Uploaded rtf2htm 0.12.7-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-01-08 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded asclassic 1.1b-17 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-01-08 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded gnuplot 3.7.1p1-5 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-01-08 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded byacc 1.9-12 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded procmail 3.15.1-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded gkrellm 1.0.3-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded hztty 2.0-4 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-08 Thread Paul Eggert
From: Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 07 Jan 2001 23:00:59 +0100 % tar -cIvvf bla.tar.bz2 bla tar: bla: Cannot stat: No such file or directory That is indeed a bug. Thanks for reporting it. I'll fix it as follows: @@ -439,5 +434,5 @@ or a device. *This* `tar' defaults to `

Re: apt maintainers dead?

2001-01-08 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 8 January 2001 04:15:10 +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: method will result in the immediate termination of public rsync access to our servers. I think that is something to be discussed. As I said before, I expect the rsync + some features to produce less load than ftp or

update-excuses addition (almost)

2001-01-08 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, Since people seem to want more information about why valid candidates aren't going in (which is quite sensible, just hard to provide), I've tried adding some code that'll report what packages became uninstallable when a package was attempted to be added to testing. At the moment,

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-08 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: SLOn Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: SL SL Hamish Moffatt wrote: SL There IS a debconf question about it.. it's not like it just does it to you SL without asking. Maybe the debconf priority of the question is too low if SL too many people

Re: [way OT] private emails

2001-01-08 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: BROn Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:26:24PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: BR It is spectacularly bad form to quote private email in a public forum, BR but it is not illegal. And it is spectacularly naive to count on the BR privacy of anything you tell another

jabber field on db.debian.org?

2001-01-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! I was just wondering - there is this icq-field on http://db.debian.org/, which I have to say I'm not really happy with. It's not the kind of thing that seems the right thing[tm] for Debian. I would rather like to have a jabber field instead of that jabber, you might ask? From

ITP: mboxgrep -- Grep through mailboxes

2001-01-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to package mboxgrep, a utility which greps mailboxes. Description: Grep through mailboxes mboxgrep is a small utility that scans either standard Unix mailboxes, Gnus nnml or nnmh mailboxes, or MH mailboxes, and displays messages matching a basic,

package manager project ?

2001-01-08 Thread Tony Schonfeld \(f5git\)
I ve read in this list some ideas about a new package manager project for Debian. Do you know if the Ability to install more than one version of a package simultaneously is an idea working in progress for future Debian release ? Many thanks per advance Tony

ITP: doc-debian-ja -- Debian FAQ and other documents (Japanese)

2001-01-08 Thread SEKIDO Koichi
Package: doc-debian-ja Severity: wishlist I will package doc-debian-ja. The output of `dpkg -I': new debian package, version 2.0. size 161570 bytes: control archive= 854 bytes. 668 bytes,22 lines control 879 bytes,21 lines * postinst

Re: What is wrong with kde2.1 and unstable ?

2001-01-08 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: no clue...I don't use apt to upgrade. :) Your not alone tho, there is a existing bug report on this (#81365)...so any help you can give me to track down what's going on would be appreciated. On all the boxes I have access to I use dselect to manage my package

Re: (open)ssh-2.3.0p1 when??

2001-01-08 Thread Svante Signell
Damian M Gryski writes: On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Svante Signell wrote: Is openssh ever going to be upgraded? Latest unstable version is 2.2.0p1-1.1 from September? while the latest OpenBSD release is now 2.3.0p1! Maybe the package also should change name from ssh to openssh. openssh

ATTENTION! Well-Paid Job in the Internet!

2001-01-08 Thread Please Read IT Carefully!
Title: ATTENTION! The Well-Paid Job in the Internet! We wish You a pleasant and successful day!In RussianMake money without leaving Your computer!If You show some interest and patience and understand as IT works, You can earn up to $100,000 and more!!! During the following 120 days - it depends

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2001-01-08 Thread Florian Hinzmann
On 03-Jan-2001 Paul Hedderly wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:37:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who recalls a cddb access program designed for blind people where cddb.com DENIED a certification because the program couldn't display a graphical logo where the blind people could see it.

Re: State of Debian Jr.

