Re: keys question..

2002-09-15 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Brian O'Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.14.2356 +0200]: > > > The vpopmail package insists on being built by the root user, which has > > > obvious implications when it comes time to sign the generated

Re: substvar in Arch:

2002-09-11 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:42:48AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Mmm, but what if there is a bug found in ocaml's native code compiler, > that forces me to disable one of the architectures, like i did for ia64 > and powe

Re: substvar in Arch:

2002-09-11 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:42:48AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Mmm, but what if there is a bug found in ocaml's native code compiler, > that forces me to disable one of the architectures, like i did for ia64 > and powe

Re: substvar in Arch:

2002-09-09 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi mentors, > is possible to have an Arch: field defined by a substvar? > > Our problem (with our = debian ocaml maintainers) is that ocaml native > code compiler isn't available for all architectures supported by debian, > and, even if we have a

Re: substvar in Arch:

2002-09-09 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi mentors, > is possible to have an Arch: field defined by a substvar? > > Our problem (with our = debian ocaml maintainers) is that ocaml native > code compiler isn't available for all architectures supported by debian, > and, even if we have

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jérôme Marant) writes: > > Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> Goswin, why didn't you get any clue? Did you read the thread in > >> the WNPP RFP bug? Did you read mldonkey-archives? I think you > >> didn't. > > > > Before getting offensive read the mldonkey-mailing lists yourself.

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Goswin, why didn't you get any clue? Did you read the thread in > > the WNPP RFP bug? Did you read mldonkey-archives? I think you > > didn't. No of cause I didn't read the RFP. I also didn't change the Bugs title to

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jérôme Marant) writes: > > Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> Goswin, why didn't you get any clue? Did you read the thread in > >> the WNPP RFP bug? Did you read mldonkey-archives? I think you > >> didn't. > > > > Before getting offensive read the mldonkey-mailing lists yourself.

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Goswin, why didn't you get any clue? Did you read the thread in > > the WNPP RFP bug? Did you read mldonkey-archives? I think you > > didn't. No of cause I didn't read the RFP. I also didn't change the Bugs title to

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > I _started_ packaging mldonkey and have some preliminary deb packages > > at > > Since mldonkey is written in Objective Caml, I suggest you to have a

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I _started_ packaging mldonkey and have some preliminary deb packages > > at > > > > rsync rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/mld

mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, I _started_ packaging mldonkey and have some preliminary deb packages at rsync rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/mldonkey If anyone here is intrested in testing and sponsoring mldonkey let me know. Also feel free to take a look at the package, good comments are allways appreciated. MfG Goswin

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > I _started_ packaging mldonkey and have some preliminary deb packages > > at > > Since mldonkey is written in Objective Caml, I suggest you to have a

Re: mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I _started_ packaging mldonkey and have some preliminary deb packages > > at > > > > rsync rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/mld

mldonkey needs sponsor

2002-09-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, I _started_ packaging mldonkey and have some preliminary deb packages at rsync rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/mldonkey If anyone here is intrested in testing and sponsoring mldonkey let me know. Also feel free to take a look at the package, good comments are allways appreciated. MfG Goswi

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-31 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm the maintainer of crafty, a chess engine > (http://packages.debian.org/crafty). > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > 'l

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm the maintainer of crafty, a chess engine (http://packages.debian.org/crafty). > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > 'lea

Re: Upstream's debian/ directory

2002-07-28 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am taking a look at renameutils > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/renameutils) in oprder to file an ITP. > > Upstream already has a debian/ directory and I am not sure what to do... > > ¿Should I just remove it form the .tar.gz and use that as my > .orig.tar.

Re: Upstream's debian/ directory

2002-07-28 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am taking a look at renameutils > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/renameutils) in oprder to file an ITP. > > Upstream already has a debian/ directory and I am not sure what to do... > > ¿Should I just remove it form the .tar.gz and use that as my > .orig.tar

Re: developer vs user wants

2002-07-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Michael Cardenas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020727 19:22]: > > The developer at limewire that I spoke to asked me to turn them on, so > > I guess that I should, although that's not what users are going to > > want. > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > you

Re: developer vs user wants

2002-07-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Michael Cardenas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020727 19:22]: > > The developer at limewire that I spoke to asked me to turn them on, so > > I guess that I should, although that's not what users are going to > > want. > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > yo

