Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian White wrote: mount 27421 mount: fails to parse existing /etc/fstab [10] (Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I've just fixed this in a non-maintainer upload with prior negotiation with the official maintainer. -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's

Closing freetype2-dev/freetype1 bug report.

1998-10-15 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello, I have since re-uploaded both freetype (freetype2, freetype2-dev, freetype-tools) and freetype1 (freetype1, freetype1-dev) and the latest versions have been successfully installed on Debian master. Thus, the conflict issue should no longer exist. :-) Cheers, Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilypond, egcs and libc6 2.0.7u? (or Cyrix?)

1998-10-15 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello Paul, On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Paul Slootman wrote: On Sun 11 Oct 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: it spitted out the following error messages: out/template2.o: In function `global constructors keyed to Cursorvoid *::operator-(Cursorvoid *) const': [...] I am using the following on my

Re: Linuxconf

1998-10-15 Thread Philip Hands
matthew.r.pavlovich.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the current status of linuxconf and debian? I made a package up, which is currently in experimental because it breaks booting, and doesn't understand includes in /etc/named, among other things. If people would like to have a look at it,

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello, On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] (Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report and found no explanation. I think strace is too

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup wrote: They don't compile from freshly unpacked source. How odd. Other maintainer must work substantially differently than I, then. If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a freshly unpacked foobar_1.1-3.dsc? Another

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs ./debian/rules target. Additionally, the following information is provided in the environment: a) KVERS Contains the

Re: Bug#27753: libpgjava: depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which is now included in jdk1.1

1998-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 02:22:53PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Why doesn't jdk1.1 provide java-virtual-machine? That's an Hamish officially listed virtual package and would have avoided Hamish this problem, and would also

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:52:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to take a look at bug #27395 because pcmcia-modules works for me. The report says not that they don't work, but that some things are not so good. They seem to be valid concerns although I'm not sure they are

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: Are we going to include apt in the base system? Its package ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A multi-cdrom-apt method should be added quick.

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Hartmut Koptein
But you're missing my point. Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip waiting, while a normal NMU does not? Why are they different? Why does one let you circumvent the rules, for however noble a purpose? Binary-only and normal NMU's are the same thing, and if you can do a

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread warp
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:04:29PM -0400, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! So far, Alpha is looking near ready and we are shooting to

Intent to package: slocate

1998-10-15 Thread Robert Woodcock
As featured on Bugtraq and recently Freshmeat, slocate is a replacement for locate/updatedb. It keeps track of UID's for files so that people can't see other people's hidden stuff, while still seeing their own. I'll have it create a diversion for /usr/bin/locate and /etc/cron.daily/find, and

.xsessions

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Stone
I keep seeing questions about getting .xsession's to work, the common problem being failure to set +x. Wasn't someone going to tweak the Xsession script to allow non-executable .xsessions? Mike Stone

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, James == James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup wrote: They don't compile from freshly unpacked source. How odd. Other maintainer must work substantially differently than I, then. James If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, James == James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James They don't compile from freshly unpacked source. Problems which James aren't noticed are, for example, a debian/rules clean which depends on James debian/rules build having at least partially run, or a debian/rules James which depends

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs ./debian/rules target. Additionally, the following

Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread Chris McKillop
Quick One... I know that the gnome 0.30 deb files are alittle messed up, but I don't remeber every seeing a fix to the segv problems. Was it a gtk/gdk problem with 1.0.x vs 1.1.x? I am trying to get eeyes to work and not having much luck...nor any of the other gnome apps in gnome-base.

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-15 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:05:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without a -dev. Is anyone going to do this? Ben See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time to

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Jim Pick
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. What do you think we should do with the

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread Jim Pick
Chris McKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick One... I know that the gnome 0.30 deb files are alittle messed up, but I don't remeber every seeing a fix to the segv problems. Was it a gtk/gdk problem with 1.0.x vs 1.1.x? I am trying to get eeyes to work and not having much

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-15 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Roderick Schertler, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: I don't think Andy is taking into account your plan of allowing both threaded and non-threaded Perls present on the system at the same time. That's okay since a) threaded Perl has it's own

New packages that might cause X to lock up?

