Re: Unresolved Critical Bugs

1997-05-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
If noone objects, I'll close this bug. I wouldn't like to see Debian 1.3 delayed further because of an obsolete "critical" bug. Anyways, e2fsprogs seams to have a lot of open bugs. Is this package actively maintained? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz

Re: man page section "debian" ?

1997-05-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > On May 26, Christian Schwarz wrote > > > AFAIK there is no manual, list or whatever of debian specific things. > > > so, what about moving all manpages that are debian related to have the > > > suffix "debian&quo

Re: base-files does not create /usr/local directories

1997-05-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
only want to get this documented somewhere. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian is looking [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a logo! Have a look at our drafts PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA at

Re: Policy regarding adding TeX/LaTeX styles and classes

1997-05-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
t it here for discussion. Does someone have any additions to the three points showed above? Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 6

Re: Unresolved Critical Bugs

1997-05-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian C. White wrote: > > > > > 9020: e2fsprogs- fsck.ext2: can't load library 'libcom_err.so.2' > > > > I

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
inary/sources of orphaned > packages, but also the bug reports of the dropped packages. But please don't mix "orphaned" packages with "give-away" packages. I have a few "give-away" packages on the list but I'll maintain these unless someone else takes them.

bug tracking web pages not up-to-date?

1997-05-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
ted if necessary. Does someone know why the job isn't running? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF

Re: base-files does not create /usr/local directories

1997-05-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
t our current solution is just a workaround. If dpkg/deity has this feature implemented, I'll change the policy to the new scheme. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian is looking [EMAIL PROTE

Re: policy about putting packages into frozen ?

1997-05-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
ackages in Debian 1.3.1 (cf. current discussion in debian-private) and mention this in the README Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ /

RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-05-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
cond it ommits the "unknown"). (The reason we didn't choose i386-debian-linux is that we wanted our utilities to be compatible with other distributions.) Any comments, please. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-06-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > Next step: GNU's "configure" utility. I thought that we had agreed on > > using > > i386-unknown-linux > > (and similar for the other architectures),

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
gt; is NOT being commercially distributed. > Please send your contributions, bugreports, hints etc. to the > author. Thanks ! > > Should this go in contrib or non-free? Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
stributing it. > > > Non-free it is No. If the author forbids distribution a changed (i.e. bug fixed) _binary_ version, I think the package may not even go into non-free. What do the others think? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECT

why are shared libs chmod +x?

1997-06-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
tating the reasons for this. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-06-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 1 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Galen Hazelwood) wrote on 31.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 29 May 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > > > > (Don't ask me what

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 1 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > > Non-free it is > > > > No. If the author forbids distribution a changed (i.e. bug fixed) > > _binary

Perl Police (was Re: Bug#10405: package naming)

1997-06-09 Thread Christian Schwarz
onality to deb-make. If it discovers a CPAN module it could set up everything for the maintainer automatically and he/she would just have to fill in the description, etc.) Perhaps we should "reassign" this bug to the "debian-policy" package instead of closing it, so that we don

ANNOUNCEMENT: Home Page for Debian Policy Manual

1997-06-09 Thread Christian Schwarz
". It is to be considered "unstable" :-) This manual also contains a few sections which have not yet been approved here on debian-devel -- I'll do this in a few days. Feel free to send me any suggestions, critics, etc. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz

Re: Perl Police (was Re: Bug#10405: package naming)

1997-06-12 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Brian S. Julin wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > I think this naming scheme is quite reasonable. What does everyone else > > think about it? > > What do you do if you do have a package turn up with an underscore > in its name?

Re: Perl Police (was Re: Bug#10405: package naming)

1997-06-14 Thread Christian Schwarz
[I CC: this to the mailing list since I think this is of public intrest. Hope you don't mind] On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Brian S. Julin wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > What is your problem exactly? We could easily change our standard to > > "c

Re: Mirror with Incoming ???

1997-06-15 Thread Christian Schwarz
st of the world, you don't have to wait > those many days until your local mirror gets it all, uc? AFAIK, there is an incoming mirror in Germany at ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-incoming I'm not sure if it's still set up, though. Cheers, Chris -- _,,

Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-15 Thread Christian Schwarz
TOPIC! --- The following message is a list of items to be completed for the next version of the Debian Policy Manual. It is posted on debian-devel periodically by the Debian Policy Manager, Christian Schwarz, to get more feedback about certain policy issues that

