Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hi Joerg, I know I've gone MIA for quite a long time (graduated from university and got a full-time job). I don't know if I've gotten the WaT email yet, but I'd be glad to keep my email forwarding as an emeritus account. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to clean up all the accounts, and my

Re: Bug#220363: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Nov 11, 2003, at 11:00 PM, Mathieu Roy wrote: Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install gimp1.2-nonfree Discussion aside, this is a nonissue, since the gimp1.2-nonfree package is gone in unstable. I would very much like to close this bug. Does this solve this issue to

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Nov 12, 2003, at 1:27 AM, Mathieu Roy wrote: So you confirm what I thought (yes, I checked this page before): - the support for GIF creation inside the main gimp package, in main, has been removed in favor of a package in non-free, that provide the same functionality (plus patented

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Nov 12, 2003, at 7:38 AM, Eike Sauer wrote: As far as I know(*), the patent is still valid in Europe and Japan until mid 2004. Shouldn't this matter for an international project? This is true, I believe. Whether or not the main GIMP source (distributed in main) is even allowed in Europe and

Accepted nethack 3.4.2-1 (i386 source all)

2003-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Maintainer: Debian Nethack Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: nethack- Overhead dungeon-crawler game (dummy package) nethack-common - Common files for Nethack dungeon crawl game nethack-console - Text-based overhead view DD-style adventure

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of people who are willing to help those developers out by

Accepted gimp 1.2.5-3 (i386 source all)

2003-09-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:57:21 -0700 Source: gimp Binary: gimp1.2-perl libgimp1.2 gimp libgimp1.2-dev gimp-perl gimp1.2 Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.2.5-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL

Accepted gimp 1.2.5-2 (i386 source all)

2003-07-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:06:24 -0700 Source: gimp Binary: gimp1.2-perl libgimp1.2 gimp libgimp1.2-dev gimp-perl gimp1.2 Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.2.5-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL

Accepted gimp 1.2.5-1 (i386 source all)

2003-07-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:17:12 -0700 Source: gimp Binary: gimp1.2-perl libgimp1.2 gimp libgimp1.2-dev gimp-perl gimp1.2 Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.2.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL

Accepted nethack 3.4.1-1 (i386 source all)

2003-03-06 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: nethack- Overhead dungeon-crawler game (dummy package) nethack-common - Common files for Nethack dungeon crawl game nethack-console - Text-based overhead view DD-style adventure game nethack-gnome - Text

Accepted nethack 3.4.0-4 (i386 source all)

2002-11-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:45:27 -0800 Source: nethack Binary: nethack-x11 nethack-common nethack-gnome nethack nethack-qt Architecture: source i386 all Version: 3.4.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Richard == Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard While we're at it: How on earth can I get rid of those Richard Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Richard messages? I use LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 to get Umlauts Richard etc in mutt. Unfortunately,

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Paul == Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul I think that *mutt* is definitely broken in this regard, Paul because *no* other console program i know (e.g. mc or pine) Paul breaks like this using the very same libc. It's not just mutt. GTK+ has the same problem. The solution

Re: gimp 1.1

2001-01-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Do we actually need gimp1.1 and associated packages anymore? Joey gimp1.2 in in unstable. Nope, go ahead and toss it if we can get the other libgimp1.1 using packages out too.. Ben -- Brought to you by the letters F and E and the

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ethan == Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ethan pine is a lost cause anyway. i was thinking of GNUs which Ethan seems to be the other big offender of ignorage of M-F-To. Ethan (i am not sure if it respects Mail-Copies-To: never i just Ethan started adding that.) Gnus

Re: gtk-doc vs glib1.2-dev info file conflict

2000-12-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Svante == Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Svante When upgrading libgtk-doc glib.info.gz conflicts with the Svante same file from libglib1.2-dev. Which package is to remove Svante the info file? That's weird. From the control file: Package: libglib1.2-dev Architecture: any

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Kim == Kim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kim could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos This is about the third or fourth time we've gotten this request. Does anyone know why? :) (Here's an earlier one I found.) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:06:26 +0100 From: Martin Eldridge

Seems potato's now 'stable'! 2.2's out, then?

