Work-needing packages report for Jan 5, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread wnpp
Report about packages that need work for Jan 5, 2001 Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 46 Number of packages offered up for adoption this week: 0 Total number of orphaned packages: 105 Number of packages orphaned this week: 6 The number in parenthesis after each package name is

Release-critical Bugreport for January 5, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread BugScan reporter
Bug stamp-out list for Jan 5 05:13 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 482 Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 0 -- Package: afbackup (debian/main) Maintainer: Christian Meder

Re: [FINAL, for now ;-)] (Was: Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file)

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
If you don't like large Packages files, implement a rsync transfer method for them. -- see shy jo

Re: BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Bdale Garbee wrote: Getting this right has two major components that are worth my commenting on here. First, the package 'bind' will continue to be 8.X to avoid violating the principle of least astonishment for our users, and there will be a new 'bind9' package and friends delivering 9.X.

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:12:56PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, D-Man wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:53:04PM -0700, John Galt wrote: mutt allegedly shares code with pine... ^^ That would be very strange since mutt's author was a part of the elm

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-05 Thread Andres Salomon
Just out of curiousity.. Does it work w/ 2.4.0-test11 and above? Something in avifile checks /proc/cpuinfo for the flags entry, which was renamed in test11 (I don't remember the new name for it, I reverted to test10. Anyone running 2.4.0 could tell you). Thus, it would die immediately for me.

Re: BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-05 Thread Andres Salomon
...and bind9 is going to be run as non-root by default, right? :) On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:58:51PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: snip BIND 9 source package in non-US because it's DFSG-free but has crypto code, including only BIND, producing binary packages bind9

Re: Potato packages

2001-01-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 5 January 2001, at 11 h 21, the keyboard of Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have a repository of packages to support such people? http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Manoj Srivastava | How do you suggest I reply to sender if someone scribbles all | over the reply-to header that the sender has set (in case the from | header is invalid)? you use gnus, gnus is able to do this in a sane manner. from 'info gnus', under Group Parameters

Re: Important Note On Source-Only Uploads

2001-01-05 Thread 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. :-/ 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

Re: Important Note On Source-Only Uploads

2001-01-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:21:29PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:17:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: Basically: don't do them. Cool! I will tag all pine bugs as wontfix... Actually it's weird. Pine seems to be surviving for some reason. I

egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread Jason Lunz
This has been bugging me for a while, but with linux 2.4.0 being official, I'm wondering about gcc versions. The recommended compiler for the kernel is, AFAIK, egcs 1.1.2 (gcc 2.91.66?). There's a warning in Documentation/Changes specifically for 2.95-derived compilers...the only recent i386 gcc

big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread zhaoway
[sorry, either fetchmail or my ISP made me lost 30 or so emails.] The problem with bigger and bigger Packages.gz, [I thought is obvious. :-(] is, 1) It prevent many more packages to come into Debian, for example, Linux Gazette are now not present newest issues in Debian. People occasionally got

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread Petr Cech
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:24:44AM -0500 , Jason Lunz wrote: This has been bugging me for a while, but with linux 2.4.0 being official, I'm wondering about gcc versions. The recommended compiler for the kernel is, AFAIK, egcs 1.1.2 (gcc 2.91.66?). There's a warning in Documentation/Changes

Re: ITP: Bakery

2001-01-05 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Mariusz! You wrote: Bakery is a C++ Framework for creating GNOME applications using Gnome-- (gnomemm) and Gtk-- (gtkmm). What's the difference with Glade? -- Kind regards, +---+ | Bas Zoetekouw | Si l'on sait

Broken dpkg-source in the newest dpkg (warning).

2001-01-05 Thread Robert Luberda
Hi all! dpkg 1.8.1, which was installed a few hours ago, comes with broken dpkg-source. You can't make your packages with it. Please see #81152 and #65021 for more info. BTW. Applying my patches from #81152 will cause that source packages generated by dpkg-source 1.8.1 could not be unpacked

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-05 Thread Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde
On Friday 05 January 2001 07:29, Andres Salomon wrote: Just out of curiousity.. Does it work w/ 2.4.0-test11 and above? Something in avifile checks /proc/cpuinfo for the flags entry, which was renamed in test11 (I don't remember the new name for it, I reverted to test10. Anyone running 2.4.0

Re: big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Brian May
zhaoway == zhaoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: zhaoway 1) It prevent many more packages to come into Debian, for zhaoway example, Linux Gazette are now not present newest issues zhaoway in Debian. People occasionally got fucked up by packages zhaoway like anachism-doc because the

