Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Browning
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > He needs to ship it with whatever should be the default. Only if > the default has to be changed should dpkg-statoverride be used, > which can be either because the local admin wants something different, > or because a debconf or postinst script asked

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

2001-05-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:51:53PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "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 usin

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 04-May-2001 Christoph Simon wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2001 22:34:20 -0300 (BRT) > Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On 03-May-2001 Arthur Korn wrote: >> > Adam Heath schrieb: >> >> Um, "Free as a Bird" is a song, and copyrighted, so they can't go in >> >> main. >> > >> > Copyri

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 03 May 2001 22:34:20 -0300 (BRT) Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03-May-2001 Arthur Korn wrote: > > Adam Heath schrieb: > >> Um, "Free as a Bird" is a song, and copyrighted, so they can't go in main. > > > > Copyrighting old german proverbs? *shudder* > > German? Worldw

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Simon Richter wrote: > While debconfiscating :-) uptimed, I also added a note to uprecords-cgi > so that the sysadmin would be informed where the CGI would show up in his > webtree. In this note, I'd like to use substitution, but this apparently > doesn't work. Addendum: The s

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 03-May-2001 Arthur Korn wrote: > Adam Heath schrieb: >> Um, "Free as a Bird" is a song, and copyrighted, so they can't go in main. > > Copyrighting old german proverbs? *shudder* German? Worldwide, AFAICT. (At least in Brazil, and most other countries, a white pigeon is a symbol of freedom an

Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, While debconfiscating :-) uptimed, I also added a note to uprecords-cgi so that the sysadmin would be informed where the CGI would show up in his webtree. In this note, I'd like to use substitution, but this apparently doesn't work. The templates file says: Description: uprecords.cgi has bee

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. T

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

2001-05-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:31:34PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 02, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >(*) I really hate it when people close bugs with a one-liner (or less) > >answer, without any substantiating motivation. Especially when parts of > That's fair. I have when peop

Re: Debian job in Boston US [nowhere better to post?]

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:36:07AM -0400, Grant Taylor wrote: > I asked a couple of developers, and there seems to be nowhere better > to post until debian-jobs is up; sorry if this is annoying. If you are willing to take a telecommuter, I am interested. I live in the southeastern part of Virginia

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Rahul Jain
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:30:28PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: > > Maybe you want > > sh -c 'echo "x-${IFS}-x"' > > Both Solaris 2.6 /bin/sh and Linux bash seem to have IFS set. > > $ /bin/sh -c 'echo "x-${IFS}-x"' > x- > -x > Identical behavior with zsh from unstable here. -- -> -/-

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > ... > > > > Every production server that I've seen that has 2 PSUs has both > > continuously running. At hopefully < 50% capacity. > > Interesting. Could you post

Re: netbooted kernel.

2001-05-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *5* Does anyone know if nfs-root can be in the standard-kernel > without problem to boot from harddisk? I have not suceeded but then > there were other problems to and I had little time... On Linux, EtherBoot is able to load an initrd image so the presen

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:00:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one > > > yet. > > > I doubt there is one. > > > > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die > > of an h

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one > > > yet. > > > I doubt there is one. > > > > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die > > of an heart-attack whenever a

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one > > yet. > > I doubt there is one. > > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die > of an heart-attack whenever an installation task has to occur... Bollocks. Prof

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread straylite
At Thu, 3 May 2001 22:36:27 +0200 , Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC they only work like switches A MOSFET is a type of field-effect transistor ... hence the "FET" part of the name -- it can be sued for much more than a switch. Get your ow

Re: Easy removal of tasks (was Re: Proposing task-debian)

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Isn't it possible to integrate debfoster in apt? I think apt is even supposed to have some kind of hooks for storing the necessary info, they are just not used. -- see shy jo

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > > at these extremes... the diodes wont helpand the dioes will simply > > burn up due to the current it has to pass to get to that "voltage" > > one side being a diode drop ( 0.7v ) across itself.. > > - a power mosfet is better suited ... hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC

