Re: Installed wajig 0.2.11-1 (i386 source)

2002-01-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:13:08 -0500 Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Description: > wajig - Simplified Debian package management front end > Changes: > wajig (0.2.11-1) unstable; urgency=low > . >* Upgraded to new upstream release > Files: > e2a0aaa255f1fd9404ccc176c82

serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
--- Begin Message --- I tried evolution tonight. It is impressive work. I wanted to import my 62 mbox mailboxes and 6 maildirs. Well, for whatever reason, it didn't let me import my maildirs. And the interface for importing mailboxes is painful for 62 different mailboxes. So I looked at how to

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:45:52PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I must admit i am somewhat confused by all the different version numbers > for shared libraries, the libtool manual didnt help a lot either. > > e.g. The definition of the age field in -version-info > current:revision:age > > age >

RE: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Yves Arrouye
> e.g. The definition of the age field in -version-info > current:revision:age > > age > The difference between the newest and oldest interfaces that this > library implements. In other words, the library implements all the > interface numbers in the range from number current - age to current. A

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:56:24PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Yea, this is kinda painful currently but hopefully by 1.2 this will be much easier. We plan on making it so that you can add a new account using "Standard Unix Mail Spool" as the source type and pointing it at a directory and have ou

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:15:02 -0600 "Adam Majer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, if upstream is using libtool, then they should use the > libtool's specification for shared libraries. Then you just have > libtar and libtar-dev packages. > No, unstream isnt using libtool, upstream only produces st

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:19:13 -0800 "Yves Arrouye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > e.g. The definition of the age field in -version-info > > current:revision:age > > > > age > > The difference between the newest and oldest interfaces that this > > library implements. In other words, the library

Bug#128396: general: /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc breaks update-menu

2002-01-09 Thread Rich Rudnick
Package: general Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-08 Severity: normal Tags: patch -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux aias 2.4.16 #3 Tue Nov 27 09:14:26 PST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE= dpkg -S /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc does not return any p

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Jonathan Walther wrote: > > Subject: > > I tried evolution tonight. It is impressive work. I wanted to import > my 62 mbox mailboxes and 6 maildirs. Well, for whatever reason, it > didn't let me import my maildirs. And the interface for importing > mailboxes is painful for 62 different mailbo

inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread Leon Breedt
Hi, I don't have the time available at the moment to make any meaningful contributions to Debian, neither do I have access to any Debian Linux systems, so I've orphaned the following packages: libucl libucl-dev libpam-pgsql I'm also the upstream author of libpam-pgsql, but I'm no l

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

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:07:13AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > > It's only the -dev package, which is only required > > > for the compile time, and I believe it is quite small, only > > > with the symlinks and the static link files..

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:49:12PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: IMO the good solution for this kind of problems is to use IMAP. don't trust MUAs to work with files. (of course, Evolution should play nice with symlinks) Note that in his reply, the Evolution maintainer said "the Unix rename() function

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

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:11:40AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On 7 Jan 2002, Philippe Troin wrote: > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also link > > with libpng3 ? Manual check ? > > Another possiblility is the following (only the new dependencies are > listed): > >

Re: Bug#127252: kmerlin: Nope, it broke it

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:38:47AM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: > Ok I see what has happened now. > > The libpng2/3 fiasco continues. > > It appears that after having to recompile kmerlin to work with libqt2/libpng3 > that they (maintainers of those pacakages) have decided that I again > have to re

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tkstep8.0 8.0.4p2-4.1

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:30:49PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, LaMont Jones wrote: > > > > Additionally I see that you did other changes to unix/tkstepConfig.sh that > > > aren't even mentioned in the changelog! > > > > Here is the complete diff between what I uploaded, and wha

Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
Can someone please help me with this? :) d - Forwarded message from LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable) From: LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 6 Jan

