Re: Progress report of upload queue

1998-12-02 Thread James Troup
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, you get mail from dinstall in any case. Not quite; in pathological cases, dinstall won't send you mail, because it can't know who to send it to (e.g. unreadable, non-existent or corrupt .changes files). -- James

Re: Remove Debian Maintainer

1998-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Grant Bowman writes: > > This does not seem possible due to the massive amounts of e-mail reading > > required on both debian-private and debian-devel. These are both > > required reading for maintainers. > > Required reading? News to me. The Developer's Reference doe

Re: Remove Debian Maintainer

1998-12-02 Thread john
Grant Bowman writes: > This does not seem possible due to the massive amounts of e-mail reading > required on both debian-private and debian-devel. These are both > required reading for maintainers. Required reading? News to me. The Developer's Reference does appear to say that we must all subs

Re: PGP help

1998-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 12:21:37PM -0500, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > I am a little confused on how to strip the signature from the pgp data in > the new maintainer's e-mail. and which pgp data to use. there is the set > of data, so to speak, at the end, and another block two paragraphs up.

Remove Debian Maintainer

1998-12-02 Thread Grant Bowman
Debian Project, I will be unable to be a maintainer. Please remove my account [EMAIL PROTECTED] and remove my PGP key from the list. One of the primary reasons that I am unable to help is that I wanted to be a "part-time" or "casual" developer. This does not seem possible due to the massive amo

Re: Progress report of upload queue

1998-12-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Florian" == Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Florian> Hi! I know I get a mail if one of my packages is moved to Florian> the archives successfully from incoming. Do I get mails, Florian> too, if the package is rejected for some reason or something Florian> other happens?

Re: Progress report of upload queue

1998-12-02 Thread Richard Braakman
Florian Hinzmann wrote: > Hi! > > I know I get a mail if one of my packages is moved > to the archives successfully from incoming. > Do I get mails, too, if the package is rejected for > some reason or something other happens? (Are there > other possibilities wich can happen?) Normally you will.

PGP help

1998-12-02 Thread matthew.r.pavlovich.1
I am a little confused on how to strip the signature from the pgp data in the new maintainer's e-mail. and which pgp data to use. there is the set of data, so to speak, at the end, and another block two paragraphs up. Once the signature is striped, do i simply decrypt the remailing text? Thank

RE: GIFs in program

1998-12-02 Thread Shaleh
Gifs are not necessarily non-free. There is an ungiflib which reads and writes GIF images. What IS non-free is the writing on GIF's that use LZW compression because it is patented. So if it NEVER writes any GIF's you are safe. if it writes gifs but not compressed gifs you are also safe. If it

Progress report of upload queue

1998-12-02 Thread Florian Hinzmann
Hi! I know I get a mail if one of my packages is moved to the archives successfully from incoming. Do I get mails, too, if the package is rejected for some reason or something other happens? (Are there other possibilities wich can happen?) I am asking because I think one of my packages has vanish

GIFs in program

1998-12-02 Thread Dave Swegen
I just thought of something about the package which I'm maintaining: It uses GIFs to store the graphics it uses, but loads them using it's own routines rather than a lib. Question is would it have to go into non-free? As I have already uploaded it who do I inform, or do I upload a new version? Che

Re: Problem regarding copyright of Moscow ML...

1998-12-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 11:55:15PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi :-) > > I have a little problem with "my" package Moscow ML - the following comes from > copyrght.cl, which really is from CAML Light (which Moscow ML is based > upon...): > >

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Zephaniah" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zephaniah> Ick, perhaps we could use a new field? Umm, I think that is a bad idea. A new field should not be introduced lightly, and having one just because of aesthetics is not acceptable. Zephaniah> This s

Re: Why is "1" appended to package name?

1998-12-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, When I ran deb-make on my package source, it appended a "1" to > the package name in debian/control, for example. Why does deb-make > do this? BTW, while debmake is supported and does work, you probably want to be us

Re: /var/state ?

1998-12-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used /var/state, and I don't add anything to smb.conf > automatically or ask anything during install. Sounds good. > However, if there was > already a linpopup entry in smb.conf, but commented out, I re-enable > it.

Re: [wnpp@debian.org: WNPP ACK: 19981201 t.landschoff@gmx.net]

1998-12-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I mailed my intention to overtake linux-conio to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > I got the following reply: [...] > (You are assumed to be in the process of becoming a Debian Developer > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 19981201.) [...

automatic password generation

1998-12-02 Thread john
Chrony (essentially an xntp3 clone) includes two binaries: a daemon that runs as root and a control program that runs in user space. To perform certain operations the user running the control program must provide a password which is stored in a file readable only by root. I want the chrony packag

"Bug Free and Lintian Clean" packages to give away

1998-12-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I would like to give these "Bug Free and Lintian Clean" (TM) packages away. All packages have been converted to debhelper and should be easy, especially as a training ground for beginning maintainers. I would also be more than happy to help to ease transition. These packages are effectively orph

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Zephaniah E, Hull
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 02:55:03PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I tend to prefer versions like 1.04.9.beta10 or > 1.04.9.pre5.beta10 ;-) Ick, perhaps we could use a new field? This seems to come up a bit too often, hmm, perhaps something in the policy could help? Zephaniah E,

Re: A few new-maintainer questions.

1998-12-02 Thread Zephaniah E, Hull
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 11:07:06PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "ZEH" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ZEH> On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> Could you tell us, which program you are packageing ? > > ZEH> Repackaging really

[wnpp@debian.org: WNPP ACK: 19981201 t.landschoff@gmx.net]

1998-12-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi! I mailed my intention to overtake linux-conio to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I got the following reply: - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: GMX delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:21:41 -0500 To: Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PR