Re: Installing XF86 3.3-1 crashed XEmacs 19.15-3

1997-06-15 Thread Christian Schwarz
st such problems with XFree 3.3 before we include this into Debian 1.3.1! (Someone else stated that since X 3.3 is well tested, we only have to test the "Debian packaging". This is definitely wrong then!) Just my $0.02, Chris -- Christian Schwarz

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
"important" too! If there are no objections, the quoted sentence above will get into the next Policy Manual. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-Policy Manual

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
AGER to override this. That's why we need "sensible-{editor,pager}". These are two simply shell scripts that test if EDITOR/PAGER is set and launches either that program, or /usr/bin/{editor,pager}. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
ction. Is this person listening? BTW, there is also the "lockfile" command that's included in the procmail distribution. Perhaps we could convert this into a "liblockfile" library? Thanks (I'm really happy to get some feedback about these policy questions, finally :

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
ering to "dwww" any different from the "menu" system? Joost, perhaps you can give use some hints here (I think Jim is offline now). Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
endency resolution" screen and would tell you, that you will need a few shared libraries, too. I think the "sub-systems" defined by the priority levels should be consistent and thus, a package should not depend on a package with lower priority level, or the priority level of the latter has to be i

Re: When will bash 2.01 be packaged?

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
e is offline for about 4 weeks. So I think someone else should grab it and upload a non-maintainer (interim) release. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian is looking [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a lo

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 16 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This really is an _excellent_ idea! So, we just need a volunteer to > > implement and maintain this "upstream library". (The packaging for Debian > > should not be a

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
ck and we should decide that the registering method really has to be changed, we can simply adopt the Policy again. Joost, is the proposed text correct? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
the documentation > under dwww in a way similar to the Info docs (sectioning, layout, > etc.). Anybody some thoughts on this? I think Jim was working on such an enhancement for dwww. We should ask him when his is back. Cheers, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know

Re: Obsolete package CGI-modules (hamm)

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
e care of this please? Guy is responsible for such things. However, he said he's offline for 4 weeks. I suggest you file this as a bug report against the package "ftp.debian.org" so he doesn't forget about it when he cames back. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Sc

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
d always be mentioned in > > the "README.debian" file, as you propose. This field is important if the package is handed from one maintainer to another. The second usually does not know where to get the upstream sources! And of course, the users probably would like to know

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > TOPIC 7: new definition of ``free software'' > > This is only about the "main" section. > > In addition to that, I wonder why we are support

Re: Obsolete package CGI-modules (hamm)

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
depends on how frequently CGI.pm is updated relative to Perl itself) This would be called libcgi-pm-perl then. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [

RFC: Virtual Package Name List (was bug #10676)

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
Provides: X11R5, xr5shlib, aout-x11r6lib, X11R6 - -- Please tell me what you think of it. If there are no objections, these changes will be incorporated into the next release of the Policy Manual. Thanks, Chris - -- _,, Christian Schwarz /

Re: File Locking

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
inted out that it would be good to maintain this library as a new "upstream library" (non-debian specific) so that others can use it too (on other distributions or systems). Of course, we'd need a good upstream maintainer for that. So, if someone is intrested to help, please contact

Re: Debian-Policy Manual

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
ile. Or did I got your question wrong? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC

Re: xemacs orphaned [Todd Walker ] RE: Account dres@scsn.net (was Re: Mail System Error - Returned Mail)

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Schwarz
l! Perhaps his home page can give more info (I didn't have a look, yet). Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB

Re: File Locking

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Schwarz
SWIG would do > that easily enough? I now Perl too, so I can take that part or help you with it. Someone else around here mentioned--hey! I just discovered that the Perl code I've here was written be you! Ok, this part seams to be ready. :-) We just have to make sure it is compatible to o

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [snip] > However, Christian Schwarz asked me to do html as well. That will be some > work as HOWTO packages comes as tar.gz files with no surcompassing > index.html. I'll have to do some perl hacking. No promises for the June > r

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Christian Schwarz
lock/unlock/test a file. In addition, we could create a new "lockfile" binary (just as in procmail) that can be used by shell scripts or other programs (via "system"). We'll also provide "modules" for Perl/Python/etc. Any comments? (I feel like I presented thes

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 20 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian> This is buggy since it's not working over NFS. (I'm > Christian> running into problems every few days sin

Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
l to support NFS safe locking? A: A lot of people use Debian in a network with other UNICES. As such, we'll have to choose a locking mechanism which is implemented at "application level" so that the involved programs (mail daemons, mail clients, etc.) on other platforms can be fixed to apply to our mechanism, as we

Documentation Policy

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
package. Otherwise, the will have to be distributed in seperate packages, one for each format. Any comments? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- > On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > > The documentation will be distributed via several

