Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied
suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives.
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
Sugges
> I think we should include it, as a service to people who don't want to
> download the whole thing, but attach a note saying "As 2.2 was
> released just before we released slink, we are including it, but there
> may be problems, it might eat your computer... we are not responsible
> for anyth
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:17:26PM -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> I say let's make the 2.2 image a high-profile aspect of slink's release.
> The kernel is very stable, and I've been running my Debian system on it
The kernel is stable, but is the kernel + debian stable? No one
knows.
I think we
I say let's make the 2.2 image a high-profile aspect of slink's release. The kernel is very stable, and I've been running my Debian system on it since 2.1.120. Plus, it would be a great "technical" feature of our distribution that might give us some bragging rights over the other distros.
-B
Dale E. Martin wrote:
> went to bugs.debian.org and it has a bug (only 7 days old this time)
> explaining the problem (I _was_ using nextaw) and how to work around
> it. For the life of me, xaw-wrappers won't work. Even for stuff I didn't
> set up. For instance, if I run "xkeycaps" (which uses xa
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
> kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
> would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of
> kernel 2.2 ea
Hello,
Lars Bensmann set up a mailing list for organization of the LinuxTag.
If you are interested, please subscribe by sending mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please subscribe even if you can't come to the event. A lot of preperation
will be needed. If you have already organized such an event, pleas
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:36:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> 1. web files owned by www-data:www-data (ie no group change), and the
>> web process executed by www:www (for instance). There is no need for
>> users to be members of root. This would require a
These two alpha machines, hosted at novare, will disappear from the net for
about 15-20 minutes at or around 6pm local time(master and novare have the
same local time). This will not affect master and murphy.
Adam
I'm not trying to be too negative or anything, but I've been having kind of
a bad day with Slink and I'm wondering if I'm the only one? Today I've
been trying to draw some stuff, and here's the path I've gone down.
I tried to use TogetherJ, written in Java. But jdk1.1 is completely hosed
and t
On Thu, 21 Jan, 1999, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
They will not let us distribute binaries so we don't.
--
GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them.
-- The G
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:35:06PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> Choosing the underlying distribution to build the LinuxTag CD from has
> always been a most painful decision. The infighting that occurred last
> year over the choice SuSE vs. Red Hat turned ugly. I don't expect the
> decisi
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
> kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
I'de really like to see a kernel-image too, atleast for the non-i386 ports
to use. The 2.2 ke
Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd say grave, but then again jdk is non-free and wont be on CDs anyway.
> TIA to whoever fixes this package.
I'd say it's grave too - despite being non-free, this _is_ the only decent
java virtual machine available and java isn't exactly unpopular.
La
Hi Jules,
> Brief summary, then:
>
> KDE will not be in slink.
> KDE will be in potato if
>
> a) KDE change their license (in which case it can go into contrib)
> b) Qt change their license (in which case they may both be able to go into
> free)
>
> b) is the likely outcome, since troll are des
> > It's all available in the archives... Let's not start THAT discussion again,
> > ok?
>
> Sure no problem. I had no intention of doing so. I was just curious as
> to the status. There will be no argument from me, especially since I
> agreed with Debian's stance on the matter. :)
>
Brief
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Note that I am using the apt method of dselect using the round-robin
>mirrors so I have no idea which site I was really connected to when I got
>the bad .deb
Does apt check the MD5sum of the package against that in the Packages
file? Does dpkg do that (I
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:32:54AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I suspect that both of you are editing these files as a user. I suspect
> (but haven't checked) that if you do the edit as root, that the bits will
> stay in place, but another user, who may have write permissions on the
> file should
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One question: Is it right, that you search for a Linux Distribution for
> your 'Tagungs-CD'. Last year it was suse, the year befor redhat. Right?
> This year, debian?
Choosing the underlying distribution to build the Lin
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of
kernel 2.2 easily on a debian cdrom, and it would let us say that debian
support
Hi Darren,
> > What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Ossama
> >
> It's all available in the archives... Let's not start THAT discussion again,
> ok?
