Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for July 10

1998-07-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Package: cvs Maintainer: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24378 cvs not Y2K-compliant I fail to see how this is release-critical. Package: dpkg-dev Maintainer: Klee

Re: RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

1998-06-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:55:07PM -0400, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: Agreed, it's an ugly hack, but it may be a while before this issue is resolved and I have received several messages which suggest people want a mod_perl solution fairly promptly. This would beat each user trying to compile it

Re: New gnome packages

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Am I correct that we currently do not have a complete desktop with gnome? Since there is no wm yet, it's pretty difficult to judge it. Last I heard, the gnome team doesn't intend to have a specific window manager---instead they're

Re: Including non-PIC code in a shared library?

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 03:39:07PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: little worried that mixing PIC and non-PIC code might do some other harm. Does it? Or will it just make this shared object unsharable? Everything I've ever heard suggests that the GGI people are correct---it will merely be

Re: Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: Never mind - I forgot how I handled it the last time, from the 1.0 to the 1.1 upgrade. Just test in the preinst for the previous version and show a warning, upgrade instructions and a prompt there. Seemed to work the last time .. so it will

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, at least part of their rationale for the new scheme is to allow multiple versions of perl, a feature that debian is not interested in. Threaded perl and non-threaded perl are binary-incompatible at the extension level, meaning most compiled

important perl5.005 issues (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:54:46PM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman écrivait: Threaded perl and non-threaded perl are binary-incompatible at the extension level, meaning most compiled extensions must be distinguishable. I think you're wrong. perl5.005

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gnus 25609 Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to upgrade/pruge [64] (Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) We should not ship without although it's technically not essential. We'd better find somebody to fix this bug. MAD

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sysutils 29392 oldversion procinfo in sysutils is broken [76] (Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Is there a reason not to put the new version in? I need someone to confirm for me that the new sysutils that I put in potato will work

Re: Old Library dependencies Re: Release Plans (19990513)

1999-05-13 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remove as many dependencies on old libraries as possible, this includes: libjpegg6a, libncurses3.4, newt0.25, libpgsql, tk4.2, tcl7.6, libwraster1, libpng0g and various older gtk/gnome libraries. Looking at some of these, it occurs to

Re: CALL for PAM support

1999-05-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a libapache-mod-pam, which enables apache auth using PAM modules, already packaged. It has some drawbacks due to permissions (apache runs as www-data so it cannot access /etc/shadow). This can't be avoided however. Um, doesn't libpwdb take care

ITP: gphone

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
gphone (aka gnome-o-phone) is an internet telephone with a gtk interface. It uses GSM compression, and thus should be useable over reasonable modem connections, and is also compatible with the speakfreely program for Windows and Unix. http://www.math.okstate.edu/~droland/gphone/gphone.html

Re: ITP: gphone

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erm. Speak Freely employs crypto (it's in non-US/non-free). If gphone employs crypto as well, shouldn't we find a non-US maintainer and a non-US download location for it? Sorry, I probably should have elaborated. gphone will work with speakfreely

Re: Steve Haslam and Gnome in potato

1999-09-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If nobody is willing to do it, I'll do it myself. I'm willing to _help_. I worry that as one works on resolving these things, one will discover that there's cascading upgrades required... Mike.

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cool idea. But would it help Debian except of being a big social developer event ? Sometimes social functions can lead to increased cooperation. Plus there's the opportunity to discuss technical issues in a perhaps more interactive medium. Mike.

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might need to be conducted on canvas, in the presence of a referee, while wearing padded gloves. ;-) Possibly. I would _hope_, however, that being face to face might have the opposite effect.

Unofficial emacs 20.4 available...

1999-09-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Having recently found out that emacs 20.4 was available, combined with a bit of time while waiting for the hurricane to pass through, I decided to cook up some emacs 20.4 packages. Those interested in getting them can download them from http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/ I have made no attempt

Re: name2() solved

1999-09-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Paul Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: header files, but what is the correct way to code this functionality? if its not in the stdc++ headers, how are people supposed to solve similar problems that name2() solved? (even tho its pretty damn simple code). Speaking without having looked at

Re: Orphaning Packages

1999-09-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Stevie Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libxml-parser-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-cgi-perl /* Does this exist anymore on CPAN? I haven't found * it since I originally packaged it. */ libxml-writer-perl I can take these. Mike.

