Hi All,
I intent to maintain the webmagick (currently maintained by netgod), and
ckermit (orphaned by Debian-QA). I have to apply to become a maintainer. Let me
know if anyone else is working on these.
Regards,
Vaidhy
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Tommi Virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I already packaged cdb as cdb-src (like qmail-src):
Package: cdb
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/utils
According to the README in the CDB archive, the CDB C source is public
domain, so if you strip out the
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:34:43PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
According to the README in the CDB archive, the CDB C source is public
domain, so if you strip out the docs, etc. you could put it in main.
Yes. But as that doesn't cover even the manpages,
or pedantically even the
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 10:45:34AM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
Also, Exim uses a GPL'ed CDB. From spec.txt.gz:
. Support for the cdb (Constant DataBase) lookup method is
provided by code contributed by Nigel Metheringham of Planet Online
Ltd. which contains the following statements:
S == Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
S If all this is documented somewhere, please let me know. I
S understand the basics of add this to inetd or disable this, but
S switching foo out for bar I am not seeing.
Check the *inst script of the ftp packages. They activate their daemon
in favor
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... Pine is simpler to use,
but it's a pity about the license.
Go on, please.
It's non-free - you can't distribute modified binaries.
That is where Debian
hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Bruce Sass, Stardate 170199.0055:
number of bugs in ...elm-me+ pinemutt
---
[...]
--- --- ---
2 5 44
Which one(s) would you look
Hi all,
I've seen the edges of a few flamewars associated with autoconf/configure
style scripts, and I'm wondering if anyone can point me to (or provide me
with) arguments covering the following points:
Given a 3rd-party library A, which includes header files, and a 3rd-party
program B, which
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:05:54AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
Go on, please.
It's non-free - you can't distribute modified binaries.
That is where Debian placed the Pine source - who says so?
'nuff said
No.
Yes. Permission not given in a license is DENIED. When UW was asked
David Damerell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But it is MUCH buggier.
Code under active development is always more buggier :)
A .tgz of the source with the real filenames:
ftp://chiark.greenend.org.uk/users/damerell/slashem/slamlinux042.tar.gz
That is 2 versions out of date, and unlikely to be
The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or
automatically roll it over again?
Just curious,
--
Brian Servis
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Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes,
because by that time
Mark Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
wmx is another window manager for X. It is based on wm2 and provides
a similarly unusual style of window decoration; but in place of wm2's
minimal functionality, it offers many of the features of more
conventional managers in the most simplistic
On Jan 17, Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would go for mutt, because it means people are actually using it and
finding the bugs. (AND the bugs are going to be fixed, 12+3=15 resolved
bugs in the last 28 days).
And many of those bugs are feature requests.
After adopting mutt in
On 15 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben Simply use the 'xbase' package name as the dummy package,
Ben renaming what is currently 'xbase' in slink to xfree86-base.
Ben
Ben Then, the xbase package will be an Optional
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 05:08:36PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Brian Almeida wrote:
Because the Imlib maintainer (me) has a permanent hold on those packages
in dselect :)
Me too!!
Yes. I second this. RedHat and others have already moved back. Let's not
break all
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
Santiago Vila wrote:
[...]
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them *all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote:
Hm, non-debian does have its good points.
It has some potential problems, too. It could imply that the packages
found there are not built by Debian volunteers, or that they do not
adhere to Debian's policy standards, or that they are not supported by
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can
downgrade,
i see the 1.0.1 package nowhere ...
bma !find libpng2 hamm
dpkg bma: um, dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libpng2_1.0.0-0.1.deb
what about latest gnome
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them *all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
dependency/conflict check *before* the deep
- Forwarded message from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Package: dpkg-multicd
Version: 0.11
Severity: important
I'm awfully sorry but apparently I have to file an important bug report
against this pkackage (or dpkg?). It should be fixed before we release
slink.
First the symptoms:
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution
screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them
*all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution
screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them
*all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
dependency/conflict check
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or
automatically roll it over again?
Why not change it to a constantly rolling over license. The way I
understand it, we have this license to prevent bad things from being done
with
Hello,
I've been watching the debian-.* mailing lists for a couple of weeks
now and would like to contribute something to the debian effort.
I have already debianized some packages for my own use when .deb's weren't
available and would like to give them back to the community.
There's one package
It appears Debian is older then we though :). Look at the contents of
/usr/doc/debian/base:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Jan 1 1970 debian.README
Wichert
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==
This combination of bytes forms a message
Previously David Welton wrote:
Well, even if RMS doesn't care for it, you can pull out the Open
Source definition, which is definitive and specific, and generally
used as the benchmark for what 'free' is.
You do know the OS definition is the same as the current DFSG, right?
Wichert.
--
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or
automatically roll it over again?
Now that we have the constitution we can just vote on the license so we
don't have to extend it every couple of months.