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
le mer 09-01-2002 à 09:16, Jonathan Walther a écrit : > Let's see. Then there is the "bug" with GnuPG signatures not being > verified correctly due to a Quoted Printable problem. The answer to > that one was "The problem is the fault of one of our libraries, and it > isn't changing anytime soon,

Bug#128396: general: /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc breaks update-menu

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 128396 python-happydoc-doc thanks On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:44:25PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > dpkg -S /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc does not return any package > owning this file, so I'm submitting this as general; please reassign > as needed. It's generated from /usr/share/doc-ba

Processed: Re: Bug#128396: general: /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc breaks update-menu

2002-01-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 128396 python-happydoc-doc Bug#128396: general: /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc breaks update-menu Bug reassigned from package `general' to `python-happydoc-doc'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. D

Re: Bug#127252: kmerlin: Nope, it broke it

2002-01-09 Thread Mark Purcell
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:38:31PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:38:47AM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: > Ivan decided that libpng3 was the way forward for libqt2 people, but > then Chris (rightly, IMHO) decided that libqt2 would keep libpng2, and > libqt3 would have libpng3.

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:29:43AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: *This* is the real problem with Evolution. It should use another GnuPG system. Evolution's behavior with mboxes is the right thing to do, as mboxes need to be locked. Could you explain that? Using realpath() before locking the mbox

Re: prism2 driver package anyone ?

2002-01-09 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:41:59PM +0100, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > Hi Bastiaan, > [...] > > You can find everything you need here: > > http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/ > > > > I have compiled the driver on my laptop and it seems to work fine (did > > not actually test networking though, that wo

Re: Bug#127252: kmerlin: Nope, it broke it

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:43:40PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:38:31PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > kdebase will be uploaded today and kdemultimedia tomorrow; the rest > > should be OK. > > I still need to upload a libpng2 version of kmerlin as I jumped the > gun and

Re: inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread David D.W. Dowey
I'm willing to take this package if you are willing to assign it to me. I've got enough time free to take care of it. - Original Message - From: Leon Breedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:00 AM Subject: inactivity, and orphaned packages > Hi, > > I don't

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > So, dear co-developers, please join debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and > respond to future maintainers, and sponsor those who are asking it. > Also check out the sponsor page that is listing about 30 future > maintainers who are looking for a sponsor :

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:47:02AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: > I object to attempts to lock me in to a single MUA. While I'm > evaluating I expect to be able to continue using Mutt until I am > confident enough in Evolution to cut the umbilical cord. Calm down. It could just be a bug and s

Re: [wish] buildd.debian.org that shows success/failure

2002-01-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:03:50PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > Different color.. something like keep it black for successful build but > mark it bold and red if it fails.. So at least bold would show up in lynx > if someone is still using it. > > No pictures, please... Yes, sure. I've just sent a

Re: inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread Leon Breedt
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:16:19AM -0800, David D.W. Dowey wrote: > I'm willing to take the libpam-pgsql if you are willing to assign it to me. Go for it. If you want to take ownership of the code, I'd be very happy as well :) There is a security problem with the way it accesses the database, in t

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:18:05AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > would state > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and my own address will be in the changelog (like in an NMU). Where > is the place to

Re: inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread David D.W. Dowey
This problem looks to be in the libpq itself, not the pam library module itself. I could probably extend the module to include the escape check itself. Shouldn't hurt any queries adding that check before making submissions, whether this patch has been added or not. Simple check for formatting sho

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

2002-01-09 Thread Philippe Troin
Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:07:13AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > > > > It's only the -dev package, which is only required > > > > for the compile time, and I believe it is quite small, only

Re: need help with an xpdf bug

2002-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:08:29PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > OK, this is probably a bug in libfreetype6-dev. > > The problem is that libfreetype6-dev puts headers in > /usr/include/freetype2/freetype when they were intended to go in > /usr/include/freetype. The headers use #include to get >