2000-08-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I guess nobody's actually announced it on the list, but the FTP sites seem to have moved the link for stable to potato! 2.2 must, logically, be released! Shocking. :) Congrats to everyone! (How come it wasn't announced on the list?) Ben -- Brought to you by the letters E and J and the number

New LILO for 1024 cylinders in potato, PLEASE!

2000-03-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
According to lwn.net, there is a new version of LILO just released that finally, finally adds an option to fix the horrid, dreaded LI problem on hard drives with 1024 cylinders. http://www.lwn.net/2000/0309/a/lilo.html Can this make it into potato? :) Ben -- Brought to you by the letters Y

Re: ARGH!!! Re: ITP: jnethack

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Vincent == Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vincent Here we go again with package forks... Can you *PLEASE* Vincent try to merge this patch with the upstream version 1st. Vincent If the patch is done correctly, I see no reason the Vincent upstream maintainer should

Re: ssh keys in ldap

1999-09-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason If nobody can see why this would be a bad idea I will Jason deploy this system on db.debian.org and the debian.org Jason machines in the near future. I hope that when lsh becomes Jason usable a similar patch to it can be

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
This is great, Joey! Can you show an example of how to use apt-get to *skip* configuration questions altogether? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters W and O and the number 14. It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy. Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ --

Re: Hosed system during package build

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale I'm going to take my time recovering from this, as there Dale are things still on hda1 that I am likely to want saved. Any Dale helpful hints about how to keep such things from happening Dale in the future would be greatfully

Re: w only giving `-' as the FROM field

1999-09-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Chris == Chris Rutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost* Chris all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections Chris made through `telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMed Chris `login', I once again have the

Re: People at Usenix

1999-05-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
blackie == blackie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: blackie Does anyone plan on attending Usenix ( 06-11 Jun 1999 )? I will be there. :) -- Brought to you by the letters A and J and the number 16. HEY YO GYS! Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ --

Re: possibly broken X development environment

1999-05-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
John == John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I was trying to compile ssystem, which compiled a couple of John weeks ago. Now libc5 compatible libaries are trying to be John linked. Is this a potato problem, or my problem ? This may be related to the grave bug #37641 I just

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Geeze -- ok, I'll fix it tonight. Thanks! I didn't mean to sound concilatory, but it seems a lot of packages have a lot of doc-base warnings these days.. -- Brought to you by the letters N and P and the number 19. You should be glad you

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}' Joey if $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; } This is a nice solution. -- Brought to you by the letters G and B and the number 7. When you had it, you didn't want it. Now you ain't got

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}' Joey if $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; } Ben This is a nice solution. Adam

doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I've been noticing that, even though we're all encouraged to use doc-base nowadays, that doc-base emits noxious and obnoxious warnings whenever it sees a format it doesn't recognize. I've just adapted libgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY install or removal, I get: Setting up libgtk1.2-doc

Re: A setuid bash doesn't give up root.

1999-05-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Karl == Karl M Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karl Perhaps we should have a policy that says all of our shells Karl should follow the Bash behaviour? This would help a *tiny* bit, but there are many many programs other than shells that will wreak havoc if they're made set-uid.

Re: GTK oops?

1999-01-31 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules Dear overworked gtk maintainer... Did you deliberately Jules upload a version 1.1.14 of gtk1.1.13? Looks confused to Jules me.. It was deliberate, but it was a mistake. The GTK+ maintainers told me 1.1.14 was binary compatible

Re: Conflicts in libgtk*-dev

1999-01-30 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ole == Ole J Tetlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ole Am I overlooking something obvious here? libgtk1.1.13-dev Ole provides libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev Ole but Ole libgtk1.1-dev conflicts with libgtk-dev libgtk1.1-dev is really an obsolete package in potato. Think of it as a

