problems with mentors.debian.net mailserver

2007-06-24 Thread Michael Gilbert
hello, i tried to sign up for a mentors account today (http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-signup), but got the following error, which appears to be a mailserver failure: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/www/mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-signup", line 99, in ? a

Getting gnucash running under Windows XP

2007-06-24 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Dear Sirs/Madams, I am very interested in getting gnucash running on the Windows XP operating system. I have got down cygwin and are using a few programs in that, mainly the compiling tools to compile gnucash to run under Windows. Is it best to go the "./configure", "make", "make install" way an

Re: Debian Maintainers - a vote on debian-vote

2007-06-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
If you are not already aware of it, there is discussion on debian-vote about "Debian Maintainers" - "letting people maintain specific packages in the archive without being full developers". I thought I would mention it here as non-DDs are not too likely to read d-vote, but might be greatly affect

Debian Maintainers - a vote on debian-vote

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Cager
If you are not already aware of it, there is discussion on debian-vote about "Debian Maintainers" - "letting people maintain specific packages in the archive without being full developers". I thought I would mention it here as non-DDs are not too likely to read d-vote, but might be greatly affecte

Re: RFS: codeblocks

2007-06-24 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi Erick, Erick Mattos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > First, I have to say that it is very nice the name you have. My > favorite! > Your have a interesting spelling, I have never seen it before. > On Saturday 23 June 2007 18:45, Erik Schanze wrote: > > Did you check your snapshot if it will be stable en

Re: Sponsorship offering

2007-06-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > > By submitting a patch for the upgrade for instance or bugging with a > pointer to the updated package. We will manage to poke the maintainer > or so. > probably you want to contact the maintainers then and ask them if they'd like to have their package maintained by a team. Especially pa

Re: shared libraries and _REENTRANT

2007-06-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Felipe Sateler wrote: >> Policy 10.2 says we must compile shared libraries with -D_REENTRANT: >>> You must specify the gcc option -D_REENTRANT when building a library >>> (either static or shared) to make the library compatible with >>> LinuxThreads. >