On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
Definately by package. I can think of several circumstances where this
is useful: when a bug is closed in unstable but someone using stable
wants an explanation for a problem; when a bug is inadvertantly
reintroduced; when a maintainer closes a bug
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:51:47AM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote:
You mean having to dive into almost every perl script (not Linux
developed) and change #!/usr/local/bin/perl to #!/usr/bin/perl
It is unfortunate, but the popular usage (ie, #!/usr/local/bin/perl) is
wrong. /usr/bin/perl has
Am Son, 19. Sep, 1999 schrieb Michael Alan Dorman:
Stevie Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
libxml-parser-perl
libxml-dom-perl
libxml-cgi-perl /* Does this exist anymore on CPAN? I haven't found
* it since I originally packaged it.
*/
Roland Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I don't see all the problems, but why don't we name the packages
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0 2.0.38-debianrevision
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2 2.2.12-debianrevision
This stops people from having multiple
ICQnix is a clone of ICQ intended to resemble the Mirabilis client as
much as possible. It is placed under the GPL, with the exception that
it may be linked to Qt. I will upload in a day or so if no one objects
(I searched the archives and wnpp and didn't see anyone had dibs on this,
but if I
I suggest compressing source code by bzip2
Many CD resellers add something to 2nd source cd
and it will make A LOT of free place for them (100-150 MB!!!)
Bzip2 is no problem because it is possibly available on every
Debian system and I dont want religious answers here.
Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I suggest compressing source code by bzip2
Many CD resellers add something to 2nd source cd
and it will make A LOT of free place for them (100-150 MB!!!)
Bzip2 is no problem because it is possibly available on every
Debian system and I
Raul Miller wrote:
They don't touch the root account. Instead, they clone
it as sashroot and set the shell on the cloned account.
This is mentioned in the package description.
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
I suppose you have considered the security
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
There's not a lot I can do about this beyond advising the sysadmin that
it's a good idea.
what about asking it before doing the actual cloning ? (should be
defaulted to no, imho). as i see the postinst for 3.3-6,
it does not ask...
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[-]
James LewisMoss, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
I have xemacs 21 packages aptable at
deb http://va.debian.org/~dres xemacs21/. I would appreciate
some people trying them out and seeing what problems you find (please
report directly to me rather than bug tracking system).
Well,
This is unnecessary unless something actually is going to depend on it. None
of these packages overlap in their fs name space. The only thing they have
in common is the inetd.conf entry. This is easily managed with update-inetd,
just like finger and others.
How are multiple identd packages
Well.. as of the past few days.. expired bugs are archived instead of
deleted. Now... from the main bug page... you can request these bugs by
either the bug number, or by package name.
For the time being, there is also a list of packages with entries into the
archive.. also linked from the
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:20:11AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
How are multiple identd packages going to know which one belongs in
inetd.conf without the use of alternatives?
All of them will add inetd entries, but only one will be enabled.
--
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! (
[Olaf, if you have any comments I'd like to hear them, otherwise please
feel free to disregard this mail.]
It was pointed out to me that this error might have been deliberate; Red
Hat might be able to choke down giving credit to Debian developers for
finding bugs, but not fixing them.
Hopefully
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's at http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/. I'm
uploading it now, and my DSL line doesn't give me infinite bandwidth,
so you might wait five or ten minutes.
403
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:18:54PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Does anything special happen if the a message is signed?
Other than it gets processed? Nope...
Oh, do you mean that it will work with [EMAIL PROTECTED] If so then I
understand what you are saying, if not then I don't.
I have ITP'd FPC, the Free Pascal (Delphi/BP7 compatible) Compiler..
Unfortunately it's a BIG package and one I haven't had a chance to finish.
It doesn't quite buildpackage yet from what I have here because when I
left it I was in the middle of a major debian/rules cleanup. BUT, anybody
familiar
Andrew Pimlott wrote:
I suggest kindly pointing this out to those who start their scripts with
#!/usr/local/bin/perl.
Even thou the rest of the world may be wrong it till exist, and one
sometimes has to make the best to interact even with an erratic world,
that is the main reason why software
Erick Kinnee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Jon Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to
discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian.
The primary MTA?
Hi,
I wrote a new draft of a document on i18n.
It is available at
http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/linuxwork/i18ndoc.html.
Now the document is written in HTML and separated into a few files.
