Previously John Goerzen wrote:
Incidentally, I have debconfized the following:
base-passwd
I'm quite sure I told you I wouldn't merge that until after the potato
release. I also notice you didn't file the patch as a wishlist bugreport
which makes it a bit harder to find..
Wichert.
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I just had an idea reading a thread in at.linux discussing about
xhost:
Wht about a package that contains the following commands (yet to be
written):
xuseradd user # Add's the user to the x group
xuserdel user # Deletes the user from the x group
The package would have an config file where it
The tpctl packages still haven't been relocated. Is there
some holdup?
Thomas
On Mon, 28 Aug, 2000 at 21:49:04 +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 12:04:32 +1200 (+), Michael Beattie wrote:
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:21:21PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote:
Hi.
Can
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it would also be interesting to integrate this into Nautilus (the
new Gnome filemanager) and (now that KDE is finally legal) Konquerer.
You could certainly display some package info this way -- in particular,
being able to display (in the
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:05:35PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote:
The tpctl packages still haven't been relocated. Is there
some holdup?
Time. sorry, I'll take a look this afternoon.
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Andreas Rottmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AR Wht about a package that contains the following commands (yet to be
AR written):
AR
AR xuseradd user # Add's the user to the x group
AR xuserdel user # Deletes the user from the x group
AR
AR The package would have an config file where it lists all
Having corresponded with the erstwhile maintainer of yacas, I intend
to adopt the package. Upload of new upstream version RSN.
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If you want, I can file it that way but I just sent it to you as you
asked. In general, I have been filing them that way.
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Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Previously John Goerzen wrote:
Incidentally, I have debconfized the following:
base-passwd
I'm quite sure I
Gerfried == Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gerfried On 05 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do most mail
readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps, but I
really doubt that news readers do.
Frederic Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I started coding proof of concepts thingies; they should be in my home
directory on master (~fpeters/, is this accessible from http ?) soon.
There is also a screenshot at
http://gaby.netpedia.net/pics/Screenshot_GUI_tools.jpeg
I think the best would
Why a new zsh was introduced in potato-proposed-updates ? It's not
compatible with thw previous version...
What do you mean, it's not compatible?
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At some point in the past, a nameless Debian user/developer posted:
Why a new zsh was introduced in potato-proposed-updates ? It's not
compatible with thw previous version...
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:19:42PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
What do you mean, it's not compatible?
The completion
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:07:54AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Kyle Lynch wrote:
Actually, all im trying to say is, how can I help make icons for projects
or at least help maintain the website?
Well, I wouldn't mind if you could help me improve the webpages
that doc-central
I have need of ROBODoc for my own free software project.
This GPL'd package is a documentation tool for code.
The home page is:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rfsber/Robo/index.html
I have packaged version 3.2.2 of ROBODoc. The test packages are available
at:
The completion control system has changed, along with a few other
minor details. I am myself a zsh user and have since made the
adjustment; I'm not sure the attitude others have towards their
zshrc's. A number of the mechanisms used prior to zsh-3.1.x to
control the completion behavior are no
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:10:09AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
Ok...I leave for an extended weekend and Troll get's freaky on me! :)
Since I've been basically doing this unofficially for almost 2 years now
working with Stephan Kulow who was the maintainer/developer and who has
since
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:10:49AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
The problem is not patents, it's that this particular patent also
applies in Germany, meaning we can't distribute from non-us either.
Pandora is not in .de, it's in .nl and is non-us. The issue is .de (and
the rest of the world)
Jason Gunthorpe wrote :
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Russell Coker wrote:
I would like to transfer several files at a time to enable usable throughput
through slow web caches. Is there any way this can be done? If not can
this
feature be added?
If I recall it isn't too hard, but it isn't
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:29:14AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
Just read on Linuxtoday.com that trolltech will
license QT under the GPL. Guess the 'river was
lowered' instead of 'raising the bridge' (old Jerry
Lewis movie title) so KDE can now go in main for
Woody, right?
Yes.
Anyone
Hi all,
I can not understand what is a problem but when I tried to
buildpackage in woody system, dpkg-shlibdeps displaied the
following message;
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
library /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot (soname 0, path
I suggest you DON'T do away with kde.tdyc.com ... You have the
infrastructure in place already, use it as a repository for latest KDE and
people can just list it after the debian lines in their sources.list if
they want more bleeding edge stuff durring freezes and for releases.
Just a
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
library /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot (soname 0, path
/usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0, dependency field Depends)
[...]
