If you type "gpm" as a non-root user, it just sits there and never
returns. IMHO it should check to see whether you are root, if you aren't
then it should abort with an error.
What do other people think - this sort of thing could apply to several
programs - particularly those in /etc/init.d
Thank
On Jun 17, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote
> Sorry, I didn't explain well. I said:
>
> *---
> I wonder why we are supporting this packages in the `contrib' section:
>
> * whose copyright permission notices (or patent problems) al
update-menus forks to the background and waits for dpkg to finish before
continuing to work. This is a useful function that could be useful for other
programs (for instance scripts that build automated indexes of other kinds).
Is there a cunning way to achieve this at present? If not, is there any
Section 2.1.6 of the policy states:
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
and distribution license in the file /usr/doc//copyright
(see section 5.6, Copyright information' for details).
I'm taking over maintaining the linux-gazette packages from Chri
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 01:48:38PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> Thanks for using NetForward!
> http://www.netforward.com
> v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v
>
> > I'm taking over maintaining the linux-gazette packages from Christian
> > Schwarz, and I would prefer to jus
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 09:19:46PM +, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> I just saw this on c.o.l.a. and want to package it:
>
> Title: propsel
> Version:27-Nov-1997
> Entered-date: 27-Nov-1997
> Description:propsel is for people who work with more than a single
>
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 11:21:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Ulf" == Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ulf> Hello,
>
> Ulf> when I use dpkg-source on an unchanged source tree it complains
> Ulf> about "unrepresentable changes". dpkg-buildpackage exits with an
>
Now that we have email addresses for the packages
(@debian.org??) I'll raise something I thought about a while
ago.
Currently the only way that a maintainer knows about a new package is:
a) they keep checking the sites
b) someone tells them (often through a bug report)
c) they have a progra
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 02:26:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 6 Dec, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> > Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the
> > Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct
> > Dirk> proxy server.
> >
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 08:46:36PM -0600, David Engel wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:59:27AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > David Engel wrote:
> > >
> > > I only know of one real bug so far. They didn't apply the fix needed
> > > to use the NIS module from autofs with glibc. I found that prob
Now that ecgs has ben officially released, maybe it's time to think (again)
about pentium/pro/K6/... specific packages. I think it would be good to have
a section i586 which would contain pentium specific packages. I don't know
how this conflict with the current dpkg* tools (such as dselect). I kno
I'm going to package cftp (full screen FTP client) - upload on Monday :-)
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On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 07:42:56PM +, James Troup wrote:
> Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm going to package cftp (full screen FTP client) - upload on
> > Monday :-)
>
> Umm, a little more information would be nice.
I've
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 01:49:38PM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> > (@debian.org??) I'll raise something I thought about a while
>
> I think it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually, but I'm not sure; I
> only occasionally get mail to it -- all of it inappropriate
> (everything I've gotten to xbase@<> in p
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until
> > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the
> > packages from binary-pent
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 02:09:57PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm
> > sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 07:38:00PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> > BTW I'd be interested to hear any justification of why <--- == DEL
>
> Well, from a sheer visual standpoint, seeing an arrow pointing to the
> left, like on the BS key (<--), makes one t
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 02:10:35PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >
> > > it's the obvious way... create another architecture tree, binary-i58
On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 07:48:04PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> i'm looking for a new maintainer for all my packages :
>
> mpage
> makedev (taken)
> giflib
> kde*
I'll take mpage.
Thanks
Adrian
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http://www.poboxes.com/adrian
There is quite a lot of unstripped libraries/object files in /usr/lib, is
this against policy?
lots of perl5 stuff
loads of elk stuff
libdpkg.so.0.0
lpbftp.so.1.0
crt1.o:
crti.o:
crtn.o:
hwtools/irqtune_npr.o:
hwtools/irqtune_mod.o:
gcrt1.o:
libbsd-compat.a:
libieee.a:
netscape/plugins/lib
i'm about to package tkfont, which IMHO is different in style to xfontsel
(nicer in some ways, worse in others). The original description follows:
It's a superior (IMHO) replacement for xfontsel written entirely in Tk/Tcl.
It's much prettier and much more useful. And it's only 14k to download
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
[snip]
> I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis).
> Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm
> just going to keep debmake frozen and will fix bugs if I receive suitab
> old commodore 64 days?).
> > >
> > AFAIK, we already have a xscavenger package, which is maintained by Adrian
> > Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .
>
> This is fun, I first installed a local version of my package, which is
> version 1.3.1-2 by now, because I clea
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 12:01:28PM +0500, Adam P. Harris wrote:
>
> [You (Sten Anderson)]
>
> >I am not a developer, but I have a few comments.
