On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 08:05:30PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
There are a number of bug reports in the archive that were automatically
generated by a program named deb-check. Is this program still around?
I would like to look at it.
its a tcl
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:38:15PM +0100, David Frey wrote:
On Tue, Jan 6 1998 12:18 +0100 Meskes, Michael writes:
I'm not sure about uniprint but the stcolor driver usage in magicfilter
is outdated, i.e. it uses options no longer avalaible in gs-aladin.
Sigh. gs-alladin is in non-free,
I Fixed at kon2_0.3.7-4.
From: James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 Jan 1998 23:48:18 +
J.J.Troup Package: kon2
J.J.Troup Version: 0.3.7-3
J.J.Troup
J.J.Troup The source for this package has hard coded i386 assembler in it and
J.J.Troup should probably have Architecture: i386 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Scheetz) wrote on 06.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
Do we want all packages to include the Section and Priority fields?
Probably.
I tend to do it like this:
* don't
In a private email to me, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
Btw, I just see the note in the changelog that you dont have time to
maintain lyx... i could take it over.
Well, that note was accurate at the time I wrote it. :-) I'm about to
start full-time work, so I should have more time to maintain Debian
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:38:15PM +0100, David Frey wrote:
On Tue, Jan 6 1998 12:18 +0100 Meskes, Michael writes:
I'm not sure about uniprint but the stcolor driver usage in magicfilter
is outdated, i.e. it uses options no longer avalaible in gs-aladin.
Sigh.
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know, however it would allow people to much more easily install and
maintain their own kernel sources for these includes.
Surely if they're clever enough for that, they're clever enough to
override a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 06.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 06.01.98 in
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Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Given the .sig on that message, the packages were suprisingly appropriate :)
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Hi,
If a few of you could send me your status files from a clean bo system
that is not running any hamm stuff that also has X windows I would be most
appreciative.
The file I am interested in is /var/lib/dpkg/status, it contains your
package selections. I am going to be using them to test out
I'm working on an LWP method for dselect. Current code is available at
http://biocomp.anu.edu.au/~dld/debian/dpkg-http_0.1_all.deb The method can
use any URL supported by LWP. Proxies can be set using
ftp_proxy=http://wwwcache and http_proxy=... Multiple sites can be
specified during Access
Package: project
Version: N/A
Xload was removed from xproc 1.2.2-1
However it is not available as a part of any other package.
It used to be xcontrib for some time but is no longer there either.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux norwood 2.0.32 #1 Thu Dec 18
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote:
Yes, I know deity will be out soon, but we're paying $0.19/megabyte
here, and caching helps.
I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for
downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the
prefered
Hi,
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
Package: mh
Depends: libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), mh (= 6.8.4-11), ncurses3.0
From a bo system it seems libpaper, xpm4.7 and mh (at least) have this
problem. I don't know how dpkg
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for
downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the
prefered method with deity.
Not much experience yet, as the code is less than a day old and there
Drake Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for
downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the
prefered method with deity.
Not much experience
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I have tried to package custom (look at
| http://www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/~flight/debian-private/custom/) so that
| it can be dropped in for emacs-19.34 and that works for python-mode.el
| 3.28. Still I've heard rumours that custom-1.9961
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done
deliberately. It looks like the
I think we have to report this against the appropriate X package now
since procps source does no longer contain xload. Quite some time ago we
decided to go with procps' xload simply because it was better than the X
one. Now it seems we have to revert that decision.
Michael
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Isn't there a bug in the 2.0 series that makes the kernel bomb when too
many file-descriptors are used?
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As long as it still uses gnu gs too, there shouldn't be a problem.
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Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire!
Apparently the 300 is not compatible to the 600. When I use the stcolor
driver with 720x720 dpi I just get white paper, but lots of that. In
fact the printing doesn't finish before I switch of the printer. When
using 360x360 I get correct output but always using color ink to print
black (hmm, even
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
Continuing off-topic, I remember that when I was young (very young) I
read a nice proposal for a reform of the calendar, made by Isaac Asimov.