What is the problem and is there anyone who
On 6 Sep 2000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote:
On a similar (but kinda opposite) note, are there any plans to add
some bandwidth-limiting functionality to apt/apt-get ?
No. It isn't very effective to try and do that from an application - use
the services in the linux kernel if you really need it...
Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Erm, how many 'newbies' are going to know what a class A vs class C network
is, or what a gateway is, versus the number who'll freak out and run in
terror?
ok, now i hate seeing free apps/desktop systems that just copy windows, and
i dislike even
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +, michael d. ivey wrote:
my main server is potato. is it bad for me to be building packages
there if they are destined for woody? should i start building on a
woody box?
You could do source only uploads.
Roland
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I've been toying with the idea of uploading a new mozilla to=20
proposed-updates to get cleaned up before the potato R1 release.
Any comments on this?
Potato Mozilla version is M14
As of this Mail, Mozilla is at M17
If you have reasons why it shouldn't be in potato I'd like to know
I may be able
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:29:38PM +0100, John O Sullivan wrote:
Magellan is a personal information manager under development for KDE 2.0. I am
It looks great. But a few months back the upstream told me it wasn't even in
a state to be demonstrated on LinuxTag here in Germany.
a close friend of
Hi all,
I needed mfm for some application and visited http site of mfm
http://www.core-coutainville.org/mfm/
then there is Debian package of mfm. But as I searched mfm in
dselect window there is not mfm even in woody now.
Will mfm package appear in woody in the near future or the one in http
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
Hi all,
I needed mfm for some application and visited http site of mfm
http://www.core-coutainville.org/mfm/
then there is Debian package of mfm. But as I searched mfm in
dselect window there is not mfm even in woody now.
Will mfm package
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:03:56AM +0200, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
Saved to branden.asc and 'gpg -d branden.asc' results in
gpg: CRC error; 72a653 - dc372a
gpg: quoted printable character in armor - probably a buggy MTA has been used
This concerns me a lot more than the joke itself or
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:01:28AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and sent patches to XFree86 a long time ago, but the patch was
ignored, and Dirk Hohndel basically told me I was an idiot for
doing so, because it might unexpectedly
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mfm (frontend of mtools)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:20:11 +0200 (CEST)
I needed mfm for some application and visited http site of mfm
http://www.core-coutainville.org/mfm/
then there is Debian package of mfm. But as I searched mfm in
dselect
From: Henrique M Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: debhelper or fakeroot problem?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:08:55 -0300
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
library /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot (soname
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:20:12AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
How about defining a standard interface and using wrapper scripts
to convert the parameters?
OK, but what problem are we trying to solve with this solution?
ie what is the advantage of /etc/alternatives for MUAs anyway?
Hamish
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:34:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
gpg: CRC error; 72a653 - dc372a
gpg: quoted printable character in armor - probably a buggy MTA has been
used
This concerns me a lot more than the joke itself or what led up to it.
Does anyone else have this problem
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:00:42AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:54:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Software has bugs, it's a fact of life. New software is more likely to
have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages
so nice is the
Miros/law `Jubal' Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh, package it. We have ddate for Discordians (in util-linux), we could
have hodie for Ill^WRome citizens. ;-
I've been convinced that it's not only making a nice latin locale. I'm
only trying not to waste hacking time on packaging something
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:24:28PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
So I drew the conclusion that what Debian needs for those users is simple
GUI tools. [some will respond here with we don't want those users and I
won't agree. This flamewar already happened. GUI tools doesn't mean you
have to
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:51:28PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
From: Henrique M Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: debhelper or fakeroot problem?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:08:55 -0300
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency
Python 1.6 was released finally today (for an announcement, see
http://www.python.org/1.6/), and it was released under the discussed
CNRI license. This license was intended to be compatible with the GPL,
but RMS says he thinks it's not (cf. the announcement).
Moments later, Guido and BeOpen's
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:43:21AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Still, if 1.6 were to replace 1.5.2, we had to check all packages that
depend on Python, if we think their license is still compatible with the
new Python license, and remove them if it's not. I'd opt against this.
Yup, that
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:20:12AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
How about defining a standard interface and using wrapper
scripts to convert the parameters?
Hamish OK, but what problem are we trying to solve with this
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:51:59PM +0200, Karsten Tinnefeld wrote:
I hope this isn't necessary.
(you can disable this in bash, but then some other stuff (legitimate control
chars) breaks, and since I only type umlauts on the command-line very
occasionally, it wasn't worth the effort to
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
kdenetwork -
This will all happen after qt2.2 is released with the GPL lic and
packaged/uploaded...
