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* Drew Scott Daniels [Thu, Apr 10 2003, 02:11:36PM]:
> I don't quite understand all the concepts being discussed but the
> following web pages may be worth reading.
> http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt
The idea is great and I came to very similar concept looking for a
so
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 10:13, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >Leaving /etc/adjtime as is and telling admins to "move it and use a
> >symlink" is a FHS violation because /etc/adjtime is.
> What part of "FHS does not apply to local changes" you did not
> understand?
No part. Please read my message again. T
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:17, Thomas Hood wrote:
> * ppp
> * Change /usr/sbin/pppd to:
> * Store PID in /run/, not in /var/run/
Why? Is the goal to make PPP-mounter /var to work?! If so, pppd has to
be moved to /sbin.
> * pump
> * Add /etc/pump directory
> * Change /sbin/pum
> > I really don't know. The fakeroot is not my project and I'm afraid my
> > patches are too experimental for such stable tool. Also there is too much
> > work with cleaning up the code. Should I start new project or join to the
> > original fakeroot?
>
> I once tried to do something similar
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * Package name: exim-mysql
> Personally, I do not like all those -mysql, -pgsql, -whatever packages.
Who does? :-(
> Whatever happened to the idea of using a common database access library
> like iODBC? It's reasonably small, Not A Burden if you
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:34:00PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs arranged a set of
bits into the following:
> Hi,
> > * Package name: exim-mysql
>
> Personally, I do not like all those -mysql, -pgsql, -whatever packages.
>
> Whatever happened to the idea of using a common database access library
>
Previously Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Yes, but what I also want to avoid is having to change every single instance
> of 'Depends: libfoo' to 'Depends: libfoo [! x86_64, sparc64, s390x, ppc64,
> hppa64], lib64foo [x86_64, sparc64, s390x, ppc64, hppa64]' and then changing
> them all again for mips64 ;-).
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On Saturday 12 April 2003 13:00, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Yes, but what I also want to avoid is having to change every single
> > instance of 'Depends: libfoo' to 'Depends: libfoo [! x86_64, sparc64,
> > s390x, ppc6
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> # The rules:
> # * All packages orphaned less than 90 days ago will be kept!
> # * Ignore all bugs less than 30 days old.
> # otherwise:
> # * Packages with RC bugs will be removed.
> # * Packages orphaned 180 days ago and with NMUed RC bugs will be removed.
> #
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-11 23:11]:
> These packages all look likely to be leaves, but have you checked
> for other packages depending on them just to be sure?
Not yet, but I intend to do so before the removal.
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Martin Michlmayr
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At Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:52:12 -0400 (EDT),
Joe Nahmias wrote:
>
> Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will
> they be purged from there as well?
These packages will be available through http://snapshot.debian.net/,
as much as I can afford to maintain.
Regards,
Fumito
On Friday 11 April 2003 16:34, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> * Programs which access SQL databases should do so through
> libgda2/unixodbc/???.
>
> ... assuming that we can reach some sort of consensus on which library
> should be used..?
Why is a consesus needed?
I agree with you that having each p
>> Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * modify dpkg (already planned) to allow it to install packages from
> different architectures on a system where it makes sense
> * change the naming of the libraries, for example by adding '64' to
> the 64bit version of a library
>
> Th
On Friday 11 April 2003 19:52, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will
> they be purged from there as well?
I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive?
s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be ret
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
> I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive?
> s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. So
> there's no problem recovering the latest version fro
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote:
> I am not currently using anything on the wnpp-list, but it
> seems to me that not all these packages are better off gotten
> rid off.
>
> Does anyone know something about the importance of these
> packages?
> I would suspect packages
Previously Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> That doesn't scale terribly well, does it? Everytime a new 64 bit
> architecture is introduced, all the library packages have to be updated
> by hand (instead of just being recompiled).
I don't see that.
Wichert.
--
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:38:45PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > That doesn't scale terribly well, does it? Everytime a new 64 bit
> > architecture is introduced, all the library packages have to be updated
> > by hand (instead of just being reco
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
[...]
> > mnogosearch
>
> Again, several alternatives.
search.d.o is using it, IIRC it was the only search engine
able to index foreign languages found on www.d.o.
Denis
On Saturday 12 April 2003 15:42, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> How do you generate binary packages libfoo or lib64foo out of source
> foo depending on the target architecture?
Every architecture knows where its libraries are installed. One way
would be to make 'dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_LIBTY
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > pptp-linux
>
> AIUI, you have to rebuild your kernel with a patch, and the version of
> the patch in the archive doesn't work on recent kernels. So I doubt
> many people will be hugely affected.
Well, uni shut down VPN-access a
>> Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Every architecture knows where its libraries are installed. One way
> would be to make 'dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_LIBTYPE' return either
> 'lib' or 'lib64' depending on the architecture. You have to do
> something like this anyway because the f
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-12
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: duplicity
Version : 0.4.0
Upstream Author : Ben Escoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/
* License : GPL
Description : encrypted bandwidth
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> biomode -- [Biology] An Emacs mode to edit genetic data [#100215]
> * Orphaned 671 days ago
I hope that the bugs will be fixed soon - at least I have heard rumors
that work is going on.