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-05 Thread Christian Marillat
ZK == Zdenek Kabelac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ZK Hi everyone Hi, ZK After a while there is finaly version which looks stable enough for me, ZK so there are new packages of this program available here ZK http://master.debian.org/~kabi/libaviplay_20010103-1_i386.deb ZK

ITP: dynswapd

2001-01-05 Thread Pawel Wiecek
Hello I'd like to package dynswapd. It's a small daemon I wrote that dynamically adds (and removes) swapfiles, if necessary (in other words: when swap partition is almost full). Pawel -- (___) | Pawel Wiecek +48603240006 http://www.coven.vmh.net/ | o o | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need server

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:17:49PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote: (the three machines outside the US I tried so far are not) and b) is accessible pretty well (which ftp.debian.org is not). download.sourceforge.net which of course is ftp.debian.org. :-) Does rsync too :-) With which server?

Re: Need server

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:32:49PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: But you haven't bothered to try five percent of those. Why do you expect others will bother to reply to your mail? : Na, I did check 20% (make that 30 today) of the primary sites. :-) That's everyone's hoping :) It was down for a

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: * Remove this file altogether, since it serves no useful purpose. The file does serve a useful purpose: it concentrates the debian version number string that is used in a number of places (issue.net and so on) into one central place to be modified. * Make it a conffile

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:09:17AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: There could be a helper setuid program, man-cache-writer. man would call this program and pipe it the catpage. man-cache-writer would just write it's stding to the proper place. End of the problems. No so simple. You don't

Re: Important Note On Source-Only Uploads

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Piefel
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 know any other mailer like it. Last time I

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:33:34PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: Joey Hess (See Bug#81249) complains about the fact that local changes to /etc/debian_version are not preserved on upgrades (he wants this file to read unstable instead of the current testing/unstable). What should I do? Move it

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Makholm
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Move it to /var/lib/dpkg Nope, debian_release is independent on the dpkg used. /var/lib/dpkg/ would be a most unintuitive place to place the version of the distribution as a whole.

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Stone
Screw it, just kill the file. We don't have a mechanism for coping with it. -- Mike Stone

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:29:58AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: Just out of curiousity.. Does it work w/ 2.4.0-test11 and above? Something in avifile checks /proc/cpuinfo for the flags entry, which was renamed in test11 (I don't remember the new name for it, I reverted to test10. Anyone

woody and 2.4

2001-01-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Just saw this as I suppose many already have http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-05-001-04-NW-LF-KN Since Woody is probably still many months away is there a chance that it will include the 2.4 Kernel? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian

Possible ITP: freebirth

2001-01-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:04:55AM -0200, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: Yes, I've been in a packaging mood lately :) I'd like to have Tk707 packaged. Tk707 is a software clone of the Roland TR-707 rhythm composer, a drum machine. Reading this reminded me of Freebirth, which doesn't seem to be

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Bart Schuller
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:07:44AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Screw it, just kill the file. We don't have a mechanism for coping with it. I've seen third-party software install scripts use the file to determine which Linux distribution it's running on. -- The idea is that the first face

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-05 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
There could be a helper setuid program, man-cache-writer. man would call this program and pipe it the catpage. man-cache-writer would just write it's stding to the proper place. End of the problems. No so simple. You don't want the trusted program trusting the output of a non-trusted

Free replacement for shorten (lossless digital audio compressor)?

2001-01-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html Does anyone know of a free replacement for the shorten tool, from SoftSound? It is used to compress/decompress digital audio to/from the shn format, a compressed audio format which gets about 2:1 lossless compression. It is gaining popularity for lossless

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-05 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
On Friday 05 January 2001 07:29, Andres Salomon wrote: Just out of curiousity.. Does it work w/ 2.4.0-test11 and above? Something in avifile checks /proc/cpuinfo for the flags entry, which was renamed in test11 (I don't remember the new name for it, I reverted to test10. Anyone running

Potato depopularisation, wired links

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, it seems that more and more Packages disapear from potato and are replaced by links into the pools. And thats not new pakages that are becoming stable, but old once getting moved. Did I miss something there? Also a link is placed in /debian/dists/potato/main/source for each package thats

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* David Greene | On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: | | The problem is L4M3RZ using that broken piece of non-free shit PINE, which | doesn't appear to respect *any* conventions of netiquette. | | Is there a free mailer to replace that broken piece of non-free shit | PINE that

Re: Important Note On Source-Only Uploads

2001-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* 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

