On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 06:59:47PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free
software? It is all explained in this package.
Indeed.
If your objection remains, I will not upload the package.
Why?
Marcus
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On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:24:33PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
I'm working on an automatic installation tool. It as almost working.
I will post more information in the following days. The basic idea
is to record automatically all the answers given during the first
installation and retrieve
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On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Can I upload packages with the /usr/info - /usr/share/info modification?
Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory
since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.
Can I upload packages with the /usr/man -
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To: Mark Blunier
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Subject: Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)
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On 24 May 1999, Christian Leutloff wrote:
superb, IMHO that's called a Live-CD. Would it be possible to
integrate the creation stuff into the debian-cd script? It would be
really nice if people can test Debian on a CD-ROM first.
I suppse that could be done. I've been making the
CD's image
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http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
Did we already have a discussion about this?
Will
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Well, for as long as I've been using Debian(shortly after 1.3.1 came out), the
CD has been bootable, and useable as a rescue disk. Sure, it's not completely
useful, but you can boot from it, get a shell, etc...for compatability with
older systems without the boot from CD in their BIOS, we need to
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Enrique Zanardi writes:
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 01:33:43AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
I really thing Tom's Root Boot or something similar is the way to go. Tom's
crams an amazing amount of stuff into one floppy, using tricks like
rewriting common unix utilities in awk so they take up less space.
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I don't know about that. I'll soon be working on some console-based software.
I thought I'd go with slang since it is nice and modern, as opposed to
ncurses. I read some of the doco -- actually, I don't need an embedded
program language, just a text display library! So I
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Daryl Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i would like to install debian on a dell poweredge 4300 with a PERC/2
SC raid scsi controller from AMI.
...
there is a driver available from the manufacturer of
this card, however it does not appear to be on any debian
installation media or software.
is
So I wish some member will make Debian package of swatch-3.0b1 replacing
my old swatch package of Debian JP.
I forgot important informations. swatch-3.0b1 can be found in
ftp://ftp.stanford.edu/general/security-tools/swatch
and it is written as follows in COPYRIGHT:
swatch: The Simple
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
. when you run dh_gencontrol, I suggest you run 'dh_gencontrol -u-isp'
(I don't understand why this isn't the default)
Um, it is:
doit(dpkg-gencontrol,-l$changelog,-isp,-p$PACKAGE,
-Tdebian/$EXT\substvars,-P$TMP,@{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
For info about it, it's on
http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/
It's not available in source as yet, it will be on 26/5 (tomorrow that is)
so I'll have to wait first for the license to be checked. I suppose I
should cross-post this to -legal, right?
PS. Cc
Christian Kurz wrote:
Well what is the problem with this? I don't see any offence in getting a
message that says that I (the maintainer) has still open bug over a
certain age. I think this is a good reminder for the maintainers as you
may forget to fix bugs. Take a look at the ppp-package and
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Leon Breedt wrote:
Martin Schulze spake thus:
I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package
the CoolEdit HTML editor?
The author works for the same company as I do, and asked me to
package it, but I really don't have the time.
I'd appreciate it,
Edward Betts wrote:
Has any attempt been made to conntact Real and ask whether they want a .deb
package on their download page? It could be done properly then (apart from
being non-free).
No, but I welcome anyone doing so.
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On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 05:47:57PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
Did we already have a discussion about this?
Yeah, it needs some work.
Problem is that I do not receive answers to my inquiries. We opened a board
a year ago (with me as a member), but discussion
Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free
software? It is all explained in this package.
There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the ESR
utilitarian arguments). Some Debianers might agree with one philosophy,
others another.
um.. Debian
On 21 May 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
This is an *emergency* editor we're talking about here, not something
you'll end up using day after day. It really doesn't need to be
perfect, just good enough. Let's not loose sight of the goal here.
/me hides :)
As I have stated several times on irc,
Hi,
I have packaged edb, a GPL'd database program for GNU Emacs.
More info about edb can be fount at
ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/people/mernst/edb/
I will upload it in a few days.
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Takao KAWAMURA
Hi,
I have packaged elisp-manual-ja, emacs-lisp-intro-ja, and
emacs-manual-ja. These packages contain the Emacs-Lisp
manual, Programming in Emacs Lisp, and the Emacs manual
translated into Japanese, respectively.
I will upload them in a few days.
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Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Can I upload packages with the /usr/info - /usr/share/info modification?
Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory
since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.
Okay,
Dale Scheetz wrote:
One way to deal with this is to just mark all your bugs as wish list. The
nags don't react to wish list bugs ;-)
I hope you arn't seriously advocating that. It's fine for you, if you can
keep straight whoch of the bugs are real bugs that need to be fixed. But if
anyone else
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Slang is quite usable as just a text display library. You can ignore the
embedded language aspects.
