Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-25 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
> Oh crap, you're right. I wasn't thinking on that one. Oh well, I guess > somebody will have to find good colour combinations for every colour > package. I can do that. Black on white. Proven to work perfectly for centuries. Or do you only read books with white letters on a black background,

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Chris Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So my question is, what are your thoughts on adding a signature to the > > current Packages.gz file, or adding a similar *dsc file for it, > > which is then signed? > Do you want to sign

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-25 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Chris Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my question is, what are your thoughts on adding a signature to the > current Packages.gz file, or adding a similar *dsc file for it, > which is then signed? Do you want to sign each package entry, or the whole file? Whose signature would be used? > T

Re: glibc-compat

2000-03-25 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:04:36AM +, Jose Marin wrote: > I originated this whole thread in debian-user; the app that does not work > for me is the F compiler from Imagine1 (www.uni-comp.com/imagine1). It's > a free (as in beer) commercial compiler, which has been recently made > available i

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:51:50PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Hi dear co-developers, > > Hey people ! I posted this mail in order to have some input ... it would > be great if some of you gave their opinion about this proposition I posted > a while ago : I guess the silent majority overwhe

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting > it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story: Some folks at work saw similar weirdness with the negotiation on some HP switch products, their solution was to configure the switch t

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:31:54AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: > Hi dear co-developers, Hey people ! I posted this mail in order to have some input ... it would be great if some of you gave their opinion about this proposition I posted a while ago : > we're so many developers that's it's get

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-25 Thread Peter Cordes
> Date: 24 Mar 2000 11:43:38 +0100 > From: Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable > > Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unless the darkish colours get used as alternate background colours, they > > are waste

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-25 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > > > The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat > > > compatibility libraries to be able install it,

ITP: ddt-client/ddt-server - ITO: dhis/dhisd

2000-03-25 Thread Remi Lefebvre
Hi, to make a long story short, DhisNet has renamed to DDT due to a conflict with the DHIS team from dhis.org (of which I am part too, duh!). If anybody is interested in packaging the DHIS code from dhis.org, please contact me, I can provide my latest .diff.gz from the 3.0 server. Note that you w

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon [zsh]

2000-03-25 Thread Clint Adams
> > Package: zsh (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 58941 core dump with function mycd() {builtin cd "$@" && echo $PWD} > > [STRATEGY] Fixed in the next .deb. Already fixed upstream. (Mar15MH) > > That is a week ago, has it been fixed since then? My apologies.

ITP John the ripper

2000-03-25 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, as jsut discussed on debian-devel, I would like to package John the Ripper. If someone already has done or is working on it, please mail me, then I will stop packing it. Otherwise I will try to upload this package till friday next week to woody. Ciao Christian -- Debian Develope

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-25 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
25.03.2000 pisze Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i don't know what it has to do with inetd, IIRC all it did was manage > /etc/rc?.d/* symlinks. It means I should never write any e-mails on Saturday morning [and/or _read_ the e-mails I answer]. regards, Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-a

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 08:14:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: > > 25.03.2000 pisze Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au): > > > [0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less > > > compatible. I

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: > 25.03.2000 pisze Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au): > > [0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less > > compatible. It also needs to end up being very tidy and flexible. > > I'll end u

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:24:23PM +, Alan Clucas écrivait: > Ok then... I won't do anything. > > Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something > useful to do :( Don't be so sad. :) There's plenty of useful things to do : - work on the other RCB (send patches whereev

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-25 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
25.03.2000 pisze Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au): > [0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less > compatible. It also needs to end up being very tidy and flexible. > I'll end up working on this eventually, if no one else does, but if > someone else it

Expose your business to the Internet

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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-25 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 24-Mar-2000, Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: > > Package: gnucash (debian/main) > > Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 60417 docs are split between /usr/doc/gnucash and /usr/share/doc/gnucash > > 6061

Re: PPP on Potato

2000-03-25 Thread John Hasler
Kenneth Scharf writes: > Worldnet uses passwords with 'funny' characters so you have to enter them > 'quoted'. The pppconfig program in slink instructed you to do this, but > the one in potato did not mention this fact. Please file a bug and include an example of a password with the "funny" chara

RE: PPP on Potato

2000-03-25 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am using the original slink, with some packages updated. I have found the problem, and it may deserve a bug fix. The problem was actually of my doing. Worldnet uses passwords with 'funny' characters so you have to enter them 'quoted'. The pppconfig program in slink instructed you to do this,

new debconf frontend

2000-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
I have just released debconf 0.3.0 into woody. This version has a new Slang-based frontend UI which is a great imporovement over the older frontends and does just about everything a debconf frontend can do. Of course, all the older frontends containue to function as they always have. Screenshots h

RE: PPP on Potato

2000-03-25 Thread Brent Fulgham
> also failed. Has ppp changed between slink and > potato? (ATTWorldnet uses chap for login). > Were you using the Slink-an-a-half, or the original Slink? The original slink was based on the 2.0 Kernel, and I believe with Potato some of the settings for chat changed. Unfortunately, I can't r

PPP on Potato

2000-03-25 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I tried to install Potato over my dialup line. I downloaded the base2.2.tgz image to an unused partition, and built the root, driver, and rescue disks from the disk files. I installed the base system and then tried to run pppconfig to be able to get to my isp via modem. I gave pppconfig the same

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Package: bind (debian/main) > Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59649 bind: Gives core dump Closed by 8.2.2p5-9, now in potato. > Package: inn2 (debian/main) > Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 61030 inn2: fresh potato i