dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1997-12-31 Thread Marco Budde
Moin Moin! Today I've released the latest version of my HTML online help system for Debian. Bugs reports are welcome :). dhelp What's dhelp? dhelp is an online help system for Debian GNU/Linux. A Debian package can register its HTML documents and dhe

Re: Dependencies (Was: timezone/timezones problems)

1997-12-31 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: > Robert D. Hilliard writes: > > This is Bug#16260. > > Is this really a bug in timezones ? It seems quite similar to the > problem I have myself (as the maintainer - never heard of anyone else > speaking on this) while upgrading e2fsprogs to 1.10-9.

debian-sparc list, where?

1997-12-31 Thread Stephen Zander
Have tried a couple of times to subscribe to debian-sparc using [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I'm being met by a deafening silence. Is there something wrong with the list server? If I couldn't spell, I figure the list server would have told me so :/ -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion."

My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
9980dbview_1.0.3-3.1_i386.deb libc6! 290268 defrag_0.70-3_i386.deb 40024 lurkftp_0.99-1.1_i386.deb 288158 majordomo_1.94.4-1.1_i386.deb 28442 mdutils_0.35-5.1_i386.deb Libc6! 69698 omirr_0.3-2_i386.debLibc6! 418514 tkdesk_1.0b4-2.1_i386.d

Re: non-us and non-deutch (was: Doom)

1997-12-31 Thread Florian Kuehnert
> this won't work, because some CD distributions (i.e. infomagic) are > selled international. Therefor the english version is sold in > Germany. I don't thing that a game like doom is worth the trouble. Let > it be in the non-free section, where it belongs to. Yup. However, it doesn't seem very i

Re: GIF patent issue

1997-12-31 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "bruce" == bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bruce> Please be aware that the GIF patent issue is for WRITERS bruce> only. Readers do not use the patented algorithm. Often you bruce> can put the writer in non-free and leave the rest of the bruce> program in main. So is it ok

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1997-12-31 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On 31 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote: Troup> "Boris D. Beletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Troup> Troup> > If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we Troup> > waiting for? Troup> Troup> Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers Troup> who still haven

GIF patent issue

1997-12-31 Thread bruce
Please be aware that the GIF patent issue is for WRITERS only. Readers do not use the patented algorithm. Often you can put the writer in non-free and leave the rest of the program in main. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re^4: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-31 Thread Raul Miller
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would prefer a flag in CONTROL. We have got a lot of programs with such > problems. For example it's no problem to sell programs with GIF support in > Germany, because there's not patent on this algorithm. > The crypt programs are another group. You're

Re: My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I need a mas

1997-12-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
Hi Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) wrote on 31.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > adbbs What for? Anything wrong with my adbbs package? MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) wrote on 31.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Isn't there something *else* going on here as well? Namely, why does > libc6-dev suddenly want kernel-headers, and a particular version at > that, when neither it nor libc5-dev ever did before (and for > good reasons?)

Re: GUS driver package

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Soto
Hello Enrique: Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is an "unofficial" deb package of the ultra driver. There is a link > form Jaroslav's pages to the ftp site where you can download it. I've > been using it for a while and it works fine, but the mantainer doesn't > want to contribut

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
---Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, the kernel header files are getting to be quite > architecture dependent, and hence if libc development packages > continued to include kernel headers explicitly, we would need > different headers for different architectures

Re: Financial support

1997-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Brian" == Brian Bartholomew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Pardon me for a nosy question. Does Debian have any money Brian> flowing in from users that is used to compensate full-time Brian> Debian developers? Not that I'm aware of. Contributing to Debian, as a developer or ot

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> I want to be able to change the kernel-headers a program is Christoph> compiled with. Certain tools (especially in 2.1.X) are Christoph> dependant on a certain kernel version. Nothing wrong with Christoph> providing the

Financial support

1997-12-31 Thread Brian Bartholomew
Pardon me for a nosy question. Does Debian have any money flowing in from users that is used to compensate full-time Debian developers? Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) www.lpf.org --- Brian Bar

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1997-12-31 Thread James Troup
"Boris D. Beletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we waiting for? Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers who still haven't upgraded their packages to libc6, despite it being available since April. -- James - xinted anyo

debian 2.0 - any dates?