Wichert.
--
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It appears Debian is older then we though :). Look at the contents of
/usr/doc/debian/base:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Jan 1 1970 debian.README
No such file appears in my copy of Content-i386 from 28 Dec 1998.
Where are you
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 16:14:59 +0100, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote:
There's one package in particular that I'd like to see in future debian
releases, namely jikes (a rather fast Java compiler by IBM which is
written in C++
An intent to package Jikes by Mike Goldman was announce in December;
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
The de-facto standard Internet tab size has always been 8 characters.
Always? The 1982 standard for ARPANET¹ email (RFC 822) explicitly
states in Section 3.4.2 that there is no nework-wide standard tab size
and so the use of HTAB
[1] ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/legal.txt
Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by
mutual agreement:
(a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns;
(b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns;
(c) Inclusion in a
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution
screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them
*all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote:
Bleh. Can we /please/ move this to -devel?
Done.
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 12:00:17AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
Also, in our social contract we say that packages in contrib are
not a part of Debian, but then we go ahead and create official links
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution
screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report
them *all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
That was the next issue I wanted to tackle after the proposed DFSG update.
On 18-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or
automatically roll it over again?
--
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
What do you mean with send proper mails...? Do you mean that the text of
Bug #29874 is improper in some way? I hope not.
With proper I thought about mails to overrides-change like
package foo needs to be priority extra since foo and bar
Santiago Vila wrote:
package foo needs to be priority extra since foo and bar conflict and are
both optional.
Fine, but why should this be more quickly fixed than the same text sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] against ftp.debian.org?
Both should be fine, the bug report should be even better. I
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can
downgrade,
i see the 1.0.1 package nowhere ...
bma !find libpng2 hamm
dpkg bma: um,
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:13:09PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously David Welton wrote:
Well, even if RMS doesn't care for it, you can pull out the Open
Source definition, which is definitive and specific, and generally
used as the benchmark for what 'free' is.
You do know the
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 12:27:59PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
So our goals are:
* make a working, completely free system. ie, main.
You're saying that the Suggests: links are not an official part
of Debian?
I'm saying that the Suggests: links don't force you to have a non-free
system,
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
[1] ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/legal.txt
Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by
mutual agreement:
(a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns;
This sounds like Debian and
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
[Thanks to anthony for a concrete list]
Some of the other packages in this situation:
rsync suggests ssh
inn suggests pgp
kbackup suggests pgp
kbackup-doc suggests pgp (the documentation for KBackup)
tm suggests
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, MHO is:
1) Ban suggestions from main to non-free or contrib
2) Implement enhances for the last set of examples
3) Ditch the rest (well, the rest above).
Lots of people aren't going to agree with me on this one...
Personally, I'd say implement
On Mon, 18 Jan, 1999, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:34:43PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
According to the README in the CDB archive, the CDB C source is public
domain, so if you strip out the docs, etc. you could put it in main.
Yes. But as that doesn't cover even the
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:27:50PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or
automatically roll it over again?
Now that we have the constitution we can just vote on the license so we
don't have
What's this LinuxTag thing?
The largest German Linux user show. In fact, it is probably the
largest Linux event in Europe. (If there is a larger one, we haven't
heard of it.) Last year there were an estimated 1500 visitors.
URL:http://www.linuxtag.org/.
When and where?
June 26/27,
From the pine license:
(c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or
non-proprietary software for which a fee may be charged for the
packaged distribution.
Bruce writes:
... but it is ok to charge for a distribution if you are producing CD's.
Unless those
The current italian translation coordinator no longer has the time.
We are therefore looking for someone to replace him. Being fluent
in Italian would be an asset. :)
If you are interested, contact me.
To keep a translation project alive requires multiple people or
the interest fails. If you are
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Because we, the organizers of LinuxTag '99, would like to invite the
Debian project to set up a booth at this year's event. Several major
Linux distributions will be there: SuSE, DLD, representatives for Red
Hat, etc. Last year quite a few visitors expressed
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:56:09AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
One thing you _will_ need to do to use the symlink-farm is use a patched
mkhybrid that flattens things as it makes the ISO images. I've separated
this patch out of a larger one by Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the
images I'm
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
[1] ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/legal.txt
Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by
mutual agreement:
(a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:56:23PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
1) Ban suggestions from main to non-free or contrib
2) Implement enhances for the last set of examples
3) Ditch the rest (well, the rest above).
Lots of people aren't going to agree with me on this one...
Well, FWIW, actually I
I have the TIGER data ready to mail to Dale. This is the U.S. street map
data which I am distributing under the GPL. It fit on 5 CDs rather than 6
after re-compression with bzip2.
Thanks
Bruce
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The $70 Billion US budget surplus hardly offsets our $5 Trillion national
debt. The
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