Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

1999-05-18 Thread Edward Betts
I was looking at the new version of miscfiles, in the changelog, I noticed that the previous version (the one before this one)'s changelog entry read like this miscfiles (1.1-6) unstable; urgency=low * Removed duplication of the GNU Manifesto. closes: BUG#29565 -- Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL

Re: VX Chipsets and 2.2.5

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Robert Woodcock wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: I have been told by an aquaintance that linux 2.1.x or greater kernels are unlikely to boot on a Motherboard that uses a VX Chipset. I have a VXPro... Well at least your friends know where to get good crack. Aye. 2.2.5

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Mon, 17 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am given to understand that someone has found a problem in the license of jdk, to the point that same person finds that debian cannot distribute the jdk at all. I was told that the problem found in the license has existed for a long time.

Re: Old Library dependencies Re: Release Plans (19990513)

1999-05-18 Thread Richard Braakman
Hartmut Koptein wrote: Remove as many dependencies on old libraries as possible, this includes: libjpegg6a, libncurses3.4, newt0.25, libpgsql, tk4.2, tcl7.6, libwraster1, libpng0g and various older gtk/gnome libraries. Lintian has a

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Chris Waters
Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. The scheme makes us less liable than we already are, since it shows that we are trying. Excuse me? Are you a lawyer, or have you consulted with competent legal advisors in order to arrive at this *theory*? I suspect not, and I suspect that you

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Basically, we're in BLATANT violation of the license currently. It states quite clearly that redistribution is prohibited. So, plain and simple, we're shit out of luck. As someone else pointed out, Kaffe is just as good, with better response. But either way, we have to lose jdk or convince

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-18 Thread Erik
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:15:48PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: Hi, I have written a generic network interface management command, net, which can be used to start/stop/show/configure network interfaces, and a smarter replacement for the /etc/init.d/network script. The net command makes

Re: Bug#37606: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable

1999-05-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
The main reason I didn't want to have mktex{mf,tfm,pk} be setuid is because they run all sorts of different programs - metafont, gsftopk, etc. - which can (IIRC) be replaced by the user. Even if they can't, their inputs can, and the inputs are turing-complete macro languages. If

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: What is wrong with distributing an installation package like is done with netscape and realaudio? Hrm. You know, that didn't occur to me. As long as it contains NOTHING of JDK, that's good. :) For the record, kaffe is *NOT* as good as

The f-word in kernel source (Was: Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6))

1999-05-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Edward Betts wrote: All food for thought. Finally on a slightly serious note, sex(6) is quite explicit and some might find it offensive. We have fortune-off separate, so people can leave it uninstalled. I suppose the kernel source does include the word f*** a good few

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 07:48:28PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: On Mon, 17 May 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: What is wrong with distributing an installation package like is done with netscape and realaudio? Hrm. You know, that didn't occur to me. As long as it contains NOTHING of

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-18 Thread David Bristel
Not a bad idea, as long as we don't fall into the trap of having seperate files for each interface configs the way Redhat does. If you DO want to make seperate files for the configs of each interface, as long as the data isn't put in some obscure place like /etc/sysconfig/network, you shouldn't

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes in boot floppies (well, for anything in

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

1999-05-18 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi Ship's Log, Lt. Steve Haslam, Stardate 170599.1408: The gpg-pgp script and pgp2 compatibility hackage is in gpg-rsaidea, not gnupg (afaicr). From /var/lib/dpkg/diverts: /usr/bin/gpg /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg gpg-rsa /usr/man/man1/gpg.1.gz /usr/man/man1/gpg.gnupg.1.gz gpg-rsa I think you are

Re: VX Chipsets and 2.2.5

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: On Sun, 16 May 1999, Robert Woodcock wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: I have been told by an aquaintance that linux 2.1.x or greater kernels are unlikely to boot on a Motherboard that uses a VX Chipset. I have a VXPro... Well at least your

re: ITP: rxvp

1999-05-18 Thread Richard Tobin
Rxvp is a validating XML parser. It's GPL'd. The code is already present in Debian in non-free as part of festival (oddly, with a BSD-ish copyright); I'm the author of RXP. Thanks for packaging it. A couple of clarifications: - it's called RXP (the V is a typo). - as you say, Festival is