Sure no problem. I had no intention of doing so. I was just curious as
to the status. There will be no
"Amos" == Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Amos> At first I suspected that maybe I screwed something and purged
Amos> and re-installed the package, but that doesn't work. Now I had
Amos> a report from someone else that it doesn't work for him at all
Amos> too.
Same here; reinstalling it
On 21-Jan-99 Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ossama
>
It's all available in the archives... Let's not start THAT discussion again,
ok?
--
=
* htt
Hello,
After a recent upgrade of the JDK package (on a slink machine) it
stopped working. It complains about not finding 'versionCheck' and
won't run any program (I'm talking about the jre, the runtime
environment).
At first I suspected that maybe I screwed something and purged and
re-installed
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> On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote:
> > rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
> > line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
> > Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> >
> > rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
> > line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
> > Dungeons & Dragons[1]
On Thu, 21 Jan, 1999, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
> Hi
> trying to upgrade some packages apt-get fails with the msg.
>
> E: Package bigbrother has no instalation candidate
>
> Packages which fail (with this msg):
>
> bigbrother
> xplot
> xsplay
> xwatch
>
> my apt/source.list:
>
> # Use for a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ivtools 31966 Post Inst error
I sent in a patch for this; it's a trivial fix.
--
Shields.
On 21-Jan-99 Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
>> I think, and this is just off the cuff, that my problem with the
>> license, be it the former OR latter, is the fact that the USER now
>> has a license issue to deal with. I think (again, on the fly) that
>> there should be no extra licensing worries for th
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:18:21 + (GMT), Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>> > "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It
Ben> seems pretty sane, except I realized since it
Hi guys,
What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
Thanks,
-Ossama
__
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26
The XFree86 (I think it's also called the MIT license?) has been added. Since
(so far) we still accept the advertising clause, the BSD license is still
"DFSG-free"...
On 21-Jan-99 Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Perhaps we could mention this problem with the advertisment clause
> here, and add XFree86 t
> "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, m
On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > "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
At 08:06 -0800 1999-01-21, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Is there any way doc-base can provide some kind of macro expansion,
so I don't have to edit:
/usr/doc/libgtk1.1.13-doc/gtk-faq.html/
...
every time I have a new package, instead, doing something like
VERSION=1.1.13
/usr/doc/libgtk${VERSION}-doc/gtk-f
> "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 libgt
Now for something different:
> 4.5. Example Licenses
> --
>
> As examples, we consider the following licenses DFSG-free:
>
> * the Artistic License
>
> * the BSD License
>
> * the MIT/X Consortium License
>
> * the GNU General Publ
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:56:09PM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
> On 20-Jan-99 Anderson MacKay wrote:
> > As I read the license, it just requires that you display notice that your
> > website was created using Zope, e.g. a sort of "powered by Zope" logo
> > kinda thing, and you need a "credits" page
I wrote:
> I looked around in the code a bit more and found a few dubious looking
> sprintf's. What else should I look for? I already checked for 'system'
> and 'execve'.
Wichert Akkerman writes:
> Please do so.
Please do *what*?
As I noted, there are no calls to system or its ilk. I know h
"Wayne" == Wayne Schlitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wayne> To the best of my knowledge, the LSB lists have never been
Wayne> *closed* to the general public. I have been subscribed to them
Wayne> for months, and I found out about them by reading /.,
Wayne> debian-devel, and looking at a few web
On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> 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
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tibor Koleszar wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > So, if you have a script with a setuid flag after you edit+save it in
> > mc's editor the flag will dissapear...
> > I dont know, but i think it's a bug.
> > Let me know if it is, and i'll re
This probably isn't necessary, as I just filed an important and a
grave bug against the package, but I thought I'd declare that xxgdb
should really be pulled. It doesn't work at al in a libc6
environment, it hasn't been uploaded by its ostensible maintainer
since bo was in frozen, and the last NMU
Christoph Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Maybe I can also get a car to assist Thimo with transporting if someone
> wants to stay in Heidelberg (we have a youth hostel too, I can't offer
> sleeping place, sorry)
Would be an option, especially if one goes there by car or such.
