Hi,
I have a bugreport stating
mc segfaults when a shell command that was started inside mc fails,
e.g. because it is not found, it is interrupted, or it
crashes. This error only occurs since a few weeks on my system and
therefore might be related to kernel-2.4 or recent library
* Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Users here are not at all interested in the psychological state of a
particular developer. On the contrary, every developer should be
required to deal with every bug report in an objective manner.
Inappropriate dismissal or incorrect evaluation of bug
* Sam Couter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure this has been said before, but:
Sure, but it doesn't apply here.
Don't run unstable if you don't like stuff changing or breaking.
tar in potato uses -I for bzip2. So far, tar -I won't be bzip2 in
woody, the next stable.
So anyone using just
* Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
[Some errors]
if it is a bug, use reportbug or bug to submit it to the
bug-tracking system.
If you can find out the cause, provide a patch. Thanks.
Ciao,
Martin
[ No need to Cc: me, I do read debian-devel ]
* Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I will cc to debian-devel only when there is an affirmed
conflict with the developer about the bug report, OK?
Your behaviour on this bugreport is a deja-vu of your behaviour on
#80544.
I
* Sam Couter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most of the options in gtar are non-standard. Are you saying that
users should rely on none of them?
Pretty much. It's always useful to know exactly which options you're
using are not going to work on many other
* Sam Couter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not saying it *should* change the behaviour of the -I option.
I'm saying that if it does, it does. I just don't want to hear
complaints about a non-standard option suddenly behaving
differently.
The multiple-OS users do not benefit from this change
Hi,
there is a bug in the mc package, that most likely is related to
devfs. I can't reproduce it, nor does it seem to be common.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=57557repeatmerged=yes
mc hangs occasionally on starup on the VC.
There is a patch on the buttom of the report.
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote:
Actually it's weird. Pine seems to be surviving for some reason. I
don't know why. :-/
It is what my users learned on some other AIX maschine at my
university. It is the first mailer I learned and used.
Pine is extremely easy to use and
* Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 5.01.01 um 10:10:53 schrieb Martin Bialasinski:
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote:
Actually it's weird. Pine seems to be surviving for some reason. I
don't know why. :-/
[...]
Pine is extremely easy to use and understand. I don't
* Daniel == Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Daniel Also, it might be intriguing to (ab)use the VFS support in
Daniel these programs to convert them into Apt frontends. I'm not
Daniel sure how far you could go, but it would be interesting to see
Daniel if it worked.
Check
cd #apt
or
On 19-Aug-00, 18:56 (CDT), Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for things like querying (dpkg -s and such) install dlocate it solves
that problem the Right Way. (unfortunatly it got removed from potato
for less then critical bugs)
* Steve == Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve
* Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manoj One of the feature I like of a monolithic patch, as you call
Manoj it, is that when upstream incorporates changes previously made
Manoj by me or others, it is automatically handled on upgrade; the
Manoj monolithic patch just gets smaller.
* Miguel == Miguel de Icaza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Debian packages, however, are *not* found in the GNOME ftp
site. Why aren't they included and mirrored?
Miguel Because nobody did contribute them. Every binary on the site
Miguel was contributed by someone.
They could be mirrored from
* Filip == Filip Van Raemdonck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Filip IMO there's yet another issue to consider (which brings another
Filip complication with it): there may be people who will want both
Filip mesa and glx, if they own a Riva or Matrox + Voodoo* add-on
Filip board.
/me waves his hand.
* Terry == Terry Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry so, you can issue:
Terry chkconfig postgresql on
Terry /etc/init.d/postgresql start
Terry chkconfig postgresql off
I don't know if I understand you correctly, but does this mean, that
the question whether a init.d script would start the
* Edward == Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward MDA: procmail
Edward This is standard priority, but exim is not configured to use it, people
have
Edward to mess with .forward files.
exim has its own filter facility, that is easier to understand and use
by new users.
Edward list
* Edward == Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Edward MDA: procmail
Edward This is standard priority, but exim is not configured to use it, people
have
Edward to mess with .forward files.
exim has its own filter facility, that is easier
* Piotr == Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Piotr I've install postgresql on my home computer. I need this daemon
Piotr only sometimes. I don't want to start it every time I reboot
Piotr system.