Re: VX Chipsets and 2.2.5

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: Ahhh... The reason he said this was that OS/2 wouldnt boot... but that was the latest version... beta even. Uhm. FYI, Warp5 *DOES* boot on VXpro, thank you muchly. I used my screwed up VXpro for a Warp5 machine for a few days. (Then I realized it was

Performa 63xx Port

1999-05-18 Thread M. Robert Tomasch
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in working on a port to some of the eprforma series because I was donated this performa 6300 and every Mac/PPC distribution I've found has said specificly that they don't support it. any grabs?

Re: Performa 63xx Port

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Tue, 18 May 1999, M. Robert Tomasch wrote: I was wondering if anyone would be interested in working on a port to some of the eprforma series because I was donated this performa 6300 and every Mac/PPC distribution I've found has said specificly that they don't support it. any grabs? me,

[ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Justin Maurer
oh, i probably should've mentioned this earlier, but i've been packaging hftpd. i'm mostly done, but need to hack in an /etc/init.d script, and i think i'll be done after that. hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i am going to have a little bit in the postinst that makes note that people

Re: Bug#34579: Removing ncsa from the dist?

1999-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Richard Braakman wrote: It's probably a good idea to make an announcment if a package is about to be dropped, so that others have a chance to maintain it. This would of course include any prior maintainers. But if the package's maintainer thinks it should be removed,

Re: The f-word in kernel source (Was: Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6))

1999-05-18 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 May 1999 01:50:54 +0200 (CEST), Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Just for the fun of it, I just counted how many times this word (or any derivative of it) is mentioned in the 2.2.9 kernel source. I found 24 files, with a total of 32 occurrences of

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:22:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at the code (have not run it yet). Nice. Well documented, clean. The design seems sound. An up/down section is also handy. [..] IMNSHO, any replacement for /etc/init.d/network must be able to allow config files

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
The funny manpages (sex, condom, etc) are already in funny-manpages. They probably should NOT be in emacs. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Comes First!

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Carter wrote: The funny manpages (sex, condom, etc) are already in funny-manpages. They probably should NOT be in emacs. Hm, here's something interesting. Funny-manpages and sex (the editor) both install a sex.1 manpage, in /usr/man and /usr/X11R6/man, respectively. Man seems to display

evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Craig Brozefsky
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/linux/opinion/0,5954,2260109,00.html On the other hand, those in our world who believe in manipulating language for political means insist on the term GNU/Linux in order to pay forced homage to the FSF and GNU. Mr. Leibovitch is the executive directory of The

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:21:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: The funny manpages (sex, condom, etc) are already in funny-manpages. They probably should NOT be in emacs. Hm, here's something interesting. Funny-manpages and sex (the editor) both install a sex.1 manpage, in /usr/man and

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Might I suggest that someone involved with Debian PR contact Mr. Leibovitch and attempt to open a dialog with him in order to better educate him on why Debian has made various decisions, and why Debian is not anti-commercial by

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Package: funny-manpages Joseph Carter wrote: Hm, here's something interesting. Funny-manpages and sex (the editor) both install a sex.1 manpage, in /usr/man and /usr/X11R6/man, respectively. Man seems to display the /usr/X11R6/man one in preference to the other. Unless you use man -a, the

Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: The emacs page is in section 6.. Maybe the funny manpages version should move to section 6 as well? That seems like an excellent idea. However, I think we might still have a more general problem with this type of man page conflict. A quick check of my local system turns

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Might I suggest that someone involved with Debian PR contact Mr. Leibovitch and attempt to open a dialog with him in order to better educate him on why Debian has made various