Btw, how much is a "s
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 rel
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:08:17AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> It looks like a couple of us are able to attend, and most will need some
> place to stay. I think we need a volunteer to organize all this.
>
> Any willing to do this?
I set up a mailinglist, so we do not need to flood the -de
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> Ok, after looking at this, I've decided that the cracklib support for
> PAM would be best handled by having it in a seperate package. I want to
> propose a naming scheme for module packages for PAM similar to how
> apache modules are named, libpam-mod-foo,
Florian La Roche wrote:
>
> I can also see some points why /var/mail would be a better standard point
> if we would make a "new" decision about this. But Linux has a large user
> base now and after the move from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail, we would
> not have gained a lot. So why do it?
>
> Ther
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Last I heard the LSB list was closed to the general public, though
> archives were available. Is this still the case? If the LSB project now
> welcomes "outsiders" to work with the project, great. Otherwise I'm
> concerned doing
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose
> > indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best
> > one
> > for our purposes?
> >
> Once I removed
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tibor Koleszar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So, if you have a script with a setuid flag after you edit+save it in
> mc's editor the flag will dissapear...
> I dont know, but i think it's a bug.
> Let me know if it is, and i'll report it.
i've observed the same thing in emacs.
Presum
Hi!
> Joey Hess writes:
JH> What happens if you try to install version bar of a package while
JH> version foo of that same package, which contains files of the
JH> same name, is installed? Rpm will happily overwrite version foo's
JH> files.
Yes.
JH> What happens if you then remove vers
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Given that, it is better to use /var/mail, because the mail inbox
> directory is *not* a spool (a daemon transshipment point -- the mail
> *spool* is /var/spool/mqueue.) Putting it under /var/spool causes
> disk space management problems.
Moving it on
Hello,
So, if you have a script with a setuid flag after you edit+save it in
mc's editor the flag will dissapear...
I dont know, but i think it's a bug.
Let me know if it is, and i'll report it.
Regards,
Tibor
--
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[ Koleszár Tibor - S
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Florian La Roche wrote:
> There are reasons why all distributions stayed with /var/spool/mail.
> Even Debian who also thinks a lot about making things sane/clean has
> stayed with /var/spool/mail.
Note that Debian has not yet moved from FSSTND to FHS for the most part,
and re
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:53:32 -0800 (PST), "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>Given that, it is better to use /var/mail, because the mail inbox
>directory is *not* a spool (a daemon transshipment point -- the mail
>*spool* is /var/spool/mqueue.) Putting it under /var/spool causes
>disk space management prob
Previously John Hasler wrote:
> I looked around in the code a bit more and found a few dubious looking
> sprintf's. What else should I look for? I already checked for 'system'
> and 'execve'.
Please do so. If you don't feel confident enough you can submit it to the
security team. We'll take a lo
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:49:43AM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote:
> Thomas> How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that
> Thomas> conclusion. Isn't this a bit early? I mean, not everybody has
> Thomas> an RJ45 jack implanted in one's body.
>
> Thankfully enough of us do, including th
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 09:48:33AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > Since no one else has spoken up, I will take over pam. I will also look
>
> How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that conclusion. Isn't
> this a bit
> Sorry for writing the same several times again. Since I have moved from
> /var/spool/mail to /var/mail and back again, I know what's it like and
> I know that having only one dir instead is more sane/clean than several
> ones.
well, I tend to agree here. I moved to /var/mail and added a symlink
"Thomas" == Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that
Thomas> conclusion. Isn't this a bit early? I mean, not everybody has
Thomas> an RJ45 jack implanted in one's body.
Thankfully enough of us do, including the person who's bee
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> Since no one else has spoken up, I will take over pam. I will also look
How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that conclusion. Isn't
this a bit early? I mean, not everybody has an RJ45 jack implanted in one's
body.
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
> line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
> Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls.
>
> [1] Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is a re
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote:
> rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
> line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
> Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls.
