Bug#69817: realplayer upgrade hosed

2000-08-23 Thread Raul Miller
Package: realplayer Version: 7.0.2.2 Upgrading realplayer (apt-get upgrade), I got prompted to download rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm. However, when I visited the web site, I was only able to download rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm. So, I felt forced to leave realplayer unconfigured. This mucks

Bug#18062: B not executable

1998-02-10 Thread Raul Miller
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Package: sam > > Version: 4.3-1.1 > > > > /usr/bin/B is not executable (and also needs a man page). > > BTW, what does `B' stand for? I'd consider this as namespace-pollution. B is the command which ad

Re: Failed Maintainer Addresses

1998-03-23 Thread Raul Miller
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] All instances of firefly.com should be replaced with orbits.com [the firefly domain name was sold -- I believe to yahoo. Different email addresses were grandfathered for different durations but all will eventually be phased out.] --

Re: Bad Maintainer Address

1998-04-02 Thread Raul Miller
r this: > > (1) the package is obsolete: If the package still exists in Bo then > it will still show up here. Just ignore the problem. If it exists > in Hamm, then it should probably be fixed (see #2 and #3). ... >ucbmpeg_playRaul Miller <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bad Maintainer Address

1998-04-02 Thread Raul Miller
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't actually process the name. It's just in the Maintainers file > with that address. Was that package still in Bo, or is it much older > than that? Well, it's libc4. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#24020: rc's signal handling

1998-06-28 Thread Raul Miller
Package: rc [I want to become maintainer of rc, I've mailed wnpp about this, but nothing's happened yet. Just in case someone else is also working on the package, I'm enclosing a script I wrote to properly find the include file which defines the signals.] #!/bin/sh rm -f .signalfiles .oldsignal

Bug#24020: rc's signal handling

1998-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bug report you sent does not contain a description of the > but. Please refer to the bug report and add some description. > All you sent in was a program you wrote. It is not commented > nor self explanatory. From what I see it mucks around with so

Bug#24020: rc's signal handling

1998-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, so as interim maintainer ai add it to the doc directory, > install it in /usr/doc/rc and forward it upstream. "ai add"? Anyways, it's a linux-only fix, and the upstream maintainer hasn't done anything with the source for years. > > [But I seem to

Re: Bug#36132: xftp: two app-defaults

1999-04-18 Thread Raul Miller
Bleah. Wouldn't it be better to put this code in one place, and have the installation scripts just call it? -- Raul Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 10:40:08AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > I wonder if it would be possible that all these questions may be > > r

Re: Another job for the QA team

1999-04-18 Thread Raul Miller
I think that the "hit enter to continue" items in the postinst (along with a lot of silly config options) point at a real need which we're not addressing properly. I think one right way of addressing that need requires dpkg (or at least postinst) support: build an installation message log. Should

Re: brief thoughts on org/qa.debian.org

1999-09-18 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:15:14PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * It is not clear in the docs how meta-tasks are added, either > > technically or procedurally. > > Tasks as meta-tasks are added by the QA committe. If you want to > contact the technical committee, post here as we are reading

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

1999-10-02 Thread Raul Miller
> > > 4. The package is not complete; the source also includes the gopher > > >server but there is no debian package. Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This was deliberate. [It's one thing to distribute a non-free client. > > It's ano

Re: removing gopher

1999-10-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:57:49PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > When I worked on it for hamm, I basically packaged it from scratch > (the old source format was ugly). I had intended to go back and get > it to build the gopherd package at a later date, but I haven't yet. > > Hence it was not deli

Re: Release problems with slang?