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread The Doctor What
* Bart Schuller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010105 07:48]: I've seen third-party software install scripts use the file to determine which Linux distribution it's running on. Yes, I think it's important to have one central file that can show (roughly) which version of the OS is running. Being human

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread Taneli Vähäkangas
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Petr Cech wrote: i use 2.95.2 and it works. if you want to be really sure, use gcc272 Nonono, if you read Documentation/Changes for 2.4 it actually says that o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc --version Please note specifically this part of the same

Re: Possible ITP: freebirth

2001-01-05 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:41:50 -0500 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : Reading this reminded me of Freebirth, which doesn't seem to be packaged yet. http://www.bitmechanic.com/projects/freebirth/ It seems to be dead upstream, with over a year since the last release,

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 5, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:00:08AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: Bug stamp-out list for Jan 5 05:13 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 482 I thought aj introduced the serious severity so that important bugs wouldn't be considered release-critical anymore, but it looks like bugscan

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 5, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Branden Robinson wrote: I thought aj introduced the serious severity so that important bugs wouldn't be considered release-critical anymore, but it looks like bugscan doesn't know that important bugs aren't RC. Thanks, fixed: @priorities = (serious, grave, critical); Those

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Santiago Vila
Joey Hess wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: * Remove this file altogether, since it serves no useful purpose. The file does serve a useful purpose: it concentrates the debian version number string that is used in a number of places (issue.net and so on) into one central place to be modified.

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Vince Mulhollon
How about creating a directory called /etc/organizations including the following files: /etc/organizations/debian-unstable Contains the text Debian Unstable http://www.debian.org; Found in perhaps the unstable version of base files package. /etc/organizations/helixgnome Contains the text Helix

Re: Need server

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 06:40:06PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: If you want to see a list of the update timestamps of all known mirrors look at http://attila.bofh.it/~md/ . Thanks. That helps a lot. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian

Re: Something has broken APT on my system...

2001-01-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Heikki Kantola wrote: For few days (first experienced this on 1.1.) I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with APT as whatever command I try, I get: Er, ah, er, the only time I've seen that is when someone had too many items in their sources.list, but I did not think

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vince Mulhollon wrote: How about creating a directory called /etc/organizations including the following files: You mean the /etc/dpkg/origins/ files? Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Jan-01, 15:24 (CST), John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Jan 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: MS He may have, as I do, intend to reply to the list, so everyone MS can see the conversation. (Quite properly, my MUA ignored the reply MS to on a list reply; had I cared to respond to

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 5 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: If that suits your needs, feel free to write a bugreport on apt about this. Yes, I enjoy closing such bug reports with a terse response. Hint: Read the bug page for APT to discover why! Jason

Upstream orphans wmfsm, anybody interested? [Re: wmfsm: homepage and source 404]

2001-01-05 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi I don't know C, thus couldn't do more than keep it available. (quick and dirty translation in []) - Forwarded message from Stefan Eilemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:15:23 +0100 To: Arthur Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Stefan Eilemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, the Author of tar changed the --bzip option again. This time its even worse than the last time, since -I is still a valid option but with a totally different meaning. This totally changes the behaviour of tar and I would consider that a critical bug, since backup software does break horribly

Re: rm to mp3, or rm,mp3 to .wav audio files

2001-01-05 Thread Christian Marillat
UH == Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: UH On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:21PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on this, or has it been done already? UH Hi. UH I guess vsound is what you're lokking for... UH Should be listed on Freshmeat... Any idea for video

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 5, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:00:08AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: Bug stamp-out list for Jan 5 05:13 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 482 I thought aj introduced the serious severity so that important bugs wouldn't be considered

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:05:03AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Whats the problem with a big Packages file? If you don't want to download it again and again just because of small changes I have a better solution for you: rsync apt-get update could rsync all Packages files (yes, not

Re: Important Note On Source-Only Uploads

2001-01-05 Thread idalton
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:10:53AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * 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

Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
I run several ancient programs, by housing them in /usr/local/bin, with the libraries they need (which are no longer provided in Debian) situated in /usr/local/lib. In previous systems, right up to potato, this worked fine. I just finished building a woody system, so I can get my packages up to

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:46:35AM +0800, zhaoway wrote: how about diffs bethween dinstall runs?.. sorry, but i don't understand here. dinstall is a server side thing here? yes, when dinstall runs it would copy the old packages file to, lets say, packages.old and create it's changes to the

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:30:58PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: I run several ancient programs, by housing them in /usr/local/bin, with the libraries they need (which are no longer provided in Debian) situated in /usr/local/lib. In previous systems, right up to potato, this worked fine. I