I cannot find it anymore and, for some strange but human reason, I'm no
more in the possibility to ask
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
I'm now properly back. I'll try to catch up on the mailing lists in
the next few days.
Great! Will you be so kind to:
a) Put bug web pages in normal order.
and
b) divert all those 300K reports from debian-bugs-dist
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 06:35:30PM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote:
I suspect we'll get better cache hit rates if everyone in Australia
[the world?] uses the same sites (ftp.debian.org.au and nonus.debian.org),
ftp.debian.org.au == ftp.debian.org; ftp.au.debian.org is different
though. It has
BY the way, I don't feel comfortable about posting to the developers's
list, although I do lurk there.
I had some trouble installing some packages that needed xforms0.86.
xforms0.86, in turn, needed elf-x11r6lib, which apparently is
obsolete.
Is it safe to install xforms0.86, not including
On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schwarz) wrote on 06.01.98 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
(b) We set up a certain directory (say /usr/lib/cronjobs) where each
package can install its own crontab file (/usr/lib/cronjobs/foo).
Use /etc/cron.often (or
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not
Drake Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For the moment, I'm using the standard MIME-Base64 and libwww-perl perl
modules (/usr/local/site_perl/...). I'm expecting the Debian modules to
be functional soon (libwww-perl is a bit behind, and mime-base64 is m68k
only).
The latest libwww-perl
Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
Do we want all packages to include the Section and Priority fields?
Probably.
If so, then I think it is far more effective to change dpkg's default
behaviour so that it does include these fields, rather than requiring
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've tried applying the gt256 fd patch but that causes some NFS
problems (i use nfs to mount my debian mirror for upgrades) which would
probably go away if netstd and netbase were recompiled with the new fd
limit.
What I do is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Meskes, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't there a bug in the 2.0 series that makes the kernel bomb when too
many file-descriptors are used?
Not if you use the right patch to raise the number of file descriptors
(search for filehandle.patch.linux, or look in the
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For instance, take unzip. The unzip and unzip-crypt (on non-US)
packages both provide the virtual package unzip, so that other packages
can have a Depends: unzip (the virtual one), without having to know which
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Sanders) wrote on 07.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 7 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
And thus spake Craig Sanders, on Wed, Jan 07,
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
Do we want all packages to include the Section and Priority fields?
Probably.
If so, then I think it is far more effective to change dpkg's default
behaviour so that it
Greetings from Kansas,
I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has
been included in the stable release, currently named bo, I think.
A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you
have noticed on your security page. However, the IRC people
told me that 5.004
On 7 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've tried applying the gt256 fd patch but that causes some NFS
problems (i use nfs to mount my debian mirror for upgrades) which would
probably go away if netstd and netbase
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 08:18:22AM -0600, David Morton wrote:
I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has
been included in the stable release, currently named bo, I think.
A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you
have noticed on your security page.
This is a list of packages in the main distribution that need work to
be fully libc6-based. I base it on the Packages file at my local mirror,
so it may be a day or two out of date. If you have questions about why
a particular package is on the list, or if you think there is an error,
don't
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides
unzip make unzip to be a virtual package?
Yes. Though other packages can still have Depends:, Conflicts: etc. with
the concrete pkunzip package if there is a
On 6 Jan 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
Or if you use X, just put:
exec ssh-agent ~/.x-common-startup
in your .xinitrc. Then you can run ssh-add once after logging in, and
never type the phrase again until you log out.
I have been looking al over for this trick... Tried this one to, which
At 8:18 Uhr -0600 07.01.1998, David Morton wrote:
Greetings from Kansas,
I am quite upset with the fact that no update for perl has
been included in the stable release, currently named bo, I think.
A security bug in suid-perl has been known to exist in 5.003, as you
have noticed on your security
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I will also never feel comfortable with an automatic process editing my
lilo.config file.
I do agree on that... :)
I am set up to boot several linux partitions as well as
a dos partition and a loop-root system. I am much happier editing that
beast
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not
Dale Scheetz wrote:
I believe that if these fields are provided in the package paragraph,
that dpkg should automatically include them in the control fields for the
package.
