On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
even opt-out lists are the wrong solution...because they don't work very
well (especially when usage of them is optional). telephone pests should
be limited to calling ONLY an opt-in list, people who are willing to
receive
At 13:17 1999.10.03 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
It looks like the doom source is now under the GPL.
(http://www.doomworld.com/). This clears up the previous licencing problems
that were keeping it out of debian. It will still be fit
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
As far as I know, leaving inetd accepting connections would,
worst case, fail -- which is no different from having the service
disabled. In other words, I don't see that disabling the daemon
solves anything useful.
On Mon, Oct
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 02:10:45AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
(What is the problem with --rename, btw? I'm curious, and dpkg-divert is
horribly underdocumented)
From dpkg-divert --help:
--rename causes dpkg-divert to actually move the file aside (or back).
There's no reason to remove the
Hi,
this is a perl script I've written, because I was fed up with manually
fetching bug reports and storing them into a directory structure so that
browsing still works. Now, when I type 'buglist -r -d ~/debian/Bugs less',
all reports regarding 'less' are saved into ~/debian/Bugs, structured as
[This long approval times may be desired by Debian because there are
already too many developers and packages.]
This may be correct. I can't judge. But it seems to me that if some-
one volunteers time and effort to the project, common courtesy demands
/at least/ an autoreply acknowledging
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
it may be an important tool, but that doesn't give you or anyone else
the right to pester people in their own homes. it really does no good
to apologise or even to promise not to call back - by that time, the
damage has been
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Basically what you can do is create a directory called /etc/binfmt_misc and
put a bunch of files in it; each file should be a series of lines where each
line is a directive for the binfmt_misc registration file in /proc. So the
incantation for Java is:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:02:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
even opt-out lists are the wrong solution...because they don't work very
well (especially when usage of them is optional). telephone pests should
be limited to
Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please by all means use the latest semi-public beta (no link from the
home page) http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/yadex/yadex-1.1.0.tar.gz.
Yadex 1.0.1 is severely obsolete. Now that I'm done with DeuTex, I hope
to resume work on Yadex and release v1.1.1
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken
shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken
/usr/lib/telnetd/login) that gives a
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:29:15PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
it may be an important tool, but that doesn't give you or anyone else
the right to pester people in their own homes. it really does no good
to apologise or even to
Thomas Schoepf wrote:
this is a perl script I've written, because I was fed up with manually
fetching bug reports and storing them into a directory structure so that
browsing still works. Now, when I type 'buglist -r -d ~/debian/Bugs less',
all reports regarding 'less' are saved into
Package: blas-dev
Package: lapack-dev
The files /usr/lib/libblas.{a,so} are in both packages. Since
lapack-dev was there first, blas1-dev should not use this name. On the
other hand, I like the separation of blas in a separate package. The
lapack maintainer doesn't care about the lapack packages
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Brian May was heard to say:
Packages such as Wine, Kaffe, dosemu, and perhaps Frotz would drop a file
into this directory announcing their support of a binary format. The files
wouldn't actually be interpreted unless this init.d script is installed;
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:35:11PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Thomas Schoepf wrote:
this is a perl script I've written, because I was fed up with manually
fetching bug reports and storing them into a directory structure so that
browsing still works. Now, when I type 'buglist -r -d
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken
shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken
/usr/lib/telnetd/login) that gives a security hole. If you wish
to minimise downtime, the proper way
On Oct 04, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
cold calls are annoying regardless of their purpose. sales calls are
especially annoying, but that doesn't excuse academic or market research
surveys.
Yes. What I find acceptable are snail mail surveys. Those can be easily
ignored, and are paid by the
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken
shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:57:35AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
I would also love to see the following utilities packaged :
[..]
At this rate we are going to need a tasks-doom
Recommends: doom-wad | doom-wad-editor
Who needs a tasks-doom? =p
I'm unsure whether Doom hacking utils can go
As for the discussion, APT actually has such a feature cleverly
undocumented and unmentioned - if you flag a package as Impotant: then
its downtime is minizimized by the ordering code.
Speaking of ordering, there's some bad catch 22 happening when you
deinstall a bunch of packages at the same
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 03:10:23PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:06:59PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:47:20PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
In short, a summary (admittedly from my point of view) follows:
In a discussion on whether network
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:09:14PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 02:10:45AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
(What is the problem with --rename, btw? I'm curious, and dpkg-divert is
horribly underdocumented)
From dpkg-divert --help:
--rename causes dpkg-divert to actually
b) give the Project Leader the ability to stop stupid things like the
/usr/doc - /usr/share/doc debate, and just pick an option.
That's been the case at some point. Isn't it true anymore?
c) Accept all new-maintainer applications, now. Accept future
applications immediately. Allow bad
Hi,
I have done some improvements to the Debian buisness card tex files that
are floating around. My changes are at http://www.debian.org/~jgg.
