Re: Location of -doc documentation?

2000-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Nathan E Norman wrote: http://.../doc/apache;, while `debconf-doc' puts it under http://.../debconf-doc/;. I beleive the original point was that debconf-doc places its documentation in /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc, while apache-doc places its documentation in /usr/share/doc/apache,

Re: Location of -doc documentation?

2000-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 11:35:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Nathan E Norman wrote: http://.../doc/apache;, while `debconf-doc' puts it under http://.../debconf-doc/;. I beleive the original point was that debconf-doc places its documentation in /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc, while

perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
I'm planning a mass automated -quiet bug reporting spree against almost all packages that depend on perl 5.00{5,4}[-base]. All such packages should be updated to depend on perl-5.6 (possibly with 5.005 as an alternate). 84 packages[1] would get bug reports; most are perl module packages.

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Petr Èech
Adam Lazur wrote: The ability to install more than one version of a package simultaneously. Hmm. SO you install bash 2.04-1 and bash 2.02-3. Now what will be /bin/bash 2.04 or 2.02 version? You will divert both of them and symlink it to the old name - maybe, but but how will you know, to what

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Petr Èech wrote: Some intelligence for handling multiple machines. Like the ability to nfs mount /usr and have the package manager understand what's going on. sounds like something like --exclude /usr (didn't doogie implement this in 1.8 branch?) No, this is destined

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that reall necessary? No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Brian May wrote: zsh has in /etc/zshrc: [[ $UID == $GID ]] umask 002 || umask 022 My only dislike is it overrides my default setup in ~/.zshenv of 077. It seems wrong to put this stuff in zshrc, that only gets used for interactive shells. zshenv gets processed for all shells, but is run

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work in directories shared with other users (but not all users), because you don't have to keep changing your umask all the time, or even worse, fixing file permissions

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Makholm
Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: download the source, have my machine do the compile, but still have all the dependencies properly worked out (sort of an expanded apt-get -b source). I guess you should get both the ordinary depends and the build-depends. I fail to see where there should

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: I always thought it was a paranoid kind of security feature in Debian. I might be wrong of course. How does giving every user his own group makes it easier for him to share files without system administrator's intervention?

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 08:36:34 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though maybe this program is forcing itself on the wrong interface to syslog. Maybe it should really be reading from a fifo, a la /dev/xconsole, rather than trying to read from files. Having this, it would be impossible

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

2000-12-26 Thread Svante Signell
When upgrading libgtk-doc glib.info.gz conflicts with the same file from libglib1.2-dev. Which package is to remove the info file? Preparing to replace libgtk-doc 1:1.0.6-4 (using .../libgtk-doc_1%3a1.0.6-5_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgtk-doc ... dpkg: error processing

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:27:32AM +, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 08:36:34 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though maybe this program is forcing itself on the wrong interface to syslog. Maybe it should really be reading from a fifo, a la /dev/xconsole, rather

ITP: gpa -- The GNU Privacy Assistent

2000-12-26 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Description: The GNU Privacy Assistent The GNU Privacy Assistent is a graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). this program is licensed under the GPL the package can be found at http://elxsi.de/~waldi/debian/gpa/ the original package can

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Brian May schrieb: Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:13:13AM +1100, Brian May wrote: However, the idea of one UID per daemon is (IMHO) a really horrible solution, too, as you end up having more UIDs for daemons then

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-25 Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 01:29:44PM +, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:41:54 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I would say that if the program dies so frequently that it needs a wrapper like this, it should probably be

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: On 00-12-25 Matt Zimmerman wrote: It would be nice if less included a feature to close and reopen the current file. Then this would not be necessary. Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with

Re: adoption - gdict

2000-12-26 Thread Roland Mas
eechi von akusyumi (2000-12-24 19:03:47 +0800) : I would like to adopt the package gdict and maintain it. Would you guys ther like to give me some pointers on how should i do? You might want to have a look at the gnome-utils package. It's actively maintained by James LewisMoss, and it

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the logfile will be rotated, it will notice this and reopen the new current one and tail this one. This is a

Re: Close list

2000-12-26 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) wrote on 25.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:43:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: I have a comment: NO WAY IN HELL. The day that we start rejecting DUL posts is the day that several people leave the project, me included. How many

