Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 10:01, Ben Pfaff ha scritto:
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Orphaned because it's now considered non-free.
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: gnu-standards
Version: 2002.01.12-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1.2
The GNU
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
You also speak of a DVD distribution, while it may be possible, I've
never heard of someone doing it officially ... better leave it out until
we actually provide some DVD images ?
Just some short questions.
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
libqt3-psql
I just came back from vacation and saw that the new qt3 uploads that fix
the problem are still waiting in the queue. Would it be possible to get
this package back into woody if I upload an
Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 05:06, Joseph Carter ha scritto:
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free
Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license
into the common
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
after the dust settles after the CD stampede
Speaking of which, what's the tactic to get this done efficiently? I suppose
we could coordinate with several mirror maintainers to have them rsync copies
of the final images before the
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:44:48 +0100 (BST):
sextractor stands for Source Extractor, it's usually referred to as
SExtractor but he went and named the binary 'sex' so jokes abound in
the astronomy community about 'doing sex', etc,..
Hmm... Won't that conflict with this X editor
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:38:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
after the dust settles after the CD stampede
Speaking of which, what's the tactic to get this done efficiently? I suppose
we could coordinate with several mirror
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:12:16AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software.
Er, we _host_ non-free software on our servers, and distribute it via
our mirror network. If
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:24:22PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
Reasons enough to release woody+1 not too late.
Speaking of which, woody+1 sounds like it's going to be a release similar to
link -- no huge changes to cause a prolongued release time.
So, the Debian Installer is already
El día 07 Apr 2002, Mark Purcell escribía:
According to
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=openh323gkver=2.0b4-1arch=m68kstamp=1017326211file=logas=raw
openh323gk-2.0.b4-1 was built for m68k on 28 Mar, however this package
doesn't seem to of been uploaded to the archives which is
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:05:03AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Le Dimanche 7 Avril 2002 09:57, Ben Pfaff a ?crit :
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: gnu-standards
Version: 2002.01.12-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1.2
The GNU standards are licensed
This one time, at band camp, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
IMHO the non-free section should be removed.
IMHO you should write less email and fix more bugs.
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Commander Taco
wastes our time with these dumb polls
but we keep
Being tired of the shell, and not knowing perl enough, I have written a
little python module for debconf.
I haven't tested it thouroughly, but it seems to work fine. Of course, I
intend to use it, but if people are interested, it can be found at :
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~jmouette/debian/
It is
Anyone else experiencing the same problem as me, wrt apache's access
log default ownership settings?
When I first set up Apache, logrotate dutifully created new access logs
with owner and group as specified in httpd.conf.
The anacron / logrotate combo has recently taken to creating *new*
access
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:21:14AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:56:12PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
The build on sparc is due to something else, don't have time to
investigate that right now; mips doesn't seem to have even attempted the
build.
antlr
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It could probably be done with HTTP, using cgi scripts (i dont know much
about this), that way standard clients can be used to retrieve pieces of
the Packages's file by putting the querry in the url.
And then you get the solution which has been mentioned
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 4:16 pm, Will Newton wrote:
I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct
procedure for getting these bugs closed?
The changelog looks like this:
ilisp (5.11.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
* well 125744 was fixed, but I put the files in the
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 4:16 pm, Will Newton wrote:
I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct
procedure for getting these bugs closed?
The changelog looks like this:
ilisp (5.11.1-7) unstable;
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct
procedure for getting these bugs closed?
Since you're not a maintainer, you shouldn't close them. However, you can
tag them fixed, by sending 'tag fixed'
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:34:13PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
Read up on the BTS docs, but the common ways are:
Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: close 140049
No! Don't fucking do that!
Geez, how many times does one have to repeat that.
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Hi Anthony Towns,
Would it be possible to remove the current gphoto2 package (final-1) from woody
?
It is clearly broken until the new libusb enter woody and when libusb
arrive a new gphoto2 will follow.
I am afraid that gphoto2 will be broken in the official woody release if
the release
iptables 1.2.6a-3 is being held back because it's out of date
on m68k.