The rundown is that I sized and made available the bottle version of the
logo, adjusted the PGP key font/spacing, reordered some text and put much
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote:
As for the discussion, APT actually has such a feature cleverly
undocumented and unmentioned - if you flag a package as Impotant: then
its downtime is minizimized by the ordering code.
packages that conflict with them. An example is moving from the
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Randolph Chung wrote:
2) more importantly though, xplanet uses imlib, which requires a X display
to run. This means that we can't generate the map easily from a
non-interactive script (like a crontab or something)
Would someone be interested/willing to look at the
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:08:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Therefore I request the DPL shall request the new-maintainer team
ought to either fulfill their duties or else step down from
new-maintainer. Moreover, the size of the team (currently 2, AFAIK)
ought to be expanded to at least 4.
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The two most compelling reasons to carve a single drive into little
partitions are space management and mounting /usr readonly. On a
single user workstation neigther are very important, and for alot of
servers they are not important either.
Having
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
Ok, try this on for size:
How many network services do you get if you are doing if you decide to
install cfs?
How many if you decide to install crossfire-sounds?
[Aside: obviously there's a difference between not accepting a connection
and
2. Suggestion: Would it be possible to somehow integrate this with
/etc/mailcap, which already has good support in packages? There are
different ways you could do this, eg have in the config file lines that
look like:
:Java:M::\xca\xfe\xba\xbe::application/x-java:
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:56:56PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
And don't forget Replaces: foo ( new-version), that's what it's there
for---files moving from one package to another!
Don't use replaces unless you're sure you need it. Partial replaces
have some strange effects in certain
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 03:36:23PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote:
b) give the Project Leader the ability to stop stupid things like the
/usr/doc - /usr/share/doc debate, and just pick an option.
The Technical Committee is authorised to pick an option, if it is asked
to do so. The DPL has the
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
If anyone has seen an existing connection die, please report that as a bug.
what against? internet ??
The issue is more about connectivity stability.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
You may use a *.commands file to remove the unwanted files.
This is explained in the README in the UploadQueue directory.
Which directory is that?
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian/UploadQueue
I
On Sunday 3 October 1999, at 4 h 46, the keyboard of Yves Arrouye
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this has been a topic recently, but I really wonder how long it
takes to get a membership. Is it something that can be estimated at
least?
No. In the mean time, you can:
- ask for a sponsor
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:36:36PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
If anyone has seen an existing connection die, please report that as a bug.
what against? internet ??
My message was about telnetd getting killed, so of course it would be against
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:12:50AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
snip
me or find another public forum more to your tastes. if what i say is
objectionable to enough other people then it is i who will have to find a
forum which tolerates me.
Since you offered, and since I am a part of this
Hello Mr. Wichert Akkerman,
One month ago, I asked you to apply multibyte extension patch to grep
and sed and to upload them, to upload grep-ja and sed-ja (by me)
instead.
However there is no uploading them. Why?
You said in debian-devel@lists.debian.org (archive/latest/43648)
`release
packages that conflict with them. An example is moving from the 1.1.2
KDE packages to the 2.0 ones, eg. from kdebase to kdebase-cvs etc. USing
dselect and APT, what happens is that somehow installation of the new
packages is tried first, and fails, and then deinstallation does not
I'm trying to use GPG for signing my debian packages...
I've successfully created my new GPG secret key, and when I list my
keys and signatures, I get:
% gpg -v --list-sig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
pub 1024D/6EAF7F87 1999-10-04 Philippe Troin [EMAIL
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing that comes to mind, is to implement a mini-program
(unless it already has been written) that takes two parameters, eg
run-mime-type text/html /path/to/file.html
That would automatically parse /etc/mailcap and do the `right' thing,
for the
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Are we proposing that all mime-types have binfmt_misc setup? Does that mean,
the kernel will be able to `run' any file in mailcap? Is that what we really
want?
I am neither fore, nor against this idea. On the one hand it
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Edward Betts was heard to say:
Could I clarify some stuff please?
Are we proposing that all mime-types have binfmt_misc setup? Does that mean,
the kernel will be able to `run' any file in mailcap? Is that what we really
want?
I'm not; I just
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wmload Josip Rodin's
wmmail Josip Rodin's
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:13:56PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
On the same subject I invite everyone to test out getbugs which is at
http://www.debian.org/~bcollins/getbugs.pl. It's a Net::LDAP script that
This needs a direct connection, right? I'm behind a firewall :(
Thomas
--
GnuPG:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:08:13PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:13:56PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
On the same subject I invite everyone to test out getbugs which is at
http://www.debian.org/~bcollins/getbugs.pl. It's a Net::LDAP script that
This needs a direct
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:58:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
One benefit always moving it has, is that it tests all code paths on upgrade
(including the add a /bin/sh symlink) which makes it more likely to catch
any bugs while we're still working on potato.