2001-01-08 Thread Francesca
Hi all, I'm the italian teacher interested using linux at school. I write articles for a national school magazine about linux at school and my next one I thought it could be about debian jr. I'm studying in the mailing list your complex work on-line to make debian junior a successful distribution,

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:32:33AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: My point is that the -I option *doesn't* mean uncompress this file using bzip2 for anything other than GNU tar. Now that it doesn't mean that for GNU tar either, people are complaining. I think they probably shouldn't have been using

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-08 Thread Florian Hinzmann
On 03-Jan-2001 Philip Brown wrote: Reply-to is meant to send a message back to the person who wrote the first one, not to someone they wrote the message to. reply-to is meant to direct where you should send replies to. Reply-To is meant to direct where you should send replies to if you

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Andrea Glorioso
Chris == Chris L Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Hi Stefan, Chris Unfortunately, no, I'm still having trouble. :( I might Chris wind up installing a fresh potato system on another Chris partition to see if it works in potato or not. If not, I Chris guess I should

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-08 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:04:50AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OpenBSD took another tack on this problem and just did away with cached man pages altogether. (no suid or sgid man) They always re-format a manual page? This might be reasonable, actually.

Re: jabber field on db.debian.org?

2001-01-08 Thread Christian Surchi
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:44:38AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: I was just wondering - there is this icq-field on http://db.debian.org/, which I have to say I'm not really happy with. It's not the kind of thing that seems the right thing[tm] for Debian. I would rather like to have a jabber

RFC Implementation of SGML/XML Proposal for LSB in Debian

2001-01-08 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Below is an RFC for the implementation of the SGML/XML Proposal for the LSB (version 0.3) in Debian. I've send this to several mailing list to give it broad attention, but please keep all the further discussion on debian-sgml. All affected package maintainers please subscribe to debian-sgml.

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: I don't need to get a filelisting, apt-get tells me the name. :) You have missed the point, the presence of the ability to do file listings prevents the adoption of rsync servers

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jan 2001, Bdale Garbee wrote: gzip --rsyncable, aloready implemented, ask Rusty Russell. I have a copy of Rusty's patch, but have not applied it since I don't like diverging Debian packages from upstream this way.

Re: ITP: mboxgrep -- Grep through mailboxes

2001-01-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 8 January 2001, at 9 h 5, the keyboard of Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to package mboxgrep, a utility which greps mailboxes. BTW, we already have sgrep, which is fine for that purpose.

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Eckersley
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:27:53AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why not solve the compression problem at the root? Why not try to change the compression in a way so it does produce a compressed result with the same (or similar) difference rate as the

Re: ITP: mboxgrep -- Grep through mailboxes

2001-01-08 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:27:24PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 8 January 2001, at 9 h 5, the keyboard of Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to package mboxgrep, a utility which greps mailboxes. BTW, we already have sgrep, which is fine for that purpose.

Re: ITP: mboxgrep -- Grep through mailboxes

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:32:02PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:27:24PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 8 January 2001, at 9 h 5, the keyboard of Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to package mboxgrep, a utility which greps

Re: Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-08 Thread Vince Mulhollon
The reason for installing ssh in this case was for troubleshooting, although higher security would be a positive side effect. He reports trouble from an unknown source, and telnetd is involved. Installing ssh would allow comparisons of the failure modes with different network login clients. If

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:55:12AM +0100, Andrea Glorioso wrote: Just did it on a Potato box a week ago, no problems whatsoever. Thought you might wish to know. Okay, the problem seems to be with how mkdep is being compiled. I managed to get the kernel to compile by copying the mkdep.c

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Eckersley
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:58:26PM +1100, Peter Eckersley wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:27:53AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why not solve the compression problem at the root? Why not try to change the compression in a way so it does produce a

Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Vince Mulhollon
Some Eray quotes, one paragraph of advice for Eray, and a possibly useful idea at the end for everyone. Non-regulation is a false claim His actions are simply not tolerable I'd be greatly surprised if anybody told me that developers have the right to swear publicly in an outburst of adolescent

Re: ITP: mboxgrep -- Grep through mailboxes

2001-01-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
Package: grepmail Description: search mailboxes for mail matching an expression Grepmail looks for mail messages containing a pattern, and prints the resulting messages. It can handle compressed mailbox files, and can search the header or body of emails. Usage is very similar to grep.

