Uploaded yafc 0.7.4-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:15:31 -0400 Source: yafc Binary: yafc Architecture: m68k Version: 0.7.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Decklin Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded xdu 3.0-7 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:47:05 +0200 Source: xdu Binary: xdu Architecture: m68k Version: 3.0-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Fredrik Hallenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded xtartan 2.3-6 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:40:03 +0200 Source: xtartan Binary: xtartan Architecture: m68k Version: 2.3-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded ftpgrab 0.1.2r-3 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:04:15 -0400 Source: ftpgrab Binary: ftpgrab Architecture: m68k Version: 0.1.2r-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL

Uploaded aterm 0.4.0-8 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:26:31 +0200 Source: aterm Binary: aterm aterm-ml Architecture: m68k Version: 0.4.0-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jordi Mallach [EMAIL

Uploaded ledit 1.10-3 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:14:35 +0200 Source: ledit Binary: ledit Architecture: m68k Version: 1.10-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded gkdial 1.5.12-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:02:07 -0300 Source: gkdial Binary: gkdial gkdial-gnome Architecture: m68k Version: 1.5.12-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Gustavo Noronha Silva

Uploaded filerunner 2.5.1-12 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:44:34 +0100 Source: filerunner Binary: filerunner Architecture: m68k Version: 2.5.1-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Muhammad Hussain Yusuf

Uploaded zile 1.6.1-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:58:40 +0200 Source: zile Binary: zile Architecture: m68k Version: 1.6.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Carsten Leonhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded deskmenu 1.3.0-4 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:50:16 -0400 Source: deskmenu Binary: deskmenu Architecture: m68k Version: 1.3.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Brandon L. Griffith [EMAIL

Uploaded hx 0.7.14-4 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:19:29 +0200 Source: hx Binary: hx Architecture: m68k Version: 0.7.14-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description:

Uploaded xwrits 2.16-1 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 08:08:39 -0400 Source: xwrits Binary: xwrits Architecture: m68k Version: 2.16-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Hugo Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded oroborus 1.14.0-5 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:31:41 -0400 Source: oroborus Binary: oroborus Architecture: m68k Version: 1.14.0-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Brandon L. Griffith [EMAIL

Uploaded pam 0.72-31 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:16:39 -0400 Source: pam Binary: libpam-runtime libpam-modules libpam-cracklib libpam0g-dev libpam-doc libpam0g Architecture: m68k Version: 0.72-31 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k

Uploaded whois 4.5.8 (m68k) to ftp-master

2001-09-02 Thread Debian/m68k buildd4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:46:23 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: m68k Version: 4.5.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian/m68k buildd4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
- What would source packages look like for such a system? It /is/ possible to continue to use the old .orig.tar.gz + diff.gz, but automatic updates for new translations would invalidate the maintainer's signature. Should we seize the opportunity to switch to a more flexible

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
The translation archive can contain a control and a templates file. These files have much the same format as the corresponding files from the control.tar.gz file but with the exception that they contain only the identifiers (Package: xyz for control and Template: foo/bar for templates)

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
Step 1: Signed archives --- Quick note from vacation: signed packages are already designed and implemented. No need to reinvent the wheel. Do they allow unsigned/separately signed parts? Simon

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
You should all realise that GNU ar supports long filenames, so there is no need to obfuscate filenames from ar's point of view. GNU ar, yes. dpkg, no. Simon

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
I don't think translations should be in the source package at all, I'm opposed to this! Yes, not including the translations in the source package makes things much easier, but I think they still should be there at all costs. Yes, I can agree with that. I think we have to put them in a

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
which uploads? There are no extra uploads. There have to be, in my eyes. Consider this scenario: katie can pretend there has been an upload. OK, but re-diffing will invalidate the maintainer's signature on the diff! Hm, I guess this doesn't matter as long as that sig's sole purpose is to

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Simon Richter
Also problematic is the idea of packaging all the translations into one package. This would never be up-to-date, and more frequent updates are not nice. I prefer a solution similar to the current system in ddts. This could be included in the current FTP archive, in the subdirectories for each

