what is needed for the irda package to appear in Debian proper?

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Subject says it all, what must we do to get irda-utils in potato? Does it need sponsorship while the creator waits to be a maintainer, or does it just need to be uploaded?

what is needed for the irda package to appear in Debian proper?

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Subject says it all, what must we do to get irda-utils in potato? Does it need sponsorship while the creator waits to be a maintainer, or does it just need to be uploaded?

RE: X on NeoMagic

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 Clint A. Brubakken wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> Point apt at www.debian.org/~joeyh/stable-update -- this is slinkv2. >> > Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work, Packages.gz file want all > packages to be in dists/proposed-updates/ but that director

RE: X on NeoMagic

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 Clint A. Brubakken wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> Point apt at www.debian.org/~joeyh/stable-update -- this is slinkv2. >> > Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work, Packages.gz file want all > packages to be in dists/proposed-updates/ but that director

RE: X on NeoMagic

1999-09-14 Thread Clint A. Brubakken
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Point apt at www.debian.org/~joeyh/stable-update -- this is slinkv2. > Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work, Packages.gz file want all packages to be in dists/proposed-updates/ but that directory doesn't exist. I can d/l each seperatly, but th

RE: X on NeoMagic

1999-09-14 Thread Clint A. Brubakken
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Point apt at www.debian.org/~joeyh/stable-update -- this is slinkv2. > Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work, Packages.gz file want all packages to be in dists/proposed-updates/ but that directory doesn't exist. I can d/l each seperatly, but th

Re: the laptop proposal -- ideas, thoughts, and criticisms

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 NatePuri wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:02:52AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> I am packaging divine, should appear in the next week - I have to get libnet >> happy and packaged first. > > What is divine? > http://www.fefe.de/divine/ >> the hardware detection is much la

Re: the laptop proposal -- ideas, thoughts, and criticisms

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 NatePuri wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:02:52AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> I am packaging divine, should appear in the next week - I have to get libnet >> happy and packaged first. > > What is divine? > http://www.fefe.de/divine/ >> the hardware detection is much la

Re: the laptop proposal -- ideas, thoughts, and criticisms

1999-09-14 Thread NatePuri
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:02:52AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I am packaging divine, should appear in the next week - I have to get libnet > happy and packaged first. What is divine? > the hardware detection is much larger than laptops and is being looked into > slowly I'm very interest

Re: the laptop proposal -- ideas, thoughts, and criticisms

1999-09-14 Thread NatePuri
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:02:52AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I am packaging divine, should appear in the next week - I have to get libnet > happy and packaged first. What is divine? > the hardware detection is much larger than laptops and is being looked into > slowly I'm very interest

the laptop proposal -- ideas, thoughts, and criticisms

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why framebuffer? pentium ops are actually minimal compared to the -O2 output from egcc, plus the code is larger does irda need an "official" debian maintainer -- I can find one. the xserver in potato works with all supported Neomagic chips, a separate neomagic server is no longer needed I am pa

the laptop proposal -- ideas, thoughts, and criticisms

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why framebuffer? pentium ops are actually minimal compared to the -O2 output from egcc, plus the code is larger does irda need an "official" debian maintainer -- I can find one. the xserver in potato works with all supported Neomagic chips, a separate neomagic server is no longer needed I am pa

Re: X on NeoMagic

1999-09-14 Thread Sebastien Kalt
At 13:41 13/09/99 -0500, Clint A. Brubakken wrote: >I saw that X supports this but the version that comes with 2.1 doesn't. >I need to things. First how to just upgrade X. (I don't want to go over to >potato if I can avoid it), or how to replace it with a new version I >compile my self. I have a 2

Re: X on NeoMagic

1999-09-14 Thread Sebastien Kalt
At 13:41 13/09/99 -0500, Clint A. Brubakken wrote: >I saw that X supports this but the version that comes with 2.1 doesn't. >I need to things. First how to just upgrade X. (I don't want to go over to >potato if I can avoid it), or how to replace it with a new version I >compile my self. I have a 2

Re: v1.0 Debian Laptop Proposal

1999-09-14 Thread Adam Shand
> just finished version 1.0 of the Debian Laptop Proposal. Please > let me know your thoughts about it. it looks like a really good start. one thing that would be nice, though not really laptop specific, would be some sort of easy sound config program like redhat's sndconfig program. laptops of

Re: v1.0 Debian Laptop Proposal

1999-09-14 Thread Adam Shand
> just finished version 1.0 of the Debian Laptop Proposal. Please > let me know your thoughts about it. it looks like a really good start. one thing that would be nice, though not really laptop specific, would be some sort of easy sound config program like redhat's sndconfig program. laptops of

Re: v1.0 Debian Laptop Proposal

1999-09-14 Thread Werner Heuser
NatePuri schrieb: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:42:22PM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just finished version 1.0 of the Debian Laptop Proposal. Please > > let me know your thoughts about it. > > Where is it? Sorry, http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/debian_linux.html -werner-

Re: v1.0 Debian Laptop Proposal

1999-09-14 Thread Werner Heuser
NatePuri schrieb: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:42:22PM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just finished version 1.0 of the Debian Laptop Proposal. Please > > let me know your thoughts about it. > > Where is it? Sorry, http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/debian_linux.html -werner-