New gnome-libs stuff up for testing...

1999-09-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I believe I have a gotten a good build of an updated gnome-libs. And I only cursed Joey for the problems with dh_shlibdeps a little bit. It is currently a little lacking in the changelog department---that kind of got over-looked in the overhaul---but otherwise I think it's ready to go. One

Re: New gnome-libs stuff up for testing...

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't have permission to access /~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/ on this server. Damn, that was lame of me. Fixed. Mike.

Re: ITP: libfont-metrics-perl

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless someone else is working on this, I intend to package the Font::Metrics::* modules for perl. libhtml-tree-perl needs them to successfully use HTMMML::FormatPS. Let me know when it gets out of incoming, and i'll gladly change libhtml-tree-perl to

Re: ITP: phpmyadmin

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Depends: php3 (= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server, php3-mysql Is it really not able to work with anything but localhost? And if that's not the case, why require

Re: To grok grep output....

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS linux/CREDITS --- v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS Mon Aug 9 16:05:54 1999 +++ linux/CREDITS Wed Aug 25 17:29:45 1999 @@ -689,14 +689,11 @@ The fourth line is made of two pairs,

Re: problems with the perl5 packages

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon perl. This is incorrect. Current versions of libnet-perl do not require perl. Mike.

Re: problems with the perl5 packages

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This brings up another issue. Both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 provide perl5, but it was my understanding that these two versions were substantially different, at least during installation I got a long story about how I would need to convert databases to

Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, if you're getting a Perl binary that's 0600, it's either you, apt-get, or dpkg. I've seen this on both my machines, and I've got a log here (which I suspect is mostly a repeat of Branden's): (Reading database ... 8970 files and directories

Re: problems with the perl5 packages

1999-09-25 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [2] Debian doesn't create this specific hard link, but it should. For example, my system has /usr/bin/perl5.00503. Well, we do have perl-5.X, sans subversion. Which is admittedly not exactly what you refer to, but I thought that changes in

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gnome-libs-1.0.40.tar.gz The main GNOME libraries * current Debian version: 1.0.10-3 [NMU of 1.0.40-0.1 is in Incoming/] I am committed to keeping this up to date. If Steve Haslam doesn't show up soon, I'm going to adopt it. Mike.

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a few more binary packages are produced) Only one, really. Mike.

ITP: bonobo

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
The bonobo framework for GNOME componentry has just hit its first public release. I intend to package it up. See attachment for details. Mike. ---BeginMessage--- Hello guys, I have just released the first public version of Bonobo (bonobo-0.4), the GNOME component system and compound

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *** means it does not appear to be packaged yet. Well, no, it just means you're not aware of Debian's naming schemes for library packages. *** 541066 Aug 2 17:32 Gtk---1.0.2.tar.gz look for *gtkmm *** 313788 Sep 20 17:58

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libgnobjc or something to that effect. I still don't see this package anywhere, I am either overlooking it or it is not packaged? I'm sure it's packaged. Don't remember the exact name (don't use objective-c much :-). Mike.

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1.0.40 3196381 Sep 27 15:19 gnome-libs-1.0.42.tar.gz and recompile. Will be done in no time. Don't worry. But only if it is installed in the archive by now (last time I checked it was stuck in incoming). I just uploaded 1.0.42. I believe 1.0.40

Hosed potato/main/Packages...

1999-09-29 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
the aleph-* packages have Priority: optionnal, which is, well, wrong. Mike.

Re: Hosed potato/main/Packages...

1999-09-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, just uploaded some new packages which fix the typo. I just hand-edited my available file. :-) Maybe it should be trapped by dinstall I tend to agree. I wonder how that can be done using the tools themselves, so we don't end up with

Re: Need help for GPG

1999-10-04 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And finally, anyone knows if I can integrate gpg with Gnus ? Mailcrypt should work with gpg, I believe (just converted myself, haven't tested). Mike.

ITP/RFP: libsigc++ (as libsigcpp)...