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
>>>>> " " == tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> The orig.tar.gz file should be pristine (does someone have the >> pointer to the policiy about this?). Basically NEVER rebuild >&g

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
>>>>> " " == tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> The orig.tar.gz file should be pristine (does someone have the >> pointer to the policiy about this?). Basically NEVER rebuild >&g

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Jason Henry Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> apt-get source byacc and you have the old .tar.gz. (Or is there >> a good reason for a newly compressed tarball?) > The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was that

Looking for a sponsor for an upload of debian-mirror

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, Could someone please upload debian-mirror 1.0-1 deb ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main deb-src ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/dists/unstable/main/[source/binary-i386]/ Thanks. MfG Goswin

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Jason Henry Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> apt-get source byacc and you have the old .tar.gz. (Or is there >> a good reason for a newly compressed tarball?) > The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was tha

Looking for a sponsor for an upload of debian-mirror

2001-01-07 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, Could someone please upload debian-mirror 1.0-1 deb ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main deb-src ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ unstable main ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/dists/unstable/main/[source/binary-i386]/ Thanks. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUB

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Goswin! You wrote: >> Yes its possible and its covered. Try the web pages, I saw it >> there yesterday. > You are mistaken. It is only desribed for build time > relationships (Build-Depends, etc). And no, the sam

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Goswin! You wrote: >> Yes its possible and its covered. Try the web pages, I saw it >> there yesterday. > You are mistaken. It is only desribed for build time > relationships (Build-Depends, etc). And no, the sa

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! For my sndconfig package, I would like to declare a > different dependecy for the sparc architecture (sndconfig/sparc > does not require isapnp, which isn't even available for > sparc). Is this possible? I haven't be

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! For my sndconfig package, I would like to declare a > different dependecy for the sparc architecture (sndconfig/sparc > does not require isapnp, which isn't even available for > sparc). Is this possible? I haven't b

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
>>>>> " " == Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:17:54PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow > wrote: >> Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to >> this standard form (whatever that t

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
>>>>> " " == Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:17:54PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow > wrote: >> Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to >> this standard form (whatever that t

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to this standard form (whatever that then is). MfG Goswin

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to this standard form (whatever that then is). MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == J?r?me Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, (and happy new year :-)) > I'm packaging a program that has some kind of dependencies: > Package: A Depends: B | C, D | E > I'd like to make sure that: - once B installed, D was also > installed - or once C in

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, (and happy new year :-)) > I'm packaging a program that has some kind of dependencies: > Package: A Depends: B | C, D | E > I'd like to make sure that: - once B installed, D was also > installed - or once C i

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-19 Thread goswin . brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:15:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yeah, I hate perl. Its easy to create bugs and hard to fix them. > > You can do that in any language. Perl is no different to C in that regard. > Recently I've been programming a lo

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-19 Thread goswin . brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:15:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: > > Yeah, I hate perl. Its easy to create bugs and hard to fix them. > > You can do that in any language. Perl is no different to C in that regard. > Recently I've been programming a

a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"goswin" == goswin brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > goswin> Yes, pretty strong words. Hope they wake up some people. > > I suggest you give it a little more thought, and a little more

a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"goswin" == goswin brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > goswin> Yes, pretty strong words. Hope they wake up some people. > > I suggest you give it a little more thought, and a little more

Re: Section of deb packages not in Debian

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Debian Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, All. I have two questions about deb packages. >... > Also, what is the correct procedure to deal with upgrades from upstream? > My patches won't apply correctly to the newer version of the software... > :-( Do I have to patch it by hand? Is there any

Re: Section of deb packages not in Debian

2000-08-14 Thread goswin . brederlow
Debian Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, All. I have two questions about deb packages. >... > Also, what is the correct procedure to deal with upgrades from upstream? > My patches won't apply correctly to the newer version of the software... > :-( Do I have to patch it by hand? Is there an

Re: Find the display

2000-08-13 Thread goswin . brederlow
Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:42:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > if [ `pidof sawfish` ]; then > > > > Consider a bug being opened against it. > > > > Installation MUST be non-interacti

Re: Find the display

2000-08-13 Thread goswin . brederlow
Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:42:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: > > Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > if [ `pidof sawfish` ]; then > > > > Consider a bug being opened against it. > > > > Installation MUST be non-intera

Re: New key = New package?

