Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Carlo
However, I think that we are also entitled to expect jessie release at 8/9 July 2015 maybe. This expectation resulting from my wheezy analysis of last freeze is in line with it. 2013/10/13 Thomas Goirand : > Hi Niels, > > First of all, thanks a lot for planning this well in advance. Much > appre

start-stop-daemon ulimit

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Contavalli
t limits, please look at man setrlimit. Please carbon copy replies to my email address, since I'm not subscribed to the list (too high volume) for my internet connection. Cheers, Carlo -- GPG Fingerprint: 2383 7B14 4D08 53A4 2C1A CA29 9E98 5431 1A68 6975 --

Re: start-stop-daemon ulimit

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Contavalli
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:11:36AM +0200, Carlo Contavalli wrote: > > [...] > as usual, I forgot the attachment. Here it is.. Cheers, Carlo -- GPG Fingerprint: 2383 7B14 4D08 53A4 2C1A CA29 9E98 5431 1A68 6975 - Old mail has arrived. diff -x con

Bug#302397: ITP: libmath-spline-perl -- Cubic spline interpolation of data

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-spline-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : John A.R. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JA/JARW/ * License :

Bug#304287: ITP: libtk-gbarr-perl -- Various Tk Perl widgets

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-gbarr-perl Version : 2.06 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#304288: ITP: libtk-histentry-perl -- Implements an entry widget with history

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-histentry-perl Version : 0.42 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#304289: ITP: libtk-pod-perl -- Tk Pod browser widget with hypertext capability

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-pod-perl Version : 0.9929 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#304291: ITP: libtk-splashscreen-perl -- Toplevel mega widget to display a splashscreen

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-splashscreen-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Stephen O. Lidie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LU/LUSOL/ * License

Bug#309574: ITP: libmath-combinatorics-perl -- Perform combinations and permutations on lists

2005-05-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-combinatorics-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Allen Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Math/ * License : GP

Bug#309575: ITP: libtime-stopwatch-perl -- Use tied scalars as timers

2005-05-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtime-stopwatch-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Ilmari Karonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time * License : GP

Bug#310648: ITP: libchemistry-elements-perl -- Perl extension for working with Chemical Elements

2005-05-24 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libchemistry-elements-perl Version : 0.91 Upstream Author : brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/ * License : GP

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Carlo Segre
somebody else if a user requested the package on an excluded arch. How would you implement with with debtags? Are the buildd's paying attention to this now? Maybe I misunderstand. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Ill

Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-09 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sixpack Version : 0.57 Upstream Author : Sam Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~swebb/sixpack.htm * License : BSD-type Prog

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-10 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Charles: The program is itself called sixpack. There was an ITP some time ago (2002-2003) for another program called sixpack but the wnpp bug was RFP and it was closed due to 2 years of inactivity. What would you propose for your sixpack binary? Cheers, Carlo On Fri, 10 Nov 2006

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
ackage name is completely different. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: One final note, I sopke to upstream and he indicated that "SIXpack" would his prefered name. And so it is now. As I mentioned previously, the package name will remain "sixpack". Hopefully this is satisfactory for you Charles. Carlo On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, g

Re: out-of-date non-free packages

2006-11-29 Thread Carlo Segre
ntly include the non-free repository on the regular buildd network or move the contrib building to this non-free buildd system? Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567

Re: List of packages with problems wrt release

2006-12-15 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libtk-png-perl (U): in unstable (2.005-3) but not in testing. A request for removal (#389676) has been filed as this is now included in perl-tk. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate De

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: 2) At least build and upload this package? Hi John: I have it building now. I'll let you know the outcome. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Techn

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
file. OK, it builds. WOuld you like me just to upload? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:55:48AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: Hi, #396817 was reported back in November. Ian Lynagh, maintainer of GHC, and I both believe that the build was proceeding normally and that on the

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Carlo Segre
/var/cache/pbuilder/result is writable by the user manually if you want to sign packages. (Currently root:root as installed) even better, just put the pbuilder/result in a user-readable and writable volume (/home/pbuilder for example) and run pbuilder as a normal user all the time. Carlo

Bug#373211: ITP: horae -- interactive graphical processing and analysis of EXAFS data

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: horae Version : 062 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/packages/ * License : BSD-type Prog

Bug#373207: ITP: ifeffit -- An interactive program for XAFS analysis

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ifeffit Version : 1.2.9 Upstream Author : Matt Newville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/ * License : BSD-type Programming Lang

Bug#373208: ITP: libstar-parser-perl -- STAR compliant data file parser for Perl

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libstar-parser-perl Version : 0.59 Upstream Author : Wolfgang Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pdb.sdsc.edu/STAR/ * License : non-free Programmin