I don't see how this makes
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:31:42PM -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote:
b) give the Project Leader the ability to stop stupid things like the
/usr/doc - /usr/share/doc debate, and just pick an option.
That's been the case at some point. Isn't it true anymore?
The DPL has this ability. In this
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And finally, anyone knows if I can integrate gpg with Gnus ?
Mailcrypt should work with gpg, I believe (just converted myself,
haven't tested).
Mike.
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Matthias Klose wrote:
Package: blas-dev
Package: lapack-dev
The files /usr/lib/libblas.{a,so} are in both packages. Since
lapack-dev was there first, blas1-dev should not use this name. On the
other hand, I like the separation of blas in a separate package.
second
Quoting Bob Nielsen:
Does anyone know when the LZW patent expires?
According to
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US04558302__ it was awarded on
June 20, 1983. This means that it will expire on June 20 or 21, 2003.
--
((lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x)))
(quote (lambda
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:54:53AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
[I think the policy group is waiting on
Manoj, and I think Manoj is on vacation or some such.]
Manoj is not the only policy editor. The full list is this:
1. Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. Richard Braakman
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:35:11PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Thomas Schoepf wrote:
this is a perl script I've written, because I was fed up with manually
fetching bug reports and storing them into a directory structure so that
browsing still works. Now, when I type 'buglist -r -d
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:29:58AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
This needs a direct connection, right? I'm behind a firewall :(
I'm using it behind a firewall, not sure how yours is configured.
It's not really a firewall: there's no default route, http and ftp (over http)
work via squid.
On Oct 03, Lazarus Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cannot open dhelp file '/usr/doc/mutt/html/.dhelp': at /usr/sbin/install-docs
line 559.
This is a bug in install-docs, I think a newer version is needed.
Please someone confirm.
--
ciao,
Marco
Hi all
Is it possible to use a key created by pgp5 for package signing ? The
key works for me when I use it with gpg, both the opposite is not true
(e.g. pgp5 is unable to verify a signature created with a gpg key). I am
no maintainer yet and so I want to start cleanly. What is the right
way if I
In a parallel problem to this thread: I have gpm installed for those times
when I am doing a lot of console work, but generally I don't run it because
it interferes with Quake II, among other things. So I did an:
update-rc.d -f gpm remove
But when gpm was upgraded by apt, the package's
Hi,
I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the
potato release. Myself, I have always had _lots_ of trouble when
trying that. First, I installed it at home, and dselect freaked
out and started complaining over files that didn't exist. This
was due to the fact that ftp
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 06:49:59PM -0400, James LewisMoss wrote:
I'll take it back. I've already got packages made (look at
http://va.debian.org/~dres/xemacs21. They don't use your setup, but
they work. And you could have offered it back knowing I had already
made packages rather than
CS == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CS On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence
CS wrote:
For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct
surveys over the telephone (although they can also be used in
other contexts). Think of an
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say:
Hi,
I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the
potato release.
*raises hand*
I've actually done two things -- the machine I'm typing on has been running
unstable since before Slink was
Colin Walters wrote:
In a parallel problem to this thread: I have gpm installed for those times
when I am doing a lot of console work, but generally I don't run it because
it interferes with Quake II, among other things. So I did an:
update-rc.d -f gpm remove
But when gpm was upgraded
Hi,
I'm trying to virtualize in.telnetd to access a chrooted virtual server
(using tcp_wrappers' twist option and Wietse's chrootuid utility).
Everything works just fine until the in.telnetd from chrooted location is
execed. It tries to allocate a pty (via openpty() call), but receives an
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack was heard to say:
I'm trying to virtualize in.telnetd to access a chrooted virtual server
(using tcp_wrappers' twist option and Wietse's chrootuid utility).
Everything works just fine until the in.telnetd from chrooted location is
* Daniel Burrows said:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack was heard to say:
I'm trying to virtualize in.telnetd to access a chrooted virtual server
(using tcp_wrappers' twist option and Wietse's chrootuid utility).
Everything works just fine until the in.telnetd
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say:
I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the
potato release.
I do it with a fairly simple approach. I install the base Slink system, but
on the
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:40:26PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
presented with a login of the normal, non-virtual, server instead of the
new, chrooted, one. Does anyone know what might be the cause of such
behavior and perhaps knows a way to virtualize telnetd?
I don't know a
* Ryan Murray said:
to work, although I have no idea how Linux would react to having to having
multiple devpts filesystems mounted at once. Probably best to try and
see :)
Both proc and devpts are mounted. Doesn't matter whether I mount them
Have you tried actually mounting them
Thomas Schoepf wrote:
Have you tried Ben's getbugs.pl? Is it good enough?
I looked at it briefly, but it seemsed very slow. wget is easier.
--
see shy jo
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a parallel problem to this thread: I have gpm installed for those times
when I am doing a lot of console work, but generally I don't run it because
it interferes with Quake II, among other things. So I did an:
update-rc.d -f gpm remove
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