Re: inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread David D.W. Dowey
Actually the more I look at this, the more I think it would be better to log an entry about unescaped chars to the system log and deny the query. At least until the patch (http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/doc/postgresql/escape/postgresql-escape-2001-0 9-04.diff) has been added to the pgsql mainstream p

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Tille, Andreas wrote: >... > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > would state > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no, the control field states: Maintainer: My Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Where "My Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"

Re: inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread Leon Breedt
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:01:14AM -0800, David D.W. Dowey wrote: > Actually the more I look at this, the more I think it would be better to log > an entry about unescaped chars to the system log and deny the query. At > least until the patch > (http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/doc/postgresql/escape/po

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? Note to people who are unfamiliar with devfs.. Ac

Re: Installed wajig 0.2.11-1 (i386 source)

2002-01-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:06:52PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:13:08 -0500 > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Description: > > wajig - Simplified Debian package management front end > > Changes: > > wajig (0.2.11-1) unstable; urgency=low > > .

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

2002-01-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:21:34AM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:07:13AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > > > > > > It's only the -dev package, which is only

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread tpo2
Zitiere Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [1935 lines uselessly quoted] > > IMO the good solution for this kind of problems is to use IMAP. > don't trust MUAs to work with files. IMO IMAP is still a PITA, AFAIK the only well and out of the box interoperating combination of MUA and IMAPd is pine

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

2002-01-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also link > > > with libpng3 ? Manual check ? > > > > Another possiblility is the following (only the new dependencies are > > listed): > > > > Package: libqt2-dev > > Conflicts: libpng3 > >

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:36:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IMO IMAP is still a PITA, AFAIK the only well and out of the box > interoperating combination of MUA and IMAPd is pine together with > uw-imapd which is about as configurable as your sunglasses. With other > Linux combinations yo

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:36:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IMO IMAP is still a PITA, AFAIK the only well and out of the box > interoperating > combination of MUA and IMAPd is pine together with uw-imapd Mozilla at least works now with exchange :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMA

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Christian Marillat
reassign 128377 gdk-imlib1 thanks >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > reassign 128377 gnome-help > thanks > Hi Folks, > GNOME's imlib1 library is linked with libpng2, and nobody > knows how to gracefully handle the change from libpng2-->libpng3 > http://lists.debian.org

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Christian Marillat
>> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: [...] >> I really want to know why recompiling gdk-imlib1 is too hard ? > Recompiling isn't hard. Managing the transition is hard. Did you > read the threads in debian

Bug#128427: ITP: txt2regex -- An txt2regex wizard

2002-01-09 Thread Martin Butterweck
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-09 Severity: wishlist * Package name: txt2regex Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : An txt2regex wizard ^txt2regex$ is a Reg

Re: linux.conf.au and Debian conference

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, James Bromberger wrote: [at debian-private - but of course it can be also discussed open and so I move here ...] > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:35:47AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > there were some rumors that there would be the Debian Conference 2 > > connected to > > > >

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > reassign 128377 gdk-imlib1 > thanks > > > Now, the question is: should GNOME move to libpng3, and how? The QT/KDE > > folks have sidestepped the problem by declaring that libqt2 is > > remaining linked against libpng2, while li

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:00:28PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > >... > > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > > would state > > > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > no, the control field states:

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > > [...] > > >> I really want to know why recompiling gdk-imlib1 is too hard ? > > > Recompili

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Sounds good. Maybe we should provide a description of this technique > somewhere within webml or ddp. > > WWW/doc folks: any hint about sponsorship uploading practices? At least an FAQ would be apropriate in my opinion. A better solution would be

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Christian Marillat
>> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The fact remains that we cannot change the linkage of the library > NOR of applications piecemeal. The changes must be coordinated. > In the absence of a transition plan, I see no reason to introduce > instability in GNOME by chang

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 09 Jan 2002 15:09:08 +0100 Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, the question is: should GNOME move to libpng3, and how? The QT/KDE > > folks have sidestepped the problem by declaring that libqt2 is > > remaining linked against libpng2, while libqt3 links with libpng3. I > >

