturda

Re: New project: Debian-Med

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:46:12PM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > is an Debian internal project to support tasks of people in medical care. > Debian-Med will have two main components: Support for general practice and > laboratory research. In the "research" category -- how about medical imaging?

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1705 +0100]: > smtpd in postfix is a private executable, so it has far less precedence than > the one in smtpd. On the other hand, the postfix manpages are crucial to > figure out what the hell a config option really does, so

Re: New project: Debian-Med

At Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:46:12 +0100 (CET), Tille, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > a new year seems to be the right starting point for a new project :). > > So here we are: > > _ _ __ ___ > | _ \ ___ | |__ (_)

Call for translation for locales package

I'm getting ready for 2.2.5-1 of glibc for upload. I have added a new template to the locales package. Just so I don't have to make another upload to get the translations for this template in sync with the one that is already there, here is the text: Description: Which locale should be the default

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:12:23PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > i don't know about another section... why not simply prefix all postfix > manpages with postfix-, so this one would be postfix-smtpd.8.gz That would be completely inconsistent with all other Postfix installations out there and rat

Re: Debian.rpm

> "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:27, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> I think you can probably boot to it with a carefully crafted >> initrd that performs a pivot_root into the debootstrapped >> chroot. Russell> I believe t

Re: 1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

Previously Dominik Kubla wrote: > Oh yes it is. That's why 0.3.3 was bumped to 1.0: because it is mature > and stable software. 0.3.3 implies otherwise. We don't do marketing, we do a good and stable free software distribution. > BTW: 0.3.3/1.0 fixed quite some bugs over the 0.1.x series so an u

Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > So I guess that as long as the explanation in maint-guide says that a native > > Debian package is a package that builds with no modifications, not just a > > package developed specifically for Debian, it will be clear for everybody.

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:06:27AM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > -snip- > > > > Sounds good to fix all the current problems... however how are we > > going to handle the libpng2 -> libpng3 conversion ? Your solution just > > seems to postpone the proble

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously David N. Welton wrote: > > Right, so how do we fix this? It is our problem, in that we need > > to make the software we distribute work together. But are you > > also saying that upstream shouldn't be setting that bit in their > > header

Re: stat vs stat64 - ugly problem

Previously David N. Welton wrote: > It wouldn't cause problems if you did stat64(&foo) where foo is a > regular 'struct stat'? You never do stat64 yourself, if you enable LFS with the right options that is all done transparently in libc. Wichert. -- ___

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:07:23AM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: -snip- > > Sounds good to me. > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also link > with libpng3 ? Manual check ? yes manual check pgp1p0Bn9W3wQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Cross-platform XML editor

A two-part question: a) Can you recommend a cross-platform XML editor that uses the DTD? I use SGML in emacs but our data-entry people are not going to enjoy emacs. A GUI-based editor is preferred. b) If the answer to a) is Xeena http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xeena h

Re: Cross-platform XML editor

Douglas Bates wrote: ... > $ ./xeena.sh > using java in [/usr/lib/jdk1.1] > Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread > Could not create Java VM you probably need to set CLASSPATH environmental variable erik

Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:35:20PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > A Debian native source package is one which has no .diff.gz, because the > > > Debian source code and the upstream source code are the same thing. This > > > means th

Re: Bug#128077: Please mention native source packages in maint-gu ide

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:06:46PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > So I guess that as long as the explanation in maint-guide says that a > > > native > > > Debian package is a package that builds with no modifications, not just a

Question before buying GNU Debian

Dear Debian Team I would like to install GNU Debian Linux on my computer, actually my PC is running with SuSE Linux 7.3. My question: I have a 32 MB NVIDIA Riva TNT 2 Modell 64 / Modell 64 PRO Graphic Card, which is full supported by SuSE Linux. Is this hardware supportet by Debian too? I don't

why is 'dbf' in non-free?