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
g this on one of three machines which are presumabley set up in the same way, I am presuming that it is some incorrect configuration file somewhere. If anyone has an insight, I would appreciate it. My next move is to purge all X packages and reinstall... Carlo Segre Assoc. Prof. of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology

access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-20 Thread Carlo Segre
Is this a bug, if so for what package? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: libcwd in Debian unstable

2008-04-10 Thread Carlo Wood
e: *** 1.0.1-1 0 990 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/non-free Packages 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:44:15PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: libcwd in Debian unstable

2008-04-13 Thread Carlo Wood
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:50:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 10/04/2008, Carlo Wood wrote: > > It was added 16 March, that is 3+ weeks ago! :/ > > So, debian-devel@lists.debian.org: can someone tell me why > > libcwd was added as amd64 package, but still doesn'

Re: Release architectures

2009-10-07 Thread Carlo Segre
cover all details of course). What about ia64? carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 se...@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre se...@debian.org

Bug#552476: ITP: libgraphics-gnuplotif-perl -- A dynamic Perl interface to gnuplot

2009-10-26 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libgraphics-gnuplotif-perl Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Dr.-Ing. Fritz Mehner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Graphics-GnuplotIF/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-15 Thread Carlo Segre
possible. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 se...@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre se...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Steffen Joeris wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:04:28 pm Carlo Segre wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The current "winning" opinion is to go with the source+throw away binaries route. We are close to being able to achieve this, it is simply that

Re: Getting Debian to use less power?

2007-05-12 Thread Carlo Segre
renders the program of limited utility on my laptop. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre[EMAIL

Bug#492376: ITP: libwwwbrowser-perl -- Platform independent means to start a WWW browser

2008-07-25 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwwwbrowser-perl Version : 2.23 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/src/perl/WWWBrowser/ * License

Bug#492388: ITP: fox -- Free Objects for Xtallography

2008-07-25 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fox Version : 1.7.7.0 Upstream Author : Vincent Favre-Nicolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://objcryst.sourceforge.net/Fox/FoxWiki * License : GPL Program

Bug#492673: ITP: libregexp-optimizer-perl -- optimizes regular expressions

2008-07-27 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libregexp-optimizer-perl Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regexp-Optimizer/ * License

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-06 Thread Carlo Segre
ly me...). Carlo [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407462 -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.ii

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi again Gürkan: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Hello Carlo I have no objection to working on this, being the maintainer of pgplot5. The problem is that there is a bug filed against pgplot5 because it doesn't properly support libpgplot-perl (pgplot-perl or formerly pgper

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-18 Thread Carlo Segre
lderrc --debbuildopts '-sa -v1.5-1' when doing backports. This works with pbuilder as well pbuilder --debbuildopts "-sa" build *.dsc Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice:

definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
decision that contrib packages will not be built by the officeial buildd network but have to be built as non-free packages are, on the unofficial buildd network. Cheers, Carlo [0] section 2.2.2 of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, There is apparently an ambiguity here

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-22 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Marc: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Carlo Segre writes: An alternative which would remove the inconsistency is to make the decision that contrib packages will not be built by the officeial buildd network but have to be built as non-free packages a

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-23 Thread Carlo Segre
will consider it as wishlist until I can get the rest resolved. Crankily (but not with the Perl Developers), Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-24 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Carlo Segre a écrit : 2. the ifeffit source package is contrib and cannot be built by the autobuilders because of its build time dependence on pgplot5. The latter is causing me much grief and needs to be solved before I work on consistency issues

Bug#586938: ITP: flotr -- JavaScript plotting library based on the Prototype Framework

2010-06-23 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: flotr Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Bas Wenneker * URL : http://code.google.com/p/flotr/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : plotting library for the

Bug#592190: ITP: libterm-sk-perl -- Perl extension for displaying a progress indicator on a terminal

2010-08-07 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-sk-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Klaus Eichner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Sk/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl extension

Bug#592197: ITP: libterm-twiddle-perl -- Twiddles a thingy while-u-wait

2010-08-07 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-twiddle-perl Version : 2.71 Upstream Author : Scott Wiersdorf * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Twiddle/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#517943: ITP: libchemistry-formula-perl -- enumerate elements in a chemical formula

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libchemistry-formula-perl Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#517945: ITP: libxray-absorption-perl -- x-ray absorption data for the elements

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-absorption-perl Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : x

Bug#517946: ITP: libxray-scattering-perl -- x-ray scattering data for the elements

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-scattering-perl Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : x

Bug#517947: ITP: libxray-spacegroup-perl -- symmetry operations for the crystal space groups

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-spacegroup-perl Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Bug#517945: ITP: libxray-absorption-perl -- x-ray absorption data for the elements

2009-03-05 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Andreas: On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Carlo Segre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-absorption-perl Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9

ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
This can be fixed with a known patch. I will be preparing an updated package for upload by the weekend unless I hear from the current maintainer before then. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institu