Translation into English is almost finished.
i noticed that there is no mention of utf-2000 --
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I don't see all the problems, but why don't we name the packages
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0 2.0.38-debianrevision
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2 2.2.12-debianrevision
This stops people from having multiple
On 18 Sep 1999, James LewisMoss wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:49 +0200 (CET), Santiago Vila [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Santiago David Welton wrote:
Xemacs21 - runs *autoconf* to generate other makefiles, which are
then run. [...]
autoconf doesn't generate makefiles. It
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
which would reduce the effort of the ftp maintainer and speed up
upgrading our ftp archive from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13. The dependencies
between the kernels and the kernel depending modules could be realized
using versioned dependencies, couldn't they?
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Greenland wrote:
I've read (or at least skimmed) the tutorial you posted, and it
looks like the various configuration variables are associated with a
package via the template foo/variable. What about variables that are
logically shared between
I have debianized the newest available version of grace which should fix
most of the bugs mentioned in the BTS. I have contacted the maintainer
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] but he did not respond. Since I am
not an official developer I cannot upload the package. Can someone do it
for me? The
Roxen does, at least if you have different IP numbers, I can't get IP-less
vistual hosting to work with ftp sessions. And as a ISP the security issues
of
You can't get name-based virtual hosting with FTP. The protocol doesn't
transmit a hostname.
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's at http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/. I'm
uploading it now, and my DSL line doesn't give me infinite bandwidth, so
you might wait five or ten minutes.
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You don't have permission to access /~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/ on
this server.
Damn, that was lame of me. Fixed.
Mike.
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Jon Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to
discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian.
The primary MTA? does that mean that more than one MTA can be
I was thinking more that, if we are going to remove a buggy package because of
the bugs, we should still provide it, since there are some people that are
looking for that package. Maybe a section of main called buggy if it's still
included for completeness?
You are correct. Of course, many people forget about this since they think of
Roxen as a web server, and ftp being a secondary feature. Of course, with all
the Apache fanatics out there, many have never even checked out Roxen.
Dave Bristel
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Anders Arnholm wrote:
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:18:53 +0200
From: Anders Arnholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Robert Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Chris Rutter [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ProFTPd being lame
Resent-Date: 19 Sep 1999 10:19:02
Unless someone else is working on this, I intend to package the
Font::Metrics::* modules for perl. libhtml-tree-perl needs them to
successfully use HTMMML::FormatPS.
--
Stephen
---
If 8-year-old boys discharging loaded firearms into their own legs
isn't necessary to the maintenance of a
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:43:03PM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn was heard to say:
sawmill README:
Sawmill is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like
scripting language--all window decorations are configurable, the basic
idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Unless someone else is working on this, I intend to package the
Font::Metrics::* modules for perl. libhtml-tree-perl needs them to
successfully use HTMMML::FormatPS.
Let me know when it gets out of incoming, and i'll gladly change
libhtml-tree-perl to
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:53:01PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
Raul Miller wrote:
They don't touch the root account. Instead, they clone
it as sashroot and set the shell on the cloned account.
This is mentioned in the package description.
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 03:39:30PM -0700,
I orphan the following two packages:
libapache-mod-fastcgi (non-free)
I just uploaded version updated for Apache 1.3.9 and FHS, so if anyone
wants it, it shouldn't be difficult to take it.
emacs-czech
Emacs 19 is obsolete, there is no need to use it anymore after 20.4
release. If you
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Hirling Endre wrote:
endreOn Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
endre
endre which would reduce the effort of the ftp maintainer and speed up
endre upgrading our ftp archive from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13. The dependencies
endre between the kernels and the kernel depending
Michael,
If you want we can divide them between us (also to share the load :-).
Thanks,
Ardo
Stevie Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am Son, 19. Sep, 1999 schrieb Michael Alan Dorman:
Stevie Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
libxml-parser-perl
libxml-dom-perl
libxml-cgi-perl
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:07:33AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hands) writes:
Andrew Pimlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(snip)
May I ask what the point of these enhanced mbr's is, since all of these
features are available from the
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:37:43PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
Will this affect people who upgrade? It would be very unpleasant to upgrade
from slink and have a new root user.
Hmmm...
Even for new installs, I disagree with your decision. sash is useful
without another root account; however
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
Off topic
The only feature it lacks is the ability to do automated account setup from
another script. (Which is the ONLY thing that apache does better than Roxen).