Configure this in a runlevel. Debian doesn't predefine the use of
runlevels. If you start
* Marco == Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marco the libc maintainer closed such a bug report without adding
Marco support for these programs. This is not a good sign for
Marco Debian#s quality.
glibc-doc_2.1.2-4 uses doc-base.
Ciao,
Martin
* Laurel == Laurel Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Laurel install)? The install program and the docs say skip the
Laurel Select step of dselect... Does it mean skip it because you
Laurel will confuse the installer or you should skip it because
Laurel it's already done?
The second is correct.
* Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joey (Note: grave is a _higher_ priotity than critical.
I don't think so.
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
The severity levels are:
critical
makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system)
break, or causes
* Marco == Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Am 25.09.99 schrieb roland # spinnaker.de ...
RR It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can
RR automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using one
RR special format.
Marco No, sorry, but this is wrong. Why
* Marco == Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marco,
please show a little common sense. You are beating a dead horse.
Marco localhost/doc/ should point to /usr/share/doc. Please submit a
Marco bug report for your http daemon.
The decision was made by the ctte, it is not yet implemented in
* Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:02:44AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
The Doctor What wrote:
Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to
even
run *upon install*?
Because we need to decrease the number of
* Raul == Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raul On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:11:17AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
Ii I install a daemon, I want to use it.
Raul Do you want it for personal use, or do you want it available as a
Raul public service?
If I install a finger daemon, I want it
* Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joey You are under the mistaken impression that dh_dhelp is a
Joey debhelper program. It's not. Don't use it.
dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for
dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no?
Ciao,
* Raul == Raul D Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raul Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is your login password on master you have to use.
Raul You don't have to use your login password on master.
Read my sentence as ... you have to use on the webpage..
I also use passwordless
* Paul == Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Paul I get 'connection refused by the server'...
Yesterday, I
* James == James A Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James If you would like your location to be shown on the map you need
James to add your location to the developer database:
James http://db.debian.org/
I know someone once posted a Website with a global DB of
citiy-coord. entries.
Has someone
* Hugo == Hugo Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hugo On Wed, Sep 22, 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
If you would like your location to be shown on the map you
need to add your location to the developer database:
http://db.debian.org/
Hugo I have the feeling that I missed something, but anyway as
* David == David Bristel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David I was refering to the equivilant of a VirtualServer section
David in Apache...to just send Roxen the information for a new
David account, including IP address and directories, and have it do
David it automatically without admin
* Tomasz == Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tomasz I think default mp3 player for mc should be freeamp not mpg123
Tomasz cause mpg123 isnt free but freeamp is and debian shouldnt
Tomasz depend on nonfree soft anyhow as policy says
Please install the package bug and report a bug on
* Raul == Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raul On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:21:34PM -0700, Robert Stone wrote:
Virtualhosting in proftpd is far easier than with wu-ftpd. As it
stands now, I don't believe any debian ftp server supports virtual
anon ftp sites as provided besides proftpd.
* Philip == Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philip Personally, I would be quite upset to find that someone had put this
Philip into my environment, because I have a very strong expectation that
Philip when I exit a program, I'll be in the directory I started from.
Personally, I found it
* Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hamish I don't think policy says that contrib is a dumping ground for
Hamish crap packages. Can you point out which part to me please?
If you call proftpd crap, how do you call dpkg?
Please, I am in no part convinced that anything has to be
* Michael == Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael I make a new upload (or you make a NMU) and remove all the last
changes.
I just got blessings from Michael to do the NMU. Just to inform you,
so there are no duplicate effords.
Ciao,
Martin
* Joel == Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joel At 16:53 +0200 1999-09-17, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
If you call proftpd crap, how do you call dpkg?
Joel No bug in dpkg has ever resulted in a a remote root exploit.
OK, a bug in cron has recently produced a root exploit. What a crappy
* Joel == Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joel People on linux-security-audit *have* said that about proftpd,
Joel and that was said before the most recent security hole was
Joel discovered. Rather proving them right, wouldn't you say?
Well, not really a prove in scientific way. I forsee
* Laurent == Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Laurent Being able to select several packages by selecting a
Laurent metapackage is very nice, but how will uninstallation be
Laurent handled ? Will you be able to uninstall all the packages of a
Laurent metapackage in one step ?
