Re: NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread Rick Younie
Marco d'Itri wrote: > > >Last I heard the usenet group is unidirectional mail -> news > >and was a little flakey at that. > I seen no problem in the gating process. Please explain what's wrong. Yeah, cheap shot. It's been a long while since I've looked at this. > And yes, messages of morons who

Re: Bug#126434: ITP: super-sed -- An enhanced version of sed

2001-12-25 Thread Ganesan R
> "rganesan" == rganesan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A > Severity: wishlist > ssed is a version of sed that supports a few new features, including Perl > regular expressions and much greater speed than GNU sed. A few experimental > features were mutuated f

ITP: ickle -- ICQ Client that supports the ICQ2000 protocol

2001-12-25 Thread Leo Costela
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-25 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ickle Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Barnaby Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ickle.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : ICQ Client that supports the ICQ

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-25 Thread adam.edgar
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:29:49PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So let this be a word of warning. Hopefully Mr. Fuchs^WHowarth will > > explain himself, or escape to England where they have less harsh > > penalties for treason. > > The last time I

Re: NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread Ganesan R
> "lintux" == lintux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Please Cc a reply to me since my newsserver won't feed me the reply, > probably..) > Hello, > I don't like mailing lists at all so I'm looking for a way to read the > debian lists using Slrn. Leafnode does not support mailing lists, so I'm

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Scheetz wrote: > I'm willing to accept the quake2-engine in non-us as long as it is > available somewhere with a maintainer to bounce issues off of. I suspect > that myself and Ben excluded everyone else will accept it going into > contrib... I think Dale's hit the nail on the head with his p

Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

2001-12-25 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:49:12PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Of course it is broken. It is _not_ supported on sparc, other than to > make it available to users. _I_ do not want anything built on sparc that > doesn't use the default compiler (except in cases such as libc6-sparc64 > where we obviou

Re: usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > > On Monday 24 December 2001 13:32, Erik Steffl wrote: > > I am trying to make the USB work on my debian unstable system, using > > kernel 2.4.14 and it just doesn't work. the specific problem is that the > > function 'probe' (specified when registering driver) is NEVER

Re: usb driver and probe function (is never called)

2001-12-25 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Monday 24 December 2001 13:32, Erik Steffl wrote: > I am trying to make the USB work on my debian unstable system, using > kernel 2.4.14 and it just doesn't work. the specific problem is that the > function 'probe' (specified when registering driver) is NEVER called and > therefore driver does

Re: NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 25, Rick Younie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Last I heard the usenet group is unidirectional mail -> news >and was a little flakey at that. I seen no problem in the gating process. Please explain what's wrong. And yes, messages of morons who mail long base 64 encoded files to mailing lists

Re: one last comment

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:24:00PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > I thought they taught social skills in England. A little empathy > never killed anyone. I have no empathy for people who spout egregious falsehoods about complex scenarios without bothering to do even basic research. Never mail m

Re: libsdl-image1.2

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:19:49PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Ok. >I see Branden's NMU declaration for changing the use of the static > libs in SDL related packages. Still when I read the change log for > libsdl-image1.2 I find... > > sdl-image1.2 (1.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * new

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:43:18AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > After a number of rants from Branden I rather confused now > as to why xlibs-pic exists at all. THIS IS BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO READ. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00028.html -- G. Branden Robin

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:18:37AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > This is absurd. You're right about that much. As for everything else... > One of the problems with this Debian policy violation is that > it is not always reproducible as a bug on other folks machines. > However feel free to as

Re: one last comment

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 04:21:32PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Branden and Christian, > I guess I don't follow the finer nuance here but these are the > different compile lines generated from libtool without doing an > autoconf before configure... > > gcc -shared IMG.lo IMG_bmp.lo IMG_gif.l

Re: sdl-image1.2 fixed

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:02:24PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Branden and Christian, > Sorry that I misunderstood that the fix for this was > already in place in the current libsdl-image1.2 package. That's because Christian's latest upload of sdl-image1.2 didn't port forward all the changes

Re: Bug#126409 acknowledged by developer (bug submitter smoking

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:22:35AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > crack) > I am puzzled then. What ever was the rational for creating a > xlibs_pic package in that case. You obviously didn't read the messages the URL's in my announcement. Try again. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/de

Re: closed bug reports

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Unless I am confused, shouldn't you open your own > bug report then on libsdl-image rather than just > closing mine? A bug was already filed against sdl-image1.2, #125928. > If you simply close mine rather than > leaving an open

one last comment

2001-12-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Branden and Christian, I guess I don't follow the finer nuance here but these are the different compile lines generated from libtool without doing an autoconf before configure... gcc -shared IMG.lo IMG_bmp.lo IMG_gif.lo IMG_jpg.lo IMG_lbm.lo IMG_pcx.lo IMG_png.lo IMG_pnm.lo IMG_tga.lo IMG_t

Re: Bug#125904: ITP: fungetty, a fun new getty for Linux framebuffers

2001-12-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:36:52AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty, a > > replacement for the standard Linux getty that can display > > full-color graphics above the login prompt. I hacked this up > > ove

sdl-image1.2 fixed

2001-12-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Branden and Christian, Sorry that I misunderstood that the fix for this was already in place in the current libsdl-image1.2 package. However on debian ppc sid it doesn't appear to work unless I make the following change to the rules file. I have to put a call to autoconf before the ./configu

Re: latest gnome packages not in sid?