Re: Solaris NFS problems with potato / Release Notes

1999-05-18 Thread David Bristel
I remember a while back when looking at using NFS to share files between Linux and Solaris 2.6 under the Linux 2.0.x kernels. There was mention of there being no NFS.lock daemon running on the Linux side when trying to use Linux as the NFS server. From the limited experience I have had with the

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Walther wrote: Thus, server foo in France will not download the ssh package, but if the maintainer of ssh always uploads to the Incoming on a canada.debian.org, all mirrors that are allowed to will hit every server in the master.list that might have the package until it finds the one

Re: Putting distributed-net back up for adoption

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Klein wrote: number of bugs filed against it, and it's been exhibiting some weird behavior (apparently caused by the glibc2.1 move). Really? That's odd since it is a statically linked binary. I don't see how libc could affect it. -- see shy jo

Re: (MIRROR ADMINS) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Walther wrote: Another concern noted was that if we require special mirroring software to mirror Debian, many hardnosed sysadmins will take some convincing to use our script. That is not our problem. Either they use our mirroring script, or use their regular script to mirror from a

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From the tone of your remarks, it appears that you expect laws to be reasonable and logical. Unfortunately, that expectation may be unrealistically optimistic. manoj Jonathan == Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan No. The scheme makes us less liable

[potato]: Broken version on kernel-package (6.09,6.10) uploaded yesterday

1999-05-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi folks, I uploaded a broken version of kernel-package to potato yesterday. A new fixed version (6.11) has been uploaded to master, and should be in the Incoming mirrors. It should get installed tomorrow. In the meanwhile, the patch below shall fix the problem. The

intend to package 'country'

1999-05-18 Thread Ioannis
I am ready to upload country. country(1) is a tiny utility that finds the ISO 3166 codes for countries -- that's the two-letter TLD name. It will also work in reverse to find the name of a country if you know its code. I wrote this trivial program, as a script and as a C program. This is

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Stephen Zander
jim == jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jim If this is the case, It is I'm awaiting Sun permission to distribure the jdk with a licence that allows redistribution in some form. -- Stephen (jdk maintainer) --- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier

Re: Putting distributed-net back up for adoption

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:41:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Adam Klein wrote: number of bugs filed against it, and it's been exhibiting some weird behavior (apparently caused by the glibc2.1 move). Really? That's odd since it is a statically linked binary. I don't see how libc could affect

pcmcia and kernel 2.3.*

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Meskes
Does anyone have a patch for pcmcia 3.0.9 to work with kernels 2.3.1+? Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Use

locale problem with latest packages

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Meskes
I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812

Intent to orphan ncsa

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Klein
The subject pretty much says it all. It's got a weird thing with glibc2.1 where the group must be set in the config file, and it doesn't seem to set[ug]id correctly. adam -- a jolly daemon kin

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Well what do you do about a mirror in the US that can import software but cannot export it? You either have to somehow validate all downloads of that software from the mirror are from people in the US, or you leave the mirror open to downloads from

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Walther wrote: I would think that if a mirror couldn't export a peice of software, it just wouldn't host it. The logistics of figuring out which country every IP is in are... daunting, to say the least. Well then your proposal doesn't do away with the non-us division. Every county

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1999-05-18 Thread ZHUANG, Hao
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Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
Sorry, I was in a bit of a heated state when I wrote the below. No, I don't have any hope for the state of law making. But I do know the power and effifacy of keeping your head down, chin tucked in, and staying mum. My scheme helps us tuck that chin farther in. Jonathan On 17 May 1999, Manoj

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Jonathan Walther
How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so fine-grained that it disappears into the rest of the distribution. Or am I

optimisation??