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote: I just finished building a woody system, so I can get my packages up to date, and all these programs stopped working because the needed library was not found. If I copy the /usr/local/lib contents to /lib everything works fine, suggesting that ldconfig no longer

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sami Haahtinen wrote: this would bring us to, apt renaming the old deb (if there is one) to the name of the new package and rsync those. and we would save some time once again... There is a --fuzzy-names patch for rsync that makes rsync do that itself. Or, can rsync sync binary

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: Changes in version 1.9.2: Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf for Debian (Bug#8181). oops, except that mod is *ancient*. way before potato. dunno why this would change between potato and

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 17:16:43 +0200, Taneli Vähäkangas wrote: To me it seems that gcc272 will become obsolete once 2.4 kernel gains popularity. s/gains popularity/offers the functionality that a very large majority of people rely on in 2.2/. For me, 2.4 currently lacks - x25tap

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:30:58PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: I just finished building a woody system, so I can get my packages up to date, and all these programs stopped working because the needed library was not found. If I copy the /usr/local/lib contents to /lib everything works fine,

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Hi, Quoting J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): For me, 2.4 currently lacks snip sick x25 line ;) - kerneli crypto patches There are preliminary 2.4 kerneli patches available. I will start packaging those as soon as i have the 2.2.18 version cleaned up and up-to-date. Greets,

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: s/gains popularity/offers the functionality that a very large majority of people rely on in 2.2/. People still rely on 2.0. Not for features, but stability. For me, 2.4 currently lacks - x25tap - kerneli crypto patches - ReiserFS and

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 19:03:45 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: - x25tap - kerneli crypto patches - ReiserFS In that case ReiserFS is a really bad example, it might never be in 2.2 and Linus said it will be added in the 2.4 series. All

archive.debian.org

2001-01-05 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, what happened to the above machine ? It seems to be unreachble for a couple of days Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 Why is it called common sense when nobody seems to have any?

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Jan-01, 12:32 (CST), Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Wirzenius wrote: And, anyway, caching might be done in a cronjob: look at the pagesa in manpath every night, check which ones have been accessed since the past run, and format those. Then delete anything older than N days

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-05 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Goswin Brederlow wrote: the Author of tar changed the --bzip option again. This time its even worse than the last time, since -I is still a valid option but with a totally different meaning. This totally changes the behaviour of tar and I would consider that a critical bug, since backup

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Sami Haahtinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:05:03AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Whats the problem with a big Packages file? If you don't want to download it again and again just because of small changes I have a better solution for

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: If that suits your needs, feel free to write a bugreport on apt about this. Yes, I enjoy closing such bug reports with a terse response. Hint: Read the bug page for APT to

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 5, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:02:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:00:08AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: Bug stamp-out list for Jan 5 05:13 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 482 I thought aj introduced the

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Ben Armstrong wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: Changes in version 1.9.2: Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf for Debian (Bug#8181). oops, except that mod is *ancient*. way before potato.

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In 05 Jan 2001 19:51:08 +0100 Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : Hello, I'm currently discussing some changes to the rsync client with some people from the rsync ML which would uncompress compressed data on the client side (no changes to the server) and rsync those.

2.4.0 kernel and the Toshiba 1715XCDS

2001-01-05 Thread Douglas Bates
This is not strictly a Debian question but it does relate to a computer running Debian 2.3. The computer is a Toshiba 1715XCDS laptop. I have been using the 2.4.0 testing and prerelease kernels on it and have been very pleased with the support for PCMCIA built into the 2.4.x series kernels.

Re: archive.debian.org

2001-01-05 Thread Davide Puricelli
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:34:54PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: Hi, what happened to the above machine ? It seems to be unreachble for a couple of days Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 Why is it called common sense when nobody

Re: 2.4.0 kernel and the Toshiba 1715XCDS

2001-01-05 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so I configure the kernel with cd4281 support. However, the boot log shows that the cd4281 driver is not being successfully initialized. Sorry to follow up on my own message but I must have had my fingers on the wrong keys so I mistyped cs4281 as

Re: archive.debian.org

2001-01-05 Thread Davide Puricelli
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:22:52PM +0100, Davide Puricelli wrote: archive.d.o is samosa.d.o, check http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi Regards, -- Davide Puricelli, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.debian.org PGP key: finger [EMAIL

ITP loco

2001-01-05 Thread Gergely Risko
Hello! I pacakged up loco, a perl script to colorize the logfiles. It can be found on freshmeat. Gergely Risko

Re: Free replacement for shorten (lossless digital audio compressor)?