I ran a search for dbf (xbase) packages in debian and came up with the 'dbf' package which is in non-free. If it's in non-free because of licensing issues with the Xbase format, I'd like to know since I'm currently finishing up a dbf library of my own that I had planned to release under a free lice

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:07:23AM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > -snip- > > > > Sounds good to me. > > > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also link > > with libpng3 ? Manual check ? > > yes manual check Ok. Excellent. W

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really desired? > > Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default to > mode 660 and group plex86? I would say that it should default to 600 and

Re: why is 'dbf' in non-free?

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:46:47PM -0600, DvB wrote: > I ran a search for dbf (xbase) packages in debian and came up with the > 'dbf' package which is in non-free. > If it's in non-free because of licensing issues with the Xbase format, > I'd like to know since I'm currently finishing up a dbf lib

Re: why is 'dbf' in non-free?

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, DvB wrote: > I ran a search for dbf (xbase) packages in debian and came up with the > 'dbf' package which is in non-free. > If it's in non-free because of licensing issues with the Xbase format, >... If you lok at the copyright notice (debian/copyright in the source or /usr/sh

Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: New project: Debian-Med

Hello Brian, hello Andreas, I have had inquiries by interested German doctors on how they can "obtain" a version of, say, GNUMed to try out on their machines at home. To date I have had to tell them: "Go grab the source." A Debian-med distro will make such things a lot easier. May I suggest the

Re: Question before buying GNU Debian

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:57:59PM +0100, Christian Banik wrote: > I would like to install GNU Debian Linux on my computer, actually my PC is > running with SuSE Linux 7.3. My question: I have a 32 MB NVIDIA Riva TNT 2 > Modell 64 / Modell 64 PRO Graphic Card, which is full supported by SuSE > Lin

Re: Question before buying GNU Debian

I run nVidia hardware on my Debian install. Debian stable (potato) has older XFree86 packages; they should support unaccelerated TNT2's fine tho (someone correct me on this if I'm wrong). If you want full acceleration, you'll need to upgrade to XFree86 4.1 after installing Debian (or get your han

Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: New project: Debian-Med

Hi, On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:17:35PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > I have had inquiries by interested German doctors on how they > can "obtain" a version of, say, GNUMed to try out on their > machines at home. To date I have had to tell them: "Go grab > the source." Since my mother (who is a D

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:07, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really > > desired? > > > > Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default to > > mode 660 and g

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Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about finding the smtp agen

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

>I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want >mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the >mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim >to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about >finding the smtp

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

> I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about > finding the

Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: New project: Debian-Med

The beauty of Debian is that it is very well documented for the beginner and with a high bandwidth connection can be downloaded and installed quite easily. This is a terrific initiative for interested MD's.

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:13:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about > finding the smtp agent? Have a look at ssmtp --- it's a tiny MTA, which is especially ha

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > to be installed when I only need a r

do what? kdm installs gnome?

piper:~# apt-get install kdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-core gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libpanel-applet0 libscrollkeeper0 scrollkeeper The following NEW packages will

Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: New project: Debian-Med

Le Lundi 7 Janvier 2002 22:17, Karsten Hilbert a écrit : > Hello Brian, hello Andreas, > > I have had inquiries by interested German doctors on how they > can "obtain" a version of, say, GNUMed to try out on their > machines at home. To date I have had to tell them: "Go grab > the source." > > A De

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

also sprach Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1859 +0100]: > That would be completely inconsistent with all other Postfix > installations out there and rather non-obvious when you try and look it > up in the common case where only Postfix is installed. [also answering dominik's post] oka

Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: New project: Debian-Med

On Mon, 07 Jan 2002, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote: > > Now I know that this might very well eat up some serious > > resources but I thought I'd mention it anyway. For some > > This (nearly) is precisely what is done by demolinux, see > http://www;demolinux.org: Or like Knoppix (www.knoppix.de) which