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:09:03PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: Mingw requires that the program actually be able to build on a win32 system, but produces code that runs much faster, is far more stable in my experience, and competes head to head with the same app compiled for MSVC versions

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:36:59PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:32:26PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: - How do we avoid that a package is updated too often? Updating the .deb for each translation change is far too often - maybe add any new translations the

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:18, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I agree with most of what you say, but not with this. You can say a lot about NFS, including that it's bad, insecure, to be thrown away and changed by CODA or sth else, but not that it's slow. I've seen data transfers of ~800KByte/s via NFS.

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 07:03:07AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Also problematic is the idea of packaging all the translations into one package. This would never be up-to-date, and more frequent updates are not nice. I prefer a solution similar to the current system in ddts. This could be

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer écrivait: With language-specific Packages files, there is no size issue. And that's a mirror where we

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 07:03:01AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: I like this all, but we have the problem with outdated translations. Yes, that's why I want these files to be automatically added from the database: The database still contains the untranslated strings, so we can check whether

libgnomeprint error

2001-09-02 Thread safemode
I compile my own X so there are no debianisms in the X tree. Other than that it's debian unstable. Updated to the latest pkgs tonight and i recieved this error. Are there seperate font packages for gnome needed? I do have all of the xfonts installed. Info: ghostscript was found and has fonts

Re: libgal sonames

2001-09-02 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:25:32AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:23:03PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: The only problem I can see is with the -dev packages, which may need some work to allow different versions to be installed. That's OK. We often only support one

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: Hi Raphael, On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:59:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: [snip] using my fr environnment I could'n reconfigure debconf to use the Gnome frontend, it wasn't listed in the proposed choices because the

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: Just a small nitpicks... On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: Hi Raphael, On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:59:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: With language-specific Packages files, there is

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:12:52AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: Of 8 friends of mine that are using debian, I know that: 2 would want fallback hungarian-slovak-czech 1 would want fallback lithuanian-slovak-czech-russian 1

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:42:31PM -0500, David Starner wrote: en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add en_AU UTF-8 en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 this is probably the best idea or (what I would recommmend)

Re: libgal sonames

2001-09-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:30:52PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 16:35, Mark Brown wrote: Well, yes but that goal could be accomplished by statically linking the library. Though if upstream think it makes sense to have it shared you're kind of stuck with a lot of the

CUPS

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Meskes
I just thought about trying cups on my home system but either I haven't found the correct way to configure it yet or it simply does not configure itself well enough IMO. I'm used to lpr(ng) with magicfilter. All I have to do is answer some question and I have a system up and running that prints

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Michael == Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael A process on the ftp-master patch the deb with the Michael translation, if the translation is not alread in the the Michael package. This process don't change the package or the Michael version number- It only add the translation

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-09-01 Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Can you store multiple signitures in the same file? Yes, that possible by using the OpenPGP format. You'll either need to use one-pass-signature packets, like GnuPG does by default, or the cleartext signed format. Christian -- Debian

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-09-01 Simon Richter wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: not be ascii armored since this would only introduce transmission overhead and gain nothing. The file name for this file is constructed from the Why does it gain nothing? What about problems during transmission?

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 04:53:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Michael == Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael A process on the ftp-master patch the deb with the Michael translation, if the translation is not alread in the the Michael package. This process don't change the

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:28:45AM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:12:52AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: Of 8 friends of mine that are using debian, I know that: 2 would want fallback

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer écrivait: And that's a mirror where we I only have i386. So multiply by 10 arch, then by 50 languages, and you get 10Gb of Packages file. We could reduce that if we remove uncompressed Packages but still ... And a good part of

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:31:40AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: Furthermore, as mentioned before, translation packages have the disadvantage that new Descriptions, i.e. _the_ones_you_are_most_likely _to_look_at_, will *not* be

Re: Translating Debian packages' descriptions

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:43:09PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:31:40AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: Furthermore, as mentioned before, translation packages have the disadvantage that new