(except for kdelibs and support which do not have the licensing issues)
Be carefull, according to
Hi,
From: Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No german umlauts in console and xterm
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:17:04 +0100
For Spanish speakers (like me), there's a task-spanish package, which
installs (between others) a castellanizar program, which modify the
global
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:08:17PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
ok, now i hate seeing free apps/desktop systems that just copy windows, and
i dislike even more the idea that windows is a good standard to follow, but
i do have to disagree with you on this point.
[...]
as far as the network
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:31:49PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
kdenetwork -
This will all happen after qt2.2 is released with the GPL lic and
packaged/uploaded...
(except for kdelibs and support which do not have the licensing issues)
Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina wrote:
...
For Spanish speakers (like me), there's a task-spanish package, which
installs (between others) a castellanizar program, which modify the
global shell rc's for supporting ñáéíóúäëïöü... on any program, including
the shell command line.
There is
6.09.2000 pisze Tomohiro KUBOTA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
There is 'language-env' package for German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian,
and Thai (for Woody).
Maybe we need some more general way to define default system localization
(giving the users a possibility to change this default is very good,
but
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Frederic Peters wrote:
don't have tested yet. It would be a good idea to avoid duplicated work.
So why not linuxconf? AFAIK it's the most powerful conftool around and
there's *even* a .deb version of it. Further on it's pretty trivial to
write modules for it and once done
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:08:17PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Erm, how many 'newbies' are going to know what a class A vs class C
network
is, or what a gateway is, versus the number who'll freak out and run in
While we are at it, there are two bugs against base-files (#56275 and #62475)
and boot-floppies (#67913) regarding german umlauts.
* It's true that bash (and readline-based programs) rejects german umlauts?
* Does it happen even under a locale such as de_DE?
* If the answer is yes, does set
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:16:38PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Programs like reportbug, netscape, err I mean Mozilla, etc, wouldn't
have to be manually configured for a default MUA. Nor would these
programs have to support every MUA on the planet. Have a look at
/etc/reportbug.conf for a sample of
wnpp didn't forward this, so I send it manually:
What is Source-Navigator?
Source-Navigator is a source code analysis tool. With it, you can edit
your source code, display relationships between classes and functions
and members, and display call trees. You can also build your
Hello,
I'm currently writing a config file generator for an automated Debian
install tool we're developing.
My script needs to gather config information from an existing machine to
generate an XML file with various config info (among which the current
keymap)
The problem is that there doesn't
Previously Daniele Cruciani wrote:
About doc-central, I think that a person who is looking for
docomuntation couldn't find nothing better than doc-central: if you
add image animated icon (flash make want little space on disk but
great amount of calculus resourse), it will result more friendly
Previously Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
I can not understand what is a problem but when I tried to
buildpackage in woody system, dpkg-shlibdeps displaied the
following message;
That's a result of fakeroot messing around with libraries. If I remember
correctly it was fixed in a NMU at some point but
Hi,
From: Miros/law `Jubal' Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No german umlauts in console and xterm
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:28:51 +0200
6.09.2000 pisze Tomohiro KUBOTA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
There is 'language-env' package for German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian,
and Thai (for Woody).
`The RSA algorithm was released into the public domain today
(September 6th, 2000). This is in advance of their US patent
expiring on the 20th.'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/06/1252204mode=thread
So some stuff can get moved from non-US/main into main proper?
Peter
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Source-Navigator works with the Insight GUI interface for GDB.
Speaking of which, has anyone packaged Insight? If not, I'll look into it
(not ITP yet... :-P)
C
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:38:10AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
`The RSA algorithm was released into the public domain today
(September 6th, 2000). This is in advance of their US patent
expiring on the 20th.'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/06/1252204mode=thread
So some
On Wednesday 6 September 2000, at 9 h 38, the keyboard of Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So some stuff can get moved from non-US/main into main proper?
It's now free in the USA (it already was in the rest of the world) but it is
still not-exportable (which was because of US
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:36:36AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
Speaking of which, has anyone packaged Insight? If not, I'll look into it
(not ITP yet... :-P)
I remember someone working on it, and maybe an ITP for it...