1999-10-05 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:33:05AM +0200, Jim Mintha wrote: > I have been talking to Christian. The new packages of slang are ready > to go. I have been waiting for other people to upgrade their packages > to slang1_1.2.2-3 which fixes a dependancy problem. Most people have > updated their packages

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:50:30PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Does anybody use 9wm, 9term, and 9fonts? Can we dump them? I use 9wm (when I'm not using enlightenment). It's a decent wm for low memory machines. I'm interested in using 9fonts but haven't spent the time to figure out how to do so

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:24:40PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > 9term and 9fonts provide for the only UTF-8 (unicode) capable terminal > emulation for X currently packaged AFAIK; it would be convenient to have > them available for i18n testing purposes. Know where there's any decent document

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
Raul Miller writes: > > I use 9wm (when I'm not using enlightenment). It's a decent wm for low > > memory machines. I'm interested in using 9fonts but haven't spent the > > time to figure out how to do so meaningfully. On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:10:32AM -

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I suppose I should maintain 9wm... > > Does that mean you will look at these bug at least as a QA member? > > [ Meaning it would be waste of time if

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:19:04PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Like, how can I use cat to put a 2 x 2 in a file (using the unicode > > multiplication symbol in place of x)? On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:37:47PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > That is easier done using the Unicode tex

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:50:23PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > No, it means that if you want to edit a text file (unicode text in > this case), then a text editor is more comfortable than "cat". > > If you want to use "cat" then you will only be able to use the input > method provided by X and th

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I suppose I should maintain 9wm... > > Does that mean you will look at these bug at least as a QA member? Anyone know how to find these bugs? bugs.debia

Re: Is dome maintained?

1999-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 01:57:21PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > $ lintian /var/cache/apt/archives/dome_4.60-1.2_i386.deb > E: dome: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link > E: dome: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link > E: dome: binary-without-manpage dome > E: dome: binary-without-manpage dxftopov > W:

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:19:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/l9wm.html Thanks. [Heh, it looks like I wrote all these bug reports. From what I recall these all felt like race conditions.. I'm going to need to set up a really slow machine to even have a chanc

Re: Is dome maintained?

1999-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 03:26:53PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > And the /usr/doc/copyright issue: > > This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of mawk, an > implementation of the AWK Programming Language. dome was written by > Richard J. Bono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > And the dome depends

Re: Mandelspawn under GPL1

1999-10-12 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:49:24PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > My people have an old saying, "kud svi Turci, tud i mali Mujo", meaning > "where all the Turks go, little boy Muhammed goes, too"[1] :) Mine do too: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ;-) -- Raul

Bug#47709: Some scripts way, way out of date

1999-10-23 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 03:42:09AM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote: > For example, the 'mailto.pl' script dating from 1995 is mostly an example > of how to crack a query string and exec 'sendmail,' neither of which are > especially good ideas. As of Perl 5, the 'CGI.pm' module is a standard > component an

Bug#47709: Some scripts way, way out of date

1999-10-24 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > > However, I disagree with the thought process which suggests that Net::SMTP > > is in any way a replacement for sendmail. The semantics are totally > > different (sendmail queues while Net::SMTP does not). On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 02:0

Bug#47709: Some scripts way, way out of date

1999-10-25 Thread Raul Miller
We're picking nits, so I expect that this will be my last message to the bug tracking system on this topic. > On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > > What is the advantage of introducing a complex syntax which is not > > robust? On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 03:52:07PM -04

Bug#47709: Some scripts way, way out of date

1999-10-25 Thread Raul Miller
Argh... I hoped I was done. On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:10:21AM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote: > My point is that running things from the console generally involves > issues of trust, ownership, and the like. A "trusted user" has > a particuar technical meaning for Sendmail. By contrast, SMTP > connectio

hwtools

1999-11-01 Thread Raul Miller
I'd like to maintain hwtools. Or has someone else already adopted it? Thanks, -- Raul

Re: hwtools package

1999-12-20 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 12:27:08PM +0100, Mats Johansson wrote: > I just played with irqtune and disoverad that teh files irqtune_mod.o > and irqtune_npr.o are missing in the debian package. Laso there was an > error that i cant figure out why it come up. I've been looking at taking over the hwtoo