1999-05-18 Thread Horvath Akos Peter
Hi all, I've seen quite a couple of packages, and was not too happy when I see the -O2 -g cflags, with which was compiled. 1. Why do you use the -g flag? A simple user will NEVER debug a binary. But wants it to run fast and be small. Because of the -g flag gcc will be unable to perform some

Re: VX Chipsets and 2.2.5

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: On Tue, 18 May 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: Ahhh... The reason he said this was that OS/2 wouldnt boot... but that was the latest version... beta even. Uhm. FYI, Warp5 *DOES* boot on VXpro, thank you muchly. I used my screwed up VXpro for a

Re: y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

1999-05-18 Thread John Lines
Linux is almost completely y2k compliant BY DEFAULT. Any y2k issues that haven't been fixed by now will get fixed in SLINK, not just potato. We don't know of any that remain however. If something binary only in non-free breaks, you are on your own unless someone else fixes it. You don't

Re: optimisation??

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Horvath Akos Peter wrote: I've seen quite a couple of packages, and was not too happy when I see the -O2 -g cflags, with which was compiled. 1. Why do you use the -g flag? A simple user will NEVER debug a binary. But wants it to run fast and be small. Because of the -g flag gcc will be

Re: Performa 63xx Port

1999-05-18 Thread M. Robert Tomasch
well I guess there was a misunderstanding here, but I was planning on keeping the box where I was and mainly workingo n it as much as possible, but I am working on getting the specs right now. still I need all the help I can get. Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: On Tue, 18 May 1999, M. Robert Tomasch

pending normal debian bugs for debian-devel@lists.debian.org

1999-05-18 Thread Nag
Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Severity: normal Status: pending This mail is being sent to you because the indicated bug reports have been marked as overdue (i.e. has been open longer than 9 months). Overdue reminders are repeated monthly. #20567 general logo

Intent to package: Puzzle ([Biology] Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees)

1999-05-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[Please Cc: my personal address, I'm far from my normal mail and have difficulties reading Debian lists.] [Cc: to debian-legal because there is a small legal problem. Advices about it should go to debian-legal, not debian-devel.] I intent to package the Puzzle program, which is a biology

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Jules Bean
Seth M. Landsman wrote: Basically, we're in BLATANT violation of the license currently. It states quite clearly that redistribution is prohibited. So, plain and simple, we're shit out of luck. As someone else pointed out, Kaffe is just as good, with better response. But either way, we

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-05-18 Thread Leon Breedt
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Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Richard Stallman
Package: ssh Export-Restricted: United States Import-Restricted: Russia, France ssh is a bad example, since it is non-free software everywhere in the world. It is restricted by its developers. Version 2 is even more restricted than version 1. However, the general idea seems like a

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Richard Stallman
Since the main (but not exclusive) use of non-US right now is for crypto software, we might want to create a Crypto-Regulations package which contains references to which countries restrict import and export of crypto, and how, with references to appropriate legislation and

Re: y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:55:14AM +0100, John Lines wrote: Linux is almost completely y2k compliant BY DEFAULT. Any y2k issues that haven't been fixed by now will get fixed in SLINK, not just potato. We don't know of any that remain however. If something binary only in non-free breaks,

Re: intend to package 'country'

1999-05-18 Thread Ioannis
In addition to the master.debian.org/~ioannis location, the 'country' package is also available at http://www.cse.fau.edu/~itambour/ . Both are temporary locations until 'country' is accepted by the distribution and thus fetchable by apt-get(1). -- Ioannis Tambouras Signed pgp-key on key

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:43:36PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: snip I hereby officially propose that the education of Mister Leibovitch begins with a sound *THWAPPING* upside the head using a hard-copy of both the GNU Manifesto and the GNU GPL, and done in tandem by two very large and well

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-18 Thread David Corbin
Joseph Carter wrote: IMNSHO, any replacement for /etc/init.d/network must be able to allow config files which do stuff on start or stop of the service... Meaning I should be able to give it something that will be run before or after the initial ifconfig-and-route-type stuff has been done.

Re: optimisation??