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:00:28 +0100 (CET) Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The way I prefer is: > > The maintainer makes the package as if he was an official developer. > The sponsor rebuilds the package, checks it, and if it's OK he signs it > with his key (using "debsign -m") and uploads

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > The fact remains that we cannot change the linkage of the library > > NOR of applications piecemeal. The changes must be coordinated. > > In the absence o

Re: need help with an xpdf bug

2002-01-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:46:40PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:08:29PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > OK, this is probably a bug in libfreetype6-dev. > > > > The problem is that libfreetype6-dev puts headers in > > /usr/include/freetype2/freetype when they were int

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Christian Marillat
>> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: [...] >> See Colin's answer. Change the library soname and shlibs. This will >> solve this bug. > It's a reasonable transition plan. > However, introducing a new imlib

Re: inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* David D.W. Dowey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020109 02:17]: > I'm willing to take this package if you are willing to assign it to me. Please retitle the appropriate bug then (#128400 in the case of libpam-pgsql). Bug#128400: O: libpam-pgsql Bug#128399: O: ucl (libucl and libucl-de

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

2002-01-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > No it is not the case. Libpng-dev provides libpng2-dev (both are > source-compatible). Libqt-dev should depend on libpng2-dev > (<<1.2.0). That should work. That sounds wrong. libpng3 is not binary compatible with libpng2. Silently bei

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il mer, 2002-01-09 alle 09:16, Jonathan Walther ha scritto: > Let's see. Then there is the "bug" with GnuPG signatures not being > verified correctly due to a Quoted Printable problem. The answer to > that one was "The problem is the fault of one of our libraries, and it > isn't changing anytime

Re: Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:20:00PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > Can someone please help me with this? Have you identified why libkcm_karea.so is linking against libgphoto2.a instead of against libgphoto2.so? Is libgphoto2.so absent or inaccessible, or is something in the Makefile forcing the s

Re: Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread James Troup
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:20:00PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Can someone please help me with this? > > Have you identified why libkcm_karea.so is linking against libgphoto2.a > instead of against libgphoto2.so? It's a broken symlink; I seem to r

Re: Installed wajig 0.2.11-1 (i386 source)

2002-01-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > Is byte-compiled python script platform-dependent? > > It is my (naive) understanding that it is not. > > Is that not correct? Or does an i386 .pyc/.pyo work on other architectures? I am not quite sure. I also wondered if it wa

RE: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Yves Arrouye
> > Age indicates how many revisions of the library have been upwards > > compatible. If you are at revision 7 and still have all the interfaces > from> revision 6 unchanged, and 6 had the same for 5, and ... 4 for 3, > then age is> 7 - 3 = 4. > > > > I see what your saying, but dont you mean curr

Gopher Turns 10; Gopher 3.0 (FurryTerror) Released

2002-01-09 Thread John Goerzen
Thought some of you might be interested in this. And yes, packages have been uploaded to sid. For those of you that did not know, UMN GPL'd gopher about a year ago and several of us have been working on the codebase since then. Gopher Turns 10 / Gopher 3.0 (Furry Terror) Released

Re: inactivity, and orphaned packages

2002-01-09 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi, Leon Breedt, on 2002-01-09, 12:42, you wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:16:19AM -0800, David D.W. Dowey wrote: > > I'm willing to take the libpam-pgsql if you are willing to assign it to me. > Go for it. If you want to take ownership of the code, I'd be very happy > as well :) I am the aut

Bug#128446: ITP: elpoint -- Yet another presentation tool on Emacsen

2002-01-09 Thread OHASHI Akira
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-10 Severity: wishlist Hi, I intend to package elpoint. * Package name: elpoint Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Yuuichi Teranishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.gohome.org/elpoint/ * License : GPL Descri

Re: IBM "Key alliances" ?

