Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes > should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. > It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to debian-vote > or to trawl

Request for Help/Comments: fvwm95

proposal: I propose to write and maintain a set of configuration files for the current fvwm that cause fvwm to look and behave the way fvwm95 does now under a C locale. The fvwm95 package will be transitioned to this new package. Now, what do people think of this idea? -- Daniel Martin <[EMAIL

Re: netstd split results in loss of functionality

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Why doesn't netstd depend: on all the packages it previously included? > When upgrading to potato, tftpd functionality is lost because the new > netstd only suggests it. And the parameters to tftpd have changed > and the new package does not up

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is > running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message, > in case it gives anybody else some ideas. I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if on

Re: RBL report..

Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > ORBS deserves special mention because of their insane hit count, I don't > > know what that is about but ORBS would block 10% of the mails we get. I > > think it is without question that the majority of tho

Re: apt-get cron job

Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use this line in /etc/crontab on my woody system: > 42 6* * sun root/usr/bin/apt-get update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -q -d -y > -u dist-upgrade ; /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean > I use a similar but much more complicated method to acheive a similar re

Re: dwww: cat and file (pipe race condition)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes: > It seems, that the problem only occurs with longer (more than 1 chars) > files. Looking for the cause of this problem, I found that the line > "$decompress $file | file -b - | magic2mime" in dwww-convert is responsible. Well, if I do a $

Re: Kernel Sends 7E ?

"Derrick (Thrawn01)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the devices running embedded Initiate a communication with the Linux > server. Our Daemon on the Linux box responds with > > a single packet containing the Transaction information. directly after that > packet the Linux box sends a packet contain

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs bugs.debian.org to > send CC's of all bug mail to another address, ... You mean something other than signing up for debian-bugs-dist and parsing the resulting traffic? I realize that debian-bu

Re: [Fwd: False Representation at Google.com]

Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:34:32AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >> However, pulling that message from the list archives may be a good idea. >> It's what Ava Driscoll asked for, and the big HTML links sure don't look >> good on the Debian pages. > > Debian

Re: can't update pbuilder to unstable

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is probably worth noting that I never modified the > file in question: /etc/pam.d/other > > Is there anything I can do to update this pbuilder chroot? For what it's worth, I wound up rebuilding my sid pbuilder chroot from scratch. (with pbuilder create)

Re: The harden-*flaws packages.

Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please see the thread summarized in > : > > Policy for Woody Point-Releases. [4]Several [5]developers [6]would > [7]like to add new packages and updates to their packages to the > recently released stable di

Re: /usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > all the footnote says is that imake Does The Right Thing, which is why > it is exempted. See, now I read it as "imake doesn't quite do the right thing, really, but it's imake, so we'll let it slide - fixing it everywhere is officially deemed no

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In most cases, the only feature that's used (and needed) of XML that it > stores a tree of attribute/value pairs. > > Given limited effort, I am absolutely convinced that it should be > possible to come up with a more robust, well defined, simple(!),

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - cvsd/listen: >s/cvsd will listen on/on which cvsd will listen/ > # Avoid dangling preposition This is an English usage question of the sort that will get the English and Linguistics departments at some universities to start leaving nasty notes

Re: what's after slink

Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new > Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). > > I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nicknam

xxgdb should get pulled

This probably isn't necessary, as I just filed an important and a grave bug against the package, but I thought I'd declare that xxgdb should really be pulled. It doesn't work at al in a libc6 environment, it hasn't been uploaded by its ostensible maintainer since bo was in frozen, and the last NMU

Re: xxgdb should get pulled

"J.H.M. Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:28:29 -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: > > Is my only other choice for a graphical debugger the "lesstif-induced > > segfault" ddd? > > Glad to see my work is appreciated. Perhaps t

NMU of xxgdb

I've prepared an NMU of xxgdb - I believe that this fixes all outstanding reported bugs against it. I'm contacting you two as one of you is the listed maintainer of xxgdb, and the other of you did the libc6 NMU for hamm. I'm cross-posting to debian-devel in case anyone else had been looking at fi

Re: New logo strategy

Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two > > > logos: one logo with a liberal license that people

Seeking Helmut Geyer

Helmut Geyer is listed as the maintainer for xxgdb and bzip - xxgdb hasn't had a maintainer upload since when bo was frozen, and bzip's last maintainer upload was longer ago than that. Mail sent to his listed address goes unanswered, but maybe that's because I only waited a week. Is he still wit

Re: Debian coding style?

Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for (int nI=0; nI<10; nI++) ... > > Anybody who does that willingly must be shot. => No, no; no need for violence. Anyone who does that is already suffering enough at their own hands and doesn't need external help.

Re: Debian coding style?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zygo Blaxell) writes: > "Why 78 characters per line of code?" > "Because the laser printer wants that." > "Why does the laser printer want that?" > "Uhhh...because IBM made a business decision in the 1950's?" I will actually point out that although t

Re: a Chinese version of X-window system for Linux available

liug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Sir, > I am not sure whether this is the right place to post > this mail. > We have developed a Chinese version of X-window system > several years ago, and now we have developed one for > Linux, > I am wondering whether our product could be integrated > in

What exactly belongs in frozen?

I had originally posted this to debian-private, but in the interest of getting more feedback (and timely feedback, since if this is going into frozen it needs to go *soon*) I'm re-posting it here. (It probably belongs here anyway, as it's not really a closed maintainers-only issue, but more of a

Re: New fvwm95 into unstable

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > >>"Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> I'd also recommend that people upgrading directly from bo > Daniel> upgrade to this package instead of the one in

Re: New fvwm95 into unstable

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I am inclined to think that if your release fixed > bugs, and introduced not too many new features, it should go > into frozen. And now it's just done that - 2.0.43b-4 is in incoming heading for frozen, but you probably saw that

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > > appropriate, though? > I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of t

Re: source packages and censorship

I think someone already proposed this idea, and it was immediately ignored, so I'm going to suggest it again: What about a pine-installer package? This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, the .diff.

Re: source packages and censorship

Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about a pine-installer package? > > > > This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - > > the user would be asked in the preins

Re: Packages marked as Obsolete

Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > *** x11 Opt tkdesk 1.0b4-2.1 > > this package could use blt8.0-unoff Actually, it can't, but that's because other bits of tkdesk are incompatible with tcl/tk 8.0. As the upstream source of tkdesk comes with its own blt, that's gettin

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > Christopher J. Fearnley writes ("Re: Serious performance bug in Perl"): > > >to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance > > >improved several hundred-fold. So

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The > Daniel> problem is perl's shadow password

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals > >(writing C code that wa