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#iptables
iptables_1.2.6a-3_m68k was built, according to the buildd log,
but package does not appear to have been uploaded.
Who can look into this problem?
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On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 2:44 pm, Josip Rodin wrote:
Since you're not a maintainer, you shouldn't close them. However, you can
tag them fixed, by sending 'tag fixed' commands to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, if Craig hasn't done it by the end of today I will do that.
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On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:24:40AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I'm wondering why the hell gmetadom isn't mention as out of data on
hppa in update_excuses which reports only:
It's only out of date if it was previously built for an architecture.
AFAICT from madison it has never been built
On 07 Apr 2002 Mark Purcell wrote:
According to
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=openh323gkver=2.0b4-1arch=m68kstamp=1017326211file=logas=raw
openh323gk-2.0.b4-1 was built for m68k on 28 Mar, however this
package doesn't seem to of been uploaded to the archives which
is why this
christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi *,
The sane problem is apparently solved and gphoto2 2.0final-3 is build on
arm.
Not exactly. I uploaded another NMU, now sane-backends should build on
SPARC (and hopefully HPPA but it's not critical). It will be installed
IIRC galeon is not moved to woody just because it depends on mozilla
which has an RC bug. Since mozilla is not removed but will be fixed
before the release (at least that's how I understood Anthony's mail) I
wonder if galeon then can make it back in. Or did you just removev
galeon 1.0.3 and
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:04:43PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 2:44 pm, Josip Rodin wrote:
Since you're not a maintainer, you shouldn't close them. However, you can
tag them fixed, by sending 'tag fixed' commands to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, if Craig hasn't done it
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 04:54, Martin Schulze wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, no. But I didn't have time to learn how and
do it, and Lindows.com decided that they wanted to pay one of their
engineers to do it. It's quite simple: nobody else did it, so I took
Lindows.com up on their
Am 6.04.02 um 21:52:03 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
Because it is a bad idea?
As Steve pointed out, good or bad idea is not really a good reason for
delaying packages, at least it has not been so far. Furthermore I don't
think it is a bad idea, for the following reason:
You, Jason, did not add
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
El día 07 Apr 2002, Mark Purcell escribía:
According to
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=openh323gkver=2.0b4-1arch=m68kstamp=1017326211file=logas=raw
openh323gk-2.0.b4-1 was
* J?r?me Marant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've had the following problem while trying to do a dist-upgrade this
morning:
...
ideas on a fix?
Please read the BTS. I've already sent a patch and the maintainer will
upload soon.
I did
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Being tired of the shell, and not knowing perl enough, I have written a
little python module for debconf.
I haven't tested it thouroughly, but it seems to work fine. Of course, I
intend to use it, but if people are interested, it can be found at :
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did read the BTS and saw the bug listed there which is why I didn't
report it again. At the time I didn't see any mention of a patch but I
may have overlooked something.
Probably. There are patch tags and the bug is in the pending upload
Jérôme Marant wrote:
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Being tired of the shell, and not knowing perl enough, I have written a
little python module for debconf.
I haven't tested it thouroughly, but it seems to work fine. Of course, I
intend to use it, but if people are
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 09:08, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
BTW, on arm the package has been successfull rebuilt on April 2 and
April 6, but the package is still reported as out of date on arm in
update_excuses.html, anybody knows the reason?
Dunno, just some or other random delay. It's showing as
I wrote:
Ditto powermgmt-base_1.3_m68k.deb :
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=powermgmt-basever=1.3arch=m68kfile=log
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
If you look very closely, you'll find that these both
have been built by 'arrakis', a box of which I am the
buildd admin. This was a result of a
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free
SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software
Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS contains statements for
content generation and counting variables. Is
On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 3:20 pm, David Starner wrote:
Why? Considering how close to the release we are, and how easy it is,
why not do it now? It certainly won't interfer with the maintainer
closing them.
OK, done. I just don't want to step on anyone's toes.