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:05:04AM +0200, Horvath Akos Peter wrote: 2. Why use just -O2? The egcs people have been working for years to make the compiler better. For us (too). -O6 makes faster binaries. Because anything higher than -O2 can cause some problems not related to the compiler, but in

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Philip Hands
Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so fine-grained that it

Uploaded gdb 4.18-1 (source i386) to master

1999-05-18 Thread Vincent Renardias
All the standard debian patches have not been re-applied yet, but this version should already be a vast improvement on the current potato version (Fixes: #34839, #35574, #36661, #37700, #33868, #35952, #37420, #32586, #34055). I'm going to gradually integrate the other patches (objective-C

Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

1999-05-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[Please Cc: me when replying, I have difficulties reading debian-devel at this time - but I'll try.] I want to setup an apt-compatible directory of my Biology packages http://www.pasteur.fr/units/sis/debian/biology-en.html, so that users can use apt to install them, without waiting the

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread John van V.
Hello, I am with the LXNY and other free software clubs in NY and we are 100% against certification, the sheer stupidity of evan's statement is all you really need to know. I personally had a really bad experience w/ Caldera after 3 years of preparing to become a channel partner. Below is a

Re: Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SB == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB The problem is the versioning. How to choose the version numbers SB in the two sets so that users will automatically get the potato SB package when they will choose to replace 'stable' by 'unstable' SB (or when potato will become stable).

glibc2.0-2.1 incompatibility: _xstat?

1999-05-18 Thread Rene Hogendoorn
I have motif 2.0.1 and xrt libraries that define _xstat. This symbol is not defined anymore in glibc-2.1; there, __xstat is defined. In glibc-2.0, _xstat is defined as a weak alias for __xstat. What does the weak_alias of _xstat mean? Is there a workaround, so that I can continue to use these

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Alexander N. Benner wrote: From /var/lib/dpkg/diverts: /usr/bin/gpg /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg gpg-rsa /usr/man/man1/gpg.1.gz /usr/man/man1/gpg.gnupg.1.gz gpg-rsa Not true with my version anymore. The files are only under /usr/doc/gpg-rsa/examples.

Intent to package xmanpages-ja

1999-05-18 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
Hi, everyone. I'm now packaging Japanese translated version of X related manpages. These manpages has been translated by X Japanese Document Project (http://xjman.dsl.gr.jp. Sorry written in Japanese only). I'm member of this project. This version is based on XFree86 3.3.3.1 manpages. I

Re: locale problem with latest packages

1999-05-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, May 17, 1999 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes écrivait: I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? What environment variable

Re: locale problem with latest packages

1999-05-18 Thread Anders Arnholm
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Mon, May 17, 1999 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes écrivait: I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. Others like date just refuse to use it. What's

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-18 Thread Seth M. Landsman
For the record, kaffe is *NOT* as good as the blackdown JDK. I have used both, and, as it is, kaffe crashes before my research system loads, yet the blackdown jdk works flawlessly. So report the bug to the kaffe people, and then they'll fix it, and then kaffe will work for your

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-18 Thread Amy Fong
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James LewisMoss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 May 1999 15:45:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amy Fong) said: Amy Query, is there actually a coding style guideline for debian Amy stuph? Basically I'm with the Corel Linux group and this is Amy what the Corel Linux

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Jonathan == Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan But I do know the power and effifacy of keeping your head Jonathan down, chin tucked in, and staying mum. My scheme helps us Jonathan tuck that chin farther in. Quite. Unfortunately, practicing law without a licence

Re: locale problem with latest packages

1999-05-18 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Tue, 18 May 1999 16:31:44 +0200, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have another problem with internationalization. In the gnome panel (or any gnome apps that uses standardized strings, ie the name of the menus), i've got empty string instead of the localized version. Did you

Re: weekly policy summary

1999-05-18 Thread Davide G. M. Salvetti
* JH = Joey Hess JH Let me know if you're finding these useful. Very useful indeed, thank you. I'm unsure about how to second formal proposal, I hope this message will suffice. JH Bug: JH Title: Patented software == non-free? JH Posted: 10 May 99 JH Proposer: Joseph Carter JH Seconders: JH

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham) wrote on 16.05.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in Pine.LNX.3.96.= [EMAIL PROTECTED]: =20 abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes

How to create those Packages files?