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben With Debian and Red Hat, it's totally the opposite. Moving Ben libraries around is what leads to upgrades being possible. Alexandre Then why do you find so much trouble with it? Because of -rpath. :) That's the only reason

-rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
. --- Start of forwarded message --- To: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] gimp1.1 rpath hell References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre You might have included my suggestion to prevent having Alexandre to move libraries in the first place: creating a Alexandre libc6-specific directory right now, instead of Alexandre installing libraries in /usr/lib

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am Jules baffled that anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for Jules drawing straight lines and ellipses. Wichert Why is this a change in rules? I've never

slink's chameleon 1.0-2 depends on libgtk1.1.12, which is not in slink

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the Dale unsatisfied suggests message, I have undertaken the Dale examination of the main archives. Dale Dale The script that I am working on unpacks all of the

doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the 8 or 9 doc control files libgtk1.1.13-doc (and 1.1.14, and 1.1.15, ad nauseum) provides EVERY SINGLE TIME there is a new

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben I've recently looked into the doc-base control file Ben format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does Ben not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the Ben 8 or 9 doc control files libgtk1.1.13-doc

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules In general, it is IMHO silly to rewrite, yet again, a macro Jules substitution engine into a special purpose piece of Jules software (doc-base) when we already have several good, fast Jules macro substituters (cpp, m4) and a

netstd split -- pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Santiago I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Santiago Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose Santiago functionality in the upgrade process. Brandon Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a

Re: libgimp/glib/gtk weirdness...

1998-10-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules When trying to build my rather overdue debian package Jules (libgimp-perl), I get this at the configure stage: The libgimp-dev 1.0 will not compile wih the libglib 1.1 and libgtk 1.1. libglib 1.0 comes with libgimp-dev 1.0. Just

Re: syntax highlighting in gtk

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Michael == Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I read so much about a patch needed to get syntax Michael highlighting. Do we have that patch in out gtk libs? If Michael no, why not? I'm not sure what you mean by syntax highlighting (isn't that what Emacs does? :) but

Re: More interesting gnome/gtk software

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Michael == Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I found more than GXedit. There is a nice task timer Michael available named gtimer. I might package that one Michael too. Also there is a GTK mp3 player named replay. It is Michael GPLed but based on amp. I wonder if

Re: Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob I've installed the rvplayer package, but even something as Rob simple as Rob rvplayer /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm Rob doesn't work. The app comes up, and then it just sits there. Rob Does this work for others?

APT 0.1.7 released!

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
updates today? Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux APT Package Maintainer -- Brought to you by the letters J and C and the number 14. I wanna be Twist Barbie! -- Shonen Knife Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che

Re: Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
All I can say, Joey and Heiko, is congratulations. :) Debian's needed this for a long time, and now we've got it! :) Ben -- Brought to you by the letters D and O and the number 5. I wanna be Twist Barbie! -- Shonen Knife Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow?

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why Dan the compiled libstdc++2.8 package whose

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Jstk.so I have always gotten this error. I don't know how to fix it, but it doesn't seem to hurt anyone. Well, this isn't a shared library that's going to be linked to, so

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks). when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrique Currently, that partition is marked as bootable just Enrique after installing LILO and mbr (first a dialog is Enrique displayed asking the user if he wants it so, something Enrique like If you want the Debian system to

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Brent == Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to Brent dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Branden Topi Miettinen has done some research on this. When we Branden get SysV-style pty support in glibc, xterm can lose its Branden root privileges altogether. I hear th= is will be in Branden glibc 2.1? SysV-style pty

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why Dan the compiled libstdc++2.8 package whose

Re: Anyone packaging snes9x?

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dave == Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave I've been considering packaging snes9x, and was just Dave wondering whether it had already been done. It's been done. :) -- Brought to you by the letters Q and Z and the number 1. Ha ha! I have evaded you with the aid of these pasty

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dave == Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de Dave facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a Dave number of people use 2.6... Debian uses 2.6 for now. 5 is a bit incompatible with other versions, and it

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
. This is so dpkg can emulate what ldconfig does. -- Brought to you by the letters B and S and the number 3. * denotes Hot and Spicy! -- *Ben Gertzfield Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox.