Maybe I'll tinker a bit and make a module for auto-creation of new web
accounts
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
Some people have suggested providing a package, say 2.2, with all
the 2.2.x source patches. (I didn't look at the size, but the patches are
sometimes small and sometimes 1.5 MB). It is not too inconvenient to
apply the patches to get to a
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:30:37 -0500, David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
Yes, either this or a FIFO expiration policy on /var/cache/apt/packages
which gets automatically applied when space
Le Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:42:48PM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman écrivait:
I believe I have a gotten a good build of an updated gnome-libs. And
I only cursed Joey for the problems with dh_shlibdeps a little bit.
It is currently a little lacking in the changelog department---that
kind of got
Source: phpmyadmin
Section: contrib/web
Priority: extra
Upstream-Source: URL:http://www.phpwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/
Home-Page: URL:http://www.phpwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/
Description: a set of PHP3-scripts to adminstrate MySQL over the WWW
Copyright: GPL
Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Tobias Ratschiller
Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Depends: php3 (= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server,
php3-mysql
Is it really not able to work with anything but localhost? And if
that's not the case, why require
Philip Hands wrote:
Presumably variable names can have more than one / in them ?
Yes.
If so, it might be worth calling such variables something like:
shared/news/server
to avoid name space pollution, and to emphasise the fact that there is
not a package called ``news'' (virtual or
Disclaimer: In light of recent events some might be tempted to do some of
this. Don't. This is only an idea for what might be done in the future.
In the past when a licensing issue has come up, someone like Bruce or ESR
has stepped in as the ambassador to the offender. However, it seems that
we
On Sep 20, Roman Hodek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As you see, aclocal, automake, ... are all rerun, i.e. a new
Makefile.in is generated. (Probably a change in the Debian patch to
Yes, this is the problem, another developer found it. But I have no idea
about how to solve it. I Cc: -devel, maybe
Scott Barker wrote:
2) I think I presented this suggestion backwards. According to debconf's docs,
a user will be prompted for the answer to a question only if they haven't
already answered that question, and only new questions will be presented.
I'm suggesting there be a way for a
On 20 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Depends: php3 (= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server,
php3-mysql
Is it really not able to work with anything but
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 03:15:47PM -0500, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote:
B) Offender does not relent and/or makes funny faces at us
Of course we are horrified by the funny faces, but how do we defend our
licensing? Perhaps we need a lawyer for this part.
I suggest that we tell them that
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:23:50PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
It's now possible in two ways. First, there is the dpkg-reconfigure program,
which you pass a package name, and it lets you see all the questions again.
Excellent. Hopefully if debconf gets folded into the base system, dpkg itself
will
Scott Barker wrote:
Excellent. Hopefully if debconf gets folded into the base system, dpkg itself
will be able to run this directly, rather than it be an extra step for the
user. For example, instead of running (manually, or through apt):
dpkg -i package
dpkg-reconfigure
you could just
from the description:
utalk uses a protocol, based on UDP, which ensures a quick response
even over links with high packet loss, allows editing of previously
typed text, including scrollback, deletion and overstrike, and
Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Depends: php3 (= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server,
php3-mysql
Just noticed this... you'll need (php3-mysql php3) | (php3-cgi-mysql
php3-cgi), which can be reduced to php3-mysql | php3-cgi-mysql (they'll
pull the apropriate main
Raul Miller wrote:
Also, if you can anticipate any failure modes where sash would damage
the password file I'd appreciate hearing about them. It's already
the case that if sash has any problem writing out the new password
file that it won't install it.
I think you should just use useradd to
Hi all -
I just need to completely understand grep output before I can finish a
project I'm working on right now. I was wondering if someone could give me
an explination of unified diff output syntax.
I know that it's context based, and that a + signals an addition while -
means the reverse.
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:12:06PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Not really. I named it dpkg-reconfigure for a reason. :-)
Excellent! :)
Oh, that's not the problem. Dpkg-repack should pick up that file fine. What
it won't pick up is the actual answers you've given to the questions, which
are
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:20:12PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
Also, if you can anticipate any failure modes where sash would damage
the password file I'd appreciate hearing about them. It's already
the case that if sash has any problem writing out the new password
file that it won't install
Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS linux/CREDITS
--- v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS Mon Aug 9 16:05:54 1999
+++ linux/CREDITS Wed Aug 25 17:29:45 1999
@@ -689,14 +689,11 @@
The fourth line is made of two pairs,
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