1999-10-05 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Actually, deep down this is more a RFP, but I'm willing to do it myself to see it happen. :-) I need this library to package the Quasimodo modular, extensible, real-time audio/MIDI Environment for POSIX-ish Operating Systems. About: This library implements a full callback system for use in

Re: dpkg: dpkg-divert syntax error

2000-03-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Slootman) writes: Note the missing braces round the unlink statement. Somone's obviously been doing to much C lately... Unfortunately, dselect itself also seems broken---when I select the 'U'pdate menu item, dselect exits with the following message: dselect: failed to

Re: emacs19 removal? [was: rms@gnu.org: Bug#57636: Security problem with emacs19]

2000-03-11 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Takao KAWAMURA) writes: Can we remove emacs19 from unstable now? It's de facto orphaned both upstream and in Debian, and a new version exists, supported in both upstream and Debian. Yes we can. We should do so, I think. If so, please be sure to get rid of custom as

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chip, how did it come to be that you are so cool and Tom Christiansen so...isn't? :) Isn't it obvious? Doses of MST3K that would make a normal man into a pile of quivering jelly. :-) Mike.

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: html2latex tetex, perhaps? eaudio Um, xmms I think. gtkbrowser Hmmm. No idea. Mike.

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-04-01 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:15:22AM -0500, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: eaudio Um, xmms I think. Since xmms does not mention eaudio anywhere in its control file I though these two programs were completely different. Well, the author of eaudio dropped

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-04-03 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point is: an exact question needs an exact answer. Except for Craig's understandable but unfortunate need to take shots at old DOS programmers, he gave you the right answer---and to the extent that exactness matters, it is also exact. You asked, more or less, How

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by using readline and who subsequently put ncftp under GPL as consequence of complaints was asked to beg for being

Re: Restarting Build on a Package

2000-09-12 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to bootstrap a program that takes quite a while to build, and if it dies during configuration and I have to rebuild it again I'm going to pull my hair out. While you're trying to perfect the deb script, why don't you use 'debian/rules build'

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Josselin, As I have publically stated before, I will happily give up this package to someone who is obviously motivated to improve it Are you that person? Mike

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After re-reading my message, I would like to apologize for having been unnecessarily rude, being already tense for other reasons. Apology accepted. I don't want to handle libnet-perl, but I can try to provide a patch for that specific issue if you

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would do this regardless of who the maintainer was. I seem to recall possibly doing it for some Perl HTML package that was in a similar situation to Bacula in the late 90s, but I can't really remember. I'm sure you could dig up links. It was the URI

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? The SQL backend is known to suffer from neglect, it's probably not a good thing to start encouraging people to use at this time. I gather that the gnucash developers intend to

ITA: cyrus-sasl2?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
cyrus-sasl2 is an important package, and according to p.q.d.o, it's been nearly two years since Dima Barsky last made a release. In the intervening time there have been numerous NMUs, but no one has claimed ownership, and it currently has 5 RC bugs, 39 important/normal ones, etc. I other words,

Re: ITA: cyrus-sasl2?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has come up a couple of times recently. If you want to help out you should subscribe to that mailing list, and get yourself added to the alioth project and then coordinate your work with them. Thanks for the pointer. I don't see them making a

Bug#1507: Still no /etc/services

1995-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Package: base After an uneventful install, I logged in to find that /etc/services has apparently been overlooked. I realize that there was some discussion as to whether or not it actually belonged in netbase, but it has to be a zillion times more relevant to the base installation than, say,

Bug#1517: Rebooting from install disks has errors

1995-10-01 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Package: base Rebooting my system from the 9/27 boot/root menu gets some dismaying messages and invariably cause a kernel error. I think it's an OOPS --- I'm not 100% clear on the difference between an OOPS and a PANIC. 8 _setutent: Can't open utmp file: no such file or directory

Bug#1530: Source doesn't seem to depend on bin86

1995-10-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I can think of a couple of reasons that bin86 might not be in the true-blue depends for the source package, but I'd think it'd at least be recommended since you can't compile a new kernel without it. Mike. -- And I swear that I don't have a gun.