Re: possible bug in gettext (autotools?) or in some packages

2001-05-03 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Thu, 3 May 2001 13:04:07 -0300 Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Yo KoV, Yo hmh =) > On Thu, 03 May 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > I noticed while creating a package for a gettext enabled program, that > > make install was installing the .mo file as @INSTOBJEXT@ > >

Re: possible bug in gettext (autotools?) or in some packages

2001-05-03 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Thu, 3 May 2001 17:20:07 +0100 Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:32:28PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Do you have gettext installed on the machine you're trying to build on? > > I got exactly these symptoms until I installed gettext. [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#96102: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-03 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:42:35AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Radovan Garabik wrote: > > serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server > > written in python. > > Can it be run from inetd? I'm really dying for a dict server that can be More or less, yes, it can, but currently it is a bit unusable since it t

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Raja R Harinath
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > windlord:~> printenv IFS > > windlord:~> /bin/sh -c 'echo x-${IFS}-x' > > x- -x > > windlord:~> uname -a > > SunOS windlord.stanford.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 > > > > Looks set to me, alt

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-03 Thread Mike Dresser
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:21:58PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) > > And alias "quit" to "exit". :) type.exit.you.dolt A 127.0.0.1 quitIN CNAME type.exit.you.dolt.windsorma

Re: RFC: English translation list

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
I've filed a wishlist bug to get this list made. -- see shy jo

Re: Bug#96102: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Radovan Garabik wrote: > serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server > written in python. Can it be run from inetd? I'm really dying for a dict server that can be run from inetd, since I run dict about 3 times a week, and my laptop is typically offline and has onlt 64mb core. -- see shy jo

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:58:01PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > > What about stable? Removing the stable Packages file during an update > > would make it impossible to do a network install. > > > Not impossible. But the client would have to wait till the *.deb files have > been mirrored co

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-03 Thread Harald Dunkel
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:33:27PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short > > window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. > > > > But is it possible t

Re: Debian job in Boston US [nowhere better to post?]

2001-05-03 Thread Christian Surchi
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:50:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:36:07AM -0400, Grant Taylor wrote: > > We're seeking a Debian developer to own our in-house customized > > Debian network > > K00L!11!1!11!1 G3771N6 P41D 2 0WN 80X3N 1Z L33T!!!111!! Can I have a b

Re: Debian job in Boston US [nowhere better to post?]

2001-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:36:07AM -0400, Grant Taylor wrote: > We're seeking a Debian developer to own our in-house customized > Debian network K00L!11!1!11!1 G3771N6 P41D 2 0WN 80X3N 1Z L33T!!!111!! -- G. Branden Robinson | Experience should teach us to be most on Debian GN

Re: Runlevel for powersaving

2001-05-03 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:01:26PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: >Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Looking at apmd(8), it seems "change power" would fit, but >> unfortunately it doesn't tell you wheter AC was plugged in or >> out. > >Your script could query `apm | grep on-line` or something

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one yet. > I doubt there is one. I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die of an heart-attack whenever an installation task has to occur... Wolfgang

Re: possible bug in gettext (autotools?) or in some packages

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Martin
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:32:28PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > so I checked /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES and noticed that > rpm and gtk+licq had also this problem. The problem is also happening > to other languages too as /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ has a > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: possible bug in gettext (autotools?) or in some packages

2001-05-03 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Yo KoV, On Thu, 03 May 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I noticed while creating a package for a gettext enabled program, that > make install was installing the .mo file as @INSTOBJEXT@ Well, file important bugs against those packages, telling them to fix their packages to refresh and use the

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:20:55PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Since every window manager / session manager is already registered with > > the alternatives system, I see no reason why the other display managers > > can't do what wdm already does. It includes a script, update_wdm_wmlist > > whi

possible bug in gettext (autotools?) or in some packages

2001-05-03 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hello Debian friends, I noticed while creating a package for a gettext enabled program, that make install was installing the .mo file as @INSTOBJEXT@ so I checked /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES and noticed that rpm and gtk+licq had also this problem. The problem is also happening to other lan