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
... with a card (Matrox Mystique 4meg) that should be supported quite well? This is making me nuts (luckily the computer doesn't die, I can still ssh in and shut it down), and I can't finish up packages, or code at all for that matter. Dejanews returns almost nothing with matrox mystique

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Buddha Buck
James Troup said: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup wrote: Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip waiting, while a normal NMU does not? Why are they different? Because I'm not forcing my changes on anyone but the architecture I'm uploading for. If I'm

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why Dan the compiled libstdc++2.8 package whose

Re: New packages that might cause X to lock up?

1998-10-15 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose this is maybe not the best place for this question, but if I am to have my packages ready for slink, I need to figure this out quickly. I kind of wonder if the motherboard is wacked... I don't need more stress:-( I don't know about the video

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:37:07PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: Are we going to include apt in the base system? Its package ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but currently apt doesn't work with

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 15 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] (Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report and

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 14 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Thomas Lakofski wrote: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is universal (only checked 2 daemons), but it

octave-plplot: intention to package

1998-10-15 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Hurrying before the slink freeze, here is my intention to package: === Package: octave-plplot Version: 0.3-1 Section: math Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (= 2.0.7u), libstdc++2.9, tcl8.0

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Buddha Buck wrote: How does that differ from -any- binary-only NMU, regardless of architechture? If binary-only NMU's for i386 are bad, why are binary-only NMUs for m68k OK? The only -real- problem I see with normal NMUs is that then the i386 and m68k binaries are built from different

Re: Removing Gnome [was: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1]

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be a 1.0 release coming up in a few months that

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup said: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James Troup wrote: Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip waiting, while a normal NMU does not? Why are they different? Because I'm not forcing my changes on anyone but

Re: Bug#26065: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hello, On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] (Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report and

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Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 15 Oct 1998, James Troup wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip waiting, while a normal NMU does not? Why are they different? Because I'm not forcing my changes on anyone but the architecture I'm uploading for. If I'm

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or

Re: sendmail logging disappeared

1998-10-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Thomas Lakofski wrote: hmmm, just rebooted for the first time in 20 days and my sendmail daemon isn't doing any logging. no problems in /etc/syslog.conf, and sendmail invoked by pine drops logs in the right places. daemon logs its invocation and then goes about its business

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one, MAJOR, huge, massive, 'program' which egcs will not properly compile, this is the kernel, 2.0.x is officially not going to operate 100% correctly when compiled with gcc 2.8.x or egcs.. Any suggestions? On the Alpha? I've had

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This one also refers to the version of perl which has been removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) I knew about it, but not which bugs it affected. I'll

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Does

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
So far, Alpha is looking near ready and we are shooting to release with slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some big egcs issues SOON or else we can't release (as is, 1.1b will not compile two or three vital packages correctly). There is one, MAJOR, huge, massive,

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 14 Oct 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:04:29PM -0400, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some big egcs issues SOON or else we can't release (as is, 1.1b will not compile two or three vital packages

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread warp
I don't really want to get into this, I've got enough people mad at me for filing some bug reports, but I think this needs to be said, anyways. On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:54:02AM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: But you're missing my point. Why does a binary-only NMU give you the right to skip

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If main is split into two cd's then no packages in main1 should depend on any in main2. (packages in main2 could depend on main1, then you would be told to go back and install them from main1?) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Kevin Dalley
Can apt handle a situation where there is not enough room in the /var partition for a complete download? Last time I check, about a month ago, it could not handle this case. The ftp method can handle too small /var. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apt has a builtin ftp method.

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Greg Vence
Martin Schulze wrote: Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images.

Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later I realized I hadn't received any mail for the day and saw no qmail entries in my logs. I restarted qmail and

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: I last compiled (with success) 2.0.36pre2 with gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs 1.0.3 release) (according to /proc/version). That works perfectly with ISDN and all, and stayed up for a month until I upgraded sysvinit which

Re: .xsessions

1998-10-15 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I keep seeing questions about getting .xsession's to work, the common | problem being failure to set +x. Wasn't someone going to tweak the | Xsession script to allow non-executable .xsessions? I'll file a wishlist bug with a patch to xbase. -- The only way

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 14 October 1998, at 12 h 19, the keyboard of Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following are packages I feel we can remove: ... netatalk 25598 netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64] (Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]) As a new developer, I just want to

Re: Bug#26065: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:26:21PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: It was important because Raul Miller made it that. He needed strace to debug a problem with one of his packages and found that bug. Since he hasn't responded to my failure to reproduce the problem I was going to downgrade the

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later I realized I hadn't received any mail for the day and saw no qmail entries in my logs.