Re: ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
overcommitted. I wanted to take this on simply because I use it and it is in an unusable state on i386 right now. Do you have a suggestion for an appropriate team? Perhaps we can ask if they want to take this on? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects

Building contrib packages

2009-05-10 Thread Carlo Segre
tedious. I suspect that there might be others with the same problem. I would much rather not have to deal with non-free but the pgplot5 package is, unfortunately, unique and as of now there is no free replacement for it. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for

Bug#669108: general: assorted segfault

2012-04-17 Thread Carlo Marchiori
tools. Thanks again, Carlo. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:06:10PM +0200, ygmarchi wrote: > > Package: general > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm using debian testing. Lately I've b

Bug#645835: ITP: python-wxmpl -- Painless matplotlib embedding in wxPython

2011-10-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: python-wxmpl Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Carlo Segre * URL : http://csrri.iit.edu/~wxmpl * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : Painless matplotlib embedding

DM upload permission

2013-03-04 Thread Carlo Segre
. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics Director, Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 se...@iit.edu http://phys.iit.edu/~segre se...@debian.o

Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-05 Thread Carlo Segre
a part is required. That is, your command would be: --- Archive: ftp.debian.org Uploader: Carlo Segre Action: dm Fingerprint: 8CCC1BA8590FF029D17C708FC1BCD3C72AA28B6B Allow: nexus --- Thanks, this is very helpful Note, you can al

Bug#818942: ITP: python-bitcoinlib -- Easy interface to the Bitcoin data structures and protocol

2016-03-21 Thread Carlo Stemberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Stemberger * Package name: python-bitcoinlib Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Peter Todd * URL : https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Easy

Re: aacraid driver

2000-12-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOKUBI Takatsugu) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> I'm the developer of the aacraid driver. I've noticed some old posts on > >> your > >> web site w/r/t this driver. If the maintainer of the debian kernel is > >> including this driver

Re: aacraid driver

2000-12-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Brian Boerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, if you want it, take it up with the Kernel maintainer -- that >> is, file a bug on kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-compact or >> kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 or whatever. >> >> Do not make the request here -- we cannot do anything about it. > I thought

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ive. Not sure if slang-wide every was uploaded, either... -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...http://www.onshored.com/>

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Well, I'm officially removing myself from any questions of what should be on what CD and whether to use isolinux or not. So don't look at me, I need to focus on making sure boot-floppies work for 3.0, 3.0r1, etc. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...http://www.onshore

intent to package: tdtd, cdlabelgen, projex

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
tdtd is an emacs lisp mode for editing DTDs, from Tony Graham. ftp://ftp.mulberrytech.com/pub/tdtd/> cdlabelgen is a small program to simplify the process of generating labels for CD-ROMs. It was created by a friend and co-worked, Brian Fitzpatrick, so even though I don't really use this I'm a

Re: Intent to package cygnus-stylesheets

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Soon, I'm going to upload a "cygnus-stylesheets" package. It's >basically the same thing as the docbook-stylesheets package, but it >has some modifications and additional hacks that Mark Galassi has >added. > >This package is based on the same source as w

Re: Intent to package cygnus-stylesheets

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I thought they needed this db2* scriptage. The db2* scripts kinda >> suck if you ask me (and not comment from upstream on my specific >> technical arguments why they su

Re: Intent to package cygnus-stylesheets

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I understand that Gnome needs db2* scripts... why do they need the Cygnus >> stylesheets? > >They use them internally at Cygnus for their documentation. They are >unsuppor

Re: Intent to package cygnus-stylesheets

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >Essentially, Cygnus has forked the code. >> >> Huh. > >That might be a bit strong - I haven't really looked into the >differences in depth. They are being

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:37:32 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Duh, I had the directory wrong, the correct dictory is > /usr/doc/copyright/base. dpkg -S can't see where it is coming from > though. The contents is also weird. Look at its copyright: Copyright > (C) 1995 The Debian A

Re: Intent to package cygnus-stylesheets

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:52:44 -0500, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > After comparing the sources closely, I don't think they have forked > the sources. All the diffs in the *actual* stylesheets are either > CVS stuff changing, since they reimported norm's stuff

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On 19 Jan 1999 16:55:29 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Shawn writes: >> I am all for a for-profit business forming as a value-added seller >> of Debian products. Such a business could focus on >> pre-installations, packaging and marketing, and user support. > Exactly! This is just

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:08:53 -0600 (CST), "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wouldn't mind it if everyone disagreed with what I'm saying. But > it seems as if no one even understands what I'm saying. Sorry about the plug for my own company in my last message. However, I think I

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:18:21 + (GMT), Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote: >> > "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It Ben> seems pretty sane, except I realized since it

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[CC's trimmed] On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:03:54 + (BST), "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I still use nfs or mounted (I have /sunsite always pointing to > sunsite, which is where I get my packages from) and dselect. It's > always worked fine for me, so I feel no need to change. It hasn

