Re: Someone working on a Penguin package?

Christian Schwarz wrote: In short, what Penguin is: ``Penguin is an extension for Perl 5, implementing an `agent framework' which enables you to send, recevice and execute Perl programs safely and securely across a network. [...] With Penguin you can write a useful Internet application today,

How to force static linking of some libs when using -shared?

Hello, I'm building a .so file for a package, which uses a library I would like to link statically in the .so file. I currently use something like cc -shared *.o /usr/lib/libsomelib.a -o name.so Is there a shorter way? If I use -static -lsomelib it does not work... On the other hand,

New binutils package

Date: 17 Sep 96 20:10 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: binutils Version: 2.7-1 Binary: binutils Architecture: i386 source Description: binutils: The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. - The programs in this package

New gdb package

Date: 17 Sep 96 20:40 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] GDB is a source level debugger for C, C++ and Fortran programs. Source: gdb Version: 4.16-1 Binary: gdb Architecture: i386 source Description: gdb: The GNU debugger. Changes:

Remove bdflush*.deb?

Hi, Now that the bdflush package has been replaced by update - shouldn't the binary-arch/base/bdflush*.deb files be removed for all architectures? Or are they still need for reasons I fail to see? Frank (Remember there is no 'bdflush' source package, neither is there an 'update' source package

Unanswered problem reports by maintainer and package

The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or or `forwarded' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The maintainer listed against each package is derived from the Maintainer field of the package as found in the development tree; there is an

Pine_1.95-1 uploaded to master.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:55:31 -0400 Source: pine Binary: imapd pico pine Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.95L-1 Distribution: non-free Urgency: low Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: imapd - remote mail folder access

gmp_1.3.2-3 uploaded to master

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 22:43:15 -0400 Source: gmp Binary: gmp Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.3.2-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: gmp- Multiprecision arithmetic library

Re: Packages to give away

Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lyx0.10.3-1 In case of emergency, I can take over this. (I use it myself, actually ... :-)

Re: How to force static linking of some libs when using -shared?

Yves Arrouye writes: I'm building a .so file for a package, which uses a library I would like to link statically in the .so file. I currently use something like cc -shared *.o /usr/lib/libsomelib.a -o name.so Is there a shorter way? If I use -static -lsomelib it does not work...

Experimental package?

I have a package called bridge-0.2 that has additional protocol filtering bridging features that I expect to be included in the 2.1.X kernels and some tool enhancements. This package requires patching the kernel right now. I would like the bridge-0.1 version to be kept in stable debian for the

Bug#4495: gs fonts should be in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts

Yves Arrouye: So why do we choose to use /usr/share for locales, for example? I remember we discussed that and adopted /usr/share, no? Dave, my memory is failing, Dave, stop... I can't remember the discussion, but perhaps it was because the FSSTND does not forbid the use of /usr/share, and the

Re: dpkg-shlibs and soname

Dale Scheetz wrote: : : On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : : : Read dpkg-shlibs ... there's a shlibs.local mentioned. It could be used : to fix the missing libs in /etc/dpkg/shlibs.default : : This is correct (and probably the expected method). My question is: Why : aren't

Imagmagick license various problems

Hi Folks. I've debianized ImageMagick and uploaded it to master, in section non-free for now. However I think I could move it to the 'graphics' section as: 1) The license states it's free (included as attachment) 2) It doesn't include the GIF compression code What do you think about

Re: dpkg-shlibs and soname

May be I misunderstood something, but the problem seems to be that /etc/dpkg/shlibs.default doesn't contain some important libraries. In my understanding, the file should contain a list of _all_ *installed* shared libraries on the system and the packages names and versions that provided the

Bug#4471: isp-ppp needs conflicts:ppp

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: I thought the Replaces: implied the removal of the package before installation? No, replaces and conflicts together implies that. RTFM. Guy

Uploaded dupload 1.7 (source all) to chiark

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:26:06 +0200 Source: dupload Binary: dupload Architecture: source all Version: 1.7 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: dupload- Utility to upload debian

Bug#4504: ircii: segfault/coredump with /leave

Package: ircii Version: 2.8.16beta-1 Typing /leave without arguments causes a segfault and coredump. (I have a 475K core file if anyone's interested.) The help information claims that /leave without arguments should behave identically to /leave *, i.e. leave current channel. Dave -- Dave