2000-08-13 Thread goswin . brederlow
"Warren A. Layton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just uploaded my first package last week (login.app 1.2.1-12), but the > key which I used to generate the signature expired a few days later > (d'oh!). > > I have generated a new key and signed it with the old one. However, I am > wondering if I

Re: Find the display

2000-08-13 Thread goswin . brederlow
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, for all your answers. The postinst is now: > > if [ `pidof sawfish` ]; then > echo > echo " WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG" > echo > echo " You need to restart sawfish right now" >

Re: New key = New package?

2000-08-13 Thread goswin . brederlow
"Warren A. Layton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just uploaded my first package last week (login.app 1.2.1-12), but the > key which I used to generate the signature expired a few days later > (d'oh!). > > I have generated a new key and signed it with the old one. However, I am > wondering if I

Re: Find the display

2000-08-13 Thread goswin . brederlow
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, for all your answers. The postinst is now: > > if [ `pidof sawfish` ]; then > echo > echo " WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG" > echo > echo " You need to restart sawfish right now" >

Sponsor needed for bochs (ITP: bochs)

2000-08-11 Thread goswin . brederlow
I started packaging bochs and the first debs are available at ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ Don't judge me by them, I know their major faults, but if your intrested in Bochs (a i386 emulator, good for testing bootdisks or playing populous) I need a mentor for it. May the Source be with

Re: Find the display

2000-08-11 Thread goswin . brederlow
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "BS" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > BS> Is policy the one and only reason for wanting stuff? If this fixes what > BS> I hope it does, the the "need" has an "or else you may need to hard > BS> reset your machine bec

Re: Missing class member in stl_vector ?

2000-08-11 Thread goswin . brederlow
Christoph Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I have the following problem. In a c++ program I use the vector template. > Acording to "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup there > should be a member at() for checked random access to components of a > vector. But it seems t

Sponsor needed for bochs (ITP: bochs)

2000-08-11 Thread goswin . brederlow
I started packaging bochs and the first debs are available at ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ Don't judge me by them, I know their major faults, but if your intrested in Bochs (a i386 emulator, good for testing bootdisks or playing populous) I need a mentor for it. May the Source be with

Re: Find the display

2000-08-11 Thread goswin . brederlow
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "BS" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > BS> Is policy the one and only reason for wanting stuff? If this fixes what > BS> I hope it does, the the "need" has an "or else you may need to hard > BS> reset your machine be

Re: Missing class member in stl_vector ?

2000-08-11 Thread goswin . brederlow
Christoph Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I have the following problem. In a c++ program I use the vector template. > Acording to "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup there > should be a member at() for checked random access to components of a > vector. But it seems

Re: /usr/lib

1999-10-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 04:53 + 1999-10-27, David Coe wrote: > >/usr/lib/portsentry is indeed the right place, as long as the scripts > >don't change other than at installation/upgrade time. > > Actually, since they are perl and therefore architecture independant, > /us

Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?

1999-10-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Franklin Belew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, I might file a bug against that. Interactive installation realy > > sucks and it will bann lsdoom from my demo-fs packages as a possible > > game to include. Patching it back to noninteractive is work. :( > > > > If you have two binaries, make t

Re: Merging Packages

1999-10-25 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Chris McKillop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Replaces: wmaker-superfluous, wmaker-traditional, wmaker-sound, wmaker-kde, > wmak > Conflicts: wmaker-superfluous, wmaker-traditional, wmaker-sound, wmaker-kde, > wma > Provides: wmaker-kde, wmaker-gnome, wmaker-plain ... > that it can remove it with

Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?

1999-10-25 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:56:21PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Look at lincity. If I remember right it generates three packages: > > > > main, svga and X11. > > > > The svga and x11 package contain the binarie

Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it permissable to create binaries, linked against svgalib, > which are setuid/setgid root.root? > The security paranoid system administrator in me says this is > a big no-no, particularly when what I'm talking about is a game > (lxdoom). But then, when yo

Re: CPU specific binaries

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > All this comes out of thin air, but here goes: > > * I think that currently the goal is to support the highest >optimization that does not hurt (noticeably) the low end No, thats evil and uneccessary. I consider compiling with -O3 or higher as a bug for non-criti

Does anyone want to package electricsheep?