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:05:34 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) said: > * Heavily modified the boot floppies to make them simpler and > less flexible; i.e., you aren't given choices about partitioning, it > does it for you. Thus the install is idiot-proofed enough that even > the guys

Re: [Suggestion] Dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator

1999-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:33:56 -0500 (EST), Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Someone might want to package this. From > http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/: FWIW, pdf{tex,latex,jadetex} already do a pretty nice job, too, if you're just looking for hyperlinking from TeX-based systems. --

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-02-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:29:46 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have to say we are very far in the deep-freeze to consider > breaking the dpkg-packge apart.. Actually, I'm just advocating the removal of the disk methods. The only really release critical bit of this report is to

Re: Article introducing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:23:14 +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm currently writting an article for an online magazine > based on free software proyects called OpenResources > (www.openresources.com) who where interested in having a preview of > what Slink will

Re: Freeze date for potato?

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:02:26PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > > More importantly, the boot-floppies need quite a bit of work for > > potato; Linux 2.2.x is too large for the rescue/drivers system, and > > glibc 2.1 broke our library reduction hack. >

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re: boot floppies and QT2. I guess there is no way around except to > try to ask the boot floppies authors to include an exception clause. If they > do not want to do this, it will have to be gtk or the framebuffer gui (I > know nothing about this

Re: Setup API, The next step (Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal)

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I for one like what I see so far. I want to encourage Corel to > improve Debian setup. I hope that you can either commit directly to > the debian boot-floppies or at least start a world-readable cvs tree > of your own. That way everyone will be able to lo

Re: ITP: Installer for IBM DB2 Database (Non-Free)

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IBM has released their DB2 database for Linux. I just got a CD from them in > the mail, and > since I am playing with it a bit for work, I thought I would write an > install script for it. Please please please write an installer package for DB2 on Linu

Re: Freeze date for potato?

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: www.debian.org Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:31:32PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now that's a good reason. Is there a plan for this? Is any help > &g

PROPOSAL: preparation for freezes, release coordination

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
My take on the situation is that there are two reasons for why the freeze takes a long time. The first is just fixing the release critical bugs -- this commonly receives a lot of attention from this list. The second is coordination between all the elements which are required for release (boot-fl

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies] > "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via brandon> dpkg -get-selections and make for a cookie cutter install brandon> (think large labs). Eh... I don'

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ woah, this is an old thread, but a good one to bring back. ] Heh... yeah, I keep around email that I want to reply to, even though it sometimes takes a month or so before I get a chance. > Yes, the next frontend to apt (gnome-apt?) should handle t

Re: Freeze stuff, summary.. (perl 5.005, etc)

1999-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been distracted by revenue production for a couple of months. > Are we expected to upload our packages rebuilt for glibc2.1? It wouldn't hurt but I don't think it's necessary. glibc2.1 can drop-in replace 2.0 (unless you have a program that depends o

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:06:58PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > * Working disk sets for all released architectures. > > I don't know much about the plans for the boot-floppies yet. Could > > someone volunteer as a contact person, or tell me t

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have heard that some self-candidates from Debian JP felt > that the Debian Project rejects them as a maintainer, > because: > > one of them had not receive no answers for long time, > >more than a month is too long enough for ordinary people.

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do. Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make nice metapackages which play nice? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Voila. Elegant, uses the existing packaging system (i.e., no need to > > skip the select step in dselect), > > This is the main point against your approach. We introduced the tasks and > profiles to avoid going through the list of 3000 packages in

Re: Intent to package t-gnus

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Takuro KITAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi,I'm packaging software, t-gnus. > (ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/GNU/elisp/chamonix/gnus/) > > t-gnus is latest branch of Semi-gnus. > Semi-gnus is "Replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI." > and Debian package is available. (main/news). > > SEMI is "L

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There is no requirement that I know of that any identification must be > > written in English. > > It is practically very important to know what is acceptable and > what

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >I've been noticing that, even though we're all encouraged to use >doc-base nowadays, that doc-base emits noxious and obnoxious warnings >whenever it sees a format it doesn't recognize. > >I've just adapted libgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY instal

Re: Adding a global UID/GID?

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mitch> GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in Mitch> the 0-99 range added to Debian? Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> "warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}'" if Joey> $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; } Ben> This is a nice solution. Well, actually, in tonight's upload, I only enabl

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a long history of overly optimistic freeze dates :-) I'd like > to try something else this time. I note, though, that if we do manage > to freeze on July 1, we'll be able to have a release in time for the > Linuxworld Expo in August. That w

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Gordon Deane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think Debian should have high quality Slink gnome binaries, because > not everyone can afford to run unstable and building from source is > quite a lot of work. Also, Redhat have this shipped :-) We don't add new upstream versions into stable after r

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