Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) A free English dictionary (www.dict.org). I found a hint on http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html that such a dictionary exists and is desired to be included into Debian. Is there any effort on this? I would

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote: you can get an xteddy debian package by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. i am happy to see this finally become part of the distribution. OK, I've finished building an xteddy Debian Package and I'll take over maintainance when finished

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: I have been working on this, and expect to release this package soon. (Actually, it is two binary packages from one source.) wordnet (which you mentioned in your message) is one of the 7 dictionary databases made available by the DICT group

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-08 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 07:45:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. It is more or less an excersise for package bundling and maintaining. Well, you could make it a coding exercise by modifying it to be able to choose a pixmap through

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you could make it a coding exercise by modifying it to be able to choose a pixmap through the commandline. xpenguin or xcaptainblueeye :-) Adding xpenguin is a very nice idea. I will try to include it into xteddy.deb. But who is

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-08 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 02:18:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: But who is xcaptainblueeye??? If I remember correctly, Captain Blueeye is the name of the entity depicted in the Debian logo. Come to think of it, xtux might be a better name than xpenguin (as the Linux Penguin is called Tux). Ray

Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello I want to start maintaining the following packages: 1) xteddy Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. It is more or less an excersise for package bundling and maintaining. In fact xteddy is a must have for any Linux distribution :-)) 2) wordnet * Wordnet

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Jay Kominek
3) A free English dictionary (www.dict.org). I found a hint on http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html that such a dictionary exists and is desired to be included into Debian. Is there any effort on this? I would think about maintaining this

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Alex Romosan
1) xteddy Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. It is more or less an excersise for package bundling and maintaining. In fact xteddy is a must have for any Linux distribution :-)) you can get an xteddy debian package by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in