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Evidently CPAN has a Term-ReadLine package that makes the Joey standard Term::ReadLine module in perl actually have Joey readline features. I wonder if someone familiar with CPAN Joey packages would be interested in packaging this

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben I'm pretty familiar with CPAN packages. I can package up Ben either Term::ReadLine::Gnu or Term::ReadLine::Perl, or Ben both. They're currently the only modules available that make Ben Term::ReadLine effective. Joey Yes, please

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Heh, oddly enough the Term::ReadLine::Perl module's source name will have to be: libterm-readline-perl-perl *grin* -- Brought to you by the letters N and C and the number 11. You forgot Uranus. Goodnight everybody! -- Yakko and Wakko Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Heh, oddly enough the Term::ReadLine::Perl module's source Ben name will have to be: Ben Ben libterm-readline-perl-perl Joey Why not just call it libterm-readline-perl -- it's not going Joey to conflict with something

[warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without a -dev. Is anyone going to do this? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters F and E and the number 5. Nerd. Loser. Jerk. Moron. Worm. Scum. Idiot. Fool. -- Pkunk, SCII Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow?

Odd dependancy situation with libc6 and libc6-dev

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Wow. I was installing some slink packages today with dpkg on my hamm system, and I got myself into a wacky situation. I'd had the latest hamm versions of libc6 and libc6-dev (2.0.7t-1) installed. I installed the slink version of libc6 (2.0.7u-2) without a hitch. But then I realized I should have

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrique About the approved method, I guess it is through the Enrique bug tracking system, but I don't mind downloading a Enrique patch, and it means less administrative work for me Enrique (it's a pain to deal with

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ray == Ray J.H.M. writes: Ray Personally, I'd rather see the packages that still depend on Ray libstdc++2.8 recompiled for libstdc++2.9 . Of course, of course, nobody's arguing that. APT will be recompiled for libstdc++2.9. However, commercial apps and apps that are not part of Debian

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Tom == Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ Tom today. The next release will have all features present. This Tom is primarily a last testing phase. I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werror

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c and it doesn't even

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
/* files that I use in the nethack package, and if you find bugs in them you let me know :) -- Brought to you by the letters W and T and the number 3. * denotes Hot and Spicy! -- *Ben Gertzfield Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ole == Ole J Tetlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ole Is there an easy way to have both libgtk-dev and Ole libgtk1.1-dev available? I have trouble with yagirc and Ole libgtk1.1. It compiles but I get a sigsegv when I try to run Ole it. I was hoping that linking with libgtk (stable)

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben You cannot have libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev installed at the Ben same time, but you don't need to. Martin gnotepad+ does not work with gtk 1.1 while many Martin application that come with Debian are linked against 1.1.

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin gnotepad+ does not work with gtk 1.1 while many Martin application that come with Debian are linked against 1.1. Martin Thus you can't compile gnotepad+ on that machine. Ben Sure, but you can always remove libgtk1.1-dev

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Hmm, so I have 1.1 installed as well as 1.0-dev. Now if I Martin compile, I compile against 1.0. So it's dynamically Martin linked against 1.0. But 1.0 is not installed and even Martin conflicts with 1.1. libgtk 1.0

dhcpcd should probably be in base and on the boot floppies

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
This just came up on the #Debian IRC channel: a growing number of folks have cable modems and wish to install Debian over them. However, as it stands, they cannot get on the net from the base floppies, because they require a DHCP client to get their IP. I believe this is adequate need to get

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
, which technically makes it not part of the operating system. I'm not sure how that interacts with the GPL. Ben Gertzfield, Debian Developer -- Brought to you by the letters V and P and the number 9. If you turn both processors off, you will have to reboot. -- The Be Book Debian GNU/Linux -- where do

mpg123 contains GPL code?