2002-01-09 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:20:29AM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/> > > On the right is a panel listing "Key Alliances". Why are we not > listed? It would be a good thing for Debian to ally with IBM, > wouldn't it? If I had a job as a system admin at an IBM shop

Re: IBM "Key alliances" ?

2002-01-09 Thread Otavio Real Salvador
> Helas, AFAIK, when IBM sells Linux, it sells RH. Why don't change this? > There's more, if you replace the RH system they pre-install, you're > losing the warranty on the hardware. When change the first, this will change too. -- O T A V I OR E A LS A L V A D O R --

Should I rename scalable-cyrfonts?

2002-01-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! I'am the maintainer of the package scalable-cyrfonts. It's purpose was to contain all free scalable Cyrillic fonts I know about. However recently the upstream of most of these fonts has added many non-Cyrillic letters to them. Now they cover also ISO 8859-1,2,15 and will be some of the best

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, FWIW, the solution we're planning for Red Hat is to create a symlink "libpng10.so" to the old libpng, then link imlib and gnome-libs against -lpng10. This way the ABI of imlib/gnome-libs is preserved, but -lpng can be moved to libpng3. I'll attach the imlib and gnome-libs patches. (This step

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

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > > How do you plan to prevent programs that link with libqt2 to also link > > > > with libpng3 ? Manual check ? > > > > > > Another possiblility is the following (only the new dependencies are > > > listed): >

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 01:43, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:56:24PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > >Yea, this is kinda painful currently but hopefully by 1.2 this will be > >much easier. We plan on making it so that you can add a new account > >using "Standard Unix Mail Spoo

OT Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Manfred Wassmann
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jonathan Walther wrote: [...] > A user who doesn't know what he is doing will attempt to do everything > from the provided GUI. Its shameful to assume that people that attempt > to use vi to edit their configurations are also idiots. (humor-mode t) Why? They would use emac

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread John Hasler
> Evolution added an X-Evolution header to each message for status > purposes. Merely _looking_ at a message with Evolution alters it? That is _truly_ evil. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Preparing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r5

2002-01-09 Thread Florian Weimer
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Development for 2.2r5 is near being finished ready to be released. Will the glob() problem in GNU libc be fixed in 2.2r5? -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/

BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
Hi, Not sure where to file a bug on this one. (Nor how, actually, but that shouldn't be too hard to work out) I regularly check for new software and perform an upgrade to my system. The last time I did this, I installed quake2. Getting the shareware data down caused quite a drama since my /tmp

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: > So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when Grave bug against mime-support IF it is the package that generates /etc/mailcap. It must be able to detect write errors, and avoid data loss. > /tmp was full), quake2-data (should

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:55:34PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Evolution added an X-Evolution header to each message for status > > purposes. > > Merely _looking_ at a message with Evolution alters it? That is _truly_ > evil. Maybe, but it's also commonplace. Consider how elm has for many yea

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Philippe Troin
"Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > >> I really want t

Gnome 2 packages?

2002-01-09 Thread Martin Sjögren
I'm starting to port my Gnome programs to Gnome 2, and was a bit stumped when there was lots of Gnome 2 packages missing from unstable. The ones I found right now were libbonoboui and libgnomecanvas, but I'm sure there are others missing too. Are there any plans on packaging this soon? The wnpp pa

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: I solve the small space problem in /tmp this way. /tmp is a real directory, and exists on the root filesystem. This allows boot programs to create temp files. Upon bootup, I bind mount /tmp to some other place, that has lots of place. This allows larger pr

Bug#128487: ITP: ferite -- Ferite programming language

2002-01-09 Thread Eric Dorland
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-09 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ferite Version : 0.99.4 Upstream Author : Chris Ross (boris) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ferite.org/ * License : BSD Description : Ferite programming language Fe

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:41:28PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Unfortunately, no. I made no changes whatsoever to the mailboxes. I just entered them to see if the messages showed up, they did, then I exited. Thats when I noticed the symlinks had been blown away, and the resulting "copied" mai

Re: Do not link GNOME apps with libpng3

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The fact remains that we cannot change the linkage of the library > > NOR of applications piecemeal. The changes must be coordinated. > > In the absence of a transition

Re: Gnome 2 packages?

