Re: Debian 2.0 CDs back in place on ftp1

1998-06-05 Thread Yann Dirson
Johnie Ingram writes: 620062720 Jun 3 13:30 CD0/Debian-i386-2.0-980603-1730Z.iso So main+contrib finally fits on 1 CD ? 335355904 Jun 3 11:16 CD1/Debian-misc-2.0-980603-1516Z.iso Could you give a brief description of what this misc CD is ? Thanks, -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL

Re: Results Constitution

1998-11-24 Thread Yann Dirson
Debian Voting Secretary writes: These results arepreliminary but the vote looks pretty solid I will doulbe check when I get back from brazil. [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yann Dirson ! Bad PGP or not PGP signed Well, this was my 1st attempt

Re: Bug#197797: gnome-terminal v2 is horribly slow to display

2003-06-17 Thread Yann Dirson
[CC debian-devel-fr - puisqu'il y a un semblant de debut d'infos techniques sur le bug, et en francais, autant que soit archive a un endroit ou on pourra les comprendre...] On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:49:13PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bon OK

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-16 Thread Yann Dirson
really needs a new maintainer ! Well, IMHO, at least... Maybe I'll volunteer, but not right now... anyway it's too late for hamm :( -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL

RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: Sure, but it would be nice to have some sort of a mechanism to help us to deal with bugs and dists. I think that we should keep the state of each bug-report regarding each dist (stable/frozen/unstable/experimental). Thinking backward, I don't like my last proposal

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-22 Thread Yann Dirson
quickly about related reports, without forcing them to get through all the thread when not needed. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
... -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Dale Scheetz writes: In the mean time, unless anyone can object within the next several hours, I will construct and upload a new release of glibc with the version number: 2.0.7r-1 I would advise for 2.0.7final instead. IMHO 2.0.7r looks much like an additional patch-level. -- Yann Dirson

Handling of pre/alpha/beta (Was: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
summary; I will probably issue an updated one shortly. A number of us are of the opinion that we should take a decision on this once and for all, and that it gets included in the Packaging Manual. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Craig Sanders writes: how about using 2.07pre8-1, 2.07pre8-2, and so on for the next set of glibc pre-releases? Seems like it doesn't work: $ dpkg --compare-versions 2.07pre8-1 '' 2.0.8 echo yes || echo no no -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Rob Browning writes: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Note: I don't know much about the internals of the BTS; I hope this will be accurate enough, though] * These fields would be named by the codename of the dist (eg. `hamm_status') - can this be achieved easily

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
to comment other points there ! Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
2.0.7r looks much like an additional patch-level. Um. f comes before p in the alphabet, whereas r comes after p. 2.0.7final 2.0.7pre 2.0.7r Aïe, where did I leave my head... Craig Sanders writes: On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote: Yann Dirson wrote: Craig Sanders

Re: JED anyone?

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
take it over for slink, but I remember someone recently saying there was already work in progress on this. Don't remember who it was - just hope he'll read this thread. OTOH, I've also several other plans for early slink, so someone else with less plans than me could have a try a jed... -- Yann

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
bewteen and including 0.96-1 and 0.96a-3. Filling a Fixed-in-Version field with either of 0.95-16 or 0.96a-4 would be wrong. We don't want that. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email

Re: 19980623 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
for the full listing ? -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check http://www.debian.org

Intent to package TEI P3 + LSD

1998-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
on `plan' (even though it's not marked as such ;), and handle any such new bug on my hamm packages if any. Should there be no answer from me within 2 days to such a report, consider I'm too busy and feel free to do a NMR. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp

DO NOT UPGRADE TO PLAN 1.6.1-4.2 ! USE -5

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
suffered from this. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check http://www.debian.org

Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

1998-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
: # ln -s xterm /usr/bin/X11/xterm-black # cat /etx/X11/Xresources EOF xterm-black*background: black xterm-black*foreground: gray90 EOF Branden, maybe it should be added to the X packages ? -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, isp-email: [EMAIL

Re: office package

1998-10-12 Thread Yann Dirson
need some help to do this, as I will probably need X binaries with debugging syms, and I can't decently recompile this beast on my poor 4DX33. Furthermore, I don't want to fetch X sources through my 33.6 modem - I guess I'll need to order a source CD. Any help appreciated on this. TIA, -- Yann

e2fsprogs 1.12 into hamm ? (Was: Bug#27401: fsck.ext2 segfaults)

1998-10-15 Thread Yann Dirson
to the stable tree now. Any objection ? -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.mygale.org/~ydirson/ | Check

Suggestions for new packages

1999-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
+ app which stores incoming calls in either an mSQL or a mySQL database, and announces the call both visually and audibly. The user can change the names on calls, and set the spoken greeting. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to automatically update files on alioth from svn

