Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Adam Majer | IMHO, there is a _huge_ amount of servers that are not connected | from main page... As of a week ago I could not find any links to | qa.d.o, nm.d.o, buildd.d.o, etc It would be nice to have them at | d.o/devel nm.d.o is linked from http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ which is l

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:59:58PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Do we have a list anywhere of the remaining issues holding up the > woody freeze/release? Some sort of well-known "release status" Web page > would help coordination. (we have an RC bug list, but as far as I know it > doesn't sho

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-05 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Herbert Xu wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And of course a little consistency and uniformity is too much to ask for > > in the unix world until it's mandadted by some dead-tree standard for which > > you have to pay a few hundred bucks. > > You can now get P

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-05 Thread David N. Welton
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, of course we want them all to use Debian; we claim to be the > Universal Operating System. > What the exact steps should be to accomplish this goal aren't > completely clear to me, and I doubt they are to anyone else either. How about a universal

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2002-01-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Jan-02, 09:09 (CST), Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If every system had up-to-date, standards-conforming > ctype.h support, we wouldn't have to worry much at all. > But even these days, pretty many systems with buggy macros > are still in use. Then fix those systems. Pull the

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-05 Thread YAEGASHI Takeshi
Hi, At Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:07:33 -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross? > > I used it for bootstrapping Debian on hppa, it's *very* useful. I didn't need > to make too many changes. I still need to submit a patch for hppa support. At > the time I was too distrac

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-05 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Lex Spoon wrote: > [snip timeframe on deb creation] After doing it for years, it can become very much quicker. With properly designed upstream source(nice build system, configurable installation, DESTDIR support), making a deb can be done in a few hours. Lately, I have even b

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David B Harris wrote: > Well, what you're suggesting isn't really feasible ;) Someone actually did this a couple of years ago so it is feasible. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left o

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020104 12:59]: > Do we have a list anywhere of the remaining issues holding up the > woody freeze/release? > I know that we need to get rid of as many of the 382 release-critical > bugs as possible, but beyond that I'm not certain at all. Is that it? T

Re: Adopting these packages

2002-01-05 Thread Chris Cheney
I will be building them for him since he is stuck in the limbo known as the new maintainer queue. ;) Chris On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:51:41PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020105 02:03]: > > I will adopt the KDE packages, while Chris &qu

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I think you can probably boot to it with a carefully crafted initrd that performs a pivot_root into the debootstrapped chroot. Or, perhaps you could run a UML kernel there? Has anyone tried that? -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:11:14PM -0500, David B Harris wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:56:58 +0100 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it would be possible, you know. an RPM that basically substitutes > > every installed RPM by the corresponding DEB. that would rock ;) > > Well, what

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-05 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:18:41 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ps: please don't cc me on list responses. Yeah, my apologies. Hit the wrong keybinding :) pgpuw3oHQFncR.pgp Description: PGP signature

mng files mozilla and konqueror

2002-01-05 Thread Samu
hi, i'm starting to play with mng files ( a kind of png with frames ). btw in these days it seems no resonable ( i'm running a sid :-)) ). however it seems there aren't apps on debian that display a mng images http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/mngapps.html neither konqueror and mozilla do . i would l

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:54:16PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > You can now get POSIX online for free... URL? -- G. Branden Robinson|I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux |above, but it is too long to fit [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:37:46PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I agree completely. With our current testing setup this shouldn't be too > > difficult to do. > > It's already pretty split-up: we have base, we have standard, and we That's what I meant to say. The only think we don't have is th

no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?

2002-01-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I'm using LVM and XFS filesystems on my computer at home. This morning, after I pushed "g" from the Gnus *Group* buffer (to get new mail), it stopped part way through with an error message. Gnus prompted me in the XEmacs minibuffer saying "no space left on device: Continue (yes, no)?". My 1

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-05 Thread Samu
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:10:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > David B Harris wrote: > > But it would be feasible to package up a Debian chroot in an RPM. Too > > bad it would have to be huge to have a reasonable subset of useful > > Debian packages :) > > Don't bother with the chroot, just package

Re: Bug#127747: general: libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library

2002-01-05 Thread Hank Marquardt
I'm not a grouser ... I know I run unstable and what that means from a usability standpoint; but I must point out that in addition to a whole bunch of new reports if things get into testing that there are probably a bunch of people like me that run unstable but aren't even going to consider apt upd