Just wondering,
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rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
Dungeons & Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls.
blackjack is a *very* simple blackjack game, which im
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
<...>
Hmmm, would the concept of meta-packages and a scheme for sharing common
files (like the RH one described?) work.
Packages could have their name extended with the version:
foo_1.2.3-1 -> foo_1.2.3
foo_1.2.3-2 -> foo_1.2.3
foo_1.2.4-1 -> foo_1.2.4
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:36:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> 1. web files owned by www-data:www-data (ie no group change), and the
> web process executed by www:www (for instance). There is no need for
> users to be members of root. This would require an extra UID and GID.
But this won't allow reg
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 08:35:23PM +, Edward Betts wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote:
> > Maybe the web files should be owned by "www-data" and the web
> > process should be owned by "www" or "httpd"? This way the
> > descriptive names continue to make sense. Practical
> > speaking
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote:
>> Maybe the web files should be owned by "www-data" and the web
>> process should be owned by "www" or "httpd"? This way the
>> descriptive names continue to make sense. Practical
>> speaking, it is probably just as
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:53:32PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Please think about it and stay with /var/spool/mail.
>
> Right now, /var/mail and /var/spool/mail both suffer the same problem:
> whichever is used, some people need to use the other, hence it is a
> *requirement* that both can
> > Please think about it and stay with /var/spool/mail.
Right now, /var/mail and /var/spool/mail both suffer the same problem:
whichever is used, some people need to use the other, hence it is a
*requirement* that both can be used by programs.
Given that, it is better to use /var/mail, because t
> > I agree. I also don't think it's a big deal. What's important is that
> > all of the MUA's get compiled so that they look for the mail spool in
> > /var/mail. If /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail, or /u3/mail,
> > or something else --- that's fine.
>
> Adding that symlink can be don
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 20:56:52 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Does anyone know how to place an announcement on cola (or whatever is en
> vogue nowadays) with having news access?
Quoting the sig on COLAs:
"Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
HTH,
Ray
--
POPULATION
> I agree. I also don't think it's a big deal. What's important is that
> all of the MUA's get compiled so that they look for the mail spool in
> /var/mail. If /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail, or /u3/mail,
> or something else --- that's fine.
Adding that symlink can be done easily by
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:18:07AM -0500, Erik Troan wrote:
> On 20 Jan 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>
> > 1. totally revert, drop /var/mail, and specify /var/spool/mail
> > 2. partially revert, /var/spool/mail is a directory and /var/mail
> > must be a symbolic link to it
> > 3. allow a /va
Le Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:48:04AM -, Robert Woodcock écrivait:
> So, the gist of that is that dpkg has been left for dead (well, NMU hell
> anyway) for a full year and there hasn't been *that* many complaints.
> Just no new features.
I don't agree. I don't want to blame anybody since i'am not
Sorry for the late follow up, but faure and albert are back up, and have been
for several hours. There were no problems.
Adam
Does anyone know how to place an announcement on cola (or whatever is en
vogue nowadays) with having news access?
I want to publish what I have so far on my trashcan suite before I
completely run out of time.
Michael
--
Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!
Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-4
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 12:38:26PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
> It is amazing how people so are ready to snap at something that isn't as
> bad as they make it seem. Please don't start quoting what I said. I know
> what I said and I know what I meant. You are taking what I said way out
> of cont
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:45:42PM +0530, Bruce Jackson wrote:
> util-linux_2.9g-0.3.deb from potato is missing hwclock. The man page
> and packages file claim it is there. Any idea where it went to?
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
..~$ dpkg -S hich hwclock
util-linux: /sbin/hwclock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
..
It must have been a temporary glitch, the files are now available.
Bob
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> It seems that all the hamm and slink packages files, as well as those for
> contrib and non-free (but not main) in potato are currently missing on
> three mirrors I have checked today
Martin A. Soto wrote:
>
>Many, *many* people has proposed this idea before. So many, that you
>would be tempted to consider it a simple, natural, and straightforward
>idea. Nonetheless, it seems that this far, it has been impossible to
>make it part of dpkg, or even to start working on the necess
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:03:26PM -0500, fantumn Steven Baker" wrote:
> Package Naming Scheme
The problem is superficial. Sure, names should be more uniform, but all
this requires is 1) ratifying naming standards and 2) ensuring that the
packaging system handles name changes gracefully.