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:22AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Anyway, this might help others who need to compile old kernels, and hopefully the problem will be fixed by gcc 2.95.3 final. 2.0.38 will probably not compile with gcc 2.7.2.3 very well. You might want to try gcc272

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:17:42AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: waiting for DAM approval, whenever that is supposed to happen (emphasis on the supposed to happen) No offense to the DAM, but I share Eray's pedicament and feel that I could definately contribute more effectively if I had the

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Chris L. Mason
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:22:22PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:08:22AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Anyway, this might help others who need to compile old kernels, and hopefully the problem will be fixed by gcc 2.95.3 final. 2.0.38 will probably not compile with gcc

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Otto Wyss
So why not solve the compression problem at the root? Why not try to change the compression in a way so it does produce a compressed result with the same (or similar) difference rate as the source? Are you going to hack at *every* different kind of file format that you might ever want to

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled mkdep.c properly. Hmm, I wonder if hmm. I wonder how could we compile it in the first place, given there was no other

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Vince Mulhollon
Yes, it took me about a year's wait also. The point I'm making is that complaining to volunteers is ineffective unless you give a solution. Now that you and Eray have publically complained about the team's slowness, that means that after you complete the NM process, you both be joining the NM

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:17:42AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable. I don't see how this affects the Debian community. If anything, it would result in more bug

Keysigning in Barcelona

2001-01-08 Thread Santi BĂ©jar
Hello, I'm looking for a Debian developer to sign my key. I'm in the NM process. If you're in Barcelona (Spain) please mail me. Thanks Santi -- Looking for signature... Looking for signature...done

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:35:51AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Now that you and Eray have publically complained about the team's slowness, that means that after you complete the NM process, you both be joining the NM team to help your fellow developers get processed quicker, right? I'm not

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:33:26PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled mkdep.c properly. Hmm, I wonder if hmm. I wonder how

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Yotam
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:17:42AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable Why shouldn't a developer encourage an ordinary user to run unstable? * It would speed up the

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 8 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Then that feature should be limited to non-recursive listings or turned off. Or .listing files should be created that are just served. *couf* rproxy *couf* So when you have more blocks, the hash will fill up. So you have more hits on the first level

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Yotam wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:17:42AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable Why shouldn't a developer

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:33:26PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0500 , Chris L. Mason wrote: Right, good point. In fact I did use gcc272 for the actual compile. But neither gcc272 or gcc 2.95.3 compiled

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:28:56PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: So why not solve the compression problem at the root? Why not try to change the compression in a way so it does produce a compressed result with the same (or similar) difference rate as the source? Are you going to hack at

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jan 08, Aaron Lehmann scribbled: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:35:51AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Now that you and Eray have publically complained about the team's slowness, that means that after you complete the NM process, you both be joining the NM team to help your fellow

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Yes, it took me about a year's wait also. I created my pgp key on Dec. 27, 1997. 2 weeks later, I was a developer. Granted, this was before the closing, and the reorganization, but even for that time frame, that was fast. What I'm trying to say is

Re: jabber field on db.debian.org?

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -) Or, during a short period (say, 2 months or so?) both fields could be there, and icq should really be dropped. Or, they could both be there (if space permits) with the ICQ field output as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Talking about encouragement... (-: --

Re: Linux Gazette [Was: Re: big Packages.gz file]

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2001-01-07, Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Any reasons why the Linux

Re: Compiling 2.0.38 kernel

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:54:37AM -0600 , Steve Langasek wrote: While a 2.0 kernel may not /run/ with a given glibc, I'm puzzled as to how kernel doesn't care what you have under it. and newer glibc's should work OK even with an older one. Petr Cech -- Debian

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010108T084511-0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: The DAM is quite busy, and I sympathize with him. However, once allowed to I would voulenteer to aid him with his duties to expedite the processes. I doubt that a fresh developer would be allowed to take on such a vulnerable position as the DAM.

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote: Agreed. Bitching about problems in unstable is bad. Running unstable is not necessarily evil. Just to make sure everyone understands, bitching about unstable bugs is bad. Finding and reporting unstable bugs is ok. BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jan 08, Adam Heath scribbled: On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Yes, it took me about a year's wait also. I created my pgp key on Dec. 27, 1997. 2 weeks later, I was a developer. Granted, this was before the closing, and the reorganization, but even for that time frame,

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:17:42AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Some Eray quotes, one paragraph of advice for Eray, and a possibly useful idea at the end for everyone. I think you are grossly overestimating Eray's desire to work well with others, his ability to contribute anything of substance

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Marek Habersack wrote: ** On Jan 08, Adam Heath scribbled: On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Yes, it took me about a year's wait also. I created my pgp key on Dec. 27, 1997. 2 weeks later, I was a developer. Granted, this was before the closing, and