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

2001-05-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 02, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, (as I wrote), mutt's manual.txt says that the charset setting is >used for that. This is your interpretation of the manual. >> >So what's the point of the charset setting? After all, the manual.txt >> It tells mutt about which charas

Re: dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Ron Farrer
Julian Gilbey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > And just drop a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to do it ;-) Yup, already done. Although the developers-reference says to mail the .changes file (section 10.4, last paragraph.) Ron pgp40OK6BEjSO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager > > listings so that users can choose what they want to login in using. > > There currently is no common way for wm's to re

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:22:57PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:07:29PM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: ^ > Hi, Darren, glad to know you're still around and in one piece. I was > starting to get a lit

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
>> Why use 'preprocessor switch'? AFAIK g++-2 should hanlde correct >> syntax too (without keyword 'template'). At least version 2.95.3 does >> compiles your example code with 'template' removed. Did you tried to >> compile your application with g++-2 with 'template' removed where it >> should be

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager listings > so that users can choose what they want to login in using. There > currently is no common way for wm's to register themselves

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Dan E. Kelley
> Why use 'preprocessor switch'? AFAIK g++-2 should hanlde correct > syntax too (without keyword 'template'). At least version 2.95.3 does > compiles your example code with 'template' removed. Did you tried to > compile your application with g++-2 with 'template' removed where it > should be remove

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
DEK> Ilya, thanks VERY MUCH. This solved my problem in a flash. My DEK> application (38 thousand lines, compared to the 6 lines of my DEK> test-file) now compiles and links properly in g++-3, and, with a DEK> preprocessor switch, in g++-2 as well. In case other folks are DEK> interested, below

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:36:05AM -0300, Dan E. Kelley wrote: > Ilya, thanks VERY MUCH. This solved my problem in a flash. My > application (38 thousand lines, compared to the 6 lines of my > test-file) now compiles and links properly in g++-3, and, with a > preprocessor switch, in g++-2 as well

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Dan E. Kelley
Ilya, thanks VERY MUCH. This solved my problem in a flash. My application (38 thousand lines, compared to the 6 lines of my test-file) now compiles and links properly in g++-3, and, with a preprocessor switch, in g++-2 as well. In case other folks are interested, below is how I now do it (sorry

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ivan" == Ivan E Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ivan> Solution?: create a program (update-dm?) that would pull Ivan> the current list of window/session-managers installed on the Ivan> system and build the appropriate config files for whichever You should probably consider w

netbooted kernel.

2001-05-03 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi I want to ask you what you think of the netbooted kernel(packages?) I inted to package. There are a couple of issues: *1* Should I use the "standard" configuration and add the nfsroot thing and then compile. This means a lot of packages. Or should I make one generic packge (for i386, and let

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
DEK> Attached is a 6-line C++ test program (which does nothing more than DEK> instantiate templates) that compiles in g++-2, with DEK> g++ -c test-template.cc DEK> but for which g++-3 yields the error messages: DEK> test-template.cc:4: non-template used as template DEK>

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:09:55PM +0100, Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Rumours have it that Microsoft are going to embrace and extend this > protocol using battery hens, with the "enterprise" version using > roosters. Nah, I think they'll just hire some falconers. Dani

Re: searchin' for Robert van der Meulen [Mailer-Daemon@smtp.cistron.nl: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2001-05-03 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Hi, Quoting Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here's a bug closing message with two bugs in it. First, the closes are done > with 'close nnn' command which is not nice to the submitters, and second, > the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. These were NMU-fixed bugs with a 'fixed' tag that weren't

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not only does that show that Solaris 2.6's shell does not set IFS, > > windlord:~> printenv IFS > windlord:~> /bin/sh -c 'echo x-${IFS}-x' > x- -x > windlord:~> uname -a > SunOS windlord.stanford.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 >

Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Dan E. Kelley
I'm the author of `gri' (gri.sourceforge.net), which is packaged in Debian. I'm porting gri to g++-3 in preparation to Debian's (and everyone else's) eventual move to that compiler and I'm having some problems. Perhaps someone on this list could help? I hope it's not rude of me to be asking this

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Martin
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:04:06PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > > Taxonomically, pigeons and doves are the same. > Both are members of the order Columbiformes, family Columbidae. The term dove > is generally used for smaller species with pointed tails. "Pigeon" refers to > the > larger species with

gdb adoption

2001-05-03 Thread Domenico Andreoli
hi Vincent! i'd like a lot to take the maintainment of gdb, are you still maintaining it? i see an update long time ago, it has now some problems and it isn't going into testing. thanks :)) ps: i'm preparing a patch that make it almost lintian clean -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http

Re: Easy removal of tasks (was Re: Proposing task-debian)

2001-05-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 2.V.2001 at 15:09 Sam Powers wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2001 13:51, Simon Law wrote: > > apt-get install { -remove } > > > > which happens to be REALLY ugly. Better to have apt-get support > > task-removals. For example: > > > > apt-get remove --remove-task [--purge] { } > > > > Si

Re: searchin' for Robert van der Meulen [Mailer-Daemon@smtp.cistron.nl: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2001-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Josip Rodin wrote: > Here's a bug closing message with two bugs in it. First, the closes are done > with 'close nnn' command which is not nice to the submitters, and second, > the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. That was a NIS failure on the mailserver for cistron.nl, already fixed l

searchin' for Robert van der Meulen [Mailer-Daemon@smtp.cistron.nl: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2001-05-03 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Here's a bug closing message with two bugs in it. First, the closes are done with 'close nnn' command which is not nice to the submitters, and second, the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivery-date: Thu, 03 May

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Daniel Burrows | Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a | Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a | way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-) I just talked with the guy who did most of the work on IRC and he is (probably) going to

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:49:27PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > the diodes need to be power diodes... vs signal diodes > > given you cannot tie the power supplies at two diff voltages together... > you have to isolate it somehow... ( the power diode method ) I'm a bit hazy on how this actually work

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:50:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using > pigeons. See There's a lot more interesting ones than that. Last year, an RFC described transmission of electricity over IP. I like the one which descri

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > In power combining applications like these, balancing diodes > > or resistors are usually used. It's not good just to connect > > the outputs together. > > What's the differ

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:04:12PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > debconf. There has been discussion of making perl not required, but it > remains > to be seen if that will happen. It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one yet. I doubt there is one. Hamish -- Hami

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose > > from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the > > update-menu type of approach would be a good

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Arthur Korn
Ivan E. Moore II schrieb: > I think that this method would probably reduce the amount of possible > duplication as long as the update-dm script pulled it's wm listing from > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-window-manager for example. That way the only > change any wm would have to do is add a call t

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Arthur Korn
Adam Heath schrieb: > Um, "Free as a Bird" is a song, and copyrighted, so they can't go in main. Copyrighting old german proverbs? *shudder* ciao, 2ri -- "Never" is almost always earlier than you think.

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager listings > so that users can choose what they want to login in using. There > currently is no common way for wm's to register themselves with > ea

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Hi, > > Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose > from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the update-menu > type of approach would be a good way to solve this. I'd like to

wnpp: ITP: ispellcat, catalan dictionary for ispell and wordlist

2001-05-03 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Package: wnpp Version: N/A Severity: wishlist (Already submitted to the BTS as a bug to wnpp) ispellcat is a catalan dictionary for ispell, also containing a wordlist. This would generate two packages, icatalan: The ispell dictionary wcatalan: The wordlist License: DFSG compliant. I am still f

Re: dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:56:54PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > Yup, and herein lies my mistake. I said to close an already closed bug > (doh!) What I REALLY meant to do was close #93109, I'll take care of > that later. Had I bothered to notice the bug was under a DIFFERENT > number, that would have

dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Hi, Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the update-menu type of approach would be a good way to solve this. I'd like to restate what my understanding of the problem and current suggested solution

