Johnie Ingram writes:
620062720 Jun 3 13:30 CD0/Debian-i386-2.0-980603-1730Z.iso
So main+contrib finally fits on 1 CD ?
335355904 Jun 3 11:16 CD1/Debian-misc-2.0-980603-1516Z.iso
Could you give a brief description of what this misc CD is ?
Thanks,
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On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 11:59:36AM +0200, Tobias Josefsson wrote:
I was just wondering when Debian release 2.0 is going to be released...
Does anyone know?
Yes, I know. When it's ready :-)
Hamish
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Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
from a first look at debian 2.0 i'm disappointed. ok, everything is moved to
glibc, and there are lots of new packages. but where is the enhancement ?
If I recall correctly, the stated goals of this release where upgrade
to glibc 2.0, and various
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- pam login doesn't use pam. passwd doesn't use pam. telnet doesn't use it.
unless most programs are unseing pam, it's useless.
Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0
because it is quite simply not tenable if you want to
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0
because it is quite simply not tenable if you want to release hamm
before 1999. You can not simply recompile core applications like
shadow and net{base,std} with pam and hope they work,
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh, foo. Integration of pam was dropped as a release goal of 2.0
because it is quite simply not tenable if you want to release hamm
before 1999. You can not simply recompile core applications like
shadow and net{base,std} with pam and hope they work,
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never said it was unstable and it isn't. But we haven't used it
before and I don't care how stable it is, we should not and will not
start recompiling core applications with a previously unused (*in
Debian*) library, one month into a freeze. The
Richard == Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Shared libraries are linked dynamically against other libraries
Linking shared libraries dynamically against other libraries
simplifies the upgrading process and saves disk and memory space.
All shared libraries included in the Debian
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote:
Richard == Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Shared libraries are linked dynamically against other libraries
Linking shared libraries dynamically against other libraries
simplifies the upgrading process and saves disk and memory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yukhimets) wrote on 09.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Moin Alex!
AY I would like to question the need for this requirement.
???
Aren't you questioning my right to do that? :)
No, but it hardly seems reasonable to question this requirement.
AY While this can
You can't satisfy all users anyway. In addition, I would hate to be
able to switch to russian keyboard mode (by mistake) and enter some
letters which look just like English ones in the editor I use for
_programming_.
OTOH, many people'd be upset not to be able to insert comments using
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
Please note, that we are not talking about `dynamically linked binaries'
(which has been implemented a long time ago) but about `shared libraries
being linked dynamically against other libraries', that is, if you, say,
build the libmysql.so shared
Adam P. Harris wrote:
Richard == Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[linking shared libraries against other libraries]
As far as I can tell, it does not save disk and memory space.
However, I am rather new at this. Feel free to correct me.
You are wrong. Shared libraries are
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Yes, but if I sent you a message containing some russian leters you
wouldn't see them the way I see anyway. The same thing for every other
language. 8-bit clean e-mail message is not the one to send to
Alex, this is much simpler than you think.
I will give you a simple example: My keyboard has a key for the \~n letter
(using TeX notation) which is used in the Spanish language.
When I press that key, I *expect* to produce such character.
Not obtaining that letter but some other is
Dale Scheetz wrote:
This one is new to me...I have been waiting for the menu system to
stabalize. I guess this means that it has?
There have been no changes to the menu package since Oct 1997. There are
several open bug reports, but these will hopefully be fixed now that Joost
is less busy.
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
All applications registered to menus
The menu package included in the Debian distribution stores
information about which applications are installed on the system
and provides this
Attention all package maintainers:
Just a note that the testing group would like to have an idea of how to
test the individual packages (before we were only seeing if it would
install). All we are asking for is a checklist (and a script if you
want), which in the most general sense says: this
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
it is nice property of less (as opposed to more) that it filters
out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
doing less some binary file or, more important -
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:21:41AM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
All applications registered to menus
It's already policy. Check out section 3.7 of policy 2.3.0.1.
Could applications be spelt out a bit more? Clearly menu entries are only
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a note that the testing group would like to have an idea of how to
test the individual packages (before we were only seeing if it would
install). All we are asking for is a checklist (and a script if you
want), which in the most general sense
Shared libraries are linked dynamically against other libraries
Linking shared libraries dynamically against other libraries
simplifies the upgrading process and saves disk and memory space.
All shared libraries included in the Debian distribution will be
compiled that
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Vincent Renardias wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a note that the testing group would like to have an idea of how to
test the individual packages (before we were only seeing if it would
install). All we are asking for is a checklist (and a
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
it is nice property of less (as opposed to more) that it filters
out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
it is nice property of less (as opposed to more) that it filters
out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
doing less
Alex Yukhimets writes:
if something
bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters,
ls will trash the console while ls | less will show you everything
and let you delete it.
?? Why on earth do you need less for that ?
Doesn't LANG=C /bin/ls -b do the right job
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Yukhimets writes:
if something
bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters,
ls will trash the console while ls | less will show you everything
and let you delete it.
?? Why on earth do you
Support of 8-bit characters by default
Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
need to input umlauts, accented characters, etc. All Debian
packages will be configured to be 8-bit
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Support of 8-bit characters by default
Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
need to input umlauts, accented
Support of 8-bit characters by default
Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
need to input umlauts, accented characters, etc. All Debian
packages will be configured to
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
All applications registered to menus
The menu package included in the Debian distribution stores
information about which applications are installed on the system
and provides this data for X11 window managers or text-based menu
Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers who
still haven't upgraded their packages to libc6, despite it being
available since April.
It will be available in the next few days,
Like Jed was going to be done this weekend
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 05:10:09PM +, James Troup wrote:
Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as our
default MTA?
Well... Please take a look at
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/
and test the smail inside.
And if there was a deadline
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as
our default MTA?
Well... Please take a look at
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/ and
test the smail inside.
Wouldn't that be better tested if it were
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 05:58:30PM +, James Troup wrote:
Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as
our default MTA?
Well... Please take a look at
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/ and
test the smail inside.
Wouldn't that be
Am 31.12.97 schrieb borik # isracom.net.il ...
Moin Boris!
BDB Do we have any dates for Debian 2.0
BDB release/code-freze/dead-line/anything?
No.
BDB If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we waiting for?
Are really good question. We should hurry a litte bit.
cu, Marco
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Uni:
What's going on is that we will have an alpha-testable system by the weekend
with any luck, and we can then set deadlines.
Bruce
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Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we waiting for?
Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers who
still haven't upgraded their packages to libc6, despite it being
available since April.
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On 31 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote:
Troup Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Troup
Troup If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we
Troup waiting for?
Troup
Troup Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers
Troup who still haven't upgraded their
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