I recently (yesterday, in fact) discovered a wonderful Tcl/Tk-based irc client
for X called cIRCus. It is by far the best graphical irc client I've seen.
My first thought was, of course, to package it for Debian, but the copyright
is quite restrictive. There is no source, and it states that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas L Stewart) wrote on 17.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 17 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas L Stewart) wrote on 16.06.97 in
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Is there a dftp.conf setup I can use that doesn't require me to do some
sed work on the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) wrote on 17.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in
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No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a
libc6 version of perl
I'd like to suggest that the next version of debian linux be
hyped up to the max as Web Enhanced Linux.
We should offer the same stuff we always do and just highlight
web oriented services in the marketing.
Another marketing idea is to (once package groupings are
supported) group the gcc/g++
I was under the impression that xcompat is needed to run non-Debian
binaries that were compiled against old libs. I believe that may be true
That is possible (xcompat is an a.out library.) I haven't heard
direct reports of such (and xcompat is still dead -- there were never
real sources
Hello,
It appears that James LewisMoss, previous maintainer of xemacs, is no
longer around. (Attached below is a confirmation of this I received
from his ISP). Therefore, xemacs is in need of a new maintainer.
This is a large package, comprising over 18 megs of compressed source
and over 40k of
On 18 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
xcompat is dead (ie. it dates from when those were valid... since no
current packages need those virtual names, xcompat isn't needed either.)
I was under the impression that xcompat is needed to run non-Debian
binaries that were compiled against old libs. I
You're using diald, right? This looks fairly good. However, I'm not sure
about the metrics; you might want to convince diald to make the modem/
default route more expensive - say, still have eth0 at 0, have ppp0
(when it's up) at 10, and sl0 (where diald is listening) at 100, or
something,
On 18 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
ftpdir: /debian/hamm
This is probably the problem. The above path is relative to the /debian
directory. You might try
ftpdir: /debian
and see if that helps.
I made the change:
include:
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:13:09 EDT Igor Grobman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I recently (yesterday, in fact) discovered a wonderful Tcl/Tk-based irc client
for X called cIRCus. It is by far the best graphical irc client I've seen.
My first thought was, of course, to package it for Debian, but
On 18 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Hello,
It appears that James LewisMoss, previous maintainer of xemacs, is no
longer around.
I just did a `grep LewisMoss debian-devel*' through my mail archive and
discovered a mail which he (James LewisMoss) sent on 08 May 1997 20:16:11
-0600. He used
On 18 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
[snip]
Christian On 16 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
** Publib looks like it might already be the library needing to
be created that was mentioned earlier... or at least a very
good start.
Christian Thanks for pointing
Debian Installer wrote:
Mapping stable to updates.
Rejected: at_3.1.7-3.dsc refers to at_3.1.7.orig.tar.gz, but I can't find it
in Incoming or bo-updates.
If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the
override file requires editing, reply to this email.
Of course, I can
Hi!
I'm on vacation for one month, so I'm not reading any email. I'll be
back on July 14, and I'll respond to all my email by July 16.
You will only receive this email once.
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Mark Eichin wrote:
xcompat is dead (ie. it dates from when those were valid... since no
current packages need those virtual names, xcompat isn't needed either.)
I need xcompat to run Maple VR3.
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The joy of engineering is to find a straight
Here is a reworked proposal. If there are no complaints against it, it
should be put into the policy manual.
Changes against the last version:
- fixed the naming messup (g for libc6 ackages, not libc5!!!) and as
there are packages around using the 'g' convention, I dropped the
'-g'
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a
libc6 version of perl and everything should be fine again.
Yes, you can (at least I'm having no trouble at all whenusing glibc
2.0.4-1 and locales 2.0.4-1). _Please_ try these
Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem of having both libc5 and libc6 run-time libraries is minor,
the main one is that those stuck with libc5-dev cannot use other
newly-available versions of *libraries* from hamm.
How do you mean? You can install the *libraries* just
I'm sorry Helmut, but:
gauss:meskes 124) dpkg -l libc5\* libc6\* locale\* perl\* | grep ii
ii libc5 5.4.33-4 The Linux C library version 5
(run-time libr
ii libc5-altdev5.4.33-4 The Linux C library version 5
(alternative d
ii libc6 2.0.4-1The GNU C
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm sorry Helmut, but:
gauss:meskes 124) dpkg -l libc5\* libc6\* locale\* perl\* | grep ii
ii libc5 5.4.33-4 The Linux C library version 5
(run-time libr
ii libc5-altdev5.4.33-4 The Linux C library version 5
Thanks Peter.
