RE: fwtk should be removed IMO

1997-06-27 Thread Michael Meskes
Didn't we have something like that for the compress package? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire!

Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-27 Thread Raul Miller
On Jun 27, Erik B. Andersen wrote For most math, expr works just fine. Of course, expr is limited to integer math, but it works and is portable. Oops, you're right -- my biases are showing, sorry. [I make it a practice to never use expr.] -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-27 Thread Michael Barabanov
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Christian == Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian One questions remains: Is it possible to browse Christian html.gz files _without_ a CGI script with the usual Christian HTML browsers (Netscape, lynx)? It sure is

Re^8: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-27 Thread Marco Budde
Am 26.06.97 schrieb branden # purdue.edu ... Moin! b For every .html request that comes in (or perhaps for any request in b general), look for a file fitting the traditional spec. b If that fails, look for a .gz version of that file in the same directory. b If that fails, return the usual 404

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-27 Thread Mark Eichin
The situation looks completely different if the server has its own package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. Not really -- the user should still be prompted (or have some control over it) because the daemon package probably contains the *documentation* for the daemon! I

Re^8: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-27 Thread Marco Budde
Am 26.06.97 schrieb liw # iki.fi ... Moin Lars! LW Nothing, as far as I know. dwww, however, fixes thing correctly. That But dwww is very slow (on my 486SL notebook). LW doesn't help people who wish to browse documentation without using a Right, for this people I've written an online help

Re^2: Documentation Policy

1997-06-27 Thread Marco Budde
Am 26.06.97 schrieb alegre # saturn.superlink.net ... Moin Fernando! a If we want to have HTML as the default we would have to put some effort a into fixing bugs in the converters. A converter fixed means many documents a fixed, while a document fixed is just one document fixed. We would have to

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-27 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Christian == Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian One questions remains: Is it possible to browse Christian html.gz files _without_ a CGI script with the usual Christian HTML browsers (Netscape, lynx)? I used to be able to read gzipped html files with Netscape, but

RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-27 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good evening, The most recent security post on bugtraq reminds me on this proposal. I have noticed that Debian packages are randomly installing services (except for rwhod). What I mean is that there are some Debian packages that contain both a server and a

Re: Amulet GUI toolkit

1997-06-27 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Amulet is a huge free C++ GUI toolkit. Please see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet . It builds and runs out of the box on Debian. Someone please volunteer to package it. BTW, who is working on the packaging of the freedom desktop? -- - ** Linux **

Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-27 Thread Erik B. Andersen
On Jun 23, John Goerzen wrote It seems to me that dc and bc aren't vital to the workings of a system (when I deselect them, dselect doesn't warn about any dependencies), yet they are in Important. Why? In addition to what everyone else has said about what Important Really Means,

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-27 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: objections this times. If you can't live with this proposal, you'll have to present another formulation of a paragraph or of the whole text. [ ... ] /usr/doc/pkg-name/html-info/ Would not texi-html or

where aclocal? (for a dpkg build)

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
Anyone knows where aclocal is? dpkg-1.4.0.17 needs it to build: Makefile.in: Makefile.am $(checkdir) $(RM) config.status - aclocal -I ./automake autoheader but I cannot find it in the old (bo) Contents-i386.gz file, and the .contents.new from unstable doesn't have

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
So, there's a first version of fakeroot sitting in ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/upload It still has severe limitations (for example, it only overloads stat etc, not the fstat counterparts, but most things I tried used fstat[1]). Also, as I didn't have a dpkg for libc6 (and I couldn't

Re: Amulet GUI toolkit

1997-06-27 Thread SirDibos
Amulet is available for free by anonymous FTP or WWW. ... The only restriction is that the documentation for Amulet is copyrighted, so you cannot distribute the Amulet manual or papers without permission from CMU. Um, geez. Did anyone think to actually ask them? There is every

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-27 Thread John Goerzen
Whoa! I kinda had noticed that some packages were going to HTML, but with a new job and a pending move, I haven't been reading these lists as closely as I probably should. There are several VERY SERIOUS problems with making everything HTML: * HTML cannot do very much with formatting. When a

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-27 Thread Richard Kaszeta
I would suggest either of the following: * DVI format. It can be converted to HTML (I think...) and plain text on-the-fly. The conversions of DVI-HTML and DVI-Text produce results that range from poor to completely unusable. * LinuxDoc/SGML. This is probably the best choice. It

porting to libc6.

1997-06-27 Thread Shaya Potter
I got a free machine, that I can use to help the port to libc6. I have it running libc6-dev now, and also downloaded the ncurses stuff. so if anyone wants libs packaged up, tell me where to look, and I'll make a non-maintainer release (with the premission of the maintainer, of course). I would

Re: why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

1997-06-27 Thread David Frey
(People, please don't unnecessarily Cc:) On Fri, Jun 27 1997 11:03 +0200 joost witteveen writes: Can someone tell me why shared libs should be installed executable? (Actually, Christoph Lameter wants to know this, cf. #7129, but since I don't know this either I'll redirect

Re: Amulet GUI toolkit

1997-06-27 Thread Graham C. Hughes
Um, geez. Did anyone think to actually ask them? There is every possibility they would say sure, go right ahead. It never hurts to ask. Duh. Try and remember that permission can be revoked at any time. This is why I prefer the GPL; I can be pretty certain I'm not going to have my feet

XFree86 build info

1997-06-27 Thread Stephen Zander
Due to dubious support for the tgui9320lcd in XFree 3.3, I'm in the process of building my own (to be released if it's ever successful). Before I start down this (long?) road, I thought I'd ask a couple of quick questions. 1. Does debian include any additional drivers on top of the standard