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
the documentation belongs to the package itself. > I don't want to install another package just because I need some > documention. Some users from not installing the documentation. For example, I run Debian on lots of computers here and at work. I don't want to have the bash manual i

RE: Copyright question

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
not sure if we can make exceptions for a "doc-only" package. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
e existing Perl module if it is compatible to this library and adopt it if necessary. This should be packaged up, too. Anyways, _many_ thanks for writing this lib! Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Documentation Policy

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
just have to specify the limit.) (BTW, I'm assuming that *.info.gz requires the same amount of disk space as *.html.gz. I'm sure we find a way to use .html.gz files somehow.) Any comments are welcome, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
major versions? (You can't use "versions" of a virtual package, yet.) Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
; Motif, only *source code* compatible! Is this true? Then there would be no reason to create the "motif-libs" virtual packages! (The only use for them would be to allow drop-in replacements of the compiled shared library packages.) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz

Re: Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
der moving to Maildir delivery as our default, with > dot-locking as a required alternative (for backwards compatibility). I don't know the "Maildir" locking technique yet. Could you please describe it with a little more details? Thanks for your input, Chris --

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
oo-doc' > packages. We are currently planning such a thing for our own manuals. The discussion was on debian-doc a while ago. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EM

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote: > > Even if we are, I'm sure it would be easier if every package `foo' had > > one or more associated `foo-doc' packages. > > From: Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
[Sorry, Alex, I wanted to send this to you _and_ the mailing list in the first time. So here it's again.] On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: Hi folks! Please let me quote from my last mail, first: > My prediction is that while a few people will like option 3) very much, &

NIS and libc6/hamm?

1997-06-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
ce, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mat

End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
,info 68) ./tex/latex2html_96.1.h-6.deb: 651 (doc 651,info 0) ./tex/tetex-base_0.4pl8-2.deb: 647 (doc 3,info 322) ./text/lout_3.08-1.deb: 3517 (doc 3517,info 0) ./utils/ftape-2.0.30_3.03a-1.deb: 581 (doc 473,info 54) ./web/arena_1.0b3-1.deb: 701 (doc 701,info 0) ./x11/9term_1.6.6-3.deb: 551 (doc 551

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
;s HTML::Parser class and is thus independent of any specific HTML tags. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian is looking [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a logo! Have a look at our drafts PGP-fp: 8F 61

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
;. I think it is pretty safe to start "lpd" on every machine, since the default configuration would not accept queries from foreign hosts. If I install the "lpd" package, I would not like to be asked whether this daemon should be started! Thanks, Chris --

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
;t "boa" be extended to uncompress "foo.html.gz" on-the-fly when _this_ file is requested, just as "foo.html" would have been requested and that file does not exist? Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PRO

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > "objections" this times. If you can't live with this proposal, you'll have > > to present another formulation of a paragraph or of the whole text. >

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Christian Schwarz writes: > > > > > The situation looks completely different if the server has its own > > > > package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. > > > > > > Not

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > >Hi! > > > >Christoph, please tell us why using "fixhrefgz" on "html.gz" files does > >not work with our web servers. > > Pleas

Re: why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

1997-06-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
suggest we revert them to 644. > > Is the policy editor reading this? Yes, I am. (I initiated this thread :-) I fully agree to Christian. If there are no objections, file permissions will be reverted to 644. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL P

Re: Summary of the html/info/webserver/whatever mess

1997-06-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Christian Meder wrote: [snip] > [to Christian Schwarz: Sorry, that I brought the topic up again without > proposing better paragraphs, will try to work on a proposal in the > coming week] Sorry, to be so rude, but this summary does not bring us forward. Some of yo

Next approach: Documentation Policy

1997-06-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
d the html.gz/fixhtmlgz issue completely. The only possible way, as it seems to me, is to support a compressed filesystem, but these are not ready for real use, yet. Any comments? (I'm sure ;-) Thanks, Chris (Debian Policy Manager) -- Christian Schwarz

Re: Future security problem (was Re: be careful with Replaces, please)

1997-12-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
n to have the same package names). Comments? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 D

Logo Page updated

1997-12-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
d to all people that gave us feedback! Cheers, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14

Re: Uploaded libtermreadkey-perl 2.09-1 (source i386) to master

1997-12-12 Thread Christian Schwarz
se libterm-readkey-perl for the Debian package. (Why hasn't this package not been discussed on debian-devel? Or did I miss something?) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-12 Thread Christian Schwarz
;, so I don't see a reason for not using the `-a' option. (I'd prefer the `-a' solution over the `tar' hack since it's much easier to read.) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian h