It's a weird library. Should really be two separate libs I think.
That would help the space problem on the boot disks
Mark
Hello,
in ircII i have patched the bin to search in /etc/irc/scripts/
I provide a small local which does not install much scripts, just a few
setups. This script will be moved from the inst scripts if they are found in
/usr/lib/.
I will need to move the ircII scripts which are provided with the
Why am i continually getting this stupid message:
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On Mon, 24 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: superb, IMHO that's called a Live-CD. Would it be possible to
: integrate the creation stuff into the debian-cd script? It would be
: really nice if people can test Debian on a CD-ROM first.
And it would be triply cool if you could front end
On 19-May-99 Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
Joseph Carter proclaimed:
Not to mention the longstanding rumors that soon Debian will be offered
on VA's machines..
I thought VA already did Debian installs on request.
Sort of. And Debian was dropped mainly because it was cheaper to support
From: Massimo Dal Zotto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PROPOSAL: automatic installation and configuration
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:01:57 +0200 (MEST)
Hi,
I have done a few experiments about automatic configuration of packages
and have now some working code. I want to describe my ideas and how
I would like to offer the following two packages for adoption or removal:
upsd- I don't use it, but others apparently do, and there are
no open bugs that I am aware of
jaztool - I don't use it, I'm not sure anyone does. Rumor has it that
a
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't like Documentation-only packages if they are not specific to
Debian. It's the 40 MB atromonical dataset in a smaller scale.
Hmm... perhaps a more catching name like why-free would be better?
No-one's going to read gnu-philosophy :-)
I hope
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I propose that the distribution should have a new debian section
which would be the place to put all of the Debian-specific packages,
This or some way to make orthogonal sections would be great.
--
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On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:50:46PM -0500, Mark Blunier wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Slang is quite usable as just a text display library. You can ignore the
embedded language aspects.
It's a weird library. Should really be two separate libs I
reassign 37424 lynx
thanks
Francesco Potorti` writes:
Package: lynx-ssl
Version: 2.8.1-1
Severity: normal
I installed lynx-ssl, which removed lynx. I then purged lynx, which
happily removed /etc/lynx.cfg, even if lynx-ssl was installed.
I investigated a little more here. It is a
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:33:06 +1000, Ed Breen wrote:
Why am i continually getting this stupid message:
Because a subscriber's system/provider has braindead mail software
installed. I've just notified the Debian listsmasters of this problem;
hopefully it'll get fixed soon.
Ray
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On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:24:48PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
Can I upload packages with the /usr/info - /usr/share/info modification?
Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory
since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.
Okay, then I propose that we next
On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
between the packages config file and what the difference to your
config is?
I allways wonder what has changed, since I normally haven't changed
those files dpkg askes me about.
The http://www.sleepycat.com/packages/ URL in the debian/copyright
in db2.diff seems to be outdated.
When looking at http://abyssinian.sleepycat.com/db/ we MUST provide
personal information (.../register.pl) in order to gain access to the
package.
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From: Steve McIntyre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 5:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: An 'ae' testimony
Enrique Zanardi writes:
snippage
OK, in that case we'll have to make a break
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From: Massimo Dal Zotto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 6:02 PM
To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: PROPOSAL: automatic installation and configuration
Hi,
I have done a few experiments about automatic
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
Dale Scheetz wrote:
One way to deal with this is to just mark all your bugs as wish list. The
nags don't react to wish list bugs ;-)
I hope you arn't seriously advocating that. It's fine for you, if you can
keep straight whoch of the bugs are real
An interesting, although very preliminary (very few links or texts, at this
time), attempt to emphasize the need for free software in Science. Good news
for those who manage sets of scientific packages for Debian.
http://www.openscience.org/
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I intend to release a package of a little library I'm working on called
fakedate. This will wrap the time() system call and make applications think
that they are running on a different date. This is designed to be used for
year 2000 testing but could be used for many other situations (EG if the
Pauli Ojanpera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wouldn't it be useful to have an option for Debian remote install through
network?
I mean this:
- Boot the computer you're going to install Debian to with a installation
boot disk.
- Configure the installation through a telnet session using a
Michel Kaempf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
between the packages config file and what the difference to your
config is?
I allways wonder what has changed, since I normally
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 24-May-99, 12:59 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free
software? It is all explained in this package.
There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 06:59:47PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free
software? It is all explained in this package.
Indeed.
If your objection remains, I will not upload the
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Can I upload packages with the /usr/info - /usr/share/info modification?
Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory
since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.
On Sun, 23 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
I have the same objection to this I had to the anarchist thing: You're
trying to package their website. I don't think we should be doing that.
I changed the description so it does not say it is a mirror anymore:
new debian package, version 2.0.
Another thought, here is the current doc-base file:
Document: gnu-philosophy
Title: Philosophy of the GNU Project
Author: Richard M. Stallman, Georg C. F. Greve, Tom Hull, Kragen Sitaker, Loyd
Fueston, Michael Stutz, Bjørn Remseth, and others
Abstract: Ideas about free software, and the reasons
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why should they include the GNU view of free software when there are others
around?
Maybe because we're Debian _GNU_/Linux?
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:48:54AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Can I upload packages with the /usr/info - /usr/share/info modification?
Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory
since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.
Can I upload packages with the
On Tue, 25 May, 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
I intend to release a package of a little library I'm working on called
fakedate. This will wrap the time() system call and make applications think
that they are running on a different date. This is designed to be used for
year 2000 testing but
Hi,
I packaged xplanet a while ago as I use it at work and I don't like
stuff in /usr/local/.
| 19:23:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~/upload $dpkg -I xplanet_0.1*.deb
| new debian package, version 2.0.
| size 20520 bytes: control archive= 526 bytes.
| 604 bytes,13 lines control
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...regarding time-travel library...]
Or a clever wrapper for shareware style trial packages for linux
that stop working after a certian time. I don't think there are any
yet, but when lin= ux is popular there will be.
Presumably such
Hi,
I intend to package the Perl module I18N::Charset. This module
provides a mapping from character set names to the names officially
registered with IANA. For example, 'Shift_JIS' is the official name
of 'x-sjis'.
It also maps character set names to Unicode::Map8 conversion scheme
names (if
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 03:53:48PM -0600, Post Office wrote:
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Hey - this is _really_ clever - it's noticed the NDN bit and added a count
so it can keep track of how many times it goes round the mail
Russel Coker wrote:
I intend to release a package of a little library I'm working on
called fakedate. This will wrap the time() system call and make
applications think that they are running on a different date.
You might also be interested in these two packages:
On 25 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...regarding time-travel library...]
Or a clever wrapper for shareware style trial packages for linux
that stop working after a certian time. I don't think there are any
yet, but when lin= ux is
Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
Hi,
www.de.debian seems to have changed a little recently?
TCP connection to 'www.de.debian.org' failed: Broken pipe.
In the morning I got a different startup page
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
What I'm wondering is if we could make arrangements with them for
something that would involve us paying for some of the CDs so we'd have
more. At LinuxWorld, we really did not have
Hi List
I'm trying to setup mod_perl with apache on windows98. I have
apache1.3.6 installed and running, I also got binary version of
mod_perl1.1.6 and installed
it on windows98. then I copied ApacheModulePerl.dll in Module and set it
into
httpd.conf, I'm getting message that ApacheModulePerl.dll
Bdale Garbee recently offered upsd for adoption, and if nobody else has
plans for it, I'm willing to take it up. I'll probably do an upload over the
weekend just to change the maintainer information.
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On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give
out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs
on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary
as
I just uploaded libunicode-map8-perl a couple of days ago. Also my
wdg-html-validator uses a private copy of I18N::Charset because the
authors said they had modified it from the CPAN version. I didn't check
to see if it was true. Would you like to look at that package and see if
we can
Hi all i would like to package cdrtoaster, a useful
front end for cdparanoia, cdrecord, mkhybrid and mkisofs.
It is written in tcl/tk and released under gpl.
the upstream developer is
Ian Kjos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
best regards
Andrea Fanfani
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Andrea Fanfani
would be nice to have the compatibility stuff in one seperate package.
e.g. one package, that symlinks /usr/share/doc to /usr/doc,
/usr/share/man to /usr/man, /usr/share/info to /usr/info.
remember that we want to get rid of the old stuff at some point, and this
should be as smoth as possible.
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 09:24:48PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
Can I upload packages with the /usr/info - /usr/share/info modification?
Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory
since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.
Okay, then I propose that
Hi,
I intend to make a deb package for my C interpreter EiC:
http://www.pobox.com/~eic
I have followed the howto and have made a debian package that
installs and purges fine. However, when I use alien to make
an rpm, and try to install the rpm I get a stack of dependency
problems:
On May 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give
out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs
on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary
as freebies?
The complete Debian
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:13:56PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
So the people who don't see crashes, which version of Netscape are you
using?
Do you use java successfully in Netscape? Do you have plugger installed? Do
you have any other plugins
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