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Le dim 07/04/2002 à 17:54, Joey Hess a écrit :
What's worse, you can really only safley use essential and base packages
in debconf config scripts. You can of course depend on python and use
this python module in your postinst, after dependencies are met, but
depednencies (and even
In reference to a message from Stefano Zacchiroli, dated Apr 07:
I noticed that another package of mine, which is needed to build
gtkmathview, wasn't successfully rebuilt on hppa, namely package
gmetadom.
it needs some c++ work. For one thing it references internal libstdc++
symbols
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free
SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software
Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Package gtkmathview (version: 0.3.0-4) hasn't been rebuilt on hppa since
Wed 13 March and on m68k since Wed 27 March, could someone please
trigger the rebuilt of it on these archs?
On m68k it's waiting on gmetadom. It's easier to see what's
going on at
Hello,
it's not possible linking a C++ library compiled with g++-2.9x to a C++
application compiled with g++-3.0.
We all no the reasons...
My question is how I should handle this, on debian distributions that
are based on gcc-2.9x?
I have a C++ library. And I wan't to create debs for g++.2.9x
A large mirror in Australia does provide an rsync server to access debian
packages. When redhat 7.0 came out so many people tried to rsync it at the
same time, the machine promptly fell over.
What amazes me is that nobody is able or willing to provide any figures.
So I guess no provider of
On Apr 07, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Isn't it a bit heavy to make debconf depend on python ?
Why would debconf have to depend on python? You stick the module in
and only bytecompile if python is installed.
(This is the same silly attitude that has lead to a lot of unnecessary
-elisp packages.)
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of
Dale the GNU Free Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put
Dale a copy of this license into the common reference area?
Josselin Mouette wrote:
Aside from this problem, I wouldn't mind including the module in debconf
after woody is released. It looks nice.
Isn't it a bit heavy to make debconf depend on python ?
Um, I can include a language binding in debconf w/o making it depend on
that language.
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On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free
Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license
into the common reference area?
Laurence J. Lane writes:
iptables 1.2.6a-3 is being held back because it's out of date
on m68k.
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#iptables
iptables_1.2.6a-3_m68k was built, according to the buildd log,
but package does not appear to have been uploaded.
Who
Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Sun, 7 Apr 2002 10:54:06 +0200:
You may not aware of the discussion we had last year, when VMware
offered to donate five (or another amount, not sure anymore) licenses
of their vmware product to Debian in order to help us develop
Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 3:20 pm, David Starner wrote:
Why? Considering how close to the release we are, and how easy it is,
why not do it now? It certainly won't interfer with the maintainer
closing them.
OK, done. I just don't want to step on
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free
SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software
Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS
King Leo (Martin Oberzalek) writes:
Hello,
it's not possible linking a C++ library compiled with g++-2.9x to a C++
application compiled with g++-3.0.
We all no the reasons...
My question is how I should handle this, on debian distributions that
are based on gcc-2.9x?
use only
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Josselin Mouette wrote:
Aside from this problem, I wouldn't mind including the module in debconf
after woody is released. It looks nice.
Isn't it a bit heavy to make debconf depend on python ?
Um, I can include a language binding in debconf w/o making
Thank you for taking care of sane.
Christophe
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote:
christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi *,
The sane problem is apparently solved and gphoto2 2.0final-3 is build on
arm.
Not exactly. I uploaded
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Le Dimanche 7 Avril 2002 09:57, Ben Pfaff a écrit :
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: gnu-standards
Version: 2002.01.12-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1.2
The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither
Joe Drew wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 04:54, Martin Schulze wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, no. But I didn't have time to learn how and
do it, and Lindows.com decided that they wanted to pay one of their
engineers to do it. It's quite simple: nobody else did it, so I took
Le dim 07/04/2002 à 20:50, Joey Hess a écrit :
Isn't it a bit heavy to make debconf depend on python ?
Um, I can include a language binding in debconf w/o making it depend on
that language.