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Jim Pick wrote: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. What do you

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-15 Thread Joel Klecker
At 12:30 +0200 1998-10-14, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 12 Oct 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: :-) debian/i386 is also a port! No. For 90% (I think more) of the packages it is the primary architecture. The word port implies carrying to _another_ architecture. Hence the package on the primary

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:59:42PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Seth M. Landsman wrote: Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
Oh, i can generate a kernel-image_2.1.125-1_powerpc.deb along with source and dsc files and upload it to master, but will you and the other arch maintainer agree with this?? If it's a powerpc package only, I don't see why there would be a problem. It should get installed

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] (Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report and found no explanation. Darn. I downgraded that

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On 15 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily time limits on serial lines? I don't have this problem, and I haven't installed idled: Description: Idle Daemon. Removes idle users.

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 1:12 pm +0200 Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * if there's a stabilized snapshot newbies will get (hopefully) a softer introduction in the wonders of the Linux-Sparc/Powerpc/Arm/... world I see your argument. I'm worried that we might be perceived as

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Christian Meder
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:49:59PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: --On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 12:14 am +0200 Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:25AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: Brian == Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Could I get some

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Crowley
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily time limits on serial lines? i've hunted all over (even to the point of grepping every file in /etc, /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin) for it and can't find it anywhere. how

Re: Closing bugs

1998-10-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On 14 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the submittors? The documentation for the bug system says: [...] When reports are merged opening, closing, marking or

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 15 Oct 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: I last compiled (with success) 2.0.36pre2 with gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs 1.0.3 release) (according to /proc/version). That works perfectly with ISDN and all, and stayed

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 15 Oct 1998, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one, MAJOR, huge, massive, 'program' which egcs will not properly compile, this is the kernel, 2.0.x is officially not going to operate 100% correctly when compiled with gcc 2.8.x or

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Does anyone else has the problem of

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem here. I spent a little time trying to debug it, but never finished due to a lack of time. It might have something to do with gtk and themes, but I'm not sure. Where are the segfaults happening? I found a pretty nasty one with the

Re: Deleting uncompressed Info/Doc files at upgrades

1998-10-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 2 October 1998, at 11 h 55, the keyboard of Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, a uncompressed version of a file is still the same file. To me, copying an uncompressed info file to /usr/local/info *is* leaving crud all over the disk. Yes, the current Debian system is

PGP question

1998-10-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have a slight problem with PGP: I do my development on pick and can post from there (but don't) - all my email is done from cus (and I'm not sure if it can cope with PGP) So do I: post from pick, and hope no-one sends me encrypted mail or what? I need to sort this out

Corporate Visibility for Linux

1998-10-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
The following is quoted from the column Business Bulletin on the front page of today's Wall Street journal, which is probably the most widely read newspaper by corporate America: 'FREEWARE' STIRS debate while entrepreneurs find a nice niche. Advocates prefer to call the free

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? Keep it in! The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of things don't work. It sounds like

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-15 Thread Tom Lear
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: On 15 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily time limits on serial lines? I don't have this problem, and I haven't installed idled:

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
Craig Sanders wrote: On 15 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily time limits on serial lines? I don't have this problem, and I haven't installed idled: Description:

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Marc Singer
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Paul Slootman wrote: The last time I tried (about 10 sec. ago, on a.d.nl :-): make[2]: Entering directory `/extra/home/debian/psl/kernel/linux/drivers/net' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/extra/home/debian/psl/kernel/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:56:42PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Is something like ``Anything with a priority of extra gets put on the second CD'' a reasonable guess ? or should we make a list of stuff to go on the second CD based on some sensible criteria (if anyone can think of some

Re: PGP question

1998-10-15 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 4:46 pm +0100 M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a slight problem with PGP: I do my development on pick and can post from there (but don't) - all my email is done from cus (and I'm not sure if it can cope with PGP) So do I: post from