2002-01-09 Thread Christian Marillat
>> "MS" == Martin Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm starting to port my Gnome programs to Gnome 2, and was a bit stumped > when there was lots of Gnome 2 packages missing from unstable. The ones I > found right now were libbonoboui and libgnomecanvas, but I'm sure there > are others missin

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Heath wrote: > /tmp is a real directory, and exists on the root filesystem. This allows boot > programs to create temp files. > > Upon bootup, I bind mount /tmp to some other place, that has lots of place. > This allows larger programs after booting to create larger files. This only > works

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 16:20, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:41:28PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > >> Unfortunately, no. I made no changes whatsoever to the mailboxes. I > >> just entered them to see if the messages showed up, they did, then I > >> exited. Thats when I no

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:20:16PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: > The perception of a possible permissions problem is bogus. If you don't > have permission in that directory to create the tmp mailbox, then you > probably didn't have permission to blast over the original mailbox > either. It is

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

2002-01-09 Thread DvB
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:46:47PM -0600, DvB wrote: > > The best place to look for this information is in the copyright file > contained in the package. In this case, the problem is with the copyright > for libdbf: > > This is non-free because it r

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:18:05AM +0100, Tille, Andreas écrivait: > OK. If I understand this right that would mean that the control file > would state > > Maintainer: Future Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and my own address will be in the changelog (like in an NMU). No, you don't need to

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Zitiere Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [1935 lines uselessly quoted] > > > > IMO the good solution for this kind of problems is to use IMAP. > > don't trust MUAs to work with files. > > IMO IMAP is still a PITA, AFAIK the only well and out of the box > interop

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:13:48PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: > > So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when > > Grave bug against mime-support IF it is the package that generates > /etc/mailcap. It must be

Re: forking packages and private archive

2002-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Peter Jordan] > I am not sure if I should create my own installer package > (non-interactive) using debian-installer and a forked rootskel [...] This sounds interesting and highly relevant to the work I'm currently doing. Do you have a complete automatic non-interactive installation working? Pl

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > quake2-data should prompt the admin where to download the files, since > TMPDIR is not expected to have such large amounts of space, wherever it > points to. It does prompt for a download location, but after downloading unpacks to /

Re: Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:38:20PM +, James Troup wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:20:00PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Can someone please help me with this? > > > > Have you identified why libkcm_karea.so is linking against libgphoto2.a

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Anders Jackson
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:55:34PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > Evolution added an X-Evolution header to each message for status > > > purposes. > > > > Merely _looking_ at a message with Evolution alters it? That is _truly_ > > evil. > > Maybe,

lock files in /home???

2002-01-09 Thread Brian May
Hello, Recently with one of my upgrades Nautils stopped working. The reason? It requires gconfd to be running, but gconfd kept crashing. The reason gconfd keeps crashing? According to strace, it tries to create a lock file under $HOME/.gconfd/locks/. However, on this system /home is NFS mounted

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:27:51PM +, Pete Ryland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > quake2-data should prompt the admin where to download the files, since > > TMPDIR is not expected to have such large amounts of space, wherever it > > points to. > >

Re: Fw: Bug#128089: kdegraphics: Build failure: including non-PIC code in shared object (ia64/unstable)

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:54:03AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:38:20PM +, James Troup wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:20:00PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > Can someone please help me with this? > > > >

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Jonathan Walther
Thank you for the patch. To make it work, you need to define the variable "folder_path". I would recommend this: char folder_path[4096]; And then before using it, do this: memset(folder_path, 0, sizeof folder_path); Cheers. Jonathan On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:57:34PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote

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