Re: SWI Prolog and GNU Prolog packages

2001-09-02 Thread Milan Zamazal
SS == Sebastian Schaffert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SS I would be willing to take over the maintanance of these two SS packages Please try to coordinate with Silvester Claassen [s.m.claassen at stalemate.nl], who expressed an interest to take over the packages (but haven't uploaded them

ddts: notification about fr-translation of the libroxen-{roxpoll-doc|linkif|presentit}

2001-09-02 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
I'm all for international descriptions. In roxen and roxen2 packages for debconf, I have a number of languages. But philippe, if you're to translate, then you have more job to do. You have 55 packages to translate! (just joking, don't take it the way it reads philippe, I _AM_ gratefull! :)

Bug#110959: ITA: doc-linux -- Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs

2001-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Martin Michlmayr orphaned Marco Budde's packages today, as they don't appear to have been actively maintained for quite some time. I intend to adopt doc-linux (binary packages doc-linux-html and doc-linux-text), which is pretty seriously in need of an update before

Re: CUPS

2001-09-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-09-02 Michael Meskes wrote: I wanted to install DeskJet_670C-cdj670.ppd or DeskJet_670C-pcl3.ppd from cupsomatic-ppd but just got a lpadmin: add-printer failed: The requested resource was not found on this server. Would you mind telling us which version of cups you have installed?

Re: ddts: notification about fr-translation of the libroxen-{roxpoll-doc|linkif|presentit}

2001-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:22:16PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: I'm all for international descriptions. In roxen and roxen2 packages for debconf, I have a number of languages. But philippe, if you're to translate, then you have more job to do. You have 55 packages to translate! (just

Re: CUPS

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:19:51PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: Would you mind telling us which version of cups you have installed? You didn't include that information. Sorry, I forgot that. It's the actual woody version: ii cupsomatic-ppd 0.20010420-3 cups printer ppd's from

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:42:31PM -0500, David Starner wrote: en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add en_AU UTF-8 en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 or (what I would recommmend) en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_AU ISO-8859-1

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Neil Spring wrote on Sat Sep 01, 2001 um 06:39:58PM: http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0105.1/0145.html As David noted, I'm in favor of turning ECN off-as-default. Good. The problem - it is on by default in our precompiled kernel-image packages. To disable (by

Re: ddts: notification about fr-translation of the libroxen-{roxpoll-doc|linkif|presentit}

2001-09-02 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:11:53AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:22:16PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: I'm all for international descriptions. In roxen and roxen2 packages for debconf, I have a number of languages. But philippe, if you're to translate, then you

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: procps Version: 1:2.0.7-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: woody I suggest to disable ECN¹ in the default network configuration. This should be done in Woody since we don't like our users to be confused just because of the ECN support in kernel is

ECN: Why just on/off? can one mangle that per iptables?

2001-09-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, I have some thoughts about the ECN bit: Why is it on per default when compiled in? Normaly I would expect it to be off unless activated in proc, like ip_forward or syn-cookie or lots of other stuff. Why can one only turn it on/off? I want it on normaly, but not for a few hosts or

Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
During the base freeze preparations in the last few weeks, a problem Debian has always had became apparent again. Since Debian is a distributed, volunteer run project it is hard to tell whether a maintainer is doing Debian work at the moment. In the freeze, it is often crucial to get a bug fixed

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Drew Parsons wrote: en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add en_AU UTF-8 en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 or (what I would recommmend) en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_AU ISO-8859-1 Just out of interest,

library build problems

2001-09-02 Thread H. S. Teoh
Hi all, I'm the maintainer of the libsndfile package, and I've noticed that there's been an NMU to fix a build problem. (Sorry for being absent ... got a job and have a lot less free time now.) Anyway, there's a new release, and I tried to update the package (from the NMU version) but now I'm

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Bugs could get fixed sooner since more people are working on the package. This would help us meeting our release goals. The Mythical Man Month, of which Debian is exemplary[0]. Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow, of which Debian is

Re: sysklogd = syslog-ng

2001-09-02 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! On 2001 Aug 24, Wichert Akkerman wrote: AFAIK you'll still have to use klogd if you want to have addresses in kernel messages replaced with symbolic names from System.map. That is a bad idea anyway so please don't do that and use ksymoops instead. Why? I have a new version (at

probably FAQ: Uploading to sid with potato's dupload?