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
Vince Mulhollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that you and Eray have publically complained about the team's slowness, that means that after you complete the NM process, you both be joining the NM team to help your fellow developers get processed quicker, right? I'm not being sarcastic, my initial

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jan 08, Adam Heath scribbled: [snip] Hmm... http://debian.vip.net.pl/caudium, http://debian.vip.net.pl/caudium-unstable - does that prove _anything_ about me? I guess not and the NM process is what there's needed to confirm whether the applicant can do anything good for the project

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew Lenharth
No, I want rsync not even to be mentioned. All I want is something similar to gzip --compress-like=old-foo foo where foo will be compressed as old-foo was or as aquivalent as possible. Gzip does not need to know anything about foo except how it was compressed. The switch

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Marek Habersack wrote: Note that I did not flaunt my deeds to the new maintainer team. My nightly neither do I do that... It's just that I _really_ want to work and contribute to Debian and being a de-facto developer but not _Debian_ developer my contributions are very

WARNING: dpkg-source from 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.1.1 is bad [was Re: Installed dpkg 1.8.1.2 (i386 all source)]

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:52:33 -0600 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg-dev dpkg-doc dpkg Architecture: source all i386 Version: 1.8.1.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adam

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:54:07AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: | A case where it might make sense to encourage someone to run unstable | is if [...] the developer thinks that they are resonably competant. I think that this is the key. If the user is competent enough there is no harm suggesting

Re: woody and 2.4

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:25:16AM -0800 , Kenneth Scharf wrote: 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? yes. It

Re: BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-08 Thread Petr Cech
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:48:47AM +1100 , Brian May wrote: I have to wonder if it is really worth having a different name for the newer package version. Are the versions really that different? Personally, I would prefer to have apt-get automatically upgrade the package, and that will be

Re: RFDisscusion: Big Packages.gz and Statistics and Comparing solution

2001-01-08 Thread zhaoway
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:53:52AM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Something like this should be implemented anyway when translated Descriptions will be supported and Packages size will grow by some 6 times. Oh, man, you got another strong point against general package index. (Big Packages.gz

Re: big Packages.gz file

2001-01-08 Thread zhaoway
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:18:02PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: Brian May writes: bm What do large packages have to do with the size of the index file, bm Packages? I think the point was that every package adds about 30-45 lines to the Packages file. You don't need to download any of

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why not solve the compression problem at the root? Why not try to change the compression in a way so it does produce a compressed result with the same (or similar) difference rate as the source? Are you going to hack at

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:23:05AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: I created my pgp key on Dec. 27, 1997. 2 weeks later, I was a developer. Granted, this was before the closing, and the reorganization, but even for that time frame, that was fast. What I'm trying to say is that if you prove beyond

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Andrew Lenharth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is better and easier is to ensure that the compression is deturministic (gzip by default is not, bzip2 seems to be), so that rsync can decompress, rsync, compress, and get the exact file back on the other side. gzip

Re: big Packages.gz file

2001-01-08 Thread calvin
Hello, On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:04:10AM +0800, zhaoway wrote: * To seperate Packages.gz to be along with each package as another seperate file. Ceazar's belong to Ceazar. ;) i.e., each pkg_ver-sub_arch.deb with a pkg_ver-sub_arch.idx No, thats not a win. You would end up checking time

ITU: freeswan 1.8

2001-01-08 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi all Please reply directly to me as I am currently not subscribed to -devel. I have ITPed for freeswan quite a while ago and have made semi-official (people who were interested at that time knew of the download location) packages since then. Now I am happy enough with my version of the

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi Zdenek, Zdenek Kabelac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a while there is finaly version which looks stable enough for me, so there are new packages of this program available here I went back to the archived discussion that took place in October, and I'm surprised noone pointed this

Debian unstable tar incompatible with 1.13.x?

2001-01-08 Thread safemode
I have used tar with gzip and bzip2 in debian unstable and in each case users who use older versions of tar ( like 1.13.11 ) were unable to decompress it. [49: huff+mtf rt+rld]data integrity (CRC) error in data and such error messages like that . This troubles me greatly. Any info about this?