1997-12-31 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Do we have any dates for Debian 2.0 release/code-freze/dead-line/anything? If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we waiting for? thks, borik __ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berger Financial

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Browning) wrote on 29.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I find this hard to believe. kernel-headers and kernel-source > > packages write to the directories kernel-headers-X.X.XX and > > kernel-source-X.X.XX. They create

Re: Dependencies

1997-12-31 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yann Dirson) wrote on 30.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 30 Dec 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) wrote: > > > > > So, timezone (7.48-3) is installed, and "required", so dpkg won't > > > remove it. timezones (2.06-1) is available, and "replaces/conflicts" > >

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-31 Thread Peter Tobias
On Dec 30, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 08:55:26PM -0600, David Engel wrote: > > > > today I upgraded the machine that hosts my debian mirror to libc6. > > > Everyhthing went fine, only some partially resolved dependencies took > > > some time but didn't meant a problem. Thanks

Re: My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I need a master account!

1997-12-31 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Adam wrote: Adam> 88640 xinetd_2.2.1-1_i386.deb Libc6! New upstream version First of all this package is not orphaned, I am working on it's libc6 version. Second, where did you find "New upstream version"?! thks, borik __ Boris D. Beletsky

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Isn't there something *else* going on here as well? Namely, why does libc6-dev suddenly want kernel-headers, and a particular version at that, when neither it nor libc5-dev ever did before (and for good reasons?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: non-us and non-deutch (was: Doom)

1997-12-31 Thread Christian Leutloff
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > package (*) as you mirror it. This goes for CD images, too -- we'd have > to release an 'Official Debian CD Set' and an 'Official Debian CD Set > German Edition' because the former would contain any packages in the main > distribution. this won't work, b

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On 29 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > I think you overlooked part of my post. I mentioned that *I* had > created /usr/src/linux as a link to /usr/src/linux-my-kernel-version. > Then when I installed kernel-headers (because the new libc6-dev made > me), kernel-headers saw the link, decided it was

My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I need a master account!

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
9976dbview_1.0.3-3.1_i386.deb Libc6! 28442 mdutils_0.35-5.1_i386.deb Libc6! 418408 tkdesk_1.0b4-2.1_i386.deb Libc6! 110198 wu-ftpd-academ_2.4.2.13-0.1_i386.debLibc6! 90140 wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1_i386.deb Libc6! 88640 xinetd_2.2.1-1_i

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The vendor, I think. kernel-header-x.xx and kernel-source packages >> have always assumed ownership of /usr/src; this is not a new libc6 >> thing. Rob> It's new for anyone who has never ha

COULD YOU SEND ME A LIST

1997-12-31 Thread KILLER116
I NEED PHISH SEND ME THE LIST -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Re[2]: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Just to mention, I haven't received the message that was quoted above, ie from : Eloy Paris. Give it sometime. master's load average was around 15 about 5 minutes ago and I think master is the list server as well :-) Poor boy... I couldn't even login via FT

Re: Re[2]: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Heath wrote: > Sure, why not. I am currently not maintaining anything. I have just had a > lot > of time(not much work currently), and my computer wasn't doing anything > productive. Is this source available? BTW, that line is just part of my > quote > file. There's no source, and I enj

Re[2]: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
| On Tuesday, 30 December 97, at 10:39:46 PM | Joey wrote about "Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28" > Eloy A. Paris wrote: >> Hey!! Somebody give Adam an account on master!!! :-) He will port to >> libc6 the remaining libc5 packages :-) Just to mention, I haven't received the message that was quoted above

Re[2]: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
| On Tuesday, 30 December 97, at 8:53:16 PM | Adam wrote about "Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28" > | On Sunday, 28 December 97, at 9:47:22 AM > | Richard wrote about "Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28" >> Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> wu-ftpd-2.4-27 > Done. Waiting for account on master. >>

Re: libnfslock (or dftp?) install dangerous...