Bug#1540: fvwm should require/recommend m4

1995-10-03 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Package: fvwm Version: 1.24r Revision: 6 The system.fvwm pretty much requires m4 (you get errors in your ~/.xsession-errors, not to mention the fact that it's basically unusable) but it's not even recommended by the package. Mike. -- And I swear that I don't have a gun.

Re: ppp 2.2?

1995-10-04 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Ian Murdock wrote: Has anyone gotten ppp 2.2 to work? It has been shown to work on 1.2.XX. I've not done it. I finally got it to compile, after realizing that I had to install a few replacement kernel headers. Why are these kernel headers not in the standard

Re: Package Giveaway, Take Two

1995-10-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Bernd S. Brentrup wrote: (ii) Distributing the Program on a CD-ROM, provided that the files containing the Program are reproduced entirely and verbatim on such CD-ROM, and provided further that all information on such CD-ROM be redistributable for non-commercial

Bug#1725: /etc/init.d/ppp still sources /etc/init.d/functions

1995-10-21 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Package: ppp Revision: 2.2-1 /etc/init.d/ppp still sources /etc/init.d/functions which, I believe, was decided to be a no-no, since start-stop-daemon subsumed all of its functionality, and since any script that uses it is effectively disabled from command-line use because /etc/init.d/functions

Conflicting with a range of revisions...

1995-10-22 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Well, I've decided to return to Matt Porters' previous split between minicom and lrzsz. One side-effect of this is that I need to make the updated lrzsz package conflict just with minicom-1.71-[1..2] (the ones that included lrzsz). I can't seem to make it do so. I've tried specifying:

Re: Conflicting with a range of revisions...

1995-10-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ian == Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian `|' is not allowed in conflicts; `,' is used to mean OR. It would be nice if CONFLICTS and the other fields used the same notation for OR/AND, instead of being in direct apposition. Could the current behavior be gradually phased out at some

Bug#1777: Source not compiling properly?

1995-10-29 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Karl Ferguson wrote: Now, it wont quit at the point - it goes on to finish. But when booting the kernel I get this error: unregister_netdev: device 'ppp0' unlinked unregister_netdev: device 'ppp1' unlinked unregister_netdev: device 'ppp2' unlinked unregister_netdev:

Re: Debian for Linux/{non-i386} / source packaging

1995-10-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, David Engel wrote: First, I prefer to go with unmodified, upstream source. Second, I really mean unmodified, i.e.. the Debianizing script (or whatever) must take care of unpacking into subdirectories, if necessary. I'll go further and say that I think that any approach

Re: Setting up a PPP server

1995-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Brian Hutchinson wrote: Has anyone setup a PPP server under Debian? I tried a few times with R5 without much luck. I set one up under R5. I'm looking to redo some of that work because the pppd in R6 should be able to act without a getty on the serial port which means you

Re: aout-* packages

1995-11-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, David Engel wrote: The kernel can still be compiled in a.out format. The a.out development tools aren't completely going away. They just won't be the default. If you really want to compile 1.2.13 in ELF format, I suggest you politely request Linus to update it one last

Re: Building ncurses...a couple of questions...

1995-12-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Raul Miller wrote: I wasn't thinking about anything specific... I was just worrying about potential configurations with no /usr partition. I probably shouldn't have even mailed the original message. No, I think it's a valid question to bring up---I was just confused about

Bug#1984: dpkg won't install cdtool

1995-12-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: Michael Alan Dorman writes (Bug#1984: dpkg won't install cdtool): Try doing a --purge first. I was having a similar problem and that solved it. I just assumed it was my system, but apparently not. ??? I'm very puzzled. Sorry, looking back over

Re: Building ncurses...a couple of questions...

1995-12-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, J.H.M.Dassen wrote: I don't see the necessity of this. Take bash for instance: it uses readline, which uses ncurses. Taking this to its logical absurdity, we get: Let's just require that everything be on one big hard drive so it's all in the root partition so we don't have

Unidentified subject!