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Colin Watson wrote:
I wrote:
`The RSA algorithm was released into the public domain today
(September 6th, 2000). This is in advance of their US patent
expiring on the 20th.'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/06/1252204mode=thread
So some stuff can get moved from
On 2905T215159-0700, Frank Belew wrote:
If you have reasons why it shouldn't be in potato I'd like to know
The question should be why it should be in potato. Oldness of the
current version is not a reason, since there are a lot of old packages
in potato, and if one is let in for that
On 2906T033439-0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:03:56AM +0200, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
Saved to branden.asc and 'gpg -d branden.asc' results in
gpg: CRC error; 72a653 - dc372a
gpg: quoted printable character in armor - probably a buggy MTA has been
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:46:35PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
Anyone checked the temperature in Hell lately?
Do you intend to go there?
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:07:23AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:46:35PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
Anyone checked the temperature in Hell lately?
Do you intend to go there?
Likely only to visit you, as I hear that's where all the evangelicals end up.
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Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina wrote :
We can fill automagically some of these values. If a user types in
192.168.1.15 as IP, and the interface is eth*, we can figure out that
the gateway will be 192.168.1.1, and class C (255.255.255.0).
The user will be able to modify those values as
John Goerzen wrote :
I started coding proof of concepts thingies; they should be in my home
directory on master (~fpeters/, is this accessible from http ?) soon.
There is also a screenshot at
http://gaby.netpedia.net/pics/Screenshot_GUI_tools.jpeg
I think the best would be to make a nice
T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote :
So why not linuxconf? AFAIK it's the most powerful conftool around and
there's *even* a .deb version of it. Further on it's pretty trivial to
write modules for it and once done you can interface to the conftool
through the command line, the web, textinterface,
Jules Bean wrote :
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:24:28PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
So I drew the conclusion that what Debian needs for those users is simple
GUI tools. [some will respond here with we don't want those users and I
won't agree. This flamewar already happened. GUI tools
Daniel Burrows wrote :
I've been thinking along these lines too, but didn't want to mention it as
I'm not likely to be able to help implement it. I'm thinking in terms of
something slightly simpler, though: just the stuff a normal user (whatever
that means) would need to set up and perform
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Python 1.6 was released finally today (for an announcement, see
http://www.python.org/1.6/), and it was released under the
discussed CNRI license. This license was intended to be
compatible with the GPL, but RMS says he thinks it's not
So, yes, why reinvent the wheel, if there are allready n^x conftools
around with a new one popping up monthly (webmin, COAS, linuxconf,
debconf, yast, ..., ..., ...) ? It's not going to make anything
easier.
Agreed. If you want to do something USEFUL, write a better webmin, debconf
or linuxconf
Hi,
Has the bug database been updated recently? I closed a set of bugs
about a week ago but the database doesn't appear to have been updated.
Please CC me any replies.
Thanks,
-Ossama
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ossama Othman wrote:
Has the bug database been updated recently? I closed a set of bugs
about a week ago but the database doesn't appear to have been updated.
Static pages are known to be outdated.
I use
lynx -dump -nolist http://bugs.debian.org/$maintainer
in the
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand fully that using the name non-US for patent-encumbered
software is wrong. However, the machine pandora.debian.org is in an
excellent position to also host a non-Software-Patents section of the
archive, which can again be subdivided in main,
1) Ignore Python 1.6 and up, as long as the license is not compatible
with the GPL. That's probably the easiest way to go, but is it
justified ? Looks like a deliberate discrimination against a
DFSG-free license, only because it's not GPL compatible.
2) Include both Python 1.5.2
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:20:54PM +0200, Frederic Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote :
I've been thinking along these lines too, but didn't want to mention it as
I'm not likely to be able to help implement it. I'm thinking in terms of
something slightly
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:07:23AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Anyone checked the temperature in Hell lately?
Do you intend to go there?
By the sounds of it, it's time to plan a ski trip ...
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It's almost two weeks since I last saw that file on the archive, I have
tested several non-US sites, and none of them has it.
I was wondering why is this happening, and if anybody could explain how to
generate the file or reference me to the apropiate doc :-)
Thanks!
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Python 1.5 I wouldn't put two Python versions into Debian. Also Python
2.0 will probably be released before the next code freeze and solve
the license issues.
Pyhton 2.0 is released already. And it doesn't seems that 2.0 solve the
license incompatibility...
Am I wrong? I hope I am... :(
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Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Has the bug database been updated recently? I closed a set of bugs
about a week ago but the database doesn't appear to have been updated.
Please CC
Frank == Frank Belew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frank I've been toying with the idea of uploading a new mozilla
Frank to=20 proposed-updates to get cleaned up before the potato
Frank R1 release. Any comments on this? Potato Mozilla version
Frank is M14 As of this Mail, Mozilla
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