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
PROTECTED] To: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: debian freeamp package References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ben- Thanks for the info on the Debian rules, and that there are, sorta, two distributions. I've been

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Roderick == Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roderick RESTRICTIONS: You may not: 1. Sublicense the Materials; Roderick 2. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Roderick enclosed software; 3. Use the Materials for for any Roderick platform or products other

[comp.os.linux.announce] COMMERCIAL: Debian User's Guide Second Edition $38.95

1998-10-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Just wondering, Dale, but why didn't you announce this to the Debian lists as well as the c.o.linux.announce? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters M and J and the number 10. XTC versus Adam Ant -- which one will survive? -- They Might Be Giants Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go

Re: bug in apt-get?

1998-10-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Michael == Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield Michael wrote: Ben I'm pretty sure policy states that a package cannot depend Ben wholly on a virtual package; it has to depend on a real, Ben preferred

Re: bug in apt-get?

1998-10-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Michael == Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael When I run apt-get check I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo Michael apt-get check Updating package file cache...done Updating Michael package status cache...done Checking system Michael integrity...dependency error You

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) -- Brought to you by the letters E and L and the number

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
M == M Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Please test out this new release of APT; we hope everyone can Ben enjoy it! M this apt is really great! thnx alot for your work (just for not M only sending bug-reports on apt)! it worked out to exchange M sendmail for smail

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Daniel == Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). Ben I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) Daniel I've been wondering why this wasn't tried

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). Ben I

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that woody Bob should be bypassed as it would be offensive to some people. Hamish It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to Hamish think so. Aren't there children's

Re: Bug #23877: Include autoup.sh and apt in hamm/hamm

1998-06-25 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jens == Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] filed this against Jens ftp.debian.org: Subject: please include apt and autoup in hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Package: ftp.debian.org,apt,autoup Version: N/A i

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel functions. Whenever these functions are called (and Daniel assigned to a variable; if you

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Andreas == Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The stock kernel mounts this CD (mount -t auto /dev/hdd cdrom) as joliet... it /spits: The writer is installed on a machine running 2.1.103 (the support for my controller is better with 2.1.10x), but I used

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hi, I have now successfully built the GCC, gdb, binutils, John etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and John should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was John quite a chore to package but it is

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hi, I have now successfully built the GCC, gdb, binutils, John etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and John should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was John quite a chore to package but it is

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John kpilot -- KDE hotsync tool Hm.. kpilot seems to have been statically linked with libpisock. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% dpkg -l 'libpi*' 1:38PM Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Therefore, I believe that I will just dump the tar.gz's of John binutils, gcc, and gdb into the toplevel of the package's John tar file (or maybe the debian/ directory, I dunno), and then John all I have to do is change the path

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Rob == Rob Tillotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob Kpilot comes with its own version of libpisock, which is Rob built and statically linked independent of whether you have Rob another one already on the system. I haven't looked deeply Rob at the code, but I would assume that the

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Thomas == Thomas Hohenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas I followed the discussion above. I have two SuSE Linux Thomas 2.0.33/2.0.34 systems. The first system has my cdrecorder Thomas attached. I patched this one with the Joliet patch and a Thomas 2k blocksize patch for my

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Philip == Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the right place for this. Philip Philip Don't you mean: Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a separate mailing list just for CD burning software under unix. --

Re: Intent to package (several)

1998-06-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Rafael == Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rafael As my application to become a Debian developer is Rafael underway, let me state my intentions of packaging. You Rafael will find below short descriptions of the following Rafael packages: bibindex (take over),

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj Umm. I don't know how to say this tactfully. I shall Manoj try. It may be better, I think, in this and other tasks Manoj (like modifying dpkg), that the new author be one able to Manoj grok the original. *grin* No,

Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
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Re: Intent to package: xfnt-URW gimp-extra-plugins

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
distribution. Good luck! I'm the current GIMP maintainer, and I know what a pain in the butt those extra plugins are to compile and maintain. Have fun :) -- Brought to you by the letters W and G and the number 5. Porco ga daisuki! -- Fio, Porco Rosso Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
. -- Final Fantasy II Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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