Re: PGP question

1998-10-15 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 5:43 pm +0100 Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hermes for mail (but you could use cus), with PGP support. Doh. Hermes *without* PGP support, I meant. /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-15 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:15:02AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: At 12:30 +0200 1998-10-14, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 12 Oct 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: :-) debian/i386 is also a port! No. For 90% (I think more) of the packages it is the primary architecture. The word port implies

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Hartmut Koptein
Ok, let us a little bit summarize: 1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity 2. every NMU must be with source 3. Porters needn't to ask maintainers for permission 4. a NMU fixes bugs; no need to forward this to the BTS or the maintainer ok for all ? If the answer is 'yes' i agree

Re: Bug#26065: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:26:21PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: I'm still amazed by the development of strace.. basically it's a nightmare to work on. Upstream version are _extremely_ rare and there are literaly dozens of patches floating around, but nobody collects them. I think Debian

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-15 Thread Stephen Zander
Michael == Michael Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Same things happens to me. Today I upgraded two things Michael sendmail and syslogd (what a coincidence! :). After few Michael minutes I found that `ps ax' shows a lot of sendmail Michael processes. Everything looks

Re: octave-plplot: intention to package

1998-10-15 Thread Joao Cardoso
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: Hurrying before the slink freeze, here is my intention to package: === Package: octave-plplot Version: 0.3-1 Section: math Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.0.7u),

Anyone packaging snes9x?

1998-10-15 Thread Dave Swegen
I've been considering packaging snes9x, and was just wondering whether it had already been done. Also, are there any developers in the Southampton (UK) area? I could do with someone to sign for me (no, I don't have access to a scanner). Cheers Dave

Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread Dave Swegen
Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6... Cheers Dave

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Hartmut Koptein
If we call it something like a 'developer' release, or an 'early-access' release, then it sounds like a great idea, yes... as long as people don't get the impression that it is a full 2.1 release. Ok, under this impression powerpc is ready to go. I'll upload 2.1 kernel source and images

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Philip Hands wrote: Is something like ``Anything with a priority of extra gets put on the second CD'' a reasonable guess ? Only in part. Some packages should definitely be on the first CD even if they are extra, namely the ones that are extra because they conflict with

Re: Anyone packaging snes9x?

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dave == Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave I've been considering packaging snes9x, and was just Dave wondering whether it had already been done. It's been done. :) -- Brought to you by the letters Q and Z and the number 1. Ha ha! I have evaded you with the aid of these pasty

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dave == Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de Dave facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a Dave number of people use 2.6... Debian uses 2.6 for now. 5 is a bit incompatible with other versions, and it

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Hartmut Koptein
Hi James, Who said they were bad? They are very rarely necessary however, since 99.5% of the time (the only exception I know of is Hartmut's packages) yes, my packages are the only one that test masters scripts for non-i386 maintainer source uploads. :-) This is now possible but it was not

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:31:59PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: What would you like to see on the first CD? Why don't we look at what the most popular downloads have been? Some Perl/Python type person ought to be able to parse them nicely, include information about relative sizes of things,

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Martin Alonso Soto wrote: masototo find anything wrong in the code. However, at a given time I added masotosome printf statements to the code (to print certain values the masotodebugger was not getting right) and the problem disappeared (!). This

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:31:59PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: What would you like to see on the first CD? Why don't we look at what the most popular downloads have been? [...] Good idea! -- 1df9795f6d2984efc8f37c0f0fda9b32 (a truly random sig)

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe that the best thing that can be done to support laptops is to create boot disks with 2.1.125 kernels. 2.1.125 works well on my laptop in

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: vrwave23436 vrwave should maybe go in contrib? [124] (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED]) xswallow 25932 Xswallow should be in contrib [55] (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 11:36:47AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Dave == Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de Dave facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a Dave number of people use 2.6... Debian

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: : Hi, : : I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't : work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe that : the best thing that can be done to support laptops is to create boot

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: binary-only MNU hits only one arch normal NMU hits possible all archs=20 A binary-only MNU violates the GPL, end of story. FUD, FUD, FUD and more FUD. The source changes for our binary-only NMUs are _always_ sent to the BTS. Also, please get over this GPL

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread James Troup
Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6... 2.x; we don't accept later stuff. -- James

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