Re: Close list

2000-12-26 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Bader) wrote on 24.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: flame war Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-) /flame war GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't deleted, but

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-26 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Wirzenius) wrote on 24.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ignoring spam has made the internet the spam-ridden place it is right now. Spam hasn't been ignored for the past six years, thank you very much. It thrives regardless of the

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the logfile will be rotated, it will notice this and reopen the new current one and tail

Re: adoption - gdict

2000-12-26 Thread eechi von akusyumi
You might want to have a look at the gnome-utils package. It's actively maintained by James LewisMoss, and it Replaces: gdict (since it includes it). So, you could either contact the maintainer and get him to re-split what was previously merged, or adopt the whole package, or help him

disappeared packages

2000-12-26 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
msg.pgp Description: PGP message

Re: adoption - gdict

2000-12-26 Thread Roland Mas
eechi von akusyumi (2000-12-26 21:01:17 +0800) : You might want to have a look at the gnome-utils package. It's actively maintained by James LewisMoss, and it Replaces: gdict (since it includes it). So, you could either contact the maintainer and get him to re-split what was previously

Re: ITP: gpa -- The GNU Privacy Assistent

2000-12-26 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Bastian Blank wrote: Description: The GNU Privacy Assistent The GNU Privacy Assistent is a graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). Its a nice little program, I am using this myself. Though it has one major design flaw: every time you delete a key

List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, we currently have a really huge list of packages that are orphaned and so I looked at them to see if we can drop some of them. Here are some suggestion and my comments. Any comment from you is appreciated: |ppd-gs (1 year and 357 days old) Do we really need this package still for users of

How to update packages?

2000-12-26 Thread Olaf Klein
Hello, I have made a couple of packages for potato and would like to update them to the latest upstream-version? What is the easiest way to update the source-package? Bye, Olaf

Re: Close list

2000-12-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: Just tested that. ssh to master, telnet to localhost smtp, it was quite willing to relay mail with a non-local envelope. (And left enough clues in the header to track who did that just in case it ever becomes necessary.)

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 01:38:03PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Today, Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the logfile will be rotated, it will

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: Did you ever wonder (assuming you even noticed) why so much spam gets sent to completely invalid addresss (for example, to message ids)? Because spamware sellers don't care if the finely targetted addresses they sell

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:24:34AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: I'm planning a mass automated -quiet bug reporting spree against almost all packages that depend on perl 5.00{5,4}[-base]. All such packages should be updated to depend on perl-5.6 (possibly with 5.005 as an alternate). ITYM

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
all packages that depend on perl 5.00{5,4}[-base]. All such packages should be updated to depend on perl-5.6 (possibly with 5.005 as an alternate). I'm not sure that solves all the problems - I'd like apache-perl recompiled against perl5.6, and so the rest of modules. It's no use if I got

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that solves all the problems - I'd like apache-perl recompiled against perl5.6, and so the rest of modules. I would do, but I'm not at all sure if mod_perl works with Perl 5.6. Last I heard, they weren't playing well

Re: Location of -doc documentation?

2000-12-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I just noticed that `apache-doc' puts the documentation under http://.../doc/apache;, while `debconf-doc' puts it under http://.../debconf-doc/;. Joey Eh? (Debconf-doc is a package, that contains

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that solves all the problems - I'd like apache-perl recompiled against perl5.6, and so the rest of modules. I would do, but I'm not at all sure if

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:13PM +0100, I wrote: I can verify that it works, we did a local recompile: Maybe we did, but I can't read apt-cache output because this version comes simply from unstable. So no ifs and whens, it's already done and it works. -- The idea is that the first face

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |ppd-gs (1 year and 357 days old) Do we really need this package still for users of alladin ghostscript or is it not needed anymore? Last time I asked for this to be removed, a few people said this was useful. FWIW. |silo (195

List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. I know that all the information is in the WNPP already, but I thought it would be a good idea to post a summary since the WNPP bugs were not CCed here. If you want any of these packages, please look up the bug number at

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-26 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 December 2000 16:50, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. I know that all the information is in the WNPP already, but I thought it would be a good idea to post a summary since the WNPP bugs

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Andreas Fuchs wrote: Today, Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the logfile will be rotated, it will notice this and reopen the new

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the logfile will be rotated, it will notice this and

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: On 00-12-25 Matt Zimmerman wrote: It would be nice if less included a feature to close and reopen the current file. Then this would not be necessary. Well, this is a feature that

BTS spam( Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!)