Re: packaging agrep

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
ra package ? Yes, probably a good idea. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
bian system. Completely agreed. After all, we are working on an operating system (I don't like the term "distribution" too much) and _not_ on a set of packages which should compile on _any_ UNIX. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
m not sure if we should treat static libraries the same way, since some people might need the symbols for debugging. Could someone comment on that? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian has a logo![EMAIL PR

Policy for bo-unstable uploads

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
;. In case of a new upstream version in "hamm", the version number is taken from the new "hamm" version with Debian revision 0, concatenated with "bo" and the Debian revision of the "hamm" package. (I hope everyone can follow :-) --

Re: news gateways

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
some pages... Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http

Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)

1997-12-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
s at all cost or > whatever, but could you please give some explanaion why you think this > way? Please check out http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . The page contains several arguments against the use of "Reply-To". I fully agree to what Ian said. Thanks, Chris

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
this directory. (For all that have missed the previous announcement: Debian 2.0 will use FSSTND and we are expecting to switch over to FHS for Debian 2.1.) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1997-12-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
posting. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA CS Software goe

Re: Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
e that they fix > each problem that was fixed in the non-maintainer release. > > Perhaps this should be incorporated into our policy ? I'll include your request in the next policy weekly posting. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PR

Mule trademarked?

1997-12-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
I've just discovered that "The MULE" is a trademark. Check out http://www.hello.co.uk/altek/mule.html Does this mean we could get problems if we distribute emacs20 ? If so, I guess someone should contact RMS about that. Thanks, Chris -- Ch

Re: ppp & ppp-pam

1997-12-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
P daemon included in the ppp-pam package, as it includes a more general way to specify your local security policies.'' (Some native englisch speaker should improve this, of course :-) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [E

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
il folders--or implement a compatible mechanism. Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D

Re: Can I take wml and eperl?

1997-12-22 Thread Christian Schwarz
l package? None. The upstream author included these for WML ports to other (non-GNU) systems which are likely to have no m4 (or atleast a different one). There is already an eperl, m4, etc. package and we should use these. If special versions are required, you could use versioned dep

Re: Intent to split mysql package

1997-12-22 Thread Christian Schwarz
The problem is that all packages are built from a single source package (I think) and that package will have to be in non-free. Thus, we would not have full source for the contrib packages. We haven't decided yet how to handle this situation. Thanks, Chris -- Christian

Re: So where is the bo-unstable directory?

1997-12-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
cessary steps to get the bo-unstable directory set up have been performed. We have an executive decision to create that directory and we also have a policy. I just reported a bug against "ftp.debian.org" and I hope Guy will have time for this in the next few days. Thanks, Chris -- _,,

Re: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
her he/she prefers dhelp, dwww, or both, etc. I'm currently working on a draft for this interface. It looks like we're going to implement that together with a new "Documentation Policy" for Debian 2.1. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
hear a few comments regarding the "Immediate-Configure" solution. (Other solutions are welcomed too, of course!) Cheers, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 27 Dec 1997, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 17 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote: > > [snip] > > > If the binary changes, the version number should change. > > > > Completely agreed. Everything else wil

Re: Linking shared libraries with -lc

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
e time for this.) Thanks in advance, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://ww

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: > 'Christian Schwarz wrote:' > > > >On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: > > > >> '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > >> > > >> >Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with

Re: Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
an add them. We need another system anyways to convert between different documentation formats on demand. Since every online documentation has to be registered to that system, we shouldn't we do the "menu" registration through the same system? Everything else looks like doing the same w

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 3 Jan 1998, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > By changing the dependencies you changed the source package before, > > or? > > Technically, no. The dependencies are build by dpkg-shlibdeps, so for > all intents and p

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
td. Note, that I don't know if debhelper is any better regarding the cron policy--I hope so. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit

please upgrade your packages to current standards

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
2.1.2.0 Nov 96 * Some changes WRT shared libraries 2.1.1.0 Sep 96 * No hard links in source packages * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation * Shared libraries must be installed stripped 2.1.0.0

Re: Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
ntation policy we could perhaps start working on the menu registry with doc-base to get some experience in this area. If someone wants to do this with me, just drop me a note. I'm just waiting for volunteers... Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: autmake & debian? (was: Re: cron jobs more often than daily)

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 03:02:38PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > Thus, the use of debstd is depreciated. Note, that I've removed debstd > > from all of my packa

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 5 Jan 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian> The solution presented in 3.3.7 is that the "owner" of > Christian> the conffile (cron in that case)

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
seful to get some "background" info about the version one has installed. Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D

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