Re: Redundant code for non-us?

1999-12-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:07:15PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > [Sorry for cross-posting, but someone in -policy might object to me > planning to doing the following in the first place.] > > The next release of powstatd will contain crypto code and will produce > a crypto pacakge in main/non-u

which snmp system

1999-12-04 Thread Jake Kuntz
i recently began an php-based application to monitor novell, linux, and nt systems with snmp and was discouraged to see that debian isn't using ucd's snmp. php is only compatible with the ucd system, and other distributions have already switched to ucd. having compared it to cmu, i have decided tha

Re: which snmp system

1999-12-04 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, why not see about building it yourself? if it already has a makefile or especially a configure script, dh_make and debhelper should make it easy to get it right. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian

Lisence and section

1999-12-04 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Dear Debian Mentors, I'm planning to make a ROOT (http://root.cern.ch) Debian GNU/Linux package, but I'm not quite sure what thier Lisence entails, as far as the Debian system is concerned. I've included the lisence below. The lines that I'm concerned about are: Additionally, the authors g

Re: setgid stuff

1999-12-04 Thread peter karlsson
peter karlsson: > Should the scripts automatically create a group (say 'jwhois', as that's the > name of the program)? Can this be automated in the rules file? I did it this way: The postinst script does a 'addgroup --system jwhois', and manually calles suidregister (or uses chown/chmod) to set t

Re: package beta releases ?

1999-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 09:51:13AM +0100, Martin Butterweck wrote: > Now my question: Should I package the beta release or not ? What does the upstream author think of the idea? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~brooni

Re: package beta releases ?

1999-12-04 Thread Martin Butterweck
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:52:51PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > > Now my question: Should I package the beta release or not ? > What does the upstream author think of the idea? hmmm, i havent asked him yet. But is it ok to include beta thingies into debian _in general_ ? Martin -- [this line is

Need maintainer for package

1999-12-04 Thread Aaron Lehmann
Greetings, I've written a Gtk+ graphing calculator program which is available at http://gtkgraph.linuxbox.com. It's progressing very well, and I'd like to get it into Debian. However, I've been told that it's not currently possible for me to become a maintainer, so I'm looking for a Debian maintai

Re: Need maintainer for package

1999-12-04 Thread Lonnie Sauter
Aaron, This looks like a nice program. I would be happy to take on this package. Send me or point me to the .diff,.dsc, and orig.tar.gz. Lon Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've written a Gtk+ graphing calculator program which is available at > http://gtkgraph.linuxbox.com. It's pro