> >
> >When I run dselect, I see some Emacs packages as seperate deb
> >packages, e.g. auctex. Now, I prefer XEmacs, which includes auctex,
> >but how c
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 12:15:11PM -0500, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> >> ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work
> >> for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches
A wishlist priority bug report was filed against pppload as it's menu entry
contained this as the command:
/usr/X11R6/bin/pppload -i 2 -p 10
The bug reporter (bugger :-) - Yann Dirson suggested a conffile would be
nice. So I made a new conffile /etc/pppload and changed command to this:
/usr/
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 03:34:34PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good
> old commodore 64 days?).
>
> To be honest, I already did. I also contacted the author, and we work
> together on a new upstream releas
xlaby traps your mouse cursor in one of the mazes generated by "maze", you
must move around until you can escape - invisible walls is an option!
xnetload is like xload for network connections (similar to pppload and half
a dozen other utils, you takes your pick!)
Adrian
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 03:00:32PM -0500, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> 'Sven Rudolph wrote:'
> >
> >G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> > I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to
> >>
> >>We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse .
> >
> >So it should
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:30:00AM +0100, Sten Anderson wrote:
> Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Yesterday, I wrote a script that scans our whole archive for .dsc files
> > (Debian source package description files) and outputs some statistics
> > regarding the `Standards-Versio
gmemusage is a rather neat memory monitor which displays a bar chart of
memory usage divided by process. It displays the number of each process name
(e.g. (4) bash means there are four copies running) and is periodically
updated.
Main site: http://reality.sgi.com/raju/software
Adrian
email: [E
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 11:49:46AM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> Why has "unzip" to "Provide" itself? As "unzip" is a _real_ package, there
> should be no need for a "virtual" package. (Of course, "unzip-crypt" would
> have to Provide: unzip.)
Even if this is uneccessary, I think it would b
nighthawk is a clone of paradroid - a C64 game that was the precursor to
Quazatron. You have to shoot things, but there is strategy involved too:
http://www.downunder.net.au/~jsno/
Adrian
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After having a look through the policy and dpkg documents, I can't seem to
find anything about non-maintainer releases.
It was only because someone emailed me and reopened bugs that I had closed
on a non-maintainer release that I now know that you shouldn't do this (in
case the regular maintainer
I've just about finished packaging SOCKSv5 - clients, library, server.
Adrian
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I've just lost my email file (/var/spool/mail/bridgett) for some unknown
reason. My sorted mail in /home/bridgett/mail/ is fine.
a) Warning - backup your mail file
b) has anyone else had this?
A Seriously PO Adrian
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my fault - I was messing with emacs and something went screwy. Something
moved my mail spool to ~/RMAIL.
Phew - while :; do echo "I *will* keep backups" ;done
A relieved Adrian
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On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 09:54:57PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 01:09:39PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The subject in question is whether to include these packages in "stable".
> > > "unstable" will include them for sure.
>
Fabrizio said in bug #17167:
--cut-here--
[snip]
> mandb: warning: /usr/man/man6/doom.6.gz: whatis parse for doom(6) failed
These are pages that have a bad NAME section. You can do
apropos -r \* | grep \(unknown\)
to find them all :-)
--cut-here--
So here are the ones listed on my machine, Ch
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 03:15:57PM -0500, Zed Pobre wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> >These are pages that have a bad NAME section. You can do
> >
> > apropos -r \* | grep \(unknown\)
>
> apropos -r \* returns nothing on my system. I ca
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:54:45AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> Eloy A. Paris, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >an easy one: why when root runs a program that faults core is not
> >dumped but when a normal user runs the same program a core is dumped?
>
> My educated gue
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you
> disagree.
>
>
> Copyright (c) 1997-1998 by Armin Biere.
>
> Author: Armin Biere.
>
> Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
> pu
I thought dpkg only complained about overwriting when at least one of the
two is a file. It this is so, then dpkg doesn't handle the case when one of
them doesn't exist (I did "rm -r /usr/lib/netscape" to remove loads of
netscape junk).
