Re: pandora.debian.org update

1999-05-27 Thread Michel Onstein
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: I just added a DEC tulip de500 network card to pandora. This change means that IPv6 should now be working again and fully connected to the 6bone. Jason: I upgraded to the latest from usntable and ipv6.nl and replaced the kernel with 2.2.7.

Editor(s) on boot/root/rescue disks

1999-05-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 26-May-99, 04:33 (CDT), Martin Kahlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a very small vi-clone named levee on http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code its exefile is 36K. Would that be small enough? That's small enough, but consider these points: If we are going to appeal to

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-27 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:37:15PM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: The reason for a seperate directory is for ease of mirroring and CD building. It gives us also an easy way to check if a package can be on data. I will really like to see this one at least second. It's an old thread that I saw

First post as maintainer :) (about 2-3 screenfuls)

1999-05-27 Thread jim
Hi... First off gushGlad to be here; thanks for accepting my app/gush I'd like to maintain maybe 1 or 2 easy packages, pwgen comes to mind (Hi Vincent :) Also, I have some stuff I wrote that's unpackaged I'd like to package eventually, but I'm not so sure they'd be easy... Let me try to

Re: Q: The processing time for new maintainers

1999-05-27 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 1999-05-05, Bo Branten écrivait : But since 6 months is a rather long time I think it would be interesting if other people post here and tell us how long they had to wait so we can I applied 5 weeks ago. Since then I got a little feedback from Martin Schulz. I had one message on voice-mail,

apt-get install wordperfect?

1999-05-27 Thread Mark Mealman
Is it possible for commercial software to make it into the Debian archives(presumably in non-free)? A lot of commercial software uses license keys to control otherwise freely downloadable software. And being able to upgrade wordperfect, blender and vmware via apt-get upgrade would be this lazy

ITP: file2

1999-05-27 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, I intend to upload package file2. File2 is similar file command, but it reports which KANJI code be used. Package: file2 Version: 1.1-4 Section: misc Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1) Description: kanji code checker File2 tests each argument in an attempt to classify it to JIS,

Re: Intent to package: src2tex

1999-05-27 Thread Takao KAWAMURA
Licence: Permission to use, copy, and modify this software and its documentation is granted under no conditions. I will upload it to master in a few days. ..is granted under no conditions reads like 'is not granted'. I.e., there are no conditions under which such license is

ITP: dviselect

1999-05-27 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, I intend to upload package dviselect. Dviselect is specific pages from a TeX DVI file.This software is a part from seetex. Package: dviselect Version: 2.19-4 Section: tex Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1) Description: Select specific pages from a DVI file Dviselect selects pages

Re: ITP: file2

1999-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Kenshi Muto wrote: I intend to upload package file2. File2 is similar file command, but it reports which KANJI code be used. I take it this cannot be tested for using the tests available to file(1)? -- see shy jo

Re: ITP: file2

1999-05-27 Thread Kenshi Muto
Wed, 26 May 1999 18:29:55 -0700, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: ITP: file2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): joey Kenshi Muto wrote: joey I intend to upload package file2. joey File2 is similar file command, but it reports which KANJI code be used. joey I take it this cannot be tested for

Re: apt-get install wordperfect?

1999-05-27 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: Is it possible for commercial software to make it into the Debian archives(presumably in non-free)? [...] I'd tend to agree with the feeling in the above (apt-able archives of non-(DFSG)-free but (beer)-free are a Good Thing), but