2005-11-29 Thread Yann Dirson
the repo should provide the level of authentication you need, or do I miss something ? HTH -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratis http://ydirson.free.fr

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-08 Thread Yann Dirson
much time here however. Basically, /etc/console-tools/config should end up being generated by the postinst from debconf-entered information. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:39:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Probably this should be discussed here and if noone objects changed ASAP, so that any problems get caught quickly. Don't change that. Beginners would be very

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-14 Thread Yann Dirson
-data's README.Debian. Best regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Cheaper, more Powerful, more Stable ! http://ydirson.free.fr/ | Check http

Re: console-tools vs kbd

2001-01-04 Thread Yann Dirson
one ?), just adding 2 dummy parameters at the end of the command-line should do the trick. HTH, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Cheaper, more Powerful

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
the various kernel-image-whatever build-depend on this kernel-source and any necessary kernel-patch packages. If this understanding is correct, I admit I don't see why the practice has diverged from this idea. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
proven deficient in some way, but I probably missed many things - I am even under the impression their construction is not even done by make-kpkg itself. Could someone elaborate on that ? (Herbert ? Manoj ?) Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
patch. Additionally, with things done this way, we're not even forced to update the whole kernel-source-2.4.20 seven times or more, we just have to update kernel-source-debian-2.4.20, which I believe would be good for the health of our network pipes. Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
-level kernel-version support. Although that may not look like a big deal, that seems to show that at some time a redesign of the interface between make-kpkg and the patches themselves would be a good idea. Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
toward at this time, however. Yes, a new generation of source packages is needed, but if we could settle the kernel-packaging issue without this, that would at least help to get it running for sarge... Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
at some point to have a look at something like a merge of this part into make-kpkg. But since this is all about things yet to be written, we'll see later. Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:37:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:23:27AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:00:06PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: We could get around Guido's point mentionned above by having a list of default patches to apply, which

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
the patches by hand, instead of declaring explicit dependencies (much like sysvinit and others do, and like the patch-ordering facility in make-kpkg). If the above is correct, I'd see that as a step backwards. Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
:) Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratuity http://ydirson.free.fr/| Check http://www.debian.org/

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
to be quite rare anyway. And we could give a NMU numbering-space with 2 dots, by making the 1st revision of an arch patch to be -8.0 at first. Does it make sense ? -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
Adam wrote: So doing bts work is worthless? :) Hey, someone once wrote similar scripts to count how many bugreports were reported by anyone ! /me rejoices recalling he was ranked 3rd by the number of open bugs :) Well, never mind :) -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill

What is the default gcc version ?

2003-06-30 Thread Yann Dirson
? [please CC me on followup] Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratuity http://ydirson.free.fr/| Check http

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-18 Thread Yann Dirson
. But precisely, one of the problems for those people, is that _some_ packages _do_not_ change rapidly enough... Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Freedom

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
, and libfoo0_1.0-2 in unstable, we'd end up with libfoo0_1.0-2.0.1 in pre-testing, and libfoo0_1.0-2.0.2 in unstable, whether the latter was rebuilt or just repacked. Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
exactly determine from changelogs (debian _and_ upstream) what version of a builddep is needed, and make a safe bet. Regards, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Wishing to maintain package 'dpkg-ftp'

1997-05-13 Thread Yann Dirson
no opposition to that, and start releasing fixes. Is there any reason not to do so ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

e2fsprogs_1.07-1 still in 'experimental' !

1997-05-14 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: master.debian.org Version 1.07-1 in experimental of e2fsprogs has been superceeded by 1.10-2 in unstable. I think it should be removed. (experimental shadows unstable on my system; I think this is normal...) -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson

RFC: a Debian System Method for dpkg

1997-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
reasons. * conffiles would have to be handled correctly: maybe default conffiles should be always kept (*.dpkg-dist), and repack should be able to recognize them (with md5 ?). etc., probably... -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

RFC: a debian-daemon project

1997-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
, removing old versions from experimental when a newer has come into unstable (noone told be I was wrong here, so I persist ;-), maybe automatically find out between what versions the rsync algorithm would be profitable, etc. -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-17 Thread Yann Dirson
Mark Eichin writes: Granted, a *real* solution would be some way to point things off to other disks and have dpkg know about it so it handles upgrades cleanly. We've talked about this some but haven't gotten very far. Maybe a variation on dpkg-divert would fit well ? -- Yann Dirson e

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-17 Thread Yann Dirson
to build the package -- which makes it just as safe as things stand now. I'm not su sure: it seems you will still have to execute something to just *browse* to sources. Am I wrong ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-17 Thread Yann Dirson
whatever will be installed. I think some people do that, but maybe it should be written somewherer... -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Sysvinit and System.map (Was: dangling symlink System.map)