> CVS
Barak,
I have setup a cluster of alphas (PC164LX 533Mhz). I maintain the darn thing
also. I do not want the job, but as I found it hard to get ANYONE running an
alpha beowulf cluster to help me, I offer my assitance whenever possible.
I run Debian on the cluster and would not use anything else.
Well, I have ldd also, but don't see the connection.
???
Bob
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Paul McDermott wrote:
> here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd
> [paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd
> ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz
> ldso: /usr/bin/ldd
> tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/olddig.mf
> ldso:
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> > > OK, in the past week or so I've seen several people posting from
> > > California. Has anyone thought of having a gathering in some semi-central
> > > location? Get to know faces, sign keys, etc?
> >
> > I would be
Hi Steve and Manoj,
> Probably. I guess I just like a little more enthusiasm than "I'll abide
> by the rules."
Steve, I'm sorry I gave you that impression. I'm always talking about how
great Debian is to my colleagues and always try to convince them to try
and use Debian. You may not think so b
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose
> indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best one
> for our purposes?
>
Once I removed a few conditions for removing words from indexing that weren'
Hi,
[I am not disagreeing entirely]
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> I think it's not necessary that a developer agree with the
Joey> DFSG. It should be enough that they indicate they understand it
Joey> and will abide by it in what they produce for debian.
Wichert writes:
> Have you tried running it [chronyd] as another user?
No, but it doesn't seem too likely that a program that adjusts the system
clock would work too well running as 'nobody'. It can also be an ntp
server, though that is turned off in the default configuration.
I looked around in
faure and albert(the 2 alphas hosted at novare for debian) are being taken
down for a physical move. I estimate that they will be back up in 30 minutes.
Sorry for the inconveniance.
Okay, after discussing this with a few people on #debian, and going over email,
it seems that a) I am not qualified nor familiar with dpkg internals enough to
do a project such as this, and did not realize it at first and b) too much of
dpkg would have to be severly hacked and re-written.
So, if
Ben Pfaff said:
> Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say,
>even if they can't or do not have the time to contribute with code ?
>
> They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to
> Debian l
here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd
[paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd
ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz
ldso: /usr/bin/ldd
tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/olddig.mf
ldso: /usr/lib/lddstub
php3-doc: /usr/doc/php3-doc/html/function.hw-getchilddoccollobj.html
debhelper: /usr/man/man1/dh_build
> Further versions of this proposal will be posted on the WWW, and the address
> of such revisions will be posted to both -devel and -dpkg.
Please don't do this. It is not easy for everyone on these lists to
access material on the WWW. From past experience with other groups, it
really breaks
Previously Steve Dunham wrote:
> Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source
>
> This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is
> installed in slink.
Thanks, I'll add it to my exclusion list tomorrow when I wake
Previously John Hasler wrote:
> It isn't. My chrony package includes a daemon that runs as root. I've
> looked it over and don't see any holes, but I'm not a security expert.
Have you tried running it as another user?
Wichert.
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Hi!
Someone mentioned the youth hostel at Hochspeyer. I know it. It is rather
big and Hochspeyer has railroad connection to Kaiserslautern.
Maybe I can also get a car to assist Thimo with transporting if someone
wants to stay in Heidelberg (we have a youth hostel too, I can't offer
sleeping place,
This is a multiple precision library (I assume like gpm). It's used
by toba (a java compiler/jit). It's packaged and waiting to be
uploaded until I see whether the packages are complete enough to
compile toba.
It was downloaded from ftp://skip.incog.com/pub/bnlib-1.1.tar.gz
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Joey Hess wrote:
> > I think it's not necessary that a developer agree with the DFSG. It
> > should be enough that they indicate they understand it and will
> > abide by it in what they produce for debian.
Then, Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, but OTOH, it's a little hard to fatho
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