* Stephane
* Marek == Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marek Also, wouln't it be cleaner if the postinst for this package
Marek added an appropriate alias to the /etc/profile and/or
Marek /etc/csh.cshrc (and possibly other global shell startup
Marek scripts) an alias definition, or a function to
* David == David Bristel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable
David for apt that would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in
David a user qdefined place.
apt-get -o APT::Dir::Cache=/home/me/download/ upgrade should do it I
think.
* Frederic == Frederic CELLA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frederic They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN
Frederic LOGO. can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of
Frederic www.debian.org)
Check out http://www.debian.org/logos/. They can use the open use
logo, the
JM == James Mastros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JM A soultion to number 1 that was tossed around included using
JM libtricks to get a list of files accessed, and is therefor (IIRC)
JM obselete. (And in any case is prohibitively slow.)
But it would greatly help. And you won't do it everytime you
JR == Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JR [master:inc]$ ~maor/dinstall/dinstall -n gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1_i386.changes
JR gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1_i386.changes
JR SKIP (too new)
JR Rejected: md5sum failed
JR md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1.dsc'
JR [master:inc]$
JR This
ADC == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ADC I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so
ADC that it's easy to pick these babies out.
I will do the packages for the GNOME update tomorrow, as I want to
have it ready at monday at the latest.
I was thinking about
JL == John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JL I really like the how-to-install-gnome page.
Thanks.
JL Other packages that could use similar pages are X, emacs, and
JL communicator.
There are such packages for communicator and navigator. See
http://master.debian.org/~doogie/netscape/APT
s == solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s Manager) showed up in unstable so i grabbed it. Next time i
s rebooted, it gave me the gnome login screen and my mouse works, but
s for some odd reason it disables my keyboard.
I already filed a bugreport about this. The maintainer thinks this may
be
SC == Sean Chuplis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install libgtop0
libgtop0 is no longer. libgtop1 is the successor, so libgtop0 should
be removed from the distribution.
Note that there is only the binary left in the distribution. The
source, libgtop, only builds
JM == James Mastros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JM libgtop0 should be removed from the archive; it is obselete and
JM replaced by libgtop1. gnome-utils 0.99.3-1 depends on it -- but
JM gnome-utils 0.99.3-1 is also obselete, but I cannot find a
JM replacement, even though I have the replacement
TL == Tom Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TL Is it just me or is netscape crashing more recently? Every
TL machine that I have following unstable is having problems with
TL netscape crashing, but the machines following stable work fine.
No, you are not the only one. Same thing here. This has
Hi,
I will package the GNOME User's Guide, as I want to include it with
the GNOME update for slink. I will do the english version for now,
maybe later the other languages as well. But someone else is free to
pick them up.
The license is GPL, source is available at
SB == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SB The problem is the versioning. How to choose the version numbers
SB in the two sets so that users will automatically get the potato
SB package when they will choose to replace 'stable' by 'unstable'
SB (or when potato will become stable).
MM == Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MM gtkicq
is now gnomeicu
MM communicator/netscape*45
Was removed, *46 is now in the archive.
MM xadmin
Was discontinued because of serious bugs IIRC.
Ciao,
Martin
Hi,
we all know that netscape communicator is fscked up with glibc2.1 :-(
(bus error when closing windows or with long credentials, hanging and
killing X when closed in this stage etc.)
Now Red Hat 6.0 ships with glibc2.1. I just checked dejanews and
couldn't find any problems reported by Red
DS == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS Machine one is 10.1.1.10 and machine two is 10.1.1.20.
I believe the problem is you netmask.
Try
ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net 10.1.1.0
and .20 on the other maschine. You could use tcpdump to watch the
traffic
AVC == Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ GNOME rebuild for slink ]
AVC I can do this, albeit gradually. Um, to set a time frame, I'd say
AVC I could have the majority of the gnome packages built on slink
AVC (if everything works smoothly) within a week or so.
Not to double
MB == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aargh, send too early...
MB So far, I have
imlib, orbit, gtop, gtk-engines and I am building bone-libs right now.
In the FAQ on the gnome site, there is info anout the sequence you
have to use.
Ciao,
Martin
WA == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WA But vmware is non-free while there is a perfect method to do the
WA same without vmware:
Looks like the thing I was looking for. For compilation, this should
work, I will try it.