ITP: kimberlite -- HA Cluster for Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Josh Huber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Kimberlite is a complete framework providing high availability for application services on Linux. The key features of the architecture include the following: - A complete high-availability service infrastructure prevents you from having to assemble an

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-08 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:12:35PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: I went back to the archived discussion that took place in October, and I'm surprised noone pointed this out. As far as I can tell, DivX, what that codecs package contains, is illegal. It started off the Microsoft DLLs

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread John O Sullivan
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:17:42 Vince Mulhollon wrote: 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable. For the record I object to any Code of Condust that includes this clause. btw I'm a Ham operator and

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Marek Habersack wrote: Same for me... My application was accepted in September, I applied in June - the only thing missing is the account. I have 8 packages waiting to be uploaded, one more to overtake from the current maintainer (he could/would sponsor it, but I prefer to

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: ... 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable. ... Tou want to forbid that: - I run unstable on a production server even if I know what I'm doing - I tell my

Re: ITP: kimberlite -- HA Cluster for Linux

2001-01-08 Thread Ralf Treinen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Kimberlite is a complete framework providing high availability for application services on Linux. The key features of the architecture Which licence? -Ralf.

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread John O Sullivan
There was a few discussions on the rsync mailing lists about how to handle compressed files, specifically .debs I'd like to see some way of handling it better, but I don't think it'll happen at the rsync end. Reasons include higher server cpu load to (de)compress every file that is transferred and

Re: Debian unstable tar incompatible with 1.13.x?

2001-01-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:21:30 -0500 safemode [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : I have used tar with gzip and bzip2 in debian unstable and in each case users who use older versions of tar ( like 1.13.11 ) were unable to decompress it. [49: huff+mtf rt+rld]data integrity (CRC) error

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Vince Mulhollon
1) It's a totally informal and unofficial first draft. Maybe a better way of expressing my thoughts would be: A Debian Developer will never knowingly allow a mission critical server to run unstable unless all the affected users and managers understand the danger. or, perhaps more acceptable: A

ITP sked

2001-01-08 Thread Gergely Risko
Hello! I'm working on fixing some bugs and after that packaging up sked, a conosle-based calendar and scheduling program. Thanks, Gergely

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi Zdenek, [ I hope you don't mind me mailing the reply back to d-d, please keep your replies there ] Zdenek Kabelac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But in this case - maybe downloading script would be legal for Debian ? (just like for realplayer ? - or do you think Debian user should never

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Mark Mealman
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:52:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: ... 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable. ... Tou want to forbid that: - I run

Re: Avifile package - help needed

2001-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Say, could you cite some proof of this? I admit this being hearsay. Before sending my previous message I did try to find some credible source for this information. The Project Mayo doesn't give much info in that direction, and the articles

Re: Linux Gazette [Was: Re: big Packages.gz file]

2001-01-08 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Jan 8, 2001 at 18:20:16 +0100 (+), Andreas Fuchs wrote: On 2001-01-07, Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.

ITP: asmon -- A system resource monitor dockapp for Afterstep and WindowMaker

2001-01-08 Thread Paul van Tilburg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Description: A system resource monitor dockapp for Afterstep and WindowMaker Asmon is a wharfable/dockable application for that displays meters detailing CPU, memory, swap, and X mem usage. Also included the exact numbers for load average, mem, swap, and

gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, does anybody know if it is possible to start the built-in run command (similar to xexec) of the gnome-panel, outside the gnome desktop, e.g. under icewm. I tried to find the command's name but did not succeeed. I also tried to find it out by looking into the process-list, but the start of the

Re: Developer Behavior [new maintainer waiting period]

2001-01-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:23:05AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: What I'm trying to say is that if you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you would benefit the project, you will be accepted. All I stated was that it was less efficient for many people to do work through sponsors. Well, let's do an

ITP: mol - the Mac-on-Linux emulator

2001-01-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to package MOL, an emulator for running MacOS on PowerPC Linux. MOL is licensed under the GPL. Source, binaries, and rpm files can be downloaded from http://www.maconlinux.org/ . Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et

ITP: cfitsio - a library for handling FITS data files

2001-01-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to package cfitsio, the C version of a library for handling the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format, widely used in the astronomical community. The current version of cfitsio can be downloaded in form of a compressed tarball

ITP: xgospel - a client for playing Go on IGS

2001-01-08 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to package xgospel, a client for playing the game of Go on the Internet Go Server IGS. While the source of xgospel is readily available from http://img.teaser.fr/~jlgailly/go.html, I couldn't find any hint of a license for this program. So the first step

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