1995-12-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: So far I have been unable to find a copy of the patch that lets you fall back to another directory. However, support is already in there to allow I don't know that the patch even exists anymore. However, a quick and dirty hack is only a two line

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: That all sounds reasonable. I take it that the terminfo manipulation programs and the manpages are small enough that having them installed on every system is not a problem (ncurses-runtime will be an essential package). Actually, they're going into a

Bug#1984: dpkg won't install cdtool

1995-12-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: That sounds like the same bug. I'm worried about it, but I don't have enough to go on. I'll see if I can re-create it. I'll mention that I _may_ have done the first installation of cdtool with 1.0.6, but then you warned people away from it and I grabbed

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: ncurses-term-1.9.7a-1.deb will contain the monolithic set of terminfo files. It depends on the lockstep revision of ncurses-base (since we might move a few more things out of term and into base as they seem appropriate -- getting out of sync might

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Jeff Noxon wrote: If the ncurses guys are going to keep blowing off binary compatibility, then perhaps we should not mess with ncurses at all. I suspect, especially now that we've got the package load spread around more, that Debian will be able to keep up. I'm not really

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: ncurses2-1.9.7a-1.deb will be the shared library package. It is ncurses2 because the major portion of the soname is 2. It will depend on libc5 and ncurses-base. This should be ncurses21-* (or ncurses2.1-*). As was already noted, the major version

ncurses out within the hour...

1995-12-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I'll be uploading the new shared-lib ELF ncurses package(s) within the hour (just as soon as I rebuild the dist files to get rid of a few spurious nohup.out files I left behind...). I think I've got all bases covered, but I'd certainly not mind having a few especially adventurous souls

announcing ncurses 1.9.8a (fwd)

1995-12-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Well, I figure all the work I did on 1.9.7a will apply to 1.9.8a. Also, Jeff, they're almost promising the ABI will quit changing! Mike. -- I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 21:29:57 -0800 From: Zeyd M. Ben-Halim [EMAIL

ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Since ftp.debian.org seems to still be having problems with people downloading new files, I'm putting a copy of ncurses-1.9.8a in ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/bruce/Incoming, since a handful of people have contacted me since yesterday to ask if I could send them copies directly. I think ncurses wins

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Matthew Bailey wrote: There is NO problem with uploads. The fact that I receive 10-5 mails a day to ftpadmin about corrupt files in private/project/Incoming made me opt for this method. This should be for INCOMING use only. the files will be available as soon as the ftp

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote: Minor doc-bug in ncurses-1.9.8a/debian.README: ncurses21 should read ncurses3.0 Blast, I thought I had parameterized that _everywhere_. Oh, well. It's fixed. I hope ncurses3.0 will be a stabile ABI, since a lot of packages depends on it. That's why I

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote: ncurses-base-1.9.8a-1.deb should have a debian.preinst to kill the link etc/terminfo - ../usr/lib/terminfo provided by base-0.93.6. Or it is intended that these fall into /usr/lib/terminfo? No, it isn't. They are supposed to be totally disconnected. Thanks

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: The -dev package provides virtual ncurses-dev package but it also needs to conflict with it. Oops. You told me that. Done. The symlinks for lib*.so are in the runtime package. They should be in the -dev package. Makes sense. Done. The shared

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Stephen Early wrote: I think ncurses wins an award for most packages from one source archive. ...soon to be trumped by X, which is currently generating 24 packages from one source archive. Forgot about that one --- the whole group come from just the one source package,

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: I have been told that this is undesirable for some autoconfed programs with emacs being the most notable example. I don't remember all of the details but it has to do with forcing autoconf to use the curses/termlib interface to ncurses instead of the

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote: It doesn't make sense to me. I thought that the runtime package would include all of the shared libraries that other programs might need. It does. Isn't that what lib*.so provide, the shared libraries? And the symlinks are used by ld.so, no? On a

newest ncurses

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I'm now uploading ncurses-1.9.8a-2 co. It is also available for ftp from lot49.med.miami.edu:/pub/linux/ until it gets cleared at ftp.debian.org. Please don't release any packages that depend on this for a couple of days at least. Anyone who's seeing problems with the current package, please

Re: bumping the version number

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: Making the parent directory unreadable caused mirror programs to not mirror that directory. They might mirror the symlink, but it won't do much good. Although they could mirror if they had a special userid/password (as I believe has been set up)---they

Re: Shared libraries mysteriously disappearing

1995-12-13 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: The easiest solution I came up with was to only run ldconfig from postinst scripts and not from postrm scripts. The only disadvantage I can see from doing this is that a stale link and an outdated entry in ld.so.cache may get left behind if the package

More ncurses...

