Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-09 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrique M. Holschuh) writes: > (not CC:ed to debian-devel, but I'd rather you had asked it in there instead > of in private. Please forward this reply to -devel, I can't do it without > breaching netiquette ;-) ) I thought I had replied to the list. I must have hit the

Re: ITP: Sword, GnomeSword

2000-09-09 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could wait for the data section to be created, or just supply an > installer for Sword modules that downloads them & installs them. (Or > both.) The data section was approved by the policy group a long time ago, but has never been implemented.

Re: ITP: dpkg-python

2000-09-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:27:56PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote: > Unless anybody else is interested, I plan to pick up the Python part of > dpkg-scriptlib and make it a separate (and maintained:-) package. I > also plan to enhance it with few lines of code I wrote for some > thing--adding few class

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for September 8, 2000

2000-09-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:15:16AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: > Package: libtool (debian/main) > Maintainer: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 57087 libtool does not support interdependencies between un-installed > shared libraries. > 66135 libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of b

ITP: dpkg-python

2000-09-09 Thread Milan Zamazal
Unless anybody else is interested, I plan to pick up the Python part of dpkg-scriptlib and make it a separate (and maintained:-) package. I also plan to enhance it with few lines of code I wrote for some thing--adding few classes for interfacing Sources/Packages with LDAP (yes, this should work (n

Re: gpm and X problem investigated

2000-09-09 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
Here we go again. On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:10:32PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > As the gpm maintainer I will try and stay polite and explain some > > things. > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > > I had the same problems when using the new d

Re: ITP: Sword, GnomeSword

2000-09-09 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:01:20PM +, Ben Armstrong wrote: > The Sword project has a lot of large data files: > > ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/modules/raw/ > > I could wait for the data section to be created, or just supply an > installer for Sword modules that downloads them & ins

ITP: Sword, GnomeSword

2000-09-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
I'd like to package Sword and GnomeSword: http://www.crosswire.org/ http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/ These are Bible study tools. The Sword project has a lot of large data files: ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/modules/raw/ I could wait for the data section to be cr

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-09 Thread Colin Watson
Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, on the other hand, if you have any packages that are using hard >coded pagers, editors or so into it's rc files waste a thought about >changing it to the alternatives name ``pager'' and ``editor''. I really >think that this should be a little more u

Re: gpm and X problem investigated

2000-09-09 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> As the gpm maintainer I will try and stay polite and explain some > things. > > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > I had the same problems when using the new defaults (-R ms3 and > > Intellimouse on /dev/gpmdata). > > Can you please give specifics? Yes. I

Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:01:00AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > Oh, yeah. > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/68274 > > > > It's orphaned. And has been for about 7 months. The "maintainer" > > should be debian-qa, but it has not been reset to that. > > ...that would explain it. :) righ

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how >you'd like to do this. There is also the implicit assumption in their If there are no fixed events

maintainers in Cambridge, UK?

2000-09-09 Thread Philip Blundell
Are there any maintainers in Cambridge who would be willing to sign my GPG key? Thanks p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> > The maintainer may be unaware of our conversation, (god knows why) > > and may be working on an upload as we speak. IMO, its the same > > philosophy as doing a NMU. > > Oh, yeah. > > http://bugs.debian.org/68274 > > It's orphaned. And has been for about 7 months. The "maintainer" >

Pre-ITP/RFC: Ng - editor that can handle CJK & Latin.

2000-09-09 Thread Yasuhiro TAKE
[ Sorry for cross-posting. Please honor the Reply-To. ] Hello, there. Ng stands for Nihongo Mg, MicroGnuEmacs. Mg appeared more than 10 years ago, and seems to be unmaintained now, while Ng, Japanized version of Mg has been well maintained and improved. Ng is yet another Emacs-like editor. It

Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The maintainer may be unaware of our conversation, (god knows why) > and may be working on an upload as we speak. IMO, its the same > philosophy as doing a NMU. Oh, yeah. http://bugs.debian.org/68274 It's orphaned. And has been for about 7

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:46:53PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I think you mean you use an editor to edit it first, which IMHO is a > very primitive implementation of an MUA. ie, you can't edit the > message to add a 'X-Debbugs-CC' header, for instance. Nor can you add > MIME attachments either (not

Re: [System] Festplatte kopieren

2000-09-09 Thread Andreas Voegele
> 2. besser mit tar -cf - /mnt/alt | tar -xf - -C /mnt/neu Anstelle von -xf sollte -xpf verwendet werden oder die umask auf 0 gesetzt werden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-09 Thread Richard Stallman
You are picking at little details of my words, reading into them a hostility which is not there. Meanwhile, you don't seem to be concerned about the mob of people who are attacking me. To me that says "injustice" and "double standard". Injustice, because you blame me for meanings that others pro

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-09 Thread Brian May
> "Paul" == Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Please check the BTS for apt-move, this is discussed Paul> externsively. Apparently it's a (for me non-obvious) bug in Paul> bash. Why not change the ( and ) to { and } respectively? At least this way, it will work with

RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-09 Thread Henrique M. Holschuh
Hello debs, This is a request for comments (and enhancements ;-) ) for a possible solution to an annoying bug (for those it hits) we currently have: daemons are started during package installs/upgrades regardless of the current runlevel. This behaviour can be fixed, and the fix is not overly comp

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-09 Thread Brian May
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:16:38PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> Programs like reportbug, netscape, err I mean Mozilla, etc, >> wouldn't have to be manually configured for a default MUA. Nor >> would these programs h

Re: RFC/ITP: everybuddy-cvs

2000-09-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:18:54PM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:06:33PM +, michael d. ivey wrote: > >> I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because > EB > >>

Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:39:36PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > As it is now the current package does not work, cannot be installed due > to dependencies, and it's not part of main. The last few uploads have > been done as NMU's... that in itself could suggest that it could be removed. but

Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> > I would also recommend removing explorer as it depends on a non-existant > > package (qt1g and not libqt1g) and therefore isn't installable. > > done. > > I cannot remove explorer unless the maintainer asks. besides, it should be > recompilable with qt2.2. > ok...the source we (Debian) hav

Re: Regarding Swap memory

2000-09-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously khisar m paika wrote: > How do we overcome this? Compare BIOS versions, you might need to upgrade one. Also you can use the `append "mem=xxxm"' magic thing in lilo.conf Wichert -- / Generally uninteresting signatur

Regarding Swap memory

2000-09-09 Thread khisar m paika
Using a 850 Athalon, we are in the process of building a two node beowulf cluster and are testing programs on both nodes. The first node uses and sees all the memory but the second node only sees 66 megs when there is a lot more sitting on the system. We have tried rebuilding the kernel a

Re: Pyton 1.6's license

2000-09-09 Thread Adam Keys
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:30:28PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Based on this, that leaves us with three options: > > 1.) Replace Python 1.5.2 with Python 1.6 in the Debian development tree > ("woody"). > > Then we had to remove all packages that might be troublesome, > license-wise. Am

Re: RFC/ITP: everybuddy-cvs

2000-09-09 Thread "Jürgen A. Erhard"
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:06:33PM +, michael d. ivey wrote: >> I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because EB >> releases tend to lag pretty far behind the code in CVS. I called my >> packa