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-03 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server > > written in python. > > > > I am the author, package is already ready and bein

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-03 Thread Nathan Scott
hi, On May 3, 9:28am, Radovan Garabik wrote: > Subject: Re: SGI's xfs > > > > And the kernel patches are in incoming. > > > > and how do you solve the requirement to use gcc version 2.91.66 > for compiling? > gcc-2.95.3 and current gcc-2.95.4 snapshot seem to compile the XFS kernel correc

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-03 Thread Rahul Jain
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:28:14AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > On May 2, 11:22am, Ed Boraas wrote: > > Subject: Re: SGI's xfs > > > Previously Matthias Berse wrote: > > > > Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in > > > > debian? Are there kernel patches availa

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-03 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 2.05.01 um 13:50:38 schrieb Chris Waters: > But maybe that's just me. If you guys really think I'm stepping over > the line here, then I'll retract my ITH and just do massive patching > as an NMU. You should go ahead. I can't see how you could possibly have done any better than you did. Only

Debian job in Boston US [nowhere better to post?]

2001-05-03 Thread Grant Taylor
I asked a couple of developers, and there seems to be nowhere better to post until debian-jobs is up; sorry if this is annoying. I *really* need a Debian-capable person to help offload me at work. There is a $1000 referral for anyone who finds us this person; I'd love to see that go to some deser

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-03 Thread Radovan Garabik
On May 2, 11:22am, Ed Boraas wrote: > Subject: Re: SGI's xfs > > Previously Matthias Berse wrote: > > > Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in > > > debian? Are there kernel patches available and/or userspace tools > > > being packaged? > > > > The userspace

Re: g++-3.0 question

2001-05-03 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
> #include should be #include > #include should be #include for the rest, apply either of the proposed solutions by Tellef Fog Heen. cheers Uli

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Sam Couter
Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Obviously, if doves were used, both pigeons and doves would have to > provide the pseudo-package "avian-packet-carrier" and the installer > package would need to update-alternatives as appropriate. Pigeons *are* doves. What you think of as pigeons ar

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Thu, 3 May 2001 16:56:08 +1000 Sam Couter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No need to create a section for them. Birds can sit on the tree > > directly. > > But what about now that we have pools? Will they drown? Being birds, I assume they would

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Sam Couter
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No need to create a section for them. Birds can sit on the tree > directly. But what about now that we have pools? Will they drown? -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| tSA Consulting

Re: Bug#95430: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Wed, 2 May 2001 23:22:29 -0700 "Zack Weinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I'll concede that this exploit is only theoretical on Linux at > this time. Remember what was on the L0pht website... "L0pht, making the throetical practical since [some year I care not to remember]" This proba

Re: Bug#95430: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Zack Weinberg
> > > Get a clue, Linux does not allow setuid scripts. > > > > Irrelevant. Look up IFS in a bugtraq archive. > > I shan't do your homework for you. > > I did. And guess what, I didn't find one single exploit regarding this > on Linux. Interestingly, I found one exploit that relied on IFS to be

Re: dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Ron Farrer
Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) wrote: > It doesn't appear to be available for i386. > The p.d.o CGI probably only looks at i386 packages. "silo" doesn't show up > either, eg. That explains it! Ok, now I can sleep better. :) > 93713 is closed, though: it's the build-depends bug which was

Re: dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:03:09PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > One of my packages, uptime-applet, seems to have vanished. Or has it? > Apparently something went wrong during the dinstall and I never got an > email saying "INSTALLED" like usual. Looking on auric, I see the > package IS there (uptime-

dinstall problem?

2001-05-03 Thread Ron Farrer
hello; One of my packages, uptime-applet, seems to have vanished. Or has it? Apparently something went wrong during the dinstall and I never got an email saying "INSTALLED" like usual. Looking on auric, I see the package IS there (uptime-applet_0.2.0-4) in the pool. However using the CGI search o