Re: Question before buying GNU Debian

also sprach Christian Banik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.2157 +0100]: > So it isn't possible to support the (original Linux) GNU Debian > project by buying a CD package? I'm a Student and have not so much > money but if it would help You I would buy one! sehr gut! at the risk of being flamed or

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:22:44PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: > >I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > >mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > >mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > >to be installe

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:07:02 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really > desired? > > > > Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default > to > > mode 6

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:22:44PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: > > >I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > > >mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > > >mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > > >to b

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:28:58AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:07:02 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I would say that it should default to 600 and be adjusted by the local > > admin. Or is it possible for plex86 to set things up correctly at > > installation time by dropping a

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:13:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > to be installe

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:05:41PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My objection is simply that while there is a need for an available > SMTP server, there is no need for it to be local. I'm going to look > into some alternatives and post a recommendation. Mutt does not speak SMTP. A remote ser

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

Ilia Lobsanov wrote: > Perhaps creating a new package, eg. 'mutt-reader' with no MTA dependency, > could solve this problem. Would the only difference between mutt and mutt-reader be that one dependency? If so, then it would be better, I think, to simply change "Depends: mail-transport-agent" to

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0005 +0100]: > My objection is simply that while there is a need for an available > SMTP server, there is no need for it to be local. I'm going to look > into some alternatives and post a recommendation. i don't think mutt comes with S

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:41:19 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > okay, kdm depends on the pseudo package x-session-manager or > x-window-manager, the first of which kdebase provides as well. however, > is there a way for apt-get to select kdebase instead of gnome when kdm > is instal

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

also sprach Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0105 +0100]: > I think kdm should depend on: > > kdebase | x-session-manager | x-window-manager file bug should i? bug should i file? should file i bug? bug file i should? file should i bug? okay, that suffices. -- martin;

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:04:27PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:07:23AM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > > -snip- > > > > > > Sounds good to me. > > > > > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:33:24AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0105 +0100]: > > I think kdm should depend on: > > > > kdebase | x-session-manager | x-window-manager > > file bug should i? > bug should i file? > should file i b

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

also sprach Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0214 +0100]: > No, because a kdebase upload will be made today to fix it. :) how does kdebase fix this? by providing x-session-manager? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> m

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 02:29:02 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0214 +0100]: > > No, because a kdebase upload will be made today to fix it. :) > > how does kdebase fix this? by providing x-session-manager? the kdm binary pack

Header files in package for ODBC driver?

Hi all, I've recently adopted the myodbc2.50.37 and am looking to clean it up somewhat. One issue I've run into is that the package ships both static libraries and header files, even though for all intents and purposes it's a plugin. I'd like to restructure the package to discourage direct l

Re: New project: Debian-Med

* Igor Gilitschenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020107 15:50]: > has to do with debian-med. I think, that this fact results in having the > need of Companies, which ship debian-med coming with Support contracts. Is there no interoperable data interchange format for this? -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

In the article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Schleef wrote: > > Perhaps some day, we might have cross-compiling as part of Debian > > policy (or at least a tag for cross-compiliability), but I > > certainly wouldn't advocate that now, as it would cause too

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > Good summary. This reminds me of most troubles I've ever suffered > when cross compiling. :-> Thanks. To summarize those things, I have done many things. One more thing. Some packages use snapshot of software, and use --enable-maintainer-mode to generate manuals by

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

also sprach Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0309 +0100]: > > how does kdebase fix this? by providing x-session-manager? > the kdm binary package is part of the kdebase source package... > kdebase already provides x-session-manager exactly. so how does kdebase want to fix this

ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

The ITP is in the BTS as #128042 libtar is available from http://www-dev.cso.uiuc.edu/libtar/ its under the original 4 clause BSD license My understanding is that it is DFSG free and conforms to Brandons proposed policy changes as outlined http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-20

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:28, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really > > > > desired? > > > > > Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default > > > > to > > > > > mode 660 and group plex86? > > > > I would say that it sho