2001-09-02 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, this might be an FAQ; but for security, I'll ask as well: I do my development in a sid chroot on potato. Can I use potato's dupload to upload the finished packages, or do I need to copy my keys into the chroot to be able to use sid's dupload? Greetings Marc --

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-02 Thread John Galt
How are things going to get better if new things like this aren't tried? It'll certainly knock out some issues in sponsorship and NM... If your only objections are those of the improbability of getting it to work, let Martin run with it and find out for hisself. On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Marcelo E.

moving a package from non-US/main to main?

2001-09-02 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, One of my packages, apg, has a new upstream release, 2.0.0b3. The old versions included some algorithms using SHA and were in non-US. The new version still has SHA, but can be compiled without using the SHA sources, using CAST instead. As far as I understand, a program only using CAST can be

Re: moving a package from non-US/main to main?

2001-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
Marc Haber: Is it possible to have a package's source in non-US while the binary package is in main? No, katie (the program which installs packages from incoming to its final destination) does not support that. However, you can repackage the .orig.tar.gz source and remove the non-US bits from

Re: moving a package from non-US/main to main?

2001-09-02 Thread Gergely Nagy
If the source includes SHA, then it must remain in non-US, together with the binaries (iow: binaries compiled without SHA, from a source which has SHA in it must be in non-us still). At least, that's what I think, but I may be wrong. -- Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8] pgpJ5XuclYybE.pgp Description:

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[ your Mail-Followup-To is still leaving the list out ] John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How are things going to get better if new things like this aren't tried? It'll certainly knock out some issues in sponsorship and NM... If your only objections are those of the improbability of

Re: moving a package from non-US/main to main?

2001-09-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:49:00 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, you can repackage the .orig.tar.gz source and remove the non-US bits from it. Then you could upload both source and binaries to main. That would break the principle of pristine sources, though. Can anybody

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Neil Spring
Summary: 1) why not disable ECN in kernel-image? it would be cleaner. 2) why not disable ECN in /etc/network/options? it would be more relevant and visible than sysctl.conf. 3) can we disable ECN for joe user with the default kernel while permitting joe custom-kernel-user to enable ECN with one

Re: moving a package from non-US/main to main?

2001-09-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Gergely Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the source includes SHA, then it must remain in non-US, together with the binaries (iow: binaries compiled without SHA, from a source which has SHA in it must be in non-us still). At least, that's what I think, but I may be wrong. You're wrong, or

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that should be refiled against kernel-image-2.4.x. Those, since they have the flag enabled, should warn about it and turn it off in /etc/sysctl.conf upon first install (not on update, so you can delete the option). Or just ask via debconf.

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Herbert Xu wrote: 3. The kernel-image postinst is not a good place to do this as installing a kernel does not mean that you will boot it. the postinst would be the worst place, as you can't be using that kernel already at the moment postinst is ran for the first time... --

Bug#111005: ITP: libggimisc - GGI Misc extension library, split from libggi.

2001-09-02 Thread Martin Albert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist The package was (unfortunately) split out of libggi. It provides hardware dependant extensions for framebuffer-, x- and svgalib-targets. - Programs that compile with -lggimisc have to depend on this package - Download: ftp://ftp.ggi-project.org/pub/ggi

ITP survex

2001-09-02 Thread Wookey
Survex is cave-surveying software, available for several platforms (Unix, Windows, RISCOS, DOS). IT has been available as an unofficial debian package for a year or so since I first had a go at packaging it, and the upstream author included that and made them work. However the packaging is

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Neil Spring wrote on Sun Sep 02, 2001 um 02:05:57PM: Summary: 1) why not disable ECN in kernel-image? it would be cleaner. See mail from Herbert. 2) why not disable ECN in /etc/network/options? it would be more relevant and visible than sysctl.conf. Another good idea.