1999-10-21 Thread Goswin Brederlow
I saw electricsheep of http://www.freshmeat.net/ on the yesterdays list. It sounds intresting but needs a good network connection. Since I only have a modem at home and already enough other work I would be happy if anyone else intrested in fractals could package it. Should be fairly easy (uses con

Re: debian & ups

1999-09-03 Thread goswin . brederlow
Jozef Hitzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Another thing that interests me is, whether you can export the UPS via > > a network block device to another system and if you can split an UPS > > into two devices (one local and the other maybe exported

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-09-02 Thread goswin . brederlow
Jozef Hitzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ("Being too generic is a bug." -Linus) "There are no bugs, those are features." - M$ Mfg, Goswin

Re: debian & ups

1999-09-02 Thread goswin . brederlow
I understood the previous mails in a way that only one UPS where possible and i thought that more would be needed frequently. Since that seems possible with a little tweeking of the scripts, thats fine. Another thing that interests me is, whether you can export the UPS via a network block device

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-08-31 Thread goswin . brederlow
Jozef Hitzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What if you have several ups from several vendors all controled by a > > central system? > > But .. that means, that you've got boxes which depend on power controlled > by another computer. I don't think

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-08-31 Thread goswin . brederlow
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's what I figured out (please correct me if I'm wrong). > > - Have your package provide and conflict with "ups-monitor" > - provide a symlink such that /etc/init.d/ups-monitor points to >your /etc/init.d/smartupstools script. This scrip

Re: New kernel

1999-08-31 Thread goswin . brederlow
"Rudy Broersma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I've installed a new kernel onto my Linux box! Version 2.3.8. (The old one > was 2.2.8.. if I recall correct) Anyway.. the kernel works.. but when I > bootup, and everything is beeing started like SMB, Sendmail, NIC's, etc, > etc, I get lot

Re: upstream author == debian maintainer

1999-08-17 Thread goswin . brederlow
Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:10PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:32:08PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > > > 1) I am the author of program I am packaging. To save myself > > > some work, I have packaged it as a native d

Re: multiple binary packages (again)

1999-08-17 Thread goswin . brederlow
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm trying to package curl. curl is tool to download anything from > the net in all sort of ways (http, ftp, gopher, https). it comes > also with ssl support, i can tell it to compile ssl support by a switch > after ./configure. > > in order to get

Re: CVS and upstream source

1999-08-06 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > I apologize in advance if this is in a FAQ or something, or if this > is the wrong mailing list... > I have recently started using CVS to keep track of my source. I use > cvs-upgrade to `install' the upstream source, and everything works > very well

Re: e2compr packages up for sponsorship

1999-08-05 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Christopher C Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 5 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I did some fixes and cleanup on the defrag package and have e2dump >> 64Bit clean and 2GB proff now, but still have some bugs left to >> fix. Also the defrag tells me that it can't find inode xxx, where >

Re: e2compr packages up for sponsorship

1999-08-05 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Peter Moulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > Most of the packages up for sponsorship have been around for some > time (~a year) distributed from the e2compr web pages. I haven't > received any bug reports for the Debian packages yet, which suggests > that they should have relatively low maintenan

Re: new-maintainer@debian.org dead?

1999-07-20 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They are overworked. The best way to become a developer now is to > pick some orphaned packages from WNPP[1] and adopt them - people who > do that, I believe, are most welcome :) I'm currently working on dpkgconfig which goes into a similar direction as J

Re: new-maintainer@debian.org dead?

1999-07-20 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > Can you please try and fix `fakeroot' for us? And how without being maintainer should I upload any changes? May the Source be with you. Goswin

new-maintainer@debian.org dead?

1999-07-19 Thread Goswin Brederlow
I'm trying to become a Debian maintainer for some time now. I've send my aplication to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about 2 month ago and never heard from it again. Two weeks and one week ago I asked what happened to my application on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and still got no answere. So now I ask here if that lis

Re: Packages.gz

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Gwyneth Lloyd-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently working on some packages and had a question. When I > finish with my packages, do I add them manualy to the Packages.gz > file? I can't seem to find any information on any automated way of > doing so. I was hoping to test some lo

Re: Removing files from source tree

1999-07-12 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Michael-John Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I'm busy packaging rrdtool ATM and it includes a full copy of gd 1.2 in > the source tree. I will modify it to link to gd dynamically (and set the > requires: on the package accordingly, etc). Should I remove the now-unneeded > gd sou