But that won't solve the problem ; if a package using the python module
is preconfigured when the
On 7 Apr 2002, Thomas Hood wrote:
I wrote:
Ditto powermgmt-base_1.3_m68k.deb :
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=powermgmt-basever=1.3arch=m68kfile=log
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
If you look very closely, you'll find that these both
have been built by 'arrakis', a box of which I am
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 15:30, Martin Schulze wrote:
However, I still cannot find a request for help with setting up a
registration site/form on this list, neither including nor excluding
specs, searching from November 2001 until now.
You were looking in the wrong spot. Check Message-Id:
[EMAIL
So if I wanna link an programm with the gcc-3.0 version, -lfoo-gcc3 has
to be used and for gcc-2.9x, -lfoo.
Are there any better ideas?
unfortunately not, the ABI is different between the two.
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On Sat 06 Apr 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
Over the past few weeks most of the following packages have been removed
from the upcoming release due to bugs and such [0].
[...]
dnrd logtrend-consolidation pptp-linux
Could someone give a pointer where I can found out why
Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 19:12, Joe Wreschnig ha scritto:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free
SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software
Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS contains
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of
Dale the GNU Free Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put
Dale a copy
Josip == Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Josip You seem be able to blatantly maliciously misinterpret what I said.
I was presenting the flip side of the coin, yes. Malice was
not the intent.
manoj
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Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 21:34, Martin Schulze ha scritto:
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Le Dimanche 7 Avril 2002 09:57, Ben Pfaff a écrit :
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: gnu-standards
Version: 2002.01.12-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1.2
The
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:56:59AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free
SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 16:08, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On 7 Apr 2002, Thomas Hood wrote:
powermgmt-base_1.3_m68k.deb was built on kullervo.
Is it fscked up to?
Not sure. Roman Hodek is kullervo's buildd admin; you'll have to ask him
(or wait for his reaction ;-)
Well,
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 14:29, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS contains statements for
content generation and counting variables. Is this a program? I'm not
sure, but it's definitely not just a document anymore. XSLT can be
included as documentation (and
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:14:08PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
Il dom, 2002-04-07 alle 21:34, Martin Schulze ha scritto:
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
The GNU FDL violates the DFSG ?
I thought that it hasn't been finally resolved if the GNU FDL meets
the DFSG or not. However, there
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 16:08, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
documentation != document. XSLT is cleary a program and s stylesheet
should go under a code license. but a manual about programming in XSLT
is definitely documentation and should be treated in a different way.
What about inline
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:16, Otto Wyss wrote:
What amazes me is that nobody is able or willing to provide any figures.
So I guess no provider of an rsync server is interested in this subject
and therefore it can't be a big problem.
Here are some experiments, and a mathematical analysis of
For those interested in the status of the GNU Free
Documentation License issue: Please read the interesting thread
The old DFSG-lemma again on debian-legal from Nov. 2001.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200111/msg6.html
In the thread, Branden Robinson expressed
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Michael Piefel wrote:
You, Jason, did not add full i18n support to APT, and were not willing
to accept my patches for woody. This is OK, as APT is a very central
package and has been in different shades of freeze for quite some time.
Bzzt, I accepted the parts of your
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:34:36PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:56:59AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote:
The DFSG is an excellent place to start, but trying to apply it to things
which *are not software* is silly, and results in the sort of sillyness
which we're seeing
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
* gs-common's license issues need to be resolved
Just to keep people from wasting their time to fix this: My local
gs-common edition has the following changes:
* debian/control: Add dependency on gsfonts. Rationale: gs is
Il lun, 2002-04-08 alle 00:15, Joe Wreschnig ha scritto:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 14:29, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS contains statements for
content generation and counting variables. Is this a program? I'm not
sure, but it's definitely not just a
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:53:07PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
IMHO the non-free section should be removed.
Well, go for it. In the meantime, stop antagonizing people who do nice
things for us.
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I sense a disturbance in the force
As though millions of voices cried out, and
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:15:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
In fact, XML and HTML (and I would imagine therefore CSS and XSLT) are
explicitly listed as transparent formats. I'm not going to argue that.
The problems, although they're transparent, they're programs as well
as documents.