2001-12-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:11:06AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman > > | On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:13:30AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > In addition, it shows that somebody besides yourself care about the > | > software you are packaging. Which is a nice thing, IMHO. > |

libsdl-image1.2

2001-12-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Ok. I see Branden's NMU declaration for changing the use of the static libs in SDL related packages. Still when I read the change log for libsdl-image1.2 I find... sdl-image1.2 (1.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * new upstream version * tried to add Brandens fixes again in Makefile.am, acloca

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Jack Howarth wrote on Tue Dec 25, 2001 um 11:43:18AM: > After a number of rants from Branden I rather confused now > as to why xlibs-pic exists at all. As best as I can tell through That is easy. You are not allowed to link static code into shared libraries on certain plattforms. So

cheap Debian books at Ebay

2001-12-25 Thread Guenter Bechly
Dear Debian friends, maybe you remember me as an active former Debian developer who left the project some months ago. I now sell all my Debian and Linux literature on Ebay and therefore would like to inform you about the concerning links. These books and journals are certainly very valuable for ma

Re: NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread Rick Younie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't like mailing lists at all so I'm looking for a way to read the > debian lists using Slrn. Leafnode does not support mailing lists, so I'm > forced to use an Internet NNTP server for this. My provider does not feed > linux.debian.* so I can't use that server. I

Bug#126434: ITP: super-sed -- An enhanced version of sed

2001-12-25 Thread rganesan
Package: wnpp Version: N/A Severity: wishlist ssed is a version of sed that supports a few new features, including Perl regular expressions and much greater speed than GNU sed. A few experimental features were mutuated from Perl, including in-place editing (the `i' flag) and the ability to

Debian books for developers

2001-12-25 Thread Dr . Günter Bechly
Dear Debian friends, maybe you remember me as an active former Debian developer who left the project some months ago. I now sell all my Debian and Linux literature on Ebay and therefore would like to inform you about the concerning links. These books and journals are certainly very valuable for

why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-25 Thread Jack Howarth
After a number of rants from Branden I rather confused now as to why xlibs-pic exists at all. As best as I can tell through the froth, Branden is saying that absolutely no static libs should be linked into a shared lib. The conventional wisdom on debian-powerpc seems to be that this should be e

Re: NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread John Hasler
Wilmer writes: > I don't like mailing lists at all so I'm looking for a way to read the > debian lists using Slrn. Leafnode does not support mailing lists... Then either use Gnus which lets you treat mailing lists just like newsgroups or install a local mail->news gateway using something like mail

Re: Preparing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r5

2001-12-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Those weren't installed properly, but Wichert is looking into it. They'll be installed in the next dinstall run. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-25 Thread lintux
/* Sorry for replying to the wrong message.. My NNTP feed sucks /big/ time. :-(( */ > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:17:09AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > I'm giving up. Let's just dump it into contrib and tell everyone to > > either warez the data files or buy them. > Or.. Isn't there a sh

NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread lintux
(Please Cc a reply to me since my newsserver won't feed me the reply, probably..) Hello, I don't like mailing lists at all so I'm looking for a way to read the debian lists using Slrn. Leafnode does not support mailing lists, so I'm forced to use an Internet NNTP server for this. My provider does

Re: Preparing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r5

2001-12-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Schulze | mailman stable1.1-8 alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc | mailman updates 1.1-10 i386 | | Security Fix? Related to DSA 094? Yes. | Changelog for 1.1-9: | | * Cross site scripting (CSS) fixes, backported from Mailman 2.0.8. | |

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-25 Thread Jack Howarth
This is absurd. Debian policy explicitly states that you should not create a shared lib using objects not created with -fPIC (which is exactly what libsdl-image does when it asks sdl-config what to use for static_x_extension_libs). This problem is identical to one just resolved in evolution...

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So let this be a word of warning. Hopefully Mr. Fuchs^WHowarth will > explain himself, or escape to England where they have less harsh > penalties for treason. The last time I checked the maximum sentence for treason in Great Britain was death... --

Re: how to store static data in a multi-thread program?

2001-12-25 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 03:55:04 +0300 > "Andrew" == Andrew Makhorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew> Andrew> I've got a multi-thread program (in C) running under Debian/GNU Linux. Andrew> And I need to store a pointer somewhere in a system place related to an Andrew> particular thread in

Re: latest gnome packages not in sid?

2001-12-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Matt Zimmerman | On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:13:30AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > * Adrian Bunk | > | | > | Really? I'm often happy and I see other maintainers that are happy when | > | they get "new upstream version" wishlist bug reports - it does sometimes | > | happen that for any r

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:53:25PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > It's a runtime environment (you might call it interpreter) for the graphics > files and the gamei386.so (or whatever it was called) Fine. So the interpreter (quake2-engine) can surely wait until game data is packaged for main and th