So do I. I don't see any reason why it should not.
On the other hand, what's 4 characters in the rules file cost?
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
I just
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides
unzip make unzip to be a virtual package?
Yes. Though other packages can still have Depends:, Conflicts: etc.
According to Craig Sanders:
What I do is something different. I put this in /etc/initscript:
# Set # of fd's to 256 for all processes.
ulimit -S -n 256
That sets the soft limit for all processes to 256 fds. It can be raised
by an individual process if needed. My /etc/init.d/squid
I'm going to start working on packages for quake2, qwcl (the Quakeworld
client), qwsv (the Quakeworld server) and unixded (the Quake dedicated
server). I spoke to Joey Hess, he said he doesn't intend to package any
of them.
All of these packages will have to go in non-free.
What should the
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
This is a list of packages in the main distribution that need work to
be fully libc6-based. I base it on the Packages file at my local mirror,
so it may be a day or two out of date. If you have questions about why
a particular package is on the
On 7 Jan, Juan Cespedes wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
Continuing off-topic, I remember that when I was young (very young) I
read a nice proposal for a reform of the calendar, made by Isaac Asimov.
Isaac Asimov suggests that we should always use the decimal
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[You (Davide G. M. Salvetti)]
1) AucTeX has many .el's which should be shipped byte-compiled: should I
compile them with some specific Emacs flavor or doesn't it matter which
Emacs I'll use? (Please consider that, AFAIK, XEmacs comes with its own
AucTeX, so AucTeX
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I am set up to boot several linux partitions as well as
a dos partition and a loop-root system. I am much happier editing that
beast myself thankyou ;-)
A loop-root?
With a small patch to the kernel
The source package xtar and resultant binary packages xtar-smotif
and xtar-dmotif are now orphaned.
Steve
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob Assuming you're right, and movemail is used for all mail
Rob locking, then if we patch movemail to use liblockfile, we
Rob should be fine.
I volunteer to try rolling those patches
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
Dale Scheetz wrote:
I believe that if these fields are provided in the package paragraph,
that dpkg should automatically include them in the control fields for the
package.
So do I. I don't see any reason why it should not.
On the other
[You (Dale Scheetz)]
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
A loop-root?
With a small patch to the kernel and some modification of the loop device
code, you can create a file-system-in-a-file.
You can do this already in stock debian (rex and hamm) with
mount -o loop -t fs file mount
Michael Meskes:
Is auto-pgp still an active package? Or is it as outdated as it seems
to be. That means it is the only package on my machine that still has
an AOUT binary.
I don't know about anyone else, but I still use it.
If noone else wants it, since I'm the upstream author, I could quite
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vgrind-5.7-10
I have uploaded a libc6 build of vgrind, and have adopted the package.
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The meaning of self-referencing dependencies is as follows:
A (version x) --Depends- A (no version specified)
A (version x) --Depends- A (satisfied by x)
A (version x) --Provides- A (version x)
Useless, but should be allowed and ignored.
A (version x) --Depends- A (not satisfied by x)
Quoting Adam P. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[(Dale Scheetz)]
With a small patch to the kernel and some modification of the loop device
code, you can create a file-system-in-a-file.
You can do this already in stock debian (rex and hamm) with
mount -o loop -t fs file mount point
Why
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
The meaning of self-referencing dependencies is as follows:
A (version x) --Depends- A (no version specified)
A (version x) --Depends- A (satisfied by x)
A (version x) --Provides- A (version x)
Useless, but should be allowed and ignored.
A
Alan == Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alan Is it safe to install xforms0.86, not including the dev
Alan package?
I've recently uploaded re-done and working versions of both
libforms0.86 and libforms0.88. They're sitting in Incoming now, and
work fine. :)
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Is anyone maintaining netpbm? AFAIK the current version is still
libc5 based. I've recompiled it for libc6 here and cold upload
it if noone objects.
Wichert.
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|=20
| in your .xinitrc. Then you can run ssh-add once after logging in, and
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|I have been
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Amos Shapira wrote:
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Hello,
i have
only one problem. My computer has a memory amount of 128 mb, but linux(debian)
only recognizes 64 mb of memory.