> bugsx -- evolve biomorphs using genetic algorithms [#86636]
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957]
> > * Orphaned 755 days ago
> It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to
> PostgreSQL are quite rare.
It's not installable (#175816) and upstrea
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have written...
[snip]
> Speaking for myself, I can say that I still have playmidi installed, albeit
> version 2.3 instead of 2.4 (2.4 drums sound ugly on my wavetable for some
> reason I can't fathom; not a Debian problem per se, it's in upstream to
Dear Debian Devs,
Is there any kind of Hardware Compatibility List for Debian(Woody)?
I know there is the Hardware-Howto but this document is (too) old.
How can I collect an up-to-date Hardware Compatibility List by inspecting
(which) Kernel-Code(-Parts)? (How are the SuSE people for example do
Dear Debian Developers,
I am very new to Debian and know I want to dive deeper into Debian.
For this I have some questions:
1) What kind of developing does a Debian developer? Are you developing the
packages (*.deb files)?
I ask because I want to understand why this is so complicated. There are
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> > I once tried to do something similar, but noticed that
> > user-mode-linux does the same thing to a fuller extent.
> >
> > If you look at it this way, user-mode-linux is a fakeroot that traps
> > all syscalls.
>
> user-mode-linux has too big overload and it is available only for i386
On Saturday 12 April 2003 16:58, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> > Every architecture knows where its libraries are installed. One way
> > would be to make 'dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_LIBTYPE' return either
> > 'lib' or 'lib64' depending on the
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-12
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: gtk2-engines-smooth
Version : 0.5
Upstream Author : Andrew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/smooth-engine
* License : GPL
Description
At 19:10 12/04/2003 +0200, you wrote:
On Saturday 12 April 2003 16:58, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> > Every architecture knows where its libraries are installed. One way
> > would be to make 'dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_LIBTYPE' return either
>
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:58:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I collect an up-to-date Hardware Compatibility List by
> inspecting (which) Kernel-Code(-Parts)? (How are the SuSE people for
> example do this-they have a very big HCL but I don't know if Debian
> can use the same HCL-?)
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:15:32PM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote:
> [ Disclaimer: just subscribed -- caught the thread already started ]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel
> Why not just define the new architecture x86-64 and have katie/buildd do
> the rest?
>
> Anything to do with the abilit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 1) What kind of developing does a Debian developer? Are you developing the
> packages (*.deb files)?
Yes. But that is only part of the entire task.
> I ask because I want to understand why this is so complicated. There are
> "apt"-scripts to create *.deb-files fro
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-12
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: zabbix
Version : 1.0beta9
Upstream Author : Alexei Vladishev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://zabbix.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description : Application an
How can I collect an up-to-date Hardware Compatibility List by
inspecting (which) Kernel-Code(-Parts)? (How are the SuSE people for
example do this-they have a very big HCL but I don't know if Debian
can use the same HCL-?)
Nor, nor could they really-- SuSE generates their list by people paying
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-12
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libmysqlclient-lgpl
Version : 3.23.56
Upstream Author : MySQL AB
* URL : http://www.mysql.com/
* License : LGPL
Description : LGPL-licensed client library for MySQL
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> * pump
>> * Add /etc/pump directory
>> * Change /sbin/pump to:
>> * Store PID in /run, not in /var/run
>
> Quite. Programs in /sbin shouldn't, in general, be using /var/run.
I won't debate whether this is true in general, bug it
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > sabre -- Fighter plane simulator. [#175226]
> > * Orphaned 97 days ago
> > * 1 RC bugs.
> Hmm, would be a shame if noone would care for it. My son likes it and
> the bugs on i
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: multitail
Version : 1.5
Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
* License : GPL
Description : view mul
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:01:28PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> [...]
> > > mnogosearch
> >
> > Again, several alternatives.
>
> search.d.o is using it, IIRC it was the only search engine
> able to index foreign languages found o
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:56:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People who don't use their real names are either too stupid or too
embarrassed by what they are saying. Either way, reading the mail they
send merely wastes valuable seconds.
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:59:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> People who don't use their real names are either too stupid or too
> embarrassed by what they are saying. Either way, reading the mail they
> send merely wastes valuable seconds.
There is no reason to blame people that wants to be
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:28:23AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:59:05AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > People who don't use their real names are either too stupid or too
> > embarrassed by what they are saying. Either way, reading the mail they
> > send merely wast
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:52:23AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > There is no reason to blame people that wants to be anonymous.
> > Anonymity and privacy should be rights all over the world.
>
> F^WBlaming people is a right, too :P
Destroying absurd commonplaces too! ;-)
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Christian Surchi,
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