Bug#692923: Bug#689012: Status of chrony

rely up to them. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pq3d8xol@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: re-worded(newbie) Need help on Static IP

you are using PAP the ip numbers can go in pap-secrets. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send emai

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

ou are feeling ambitious you could have the postinst offer to get the binary. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: upstream author == debian maintainer

s no CHANGES file. I've had no complaints yet. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: developer-in-waiting using bts?

whole thing in the BTS so that no context is lost. I'd rather skip over some trivial messages than try to puzzle out the assumptions in the tail end of a discussion. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: rc.boot

n /etc/init.d, but > not link it with update-rc.d like every other, only to rcS.d. Actually, it looks to me as if update-rc.d could do it with the right arguments. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing H

Re: rc.boot

it.d' to start or stop services at boot time or during a change of runlevel. I'm not starting or stopping any services. This script should run *only* at boot, not when the runlevel changes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

rc.boot

this: E: pppconfig: package-installs-into-etc-rc.boot etc/rc.boot/0dns-init What should I do? Is there some tool I must use to install a script in rc.boot? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: version numbers

everybody. Looks like I'm stuck with munging the upstream number somehow. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: version numbers

and they aren't. It looks as if the consensus is that this is what I have to do anyway, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: version numbers

umbering system. This is irrelevant, though. Dpkg is not going to change, and the upstream author has made his decisions. Must I use an epoch? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: version numbers

ut I have no trouble understanding his intent. In any case, both dpkg and the upstream author are beyond my control. Do I have any recourse other than an epoch? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: version numbers

e. I know about epochs, but I've never seen anyone suggest using them without meeting with cries of outrage. Thus I would like to avoid them if at all possible. I am also just a bit astonished by the notion that 1.1 < 1.02. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

version numbers

Chrony-1.1 is out and I've packaged it to replace chrony-1.02 only to find that dpkg claims that 1.1 < 1.02. What should I do? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: non-US and RSAREF

le outside the US, so you are free to do as you wish. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: purging: what should be deleted ? (fwd)

y that they do not share with any package either depends on. Since A may have created the directory so that something A installs can use it later, it may never be safe to remove an empty directory. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: purging: what should be deleted ? (fwd)

ne that merely puts a file in it? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: How much pristine should the .orig.tar.gz be?

source is an unattainable goal. BTW, you say that the library is "public domain". What exactly does the license say? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: couple quick questions

ck a man page at random to use as a template: many are not well done. man pages use a pretty small subset of nroff. You can write them without really knowing nroff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: New package problems

tain knowledge of the author's intentions. > ...if there is no copyright or restrictions, then the authors don't seem > to be after money! If there is no copyright or license it cannot go into the Debian archives at all. Sorry. -- John HaslerThis pos

Re: textual works with publishing restrictions.

Ed Boraas writes: > Is it DFSG-Free? No. But so far as I know we've never determined that all documents must be DFSG compliant. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Off-topic was: Re: Licensing question

market. Instead you have trapped yourself in a tiny niche market while the librarian and the orginator clean up selling candles to everyone in town who can't be bothered with making their own. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Licensing question

o PREVENT the distribution of the binary by using the source > requirement as a "poison pill". Where is the poison? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money fr

Re: New copyright for Postilion's graphics

> It may be possible to have a Postilion with graphics in non-free, > and one without graphics in main. It turns out that the program won't run without the graphics, so the point is moot. The discussion has been moved to -legal. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: New copyright for Postilion's graphics

I can see an interpretation that would call them free. What is the license on Postilion? > Can such a package go into contrib or nonfree? The graphics would have to go into nonfree. The program would have to go into contrib if it depends on the graphics but could go into main if it is u

Re: copyright files

very often. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: copyright files

at the > software is distrubuted under the GPL and tell them to see > /usr/doc/copyright/GPL ? No. Copy the copyright file into the package's doc dir and send an override message explaining the situation. By prepending a disclaimer the author has created his own license. You should not a

Re: configuration file placement

m sure they do not belong anywhere under /etc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Field size in ps

do with it? hasler/~ pidof nfsiod 7 6 5 4 I just suggested pidof as a superior alternative to the ps|grep|cut kludge (which I have used). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Field size in ps

for start/stop scripts. Can't find any mention of it. Are you thinking of killall? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Field size in ps

s that are up for long periods of > time, with many users. Are pids of processes that are nolonger running > eventually recycled? Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI