Re: Bug#45852: colortail: colortail can't read /etc/clortail or $HOME/.colortail

1999-10-01 Thread Edward Betts
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a problem, the maintainer moved from C to C++ and lost my > /etc/colortail in the process. I will love into it, but I do not know C++ very > well, whether somebody else could help, or possibly adopt the package? Sorry was I asleep when I wrote this

Debian 2.1 updates on CD image?

1999-10-01 Thread Kim Sandström
Hello, I currently use Redhat. As I'd like to introduce my brother to Linux I thought he could try Debian. It turned out to be more complicated than I thought. I burned the two official Debian CDs (2.1r3). As I understand they are based on kernel 2.0.x. - that's to old for me. So I thought I n

I am leaving again...

1999-10-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, I am leaving for another week of vacation today. I will not be able to read my mail or do any work related to Debian. Please feel free to NMU all my packages in case that is needed. Also I want to say that a new ILU version is out and I did not yet have the time to package it. I am going

removing gopher

1999-10-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I propose we remove the gopher package (maintained by me) immediately. Reasons: 1. It is not maintained upstream 2. It is non-free 3. Lynx is free and handles gopher URLs on a text terminal 4. The package is not complete; the source also includes the gopher server but there is no debian package

Re: removing gopher

1999-10-01 Thread Edward Betts
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I propose we remove the gopher package (maintained by me) immediately. > Reasons: > > 1. It is not maintained upstream > 2. It is non-free > 3. Lynx is free and handles gopher URLs on a text terminal > 4. The package is not complete; the source also incl

Re: Bug#45852: colortail: colortail can't read /etc/clortail or $HOME/.colortail

1999-10-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 07:53:46AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > This is a problem, the maintainer moved from C to C++ and lost my > /etc/colortail patch in the process. I will look into it, but I do not know > C++ very well, whether somebody else could help, or possibly adopt the > package? You s

RE: Debian 2.1 updates on CD image?

1999-10-01 Thread arto . astala
This is just a quick note, and may be even incorrect, I haven't been following that closely. There are several ways to get current snapshot images: - commercial vendors will do it (for USD 7-10 per CD + p&p) - you can have local mirror and create image yourself with a tool like YACS, usage exp

Re: Bug#45852: colortail: colortail can't read /etc/clortail or $HOME/.colortail

1999-10-01 Thread Edward Betts
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should really learn C++ - I just noticed that I did not use it often > enough. I really know the language but what I don't know are the libraries. > With some info commands I got the following patch: > > Hope this helps. As I often heard that the

Re: removing gopher

1999-10-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:28:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > 1. It is not maintained upstream > 2. It is non-free > 3. Lynx is free and handles gopher URLs on a text terminal > 4. The package is not complete; the source also includes the gopher >server but there is no debian package. > >

Re: removing gopher

1999-10-01 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:28:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > 3. Lynx is free and handles gopher URLs on a text terminal Last time I checked, Lynx doesn't handle gopher forms. [Whether anyone cares is a different issue. I suppose someone ought to check what popularity-contest has on this iss

Re: removing gopher

1999-10-01 Thread Edward Betts
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4. The package is not complete; the source also includes the gopher > >server but there is no debian package. > > This was deliberate. [It's one thing to distribute a non-free client. > It's another to distribute a non-free server.] I am not sure wh

Re: Bug#45852: colortail: colortail can't read /etc/clortail or $HOME/.colortail

1999-10-01 Thread Edward Betts
severity 45852 normal stop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: colortail > Version: 0.3.0-2 > Severity: important > > it's only work with the -k option. This is a problem, the maintainer moved from C to C++ and lost my /etc/colortail in the process. I will love into it, but I do not know C++ ver