2000-12-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:06:08 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : On related note, it's fun to watch all the spams sent to oldclosedbug@bugs.debian.org or even oldclosedbug[EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses. OTOH it's not fun to discover that someone spammed

BTS spam( Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!)

2000-12-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:06:08 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : On related note, it's fun to watch all the spams sent to oldclosedbug@bugs.debian.org or even oldclosedbug[EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses. OTOH it's not fun to discover that someone spammed

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Dariush Pietrzak wrote: It's no use if I got hmm say Apache::DBI module, but perl5.6 can't find it because it's in 5.005 tree, and DBD::Pg hidden in 5.005 tree, that cannot be used by 5.6 due to some binary incompatibilities. Um, afaik perl 5.6 is fully binary compatable, and it certianly

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:22:21 +0100 Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache search silo. Wasn't this the only

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:12:19PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: Or did I got completely confused and misunderstood the case? First we need to solve the IMHO broken Alternatives Settings of those Perl Packages. They messed up my System more than one. perl-5.6-base is removing all the old perl

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -, Moshe Zadka wrote: I would do, but I'm not at all sure if mod_perl works with Perl 5.6. Last I heard, they weren't playing well together. Works for me with slash. I only need to fix the Perl alternatives. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL

Grub question/problem

2000-12-26 Thread Michael Meskes
A while ago I tested grub but decided against it since I needed a bios mapping to get M$ software running and that didn't work with grub but with lilo. Now I got myself some new hardware so I could make a complete machine running my second disk and no need anymore to switch drives. I copied the

Debian bind chroot option?

2000-12-26 Thread Nicholas Lee
Are there any thoughts to a chroot install option for bind?? Its not that hard to setup, but I wonder how it would fit into the debian policy. Nicholas

Re: Grub question/problem

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
I copied the latest grub files to /boot/grub reinstalled and rebooted. but grub won't boot my machine. All I get is the message Loading stage1.5 and then the machine stands still. No error message whatsoever. Using lilo or a boot floppy as works well. Hm, have you tried running grub-install

dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread Kim Richards
could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos

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

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread Ian Eure
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Kim Richards wrote: could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos me too. hmm... what next, messages about natalie portman's naked petrified hot grits?

wit goes here (was: Re: dueling banjos)

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Kim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos And before you post a witty comment, please search through the list archives to make sure you don't duplicate effort. Let the jokes begin! -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread Buddha Buck
At 01:18 PM 12-26-2000 -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: 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.) I just did

possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread John O Sullivan
Hi all, I've noticed something that seems odd to me. On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this directory. Is this the correct behaviour? Is this related to the switch to package pools? I'm curious because the same thing

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
DuEling BANjos, I'd presume. Probably some search engine specializing in sound-alikes for lousy spellers... On 26 Dec 2000, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Kim == Kim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kim could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos This is about the third or

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Buddha Buck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): At 01:18 PM 12-26-2000 -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: 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.

Re: Need to clone machines efficiently - help?

2000-12-26 Thread Frank Copeland
Peter Eckersley wrote: On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:15:50AM -0800, Erik Winn wrote: Here is the first obstacle - not really a big one, but I spent all day digging around and couldn't really find any tools for this one: we want to be able to clone the machines easily over the local net.

Re: How to update packages?

2000-12-26 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Olaf! You wrote: I have made a couple of packages for potato and would like to update them to the latest upstream-version? What is the easiest way to update the source-package? Use uupdate. This is descriped in the new-maintainers guide i think. BTW: this is a question for

Re: possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:41:02PM +, John O Sullivan wrote: Hi all, I've noticed something that seems odd to me. On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this directory. Is this the correct behaviour? Is this

Re: How to update packages?