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:16:28PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
What amazes me is that nobody is able or willing to provide any
figures. So I guess no provider of an rsync server is interested in
this subject and therefore it can't be a big problem.
It is a problem on cdimage.d.o, which is also
There is something that has always bothered me about the scripts in
`/etc/init.d'. Every once in a while I attempt to execute one of these
scripts while logged in as a non-root user. For example, I might type
`/etc/init.d/foobar restart' while having the privileges of user `jps'
(uid=1000).
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:35:57PM -0400, jpstewart wrote:
if [ ! $EUID == 0 ]; then
echo Sorry, this script must run with root privileges.
if
Oops. I forget to add the `exit 69' or whatever error code.
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pgpnpQJPMuk43.pgp
Description: PGP
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:45:39AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
it needs some c++ work. For one thing it references internal libstdc++
symbols (__STL_BEGIN_NAMESPACE, etc). Instead you should use namespace std;,
etc.
In fact I noticed the problem and I already forwarder it to the upstream
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:15:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 14:29, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
It's possible to draw a line. The GNU FDL clearly describes what a
Transparant copy is for example.
Whether or not it describes what a transparent copy is is irrelevant. In
Jérôme Marant wrote:
I guess that the package will have to predepend on python, right?
So, unlike the current debconf usage, a debconf dependency is no
longer sufficient.
No, pre-depending on python will not ensure that your package's
config script has python available at
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:05:07PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
Chris Cheney indends to adopt the package, yes, but he only mailed
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of properly renaming the bug to ITA.
I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than
the BTS to handle the WNPP.
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:00:37PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free
Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license
into the common reference area?
Who should I talk to about this?
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:29:27PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
IMO, an FDL-licensed document with invariant sections is non-free. As a
user of Debian, I'd like to know that they're not installed on my system
if I'm only using packages from main.
The FDL is not DFSG-compliant, but that
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:59:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Package: xbase
Version: 2.0.0-1
Severity: normal
xbase |2.0.0-1 | unstable | source
xbase | 3.3.6-11potato32 |stable | all
This seems pretty broken to me ... it's a source package, so the lower
Sending this bug report to debian-devel so that hopefully the maintainer
of this package will see it.
Please rename your package.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bdale Garbee)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#141688: FTBFS:
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
The GNU FDL violates the DFSG ?
In case this is true, nearly all KDE packages have to be moved to
non-free as they use the GNU FDL for the documentation. For example :
open KHelpcenter and click on Introduction to KDE.
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
3. I placed my book under this license with the express understanding
that it was considered free. Now I'm hearing noise that this is a
non-free license. While I disagree, that is often irrelevant.
4. If we still
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:34:45PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
I thought that it hasn't been finally resolved if the GNU FDL meets
the DFSG or not. However, there seemed to be consensus on documents
released under the GFDL with large sections marked invariant are
probably not DFSG-compliant,
BTW, why this problem manifest itself only on hppa? Is the c++ compiler
somewhat different or is only a chain of #ifdef and/or configure
switches that behaves differently on that arch?
In woody, hppa is the only architecture that is using gcc-3.0 compilers.
The other architectures are all
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:22:51AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:15:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
In fact, XML and HTML (and I would imagine therefore CSS and XSLT) are
explicitly listed as transparent formats. I'm not going to argue that.
The problems, although
update_output.txt says:
trying: postgresql
skipped: postgresql (134+2)
got: 46+0: a-46
* alpha: courier-authpostgresql, dbf2pg, ddt-server, gda-postgres,
gphotocoll, gtksql, guile-pg, libapache-mod-auth-pgsql, libch,
libch-dev, libdbd-pg-perl, libgql0-driver-pg,
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:48PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
It's also probably worth pointing out, as you seem to see yourself as
the Dutch RMS, that the Free Software Foundation also accepts
donations from proprietary software companies:
http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2002supporters.html
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free
SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software
Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whatcha mean becoming? Lispers have been blurring the line between
data and code for the last half-century.
Speaking as a budding LISPer (working my way through On Lisp while my
classes ruin my brain with Java), I'm well aware of this. But
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