2001-01-05 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html Does anyone know of a free replacement for the shorten tool, from SoftSound? It is used to compress/decompress digital audio to/from the shn format, a compressed audio format which

Postgres 7?

2001-01-05 Thread Jiri Klouda
Hi, why postgres 7 is inaccessible even in Woody? Well, actually the files with postgres 7.0.2-3 are all in the /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 subtree, but in the Packages file is following record: Package: postgresql Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 1948 Maintainer: Oliver

Re: Postgres 7?

2001-01-05 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:31:43PM +0100, Jiri Klouda wrote: Hi, why postgres 7 is inaccessible even in Woody? Recently, the Debian package management system has undergone two major changes: 1) the introduction of package pools 2) the introdcution of the 'testing' distribution The current

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In 05 Jan 2001 19:51:08 +0100 Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : Hello, I'm currently discussing some changes to the rsync client with some people from the rsync ML which would uncompress

Re: alert about ncurses maintainer

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:02:54PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Package: libncurses5 Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 428 Maintainer: Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joel's name is in the maintainer field, but notice that the email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm told that mail

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-05 Thread Christian Marillat
ZK == Zdenek Kabelac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] ZK I've just placed there the latest version of avifile ZK (surprisingly the one in CVS is older) ZK Anyway for now I've used the name of the tar archive so for ZK the dpkg this archive looks older (0.53-1) ZK I'm not sure if I should use

Re: Postgres 7?

2001-01-05 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010105T134204-0800, Luca Filipozzi wrote: The creation of 'testing' has meant that all the packages in woody have reverted to the versions from potato. Packages from unstable will migrate to testing once all their dependencies are also in testing. ... and once they have been RC-bugless in

Re: Need server

2001-01-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: That's everyone's hoping :) It was down for a few days in the last month, even. :( Didn't know that. There hasn't been any discussion I've seen. So I wasn't sure whether it was a local problem. Anyway, is sourceforge not well

Re: BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:58:51PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: bind9-lib (?) - shared libraries ? these may just end up in package bind9, I'm still working on the details

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Tollef == Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tollef * Manoj Srivastava How do you suggest I reply to sender if someone scribbles all over the reply-to header that the sender has set (in case the from header is invalid)? Tollef you use gnus, gnus is able to do this in a sane

Re: libglide2: debconf didn't ask question even for failed answer

2001-01-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Note that I specifically said it should reset the flag *just Joey before* bombing out. Hmm, why then does the following snippet if [ -f /etc/tripwire/tw.config -o -f /etc/tw.config ] then db_input critical tripwire/upgrade ||

Upcoming Events in Germany

2001-01-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi there, I have received a whole bunch of notifications for conferences and exhibitions in Germany next year. I would love Debian to be present at each of them, with both, a booth and a talk. This should not be too difficult since there are about 70 Developers in Germany with half as much new

Re: BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-05 Thread Brian May
Josip == Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Josip On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:58:51PM -0700, Bdale Garbee Josip wrote: bind9-lib (?) - shared libraries ? these may just end up in package bind9, I'm still working on the details bind9-dev - static libraries and

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: * Remove this file altogether, since it serves no useful purpose. The file does serve a useful purpose: it concentrates the debian version number string that is used in a number of places (issue.net and so on) into one central place to be modified. What do you

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: You mean the /etc/dpkg/origins/ files? BTW, what is that file doing in /etc if it is not a configuration file? -- see shy jo

Re: BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:48:47AM +1100, Brian May wrote: bind9-lib (?) - shared libraries ? these may just end up in package bind9, I'm still working on the details bind9-dev - static libraries and include files Josip Those two should be named libbind9 and

Re: Need server

2001-01-05 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Bart Schuller wrote: download.sourceforge.net Funny: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host ftp.debian.org ftp.debian.org A 64.28.67.101 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% host download.sourceforge.net download.sourceforge.netA 64.28.67.101 Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-05 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Joey Hess schrieb: And, anyway, caching might be done in a cronjob: look at the pagesa in This seems to be cr^Hontrary to the idea of caching. That's a good idea. Another route to take is to split man into the rendering/caching bit and the command line man page lookup/processing/pager

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-05 Thread Matthijs Melchior
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Hint: Read the bug page for APT to discover why! Looking through the apt bugs., saw this one, rejected: Bug#77054: wish: show current-upgraded versions on upgrade -u My private solution to this is the following patch to `apt-get': ---

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joey Hess wrote: BTW, what is that file doing in /etc if it is not a configuration file? It is a configuration file. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL

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