1997-05-26 Thread Yann Dirson
this link isn't updated on boot to point to boot/System.map-`uname -r`, or suppress the link and issue a warning if the latter is absent. This would ensure correctness, I think. Is there a good reason not to do so ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson

Re: Sysvinit and System.map (Was: dangling symlink System.map)

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Guy Maor writes: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't know either. But it's been some time I wonder why this link isn't updated on boot to point to boot/System.map-`uname -r`, or suppress the link and issue a warning if the latter is absent. This would ensure correctness, I

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
for it last year. On last resort, a specially-compiled CVS could be used ? Maybe we could use a $DebianId$ ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
mentionned, the manpage tells about undocumented runlevels 7-9. It also poorly tells about those AaBbCc I never really understood. More about these ? -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Taking over e2fsprogs ?

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
To Michael: Has anybody postulated to take over maintainance of the package ? If not, I'm a volunteer... Please let me know. Regards, -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Bug#112478: ITP: thoteditor -- customizable editor for structured documents

2001-09-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-16 Severity: wishlist Package name: thoteditor Version : 2.1e Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://opera.inrialpes.fr/thot/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/editors/

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-03 Thread Yann Dirson
already an entry in the BTS. -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratuity http://ydirson.free.fr/| Check http://www.debian.org/

Looking for a builder/uploader to fix RC bug on gcompris

2002-04-20 Thread Yann Dirson
, it will be great - otherwise I'll do that monday, but every day counts for woody... TIA, -- Yann Dirson[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Why make M$-Bill richer richer ? Debian-related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratuity http

Bug#157729: ITP: gatos-drm-source -- DRM modules source from the GATOS project, with support for recent ATI chips

2002-08-21 Thread Yann Dirson
: DRM modules source from the GATOS project, with support for recent ATI chips -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: * that's not complete either. As already mentionned, the manpage tells about undocumented runlevels 7-9. It also poorly tells about those AaBbCc I never really understood. I just tried those runlevels 7-9, with sysvinit_2.71-2. It just need few modifications to have them

Re: Taking over e2fsprogs ?

1997-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Tom Lees writes: On Wed, 28 May 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: Has anybody postulated to take over maintainance of the package ? If not, I'm a volunteer... Please let me know. If you do take it, please try to get the e2compr patches into it. I have requested that I take it to do

locale errors

1997-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
in the buffer !!! -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
down to your (our) debian-machines, when upgrading through FTP. -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
, and phone communications to ISP for users (eg. french) who still have to pay for local calls :( -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Yann Dirson
sysadmins to just install HTML on their own mono-user PCs. -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
architecture independant files! Please support me, someone :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Philip Hands writes: There is of course a problem with trying to install all the documentation on a machine, since some conflicting packages provide man pages with overlapping names. I think that the 'alternative' mechanism could be used there. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-06-29 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi all of you... I've just been reading this (quite old for now) thread. What's the status of the discussion now ? Has there been some new feeback from other groups ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread Yann Dirson
) ... -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread Yann Dirson
was assumed to be a package with libc5 libs, and I could not keep the name, without breaking dump and quota on a hamm upgrade. I thought that, e2fsprogsg being essential, would be flaged for installation as soon as it appears in the available packages. Is this not the case ? -- Yann Dirson

Re: Mailinglists documented

1997-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
to. Is there such a mechanism, or is there only this stuff (what's its name, anyway ?) to be run on master to get the info ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
it conflict with old dump and quota packages. There's not much chances anybody else will complaint, except for people having build local packages depending on it. Anyone has objections to this ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: (fwd) cutils version 1.5.2 - C language miscellaneous utilities

1997-12-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Hamish Moffatt writes: ctangle and cweave - simple literate C programming tools These are already part of the cweb package. If there're different, you may use alternatives ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

WARNING (Was: Uploaded e2fsprogs 1.10-9)

1997-12-10 Thread Yann Dirson
-9_i386.deb) ... Setting up e2fsprogs (1.10-9) ... -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http

Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-10 Thread Yann Dirson
the symbols (for gdb at least), but the last time I tried, it wasn't supported on i386. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-12

1997-12-13 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: James LewisMoss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: xemacs20-20.2-4 (Mixed dependencies; waiting for libcompface?) xemacs19-19.16-1 (Mixed dependencies; waiting for libcompface?) libcompface has already been converted. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop

Taking over tkman

1997-12-14 Thread Yann Dirson
If noone objects, I'll take tkman. The version we have seems to be obsolete since August. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Yann Dirson
parts of these directories (maybe like what /etc/init.d/rc allows with 'S' and 'K' names ?) -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more

Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Fabrizio Polacco writes: Yann Dirson wrote: Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables, not libs), and includes the libs symbols: But the real problem is that the sizes are ... unmanageable the shared lib is half the size of the static one, while