Now my hosts.allow file reads:
# /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system.
See
# hosts_access(5) and
/usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz
#
# Example:ALL: LOCAL @some_netgroup
# ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT
Some time ago this message showed up on my mailbox... If nobody
has yes taken it, I will be glad to take over wwwoffle and boa
as my first debian packages... (I use them a lot :)
Thanxs,
Federico
I am listed as the maintainer of the following packages
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I should point out at once that I don't know if my
lockfile.c will work properly in all situations. I've done the
best I can, based on manual pages, but I haven't been able to
test it over NFS when various errors
Larry Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED], are you still with us?
I've sent you an email about svgalib, a package you maintain.
First email was dated Jun 10, and one at 17 June, or thereabout.
None of my messages were answered.
I would very much like to have a libc6 version of that package
available (no,
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
I would very much like to have a libc6 version of that package
available (no, I don't use svgalib myself, but some of my packages
do, and I want to fix bugs in them).
If you are unable to create libc6 packages,
Due to limited time I cannot maintain the Work-Needing and
Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux anymore.
Please contact me uf you want to take this.
Sven
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
I would very much like to have a libc6 version of that package
available (no, I don't use svgalib myself, but some of my packages
do, and I want to fix bugs in them).
If you are unable to create libc6
I had posted earlier about a problem getting Debian 1.2/1.3 installed
on a 365x thinkpad. Several solutions were offered and in the end it
turned out that the people claiming that some thinkpads could not
handle the bzImage format were correct. It was not the
floppy=thinkpad problem. I didn't
Ok. You got woffle. Boa is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] but he
might want some help.
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
Some time ago this message showed up on my mailbox... If nobody
has yes taken it, I will be glad to take over wwwoffle and boa
as my first debian packages...
In trying to compile linuxconf for libc6, I think I ran into a couple of
problems with our header files, I'll send more info later, but mostly I
needed net/if.h always with netinet/ipfw.h, i.e. linuxconf had the
#iclude for ipfw.h, but not if.h, and I got an error message of IFNAMSIZ
not defined
I dont know if I already said this but exim does not support bangpaths but
domainized uucp is no problem.
On 14 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim should
be the standard mailer for
I don't want there to be any overlap on packaging, but I hear now that
someome else is packaging linuxconf, but I don't know who. I am (was)
packaging it for libc6, and I had to make a couple of changes because
either it's glibc support is broken or our header files are broken. I
have it using
Hi all you developers and maintainers,
I just came in from a successfull Debian install. (My last full
install was somewhat in the past, so I didn't know the the current state
and I expected almost every thing to happen during the install.)
It just went through. First floppy (since the target
On Jun 18, Pete Templin wrote
:
:
: Let me try some somewhat off-topic questions here: I really think the ISP
: is clueless and not communicating the presence of our network to its
: upstream provider. Could a bunch of you developers please try the
: following three traceroute commands and tell
Am 16.06.97 schrieb liw # iki.fi ...
Moin Lars!
LW It was decided many moons ago that Debian would use HTML as its
LW primary on-line documentation format. HTML should be the default.
That's right. But a lot of important packages like doc-linux don't use
HTML.
LW is done with texi2html. For
Well,
open mouth extract foot,..
When doing a complete reinstall of all involved packages,
I finally found out that I had a messed up locale directory. So
everything would work for me, but not for anyone else :(
So here's the problem: libc6 and libc5 use different magic numbers for
their locale
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a reason for the checker libraries to come with debugging symbols?
Yes. There is a good, even a superlatively good reason: checker is
for debugging programs. It is *only* for debugging programs. Thus,
debugging symbols are in there
as I was informed when doing the libgdbm-altdev packages, you need to
have symlinks in /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/ pointing to the .so* files
you put in /usr/lib/libc5-compat. Also, debstd now knows about
/usr/lib/libc5-compat, which helps.
It would help if you specified that documentation went in
Hello!
I think that perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to just use the
procmail `lockfile' program to dot locking. It can be called from 'C'
with either `system' or `fork'/`exec*', and works well from scripts as
well. That's a quick and lazy way out.
Or, we could write our own small
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