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Olaf! You wrote: I have made a couple of packages for potato and would like to update them to the latest upstream-version? What is the easiest way to update the source-package? Use uupdate. This is descriped in the new-maintainers

Re: X 4 and app-defaults

2000-12-26 Thread Hakan Ardo
Hi, Remco van de Meent wrote: Many packages compiled against X3 seem to include this directory in their package. Yes. They need to move their app-defaults files. What should I do? File bugs against packages that use /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. Whee, (#bugs++)^2.. it

Re: BTS spam( Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!)

2000-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:30:47AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: For the record, right now I'm the primary reason why the spam in the BTS `magically' disappears, once it's reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) I've seen one in lyx-cjk bugs. It's cosmetically annoying. I really would love to

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:41:43PM +, Mark Seaborn wrote: Dwayne C . Litzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my question is: What do you wish for in a package manager? I want a system where I can install multiple versions of a library (or any package really) and say which version I

ITP: antlr -- a compiler-compiler (and more) for Java

2000-12-26 Thread John Leuner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist ANTLR can be download from www.antlr.org, you need to enter in some details to download the tarball. ANTLR is: ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers,

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread John Leuner
I thought it was some metaphor for SMP DuEling BANjos, I'd presume. Probably some search engine specializing in sound-alikes for lousy spellers... On 26 Dec 2000, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Kim == Kim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kim could you please mail me sheet music for

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache search silo. You can only remove this if you want sparc to be

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:59:16PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache

Re: possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:41:02PM +, John O Sullivan wrote: Hi all, I've noticed something that seems odd to me. On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing

Re: dpkg-dev-emacs vs. debian-changelog-mode vs...

2000-12-26 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:26:17AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: My sponsor and I are only waiting for some consensus to be reached before he uploads the package. Consider this to be a RFC / CFD / CFV / whatever. If noone reacts, I guess we'll consider that the consensus has been reached on

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
Bzzt! mentioned three times by my recollection in the dualling banjos thread. Half the distance to the goal line, loss of down: second down! On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, John Leuner wrote: I thought it was some metaphor for SMP DuEling BANjos, I'd presume. Probably some search engine

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
If it's so important, why is it orphaned? I'm thinking that if the SPARC folx can't be bothered to maintain their bootloader, perhaps the port's utilization of resources needs to be called into question... What's the point in Debian proper showing more support for SPARC than the SPARC community

Re: X 4 and app-defaults

2000-12-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:00:56AM +0100, Hakan Ardo wrote: Yes. They need to move their app-defaults files. [...] File bugs against packages that use /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. [...] It seems like noone ever sent any bug rapport about this, right? I'm maintaining xfaces and was

Re: Another Grub question/problem

2000-12-26 Thread Brian May
How do you start Linux via grub with frame buffer enabled? On a system with a Matrox video card, I have got it going fine (with Matrox FB driver). However, on this computer, where I need to use the VESA driver, nothing I have tried seems to work. At the moment I have: kernel

booting Linux NFS-Root

2000-12-26 Thread Brian May
Hello, I seem to have problems booting Linux 2.2.18 via NFS root image. **2.2.17 works fine**, but 2.2.18 says No NFS servers available, giving up. It tries to mount root from the floppy disk, and as expected panics when it can't (floppy disk I/O is compiled as a module). It doesn't even try to

ITP: Jakarta Regexp

2000-12-26 Thread Takashi Okamoto
Package: wnpp Serverity: ITP Jakarta Regexp is one of regular expression library for Java. It's simpler than Jakarta ORO. URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/ LICENSE: Apache Software License 1.1(BSD style) --- Takashi Okamoto

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew Tuck
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and clean as possible. For now, the work will be

Re: Debian bind chroot option?

2000-12-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Lee) writes: Are there any thoughts to a chroot install option for bind?? Its not that hard to setup, but I wonder how it would fit into the debian policy. I've been thinking about it after 9.1.0 releases, and after I add debconf support. I don't run chroot'ed,

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Eckersley
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:50:58PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: RFA: gdict -- small GTK app to retrieve definitions from MIT's dictionary server Ummm... it *seems* like gdict has been swallowed by gnome-utils. If that weren't the case, I would have volunteered. -- | |= -+- |= | | |-

Uploaded bc 1.05a-12 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-26 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded libticalcs 1.4.1-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-26 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded libproplist 0.10.1-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-26 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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