Re: options for menu packages

1997-12-17 Thread Yann Dirson
the current solution works OK for me, and is a very low-cost one ! Regards, -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable

Re: debian-kbd needs M4 hacker

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
had the opportunity of writing some M4 macros to work with autoconf. I may help, if you wish. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more

Re: Libc6 progress for contrib and non-free (Dec 1997)

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: non-free: xforms0.86-0.86-2 xmysql (contrib) is not listed, but depends on both libc6 and xforms0.86. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email

Re: Uploaded wwwoffle 2.0-1 (source i386) to chiark

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Federico Di Gregorio writes: * Added cron job to purge wwwoffle cache. Isn't it automatically handled by wwwoffled ? There is a Purge section in /etc/wwwoffle.conf (v1.3) that seem to indicate there's an internal mecahnism for this. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M

tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
tex.pro. [1] Here are the versions of tetex I'm using: base: 0.4pl8-4 bin: 0.4pl8-3 extra: 0.4pl8-2 BTW, I didn't find a way to access the changelogs from the packages WWW pages. It would be nice to add that, if I didn't miss them. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M

Re: tetex URGENT: can't use ygoth font

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: I cannot have the ygoth fonts to work correctly, and would appreciate some very-very-quick help. OK, thanks to all for your quick answers, and especially to Olaf for the fix. For those interested by the fix, here it is: Manually apply thefollowing diff to both MakeTexPK

I LOST mail between 21 Dec and 24 Dec.

1997-12-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi all of you, I had a mail problem with my ISP between the 21th and the 24th of december, which ended in 300 mails lost. If some of you emailed me any message during this period, there are good chances I didn't get it, and you should probably resend it. Thanks, -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL

Dependencies (Was: timezone/timezones problems)

1997-12-31 Thread Yann Dirson
been a bug in dpkg's dependency mechanism; I guess I reported that, but can't find out a copy in my folders, neither can I find it from the headers in Unanswered pbs... Does someone have an idea about that ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email

Re: Dependencies

1998-01-01 Thread Yann Dirson
package installation. Yes, that's how I interpret the problem with e2fsprogs. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable

My Epson Stylus (color 600) config

1998-01-07 Thread Yann Dirson
on the printer-name. It will prevent to have many filters differing only by the resolution used. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-08 Thread Yann Dirson
for that ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check http

Offering package tkman (non-free)

1998-04-07 Thread Yann Dirson
author of the usefulness of any of my suggestions, so I guess this will have to be done by the Debian maintainer of the package. I'll gladly offer my tkman mail folder, containing most of my ideas, to the new maintainer. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer

Re: ksymoops packaged ? System.map issues ...

1998-04-08 Thread Yann Dirson
is not explicitly specified the # following filenames will be tried: # # /boot/System.map # /System.map # /usr/src/linux/System.map The manpage is out of date. It also looks for /boot/System.map-$(uname -r). -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-09 Thread Yann Dirson
even less about routers, but I assume they just act as an interface between several networks as well - anyway, there is a kernel option optimize as router, not host that's sufficient to tell not every machine is a router. Same regarding all firewalling options in the kernel. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
-tools package (see slink - still in Incoming for now), as function findfile() in libctutils (/usr/include/lct/utils.h). Note that I stillconsider this to be in alpha stage - it has to be made more modular. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
allow arbitrary (as long as supported by dpkg-source) compression tools to be used. Let's say .bz2 files on ftp sites, and .gz files on CD's ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian

Re: Mirror of Incoming

1998-04-24 Thread Yann Dirson
There's one here: ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming Maybe some list of such mirrors could be added to the Developper's Corner ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian

Looking for xemacs20 user wishing to help

1998-04-27 Thread Yann Dirson
if possible) who would like to run some elisp code for me, and send me back the list of those files. Thanks by advance, -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RFC: dpkg and handling of the Unconfigured state

1998-04-27 Thread Yann Dirson
treatment in this case, in that they would not be subject to these manipulations. This proposal only concerns executables. Maybe other things can be done, eg. for shared libs, but I'm no expert here. Any comments on this ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer

Re: RFC: dpkg and handling of the Unconfigured state

1998-04-28 Thread Yann Dirson
alot of stuff as it is unpacked. Ah. That may be another problem, which probably comes from the fact that dpkg is not able to do multiple install/configure cycles in one run. Once that is fixed, I think the problem you mention will go away. Right ? -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Yann Dirson
be interesting. If this file is going to be modified only by the registering interface, then this should not be necessary. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: [EMAIL

Languages for Description (Was: language for changelog)

1998-04-29 Thread Yann Dirson
to deb-policy, so warn your CC: - I only added it in mine so that people who raised an interest in such issues in the previous thread read it] -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email

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