[1]wyvern:/zip/linux/debs$ sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i
n
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:31:47 -0500 (+), Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:22:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Well, the FHS is contradicting itself here. On one hand, it says that
> > ifconfig is required to be in /sbin, on the other, according to this
> > paragraph, si
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 18:09:24 +0200 (+), Christian Surchi wrote:
> Package: communicator
> Version: 1:4.75-1
> Severity: grave
>
> I've updated communicator from security.d.o's potato packages. I had to
> erase my preferences in ~/.netscape because it refused to save new
> settings and when
On Fri, Sep 1, 2000 at 00:22:23 +0200 (+), J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> a. Let gpm default to repeating in raw mode (to solve 6.), and add a very
>clear notice that X should be (re)configured with /dev/gpmdata but using
>the real protocol -- but when gpm is either stopped or removed/purged, t
On Mon, Jan 1, 2001 at 12:20:32 -0800 (+), Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
[snip]
> So it will need to:
>
> 1. Remove all symlinks in /usr/doc that correspond to
>symlinks or directories with the same names in /usr/share/doc
> 2. If there are any directories with the same names in /
On Mon, Jan 8, 2001 at 18:20:16 +0100 (+), Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> On 2001-01-07, Goswin Brederlow
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > zhaoway> 1) It prevent many more packages to come into Debian, for
> > zhaoway> example, Linux Gazette are now not present newest issues
> > zhaoway> i
On Mon, Jan 8, 2001 at 21:49:17 -0800 (+), Ernest Tucker wrote:
> I have an aptiva 2144-m51 with an mwave card. I read
> the incompatibility list. If I boot the card under
> win95 or dos7 and then soft boot to linux is there a
> driver somewhere that will use the card? I think it
> has Soun
I'm going on holiday until the 15th, feel free to make NMU of any packages I
maintain for hamm (and slink if it's really that urgent). None have
important bugs outstanding AFAIK.
Cheers
Adrian
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Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing.
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:47:53AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On 23 Jun 1998 17:20:09 +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>
> >`jed' is an orphaned package. I'm considering to take its maintanence,
> >since I've found JED is a small and quick start editor, good for quick
> >editing of configuration files
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 10:36:11PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> I have seen numerous people post Intentions to package apps that are
> already being worked on. Please read the wnpp (it is made for a
> reason). And when you do announce you intentions PLEASE cc wnpp so that
> it gets added to the list.
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:03:31AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Well, after receiving the 2 latest WNPP listings, I finally found that
> what I liked best in the previous ones was the "changes from last
> version" section. The full list may be some bandwidth waste for many
> people I think.
I agre
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:32:58PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
[snip]
> 2.2 potatoe
^
LANG=US-vice-president perhaps?
Adrian
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Debian Linux ht
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 02:46:35PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Maybe the subject is a bit harsh, but currently users trying to
> install Debian on a Notebook face more problems than users installing
> it on a desktop computer. Compared with other Linux distributions
> Debian fails to install on
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:52:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Tom Lees wrote:
> > I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today.
>
> This looks quite impressive. Good work!
>
> One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses
> strange size. The y-stretc
Is it my imagination or was someone working on ttyquake? It's just too cool
to miss Debian 2.1.
Adrian
dists/slink/main/binary-all/kernel-source-2.1.125
why?? and 2.0.33, 2.0.34, 2.0.35
2.0.36 I can understand :-)
Cheers
Adrian
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:39:31PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote:
> oh, i probably should've mentioned this earlier, but i've been packaging
> hftpd. i'm mostly done, but need to hack in an /etc/init.d script, and i
> think
> i'll be done after that.
>
> hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i
I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out.
Can the script please be disabled. There are better ways to find out bugs
you have open. Long-standing bugs are likely to be less important than
recent bugs too.
(or do we need a vote or something)
Cheers
Adrian
email:
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
[snip]
> > We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding
> > another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg):
>
> Because too many people don't use debian kernel images.
How about only mak
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:06:48PM -0400, tony mancill wrote:
[snip]
> On a related note, couldn't we have an environment variable set at
> installation time, e.g. "NON_INTERACTIVE_DPKG=TRUE", and have the
> maintainer scripts check this to see if they should ask questions or not?
> If this variab
I've spent quite a while trying to find out but the only reference I could
see doesn't have any packages there anymore (www.debian.org/~vincent IIRC).
NB: I know that generally you can just grab the Xserver you want.
Cheers
Adrian
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On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 06:47:28AM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Brian> Nag also sends emails regarding old bugs on your packages. I never
> Brian> subscribed to that. :p
>
> All I'm saying: Everybody is free to procmail away whatever they don't like.
This sounds like a good idea - s
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > We really should have a policy for things like this. How about
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:33:33PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Why don't you close the bugs?
I need a time machine :-)
Too many projects on, and I'm afraid that recently my Debian commitments
have suffered at the hands of other projects.
Adrian
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On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:18:24PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > "Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Philip> How about creating a new section ``profiles'' for them, so
> Philip> that they are all grouped together in dselect ?
>
> I think it's a little too early for new
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
[snip]
> Yes, but we tend to run out quickly, too quickly. A bit of reference,
> CD's (usually a CD sells for about US$2, they cost US$.43 to make last
> time I checked---for a run of 1000), well their donations are pretty
> significan
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:27:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
[snip - new "debian" section for all debian related things]
> Thoughts, anyone?
Personally, I think it's a great idea, but I'd like to solve lots of
problems in one go. If we have hierarchal keywords added to the project
then we could
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 03:53:48PM -0600, Post Office wrote:
> Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:
>
> Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Hey - this is _really_ clever - it's noticed the NDN bit and added a count
so it can keep track of how many times it goes round the mail l
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