Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails (fwd)

1999-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:14:12PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > > You want someone to correspond with you regarding some serious things > > without you letting him know your real name? > > 1. The developer in question _does_ know my real name. > > 2. If you are talking about someone who ha

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails (fwd)

1999-07-27 Thread Jor-el
Josip, 1. The developer in question _does_ know my real name. 2. If you are talking about someone who hasnt met me in real life, even assuming that I use my "Bob Smith" id, how in heavens name will they know that it is my real name? They have to trust the fact that there was a t

Re: achieving secure web services for the masses

1999-07-27 Thread Nate Duehr
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Nate wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I would greatly like to hear as much feedback as possible about a > project that I am proposing will be licensed under the GPL. It is a project > that will bring about web mail that handles encryption and decryption. > The web based email wil

Re: how to name a prerelease package

1999-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Maybe a private site is the answer, if cluttering the > ftp space is a concern. > Many of us do now. With apt it is easy. Just put it on va or master if you have no place otherwise. The problem with uploading it is that when it is no longer a "prerelease" you have to get the ftp admins to

Re: how to name a prerelease package

1999-07-27 Thread David Coe
Good questions. The upstream pre-release is beta-quality, "not ready to release, but it's usable" according to the upstream author (words to that effect). So I don't want to replace the current ispell with it, until it has been released, but do want to package it and make it available to users wh

RE: how to name a prerelease package

1999-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jul-99 David Coe wrote: > I'm preparing a new distribution of ispell (current upstream > version, just packaging and debian standards changes), and > at the same time preparing to package a prerelease of the > next upstream version. > > Do we have a "standard" or traditional way of nami

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails (fwd)

1999-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:00:04PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > 1. Should he have signed my PGP key if the id I sent him was "Bob Smith" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . The "Bob Smith" tag is totally arbitrary and has less > permanance than the actual email id attached to it. If he could sign it > with the "Bob

how to name a prerelease package

1999-07-27 Thread David Coe
I'm preparing a new distribution of ispell (current upstream version, just packaging and debian standards changes), and at the same time preparing to package a prerelease of the next upstream version. Do we have a "standard" or traditional way of naming alternate upstream pre-release version p

Re: Package in wrong section

1999-07-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:14:41PM -0400, Benjamin Gray Darnell écrivait: > I have a package (pose - PalmOS emulator) that should be in contrib, but > I just noticed that it is currently in main. Is there a line I should add > to the control file to make this change, or should I email the archive

PGP and verifying ids / emails (fwd)

1999-07-27 Thread Jor-el
Aarrgh! Wrong To: address! Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee. -- Tennyson -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:51:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Package in wrong section

1999-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:14:41PM -0400, Benjamin Gray Darnell wrote: > I have a package (pose - PalmOS emulator) that should be in contrib, but > I just noticed that it is currently in main. Is there a line I should add > to the control file to make this change, or should I email the archive > m

Package in wrong section

1999-07-27 Thread Benjamin Gray Darnell
I have a package (pose - PalmOS emulator) that should be in contrib, but I just noticed that it is currently in main. Is there a line I should add to the control file to make this change, or should I email the archive maintainer to have it moved? Thanks, -Ben

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:51:51PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > Well, potato is GLIBC 2.1. You don't really need to support anything else, > > so only two packages (686-optimised and non-optimised). > > > > Note that the gnulibc1 is NOT for libc2.0 as you have above -- it is > > for libc5. I

Re: Adopting packages

1999-07-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:51:00AM -0400, Dpk wrote: > The web pages give much information about creating Debian packages. > However, I am starting out by adopting an existing package, which I > have found much information about doing. Could someone point me in > the right direction on how to modi

Re: Adopting packages

1999-07-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 26 July 1999, at 10 h 51, the keyboard of Dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The web pages give much information about creating Debian packages. > However, I am starting out by adopting an existing package, which I > have found much information about doing. Could someone point me in > th

Re: category code

1999-07-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 26 July 1999, at 14 h 27, the keyboard of Gwyneth Lloyd-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When installing a debian system to a computer, it asks you which set of > packages you want to install on your system (i.e. Admin, Basic, > Devel_comp, > Devel_std etc...). Does anyone have any p

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:51:51PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > I haven't upgraded to potato either. Is there a machine that is > running potato that developers could use to test glibc 2.1 related > packages? I'm not sure. I thought master would be running potato (since Branden uses it to build

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Gopal Narayanan
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:25:28AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:42PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 : for libc2.1 > > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1 : for libc2.0 > > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static : static 2.0 >

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:42PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 : for libc2.1 > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1 : for libc2.0 > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static: static 2.0 > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 : 686-optimized for 2.1 > i686-pc-linux-gnu