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Zitiere Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can we just choose option (a) and be done with it? If Debian isn't going to choose option (a), why are we talking about option (c)? See Herbert's mail. IMHO we need a good place to disable it and notify the user. Since the beginning of this

Re: probably FAQ: Uploading to sid with potato's dupload?

2001-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:01:50PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, this might be an FAQ; but for security, I'll ask as well: I do my development in a sid chroot on potato. Can I use potato's dupload to upload the finished packages, or do I need to copy my keys into the chroot to be able to use

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:56:45PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: I think that should be refiled against kernel-image-2.4.x. Those, since they have the flag enabled, should warn about it and turn it off in /etc/sysctl.conf upon first install (not on update, so you can delete the option).

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Neil Spring
(*) wha? no kernel patch is required. The default Not really true. After reading Herbert's mail, I understand what you were trying to do now with the patch. Thanks for explaining the baseconfig / postinst issues. What a mess. -neil

How many people need locales?

2001-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. For the purposes of determining whether or not most users need to change the /etc/locale.gen file Ben and I need an estimate of the proportion of Debian users using locales among all Debian users. [ See Bug #111008 for details ]. I think we can consider the volume or the number of

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-02 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, I think we can consider the volume or the number of subscribers of the debian-user mailing list, and compare it with the volume or the number of subscribers of all other language-specific debian-user-foo lists combined. Is there anybody who can do this count? Can you think of another

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-02 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:21:04AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Hello. For the purposes of determining whether or not most users need to change the /etc/locale.gen file Ben and I need an estimate of the proportion of Debian users using locales among all Debian users. [ See Bug #111008 for

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-02 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:46:42AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: Hi, I think we can consider the volume or the number of subscribers of the debian-user mailing list, and compare it with the volume or the number of subscribers of all other language-specific debian-user-foo lists

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:44:19AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: 1. CONFIG_INET_ECN must be turned on, otherwise the user will have to recompile the kernel to use it. yes, that is correct. if the user wants ECN, they should compile the kernel to enable it. [...] So do whatever you want, but

Re: Bug#110721: ITP: css-elisp -- Emacs Mode for editing Cascading Style Sheets

2001-09-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Ole Aamot | URL: http://synthcode.com/emacs/lang/css-mode.el | Description: | css-elisp is a language mode for editing Cascade Style Sheets, | offering syntax highlighting and tab completion. There is also a css-mode available at http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/software/css-mode/ ,

Re: pam_xauth

2001-09-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wouter Verhelst | AFAIK, there's no package for it, but you can download it from his | website. I don't recall what that site was, but he's been discussing that | here a few weeks or months ago in a thread called X authentication and | su or something likewise. http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ --

Re: /usr/dict/ - /usr/share/dict/ request (bug #110632)

2001-09-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Richard Kettlewell | (I await with interest your attempt to have /etc/alternatives and | /etc/rc*.d eliminated or de-symlinked...) apt-get install file-rc does one of them: $ ls /etc/rc*.d zsh: no matches found: /etc/rc*.d $ -- Tollef Fog Heen You Can't Win

Re: Making better use of multiple maintainers

2001-09-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:57:06PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: I ought to listen to Zinsser and use shorter words Only with Galt. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux |soul, then believe; if you wish to

Re: Bug#110875: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:04:12PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: I suggest to disable ECN? in the default network configuration. This should be done in Woody since we don't like our users to be confused just because of the ECN support in kernel is turned on. This would be an abuse of the procps

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, Santiago Vila wrote: For the purposes of determining whether or not most users need to change the /etc/locale.gen file Ben and I need an estimate of the proportion of Debian users using locales among all Debian users. That would be most non-english-speaking users, I

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2001-09-02 Thread monicahayes
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Re: moving a package from non-US/main to main?

2001-09-02 Thread Sam Hartman
Marc == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:49:00 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, you can repackage the .orig.tar.gz source and remove the non-US bits from it. Then you could upload both source and binaries to