WA simply create a chroot slink environment and work in
AVC == Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AVC Ok, um, then I will write some scripts today for a
AVC slink-gnome-stage-area. ;)
There is one already. See the readme master.debian.org/~jim/gnome
BTW: compiling gnome is a pain. We _need_ source dependencies
... Everytime I
EZ == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EZ with its changelog, control file, rules file and so on...). That
EZ may probably be fixed by implementing a debhelper tool just for
EZ building metapackages.
This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
Ciao,
Martin
ADC == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ADC Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
ADC Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make
ADC nice metapackages which play nice?
Well, It could be extended, but I
MS == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dpkg-dev 31508 parsechangelog broken? [22] (Ian Jackson and
others [EMAIL PROTECTED])
MS No one ever wants to touch dpkg...
There is a patch provided with this bug report.
xxgdb 32206 xxgdb: Can't rebuild xxgdb from
MD == Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MD I need someone to confirm for me that the new sysutils that I put
MD in potato will work with 2.0.X kernels. I don't have one to test
MD with---my only non-production system can't do 2.0.X because of
MD driver issues.
It does for me. No
JH == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JH Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse.
Yes! Lets make it a black horse on yellow background and a red
frame. Vrooom vroom. :-)
Ciao,
Martin
SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SL On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:28:29 +, Edward John M. Brocklesby wrote:
SL Octopi are real, dragons are mytical. I am more apt to see
SL something real flying through the air, no matter how improbable,
SL than something mythical, which I cannot ever
FH == Fredrik Hallenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FH Pike 0.6.110.
FH PiGTK, GTK+ module for Pike.
FH http://www.pike-community.org/sites/pigtk/
So you package up both of these ? Great.
About Roxen: Roxen can be compiled with pike 0.6. Is there a need for
both versions 0.5? Maybe this makes
DM == Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DM I converted it over to using debhelper, so the diff is actually
DM quite large for an NMU - also, I made enough changes to the actual
DM source so that it no longer needs changes to X include files to
DM compile - I didn't quite do this as
DS == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS The most interesting problem looks like ppp, for which there isn't
DS a package.
This looks like a problem in your script, I would say.
http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/base/ppp.html shows it, and I
can happily download it from
FDG == Federico Di Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FDG That's fine. If we gather enough english-speaking-developers
FDG german won't be a problem (just to know, how do you say beer in
FDG german?)
It is Bier, spoken nearly like the english word beer. But if you ask
for a beer, you will be
S == Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
S If all this is documented somewhere, please let me know. I
S understand the basics of add this to inetd or disable this, but
S switching foo out for bar I am not seeing.
Check the *inst script of the ftp packages. They activate their daemon
in favor
BG == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I
Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy.
Martin Not even worth mentioning.
BG Er, in which file? The file that
RH == Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RH I don't know what debian-devel reached, but in fact it seems to me
RH that just a few people are interested by perl. :-)
If you want other voices, then count me to the 5.004 for Debian 2.1
party. I agree to Joey's arguments.
Ciao,
MS == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin I and Marcus have trouble with cvs-buildpackage. Better
Martin wait/contact Manoj before you get into the strange problems
Martin we have.
I seems that a conf_prefix='debian' is needed in /etc/cvsdeb.conf.
With this line, everything is
JM == Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JM i have never used cvs-buildpackage, but would be willing to
JM generate nightly .debs. what do people think of this?
I and Marcus have trouble with cvs-buildpackage. Better wait/contact
Manoj before you get into the strange problems we have.
MD == M Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MD when installing isdnutils from slink, MAKEDEV complains about
MD device names - something like 'don't know how t mail isdnctrl0' or
MD something (don't remember exact device name).
I believe this is already reported as
Hi,
I like to package pavuk. It is a wget like programm with optional GTK
interface from http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/
Comments?
Ciao,
Martin
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S == Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
S Only that someone else posted their intentions last week. Sorry.
I am subscribed to debian-devel for a week, so I missed that. But I checked
http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html and there is no entry
for it. Actually this site looks out
MZ == Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MZ x11/xtoolwait - serializing startup of X applications
I can take this package, if there are no objections.
Ciao,
Martin
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