1995-12-13 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
A few relatively minor changes. Date: 14 Dec 95 01:39 UT Source: ncurses Binary: ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term ncurses3.0 ncurses3.0-dev Version: 1.9.8a-3 Description: ncurses-base: Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of terminals ncurses-bin: Video terminal manipulation:

Erick Branderhorst Saves the World...

1995-12-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Well, actually, all he did was suggest an excellent solution for something that had been bothering me about the ncurses packages: When installing ncurses-base, you have to do all sorts of special things using dpkg to get dpkg to pretend that you're not messing things up by removing

Re: coming soon

1995-12-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Michael K. Johnson wrote: All the other Linux distributions are going to /etc/rc.d/* because that's what comes with the svinit package. It works very well; in practice I've found that it's one of the things that I like better about my Red Hat system than my Debian system.

Bug#2040: xserver-mach32 won't do 1024x768x16bpp...

1995-12-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Package: xserver-mach32 Version: 3.1.2-2 This is a documented bug in the original source---I believe I sent a patch that could be used to create a xserver-mach32x or something that would be compiled to allow users who wanted to to drive their cards at something resembling its capabilities.

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote: * Should we create a new user and/or group to control access to the hierarchy of html files? If so, why don't we make it official and get Bruce to include in the base /etc/group and /etc/passwd files. User nobody and group nogroup is either already

Re: More ncurses...

1995-12-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, roro wrote: My bash is now (and should be in the future, maybe even with shared readline): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tty1:/lib# ldd /bin/bash libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 and don't like to be invoked without

Re: More ncurses...

1995-12-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Richard Kettlewell wrote: I believe under ELF it would actually be dynamically loaded are therefore not drag libncurses into perl unless you actually used it, but it's so wonderful I think it deserves a mention l-) You know, you'd think I'd remember that, considering I

Bug#2053: libjpeg doesn't have .so link for compiling...

1995-12-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Package: libjpeg Version: 6 Revision: 1 In order to be able to link with the shared library version of libjpeg, the package needs to include a link from /usr/lib/libjpeg.so to /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6. Mike. -- I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones.

Bug#2055: Mirror: two problems using files for associative arrays

1995-12-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Package: mirror Version: 2.8 Revision: 0 I'm sending this as a debian problem report and to the mirror list. The first, and less important issue is that due to a typo in the mirror.pl file, mirror stores temporary files in / when using associative arrays to store information about local and

Bug#2081: named does not start

1996-01-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Marc Bourguet w rites: PS=`ps -p $PID 2/dev/null| tail -1 | grep named` You might want to make this PS=`ps -p $PID 2/dev/null| tail -1 | grep named | grep -v grep` so that it doesn't pick up the grep process as well. Mike. -- I thought I'd something more to

Bug#2083: machine hangs when ftping large file

1996-01-03 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
The network card is an Intel Etherexpress 16. This is the problem right here. The Intel driver, when confronted with a large file being transferred over a local subnet on a fast (P5) system, will spool a zillion messages to your syslog (as the errors mount) and then fall over. I have verified

Files on the FTP site...

1996-01-07 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
ncurses3.0-1.9.8a-3 should be in base, seeing as how it contains the shared libraries. Also, strictly speaking, ncurses-bin-1.9.8a-3 probably doesn't _need_ to be in base (I'd hope the programs in it probably aren't going to see much use). Also, the latest versions of minicom/lrzsz seem to have

If no section/priority in control file, then where?

1996-06-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
OK, last Thursday I was told that use of section and priority in the control files of packages was deprecated by those whose opinions would seem to matter most---Ian Jackson, dpkg maintainer, and Guy Maor, archive maintainer. This is fine with me---one less detail to track for each package. What

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