1999-05-18 Thread Thomas Schoepf
How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? TIA! Thomas -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer PGP public key http://www.debian.org/ KeyID 2EA7BBBD

Re: How to create those Packages files?

1999-05-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Thomas Schoepf wrote: How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? dpkg-scanpackages from the dpkg-dev package creates the Packages file. HTH, -Remco

Re: How to create those Packages files?

1999-05-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf was heard to say: How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? I believe that dpkg-scanpackages, available in the dpkg-dev package,

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel, when one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan to order myself a machine when my

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Gentlemen, that is what i got today Today, May 3, is last day for Pre-Reg Savings. Register at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99 1999 USENIX ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE June 6-11, 1999 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California NEW *BSD AND DEBIAN LINUX RELEASES GIVEN AWAY USENIX

Re: new arch required

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: i'd like to request debian/pa-risc. i am packaging binutils as we speak. after this, i will package egcs. however, there will not be a working kernel for a number of months. with egcs and binutils, packages should be able to built even before there is a working kernel :)

Package Maintainer Changed

1999-05-18 Thread Yoshiaki Yanagihara
I am very very hard in my main work. And I can not maintain some packages: canna, canna-utils, im, kon2, konfont, kterm, libcanna1g, libcanna1g-dev, locale-ja, mew These package maintainance is continued by ISHIKAWA mutsumi[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thanks.

qt2beta_2.0_19990516 for potato available

1999-05-18 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
= http://master.debian.org/~heiko/qt2/ Thanks to Ivan E. Moore II and Russell Cooker for giving me access to their potato systems. Best Regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Gruesse aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann -- [internet unix support - Heiko Schlittermann] [a

Re: Configurator Panel

1999-05-18 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Diego == Diego Delgado Lages [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Diego I'm making something like a Control Panel for Linux (for Diego Debian), and I would like you to test me and send me Diego comments. Have a look at 'http://papadoc.strul.net/programs/xadmin/'. It's not fully Debian

Re: intend to package 'country'

1999-05-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 20:37 -0400 1999-05-17, Ioannis wrote: I am ready to upload country. country(1) is a tiny utility that finds the ISO 3166 codes for countries -- that's the two-letter TLD name. It will also work in reverse to find the name of a country if you know its code. I wrote this trivial program, as a

email for bruce

1999-05-18 Thread Bruce Perens
My DSL provider has gone out of business, apparently, leaving me with no connection. Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you need to reach me. Thanks Bruce

POP3 server for debian.org mailaddress

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Meskes
Do we have a POP3 or IMAP or whatever server running on the debian.org domain so I can fetchmail my debian related mail? Background is that I would like to get rid of my local provider and thus would lose my mailbox there. The new (cheaper) provider would only offer net connectivity but no

lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Meskes
I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): conf gtkicq libjpeg-gif communicator/netscape*45 snd xfntbig xadmin manpages-net

Re: locale problem with latest packages

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:31:44PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: What environment variable did you set to de_DE ? It does work fine for me with LC_ALL=fr_FR ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printenv|grep DE LC_ALL=de_DE Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str.

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

1999-05-18 Thread Steve Haslam
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:44:36AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Not true with my version anymore. The files are only under /usr/doc/gpg-rsa/examples. Hm, I still have a diversion from /usr/bin/gpg to /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg, where /usr/bin/gpg is a script to load the rsa/idea extensions and add the

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): conf gtkicq

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: gtkicq replaced by gnomeicu communicator/netscape*45 new version is out(46) -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://www.cicat.com/

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Steve Haslam
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): gtkicq replaced

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail and commercial fields. Wow, I always thought that this is was Microsoft says about Linux in

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