1997-12-31 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Cool. Thanks! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hey!! Somebody give Adam an account on master!!! :-) He will port to > libc6 the remaining libc5 packages :-) Adam wrote > : I wish I had a life outside Quake. Hey Adam, you want to maintain quake too? Maybe you can port it to libc6. ;-) -- see shy jo, just kidding -- T

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hey!! Somebody give Adam an account on master!!! :-) He will port to libc6 the remaining libc5 packages :-) E.- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : | On Sunday, 28 December 97, at 9:47:22 AM : | Richard wrote about "Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28" : > Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: : >

Re: Should I support xinetd in my Packages?

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
| On Tuesday, 30 December 97, at 9:11:52 PM | Eloy wrote about "Should I support xinetd in my Packages?" > Hi, > I received a message from a user that wants to know if I plan to > support xinetd in the installation scripts of the Samba package. I > need to enable/disable entries in /etc/inetd.conf

Re: libnfslock (or dftp?) install dangerous...

1997-12-31 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On 30 Dec 1997, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > I was just upgrading a system from [hamm a few weeks old] to [hamm > today] using, for the first time, dftp (instead of a mirror and manual > dpkg -BORGiE runs.) I selected libnfslock, it created > /etc/ld.so.preload, and since then any attempt to run a dyn

libnfslock (or dftp?) install dangerous...

1997-12-31 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I was just upgrading a system from [hamm a few weeks old] to [hamm today] using, for the first time, dftp (instead of a mirror and manual dpkg -BORGiE runs.) I selected libnfslock, it created /etc/ld.so.preload, and since then any attempt to run a dynamic linked program gives a message, BUG IN DYN

non-us and non-deutch (was: Doom)

1997-12-31 Thread Will Lowe
On 29 Dec 1997, Marco Budde wrote: > WL> Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory, which just > That's ok. > WL> It's going to get nuts if we have to have a non- directory for > WL> every country, but maybe we'll have to do this. If that's the case, > I would prefer a flag in

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Dec 29, Rob Browning wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The vendor, I think. kernel-header-x.xx and kernel-source > > packages have always assumed ownership of /usr/src; this is not a new > > libc6 thing. > > It's new for anyone who has never had kernel-headers a

Should I support xinetd in my Packages?

1997-12-31 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I received a message from a user that wants to know if I plan to support xinetd in the installation scripts of the Samba package. I need to enable/disable entries in /etc/inetd.conf to change the behavior of inetd but this user uses xinetd instead of inetd. Do I need to support xinetd as well

Re^4: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-31 Thread Marco Budde
Am 29.12.97 schrieb harpo # udel.edu ... Moin Will! WL> Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory, which just WL> wouldn't get mirrored (be default) in Germany? That's ok. WL> That way, if a child gets WL> it, they've got to get it from someplace outside Germany, which the WL

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-31 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > I volunteer to try rolling those patches into XEmacs 20.5. I think > that configure ought to detect `liblockfile' and compile `movemail' > accordingly. Sound right? Sounds good, but perhaps it should just fail to build on a debian system if libl

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The vendor, I think. kernel-header-x.xx and kernel-source > packages have always assumed ownership of /usr/src; this is not a new > libc6 thing. It's new for anyone who has never had kernel-headers and kernel-source installed before now (beca

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
| On Sunday, 28 December 97, at 9:47:22 AM | Richard wrote about "Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28" > Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > wu-ftpd-2.4-27 Done. Waiting for account on master. > wu-ftpd-academ-2.4.2.13-0 Done. Waiting for account on master. > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dependencies (Was: timezone/timezones problems)

1997-12-31 Thread Yann Dirson
> On 30 Dec 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) wrote: > > > So, timezone (7.48-3) is installed, and "required", so dpkg won't > > remove it. timezones (2.06-1) is available, and "replaces/conflicts" > > timezone, but dpkg (1.4.0.19) won't replace it, even with > > auto-deconfigure. I