I would be very pleased, if you can send me a e-mail with the solution of my
problem.
My e-mail adress is [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Thank you very much
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First, you need to send mail to the correct mailing list. This is
debian-devel; questions like that should go to debian-user, or
should be answered by one of the many available FAQs.
Add append=mem=128m to your /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo and reboot
(test first though by adding it to the
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, APreusse wrote:
My computer has a memory amount of 128 mb, but linux(debian)
only recognizes 64 mb of memory.
Add the following line to your '/etc/lilo.conf':
- s n i p p -
append=mem=128Mb
- s n i p p -
Or, at your lilo prompt: 'mem=128Mb'...
Christian Schwarz wrote:
Yes, that's very important to point out: Anacron will only run scripts in
the /etc/cron.period directories. Therefore, only jobs which can safely be
ignored if the system is powered down can be placed into /etc/cron.often.
(What about /etc/cron.generic ?)
How about
Has anybody tried the COAS 0.09 snapshot with Debian ? With a few
small modifications it compiled and installed for me. Many of the
tests succeed, but the `table' UI test with qt interface hangs, all UI
tests with curses interface segfault or dump cores, and all python
programs with UI
Hannu Koivisto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in reply to me:
If it does no big damage, I'd like to suggest to include this in
hamm somehow (either as separate package, or as addition to
emacs).
Sorry, but you don't get my vote with this plan. Unless you
provide at least Gnus
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 11:49:46AM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done
deliberately. It looks
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Isn't it a pity that there's no established way to package elisp for
Debian in a way that supports all emacsens, as far as possible.
It's in the works. We've recently had an initial discussion about the
problems involved in supporting all the
i think we're going to need some sort of auto-upgrade script to include on
the hamm release CD rom, because dselect just can't do the libc6 upgrade
safely (AFAIK). The CD will also Need a top-level README.NOW file saying
run this script first or suffer the consequences...would be nice if we
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:30:00AM +0100, Sten Anderson wrote:
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yesterday, I wrote a script that scans our whole archive for .dsc files
(Debian source package description files) and outputs some statistics
regarding the `Standards-Version'
Hi folks!
We had a discussion on debian-private in the last days about the release
of Debian 2.0. I decided (with agreement of the other developers) to
continue Brian's Upcoming Debian Releases postings for now. The goal is
to get Debian 2.0 released in a reasonable time while keeping the high
Hi folks!
[This is the 2nd mail concerning the new Release Roadmap. I suggest that
you read the mail with subject Debian Release Roadmap first.]
First step towards a stable Debian 2.0 release in time is to have a
consensus about the release requirements. (Note, that I changed the term
goal into
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cd /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386
Grr.
cd /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-$(dpkg --print-installation-architecture)
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I thought the small trick I've installed on my box would be of
interest. Maybe not as such, because the few bytes spared from
printcap are replaced by an additionnal script, but as an idea of
future directions for magicfilter.
It makes use of a lprng special feature, and uses the uniprint
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote:
[You (Dale Scheetz)]
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
A loop-root?
With a small patch to the kernel and some modification of the loop device
code, you can create a file-system-in-a-file.
You can do this already in stock debian
Support of 8-bit characters by default
Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
need to input umlauts, accented characters, etc. All Debian
packages will be configured to be 8-bit
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Support of 8-bit characters by default
Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
need to input umlauts, accented
Is anyone maintaining the Debian installation manual?
I know that Sven is no longer doing it. If not,
we will need a volunteer.
I'd like to maintain it. I plan to be active on the
testing front, so I should be aware of all the quirks with the installation
and upgrading.
BTW, are the
Support of 8-bit characters by default
Some programs need special configuration options to work 8-bit
clean. This is very important for a lot of non-English users who
need to input umlauts, accented characters, etc. All Debian
packages will be configured to
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
All applications registered to menus
The menu package included in the Debian distribution stores
information about which applications are installed on the system
and provides this data for X11 window managers or text-based menu
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