Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:57:21PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not true. If it is possible to create game levels for it that are free, than it is considered free. It's not like you can't get anything but id's game data. I think

Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 06:23:31PM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote: Ben Collins writes: Your package better use gcc, not gcc-3.0. Using anything other than the default supported compiler gets you a bug report. But it doesn't build with g++-2.95. Then fix the build with that compiler. You

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 06:07:02PM +, Jules Bean wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:06:11AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:57:21PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not true. If it is possible to create game

Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:07:06PM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote: Ben Collins writes: Start you own build on vore.debian.org and find it there. Smart. You should be our leader ;-) Sorry for being rather stupid. Anyway, g++-3.0 seems to be completely broken on sparc. int main(){return(0

Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 06:54:10PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Collins writes: Don't discount sparc just because the code is broken. That's a bug in itself. Fix the code, get it to compile. SPARC is one of the most tested archs we have, so if it is broken

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:35:59PM +, Jules Bean wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:42:41PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: gcc to meet those same requirements? You do realize that there are plenty of free levels out there for quake2 right? We don't have to distribute that same code just

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 12:40:06PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So if I create a game with _no_ levels, but the tools to create them, then is it none-free? Just because the only ones available are non-free, doesn't preclude that it is possible

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:48:09AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:42:41PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: blimpo:~# gcc gcc: No input files You have to write or get code for gcc. Should we deliver a hello.c with gcc to meet those same requirements? You do realize

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-21 Thread Ben Collins
levels for it that are free, than it is considered free. It's not like you can't get anything but id's game data. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:19:01PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit This isn't a matter of not using it, it's a matter of a sane base install. Perhaps base-config could ask if the user wants locales. Know what? That question is being asked

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Ben Collins
interacton (yes/no, which locale etc.). IMO this should be included as one of the first questions in baseconfig. With an installed size of over 8megs, I don't think that is such a good idea. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:22:12AM +0300, Ari Makela wrote: Ben Collins writes: With an installed size of over 8megs, I don't think that is such a good idea. During the configuration phase we get a rough time zone information. For example, I have $ cat /etc/timezone Europe

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:25:04AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:16:25AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Santiago Vila wrote on Mon Sep 03, 2001 um 02:21:04AM: I think we can

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

2001-05-08 Thread Ben Collins
we do now. The LSB needs to stay away from trying to standardize a binary format (who cares if it's tar.gz, ar or cpio). They will only piss people off. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
: kernel-headers-2.4 You'll notice that recent kernel-headers packages provide the major.minor if the kernel version. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
of kernel headers in libc6-dev that is)? Anyone got a solution for the -preX case, which would probably make this method rock solid? Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
-issue as people realise this and stop using kernel headers. That's wishful thinking, but I agree. I'm not sure it is possible though. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Collins
browser to just view the contents as plain text. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Debian job in Boston US [nowhere better to post?]

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Collins
(Gloucester to be exact). My resume is referenced below (I am a Debian developer). http://marcus.seva.net/~bmc/resume/ Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: libdb3.so and libdb-3.so

2001-04-30 Thread Ben Collins
that things compiled against the upstream soname will work. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: libdb3.so and libdb-3.so

2001-04-30 Thread Ben Collins
conformant to soname schemes, the latter is. Gnome can use whatever it wants to link with it, but the soname is still libdb3.so.3. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: libdb3.so and libdb-3.so

2001-04-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:27:38AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: At Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:59:24 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: I cannot find out why `libdb-3' is used and spreaded over the gnome packages. Naming soname is sensitive issue, IMHO. As I said the *upstream* soname is libdb-3.so

Re: porting questions

2001-04-28 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites

2001-04-25 Thread Ben Collins
broken, and people complain, is one reason that things get fixed. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites

2001-04-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:02:47AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ben Collins wrote: If we left everything to you have to be smart enough, then let's just leave out the entire linux kernel, most of the software in Debian, and go for a minimum cygnus install. Let's just

Re: Architecture question

2001-04-22 Thread Ben Collins
of packages take several hours to build, even on fairly recent systems. Let the porter decide what to exclude in this case. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Suggestion to change how bugs get closed

2001-04-22 Thread Ben Collins
in woody, and only in stable? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: 'export RESOLV_HOST_CONF= any file you want' local vulnerability

2001-01-09 Thread Ben Collins
supposed to happen, and the actual fix was a missing comma in the list of secure env vars that were supposed to be cleared when a program starts up suid/sgid (including RESOLV_HOST_CONF). Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 5, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Ben Collins
failures on non-release archs (those not in testing) should be considered important, while build failures on release archs (those in testing) should be considered serious. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic

Re: What happened to libnss1-compat?

2001-01-04 Thread Ben Collins
this, either keep it around from potato, or convince someone to package it seperately. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: find/locate both segfault after today's update [unstable]

2001-01-04 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Ben Collins
Aug 31, 2000 (my first changelog entry). So no, I have not been sitting on this for 7 months. Get your facts straight. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Huh, gcc 2.95.3?

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
if you had bothered to read it. There's no such thing as early access, this is open source you know :) Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: Huh, gcc 2.95.3?

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:47:55PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:03:45PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: Happy new year to everyone! gcc 2.95.3 appeared in Sid, but it hasn't been announced by the GCC steering committee yet. Is this some

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
/share/doc Exactly, except '6' should be Link /usr/doc to share/doc, so chrooted systems can be more easily maintained. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
exit 1 fi That should handle filesystem full errors a bit better. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Huh, gcc 2.95.3?

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
, but a CVS GCC? Uh, GCC 2.95.3 CVS NOT 2.96 OR 2.97! Please be careful what you say. We are talking about a stable release here, not a dripping wet development snapshot. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: Huh, gcc 2.95.3?

2001-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
reference? Because the upcoming 2.95.3 release is currently only available via a CVS branch maybe? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-30 Thread Ben Collins
with your concerns. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: PAM problem with Courier

2000-12-30 Thread Ben Collins
to pam_start(), and check the first argument passed to it. That is the service name, and the name of the file expected in /etc/pam.d/ -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: holding back the tide

2000-12-30 Thread Ben Collins
into one file, specific to that revision/arch. Adam, don't put down a system that precedes dbs. It is tried and true to it's purpose and solves things that DBS cannot. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Ben Collins
closable as is (already fixed), and the last was wishlist. Put up or shut up (to use your unique vernacular), because if you haven't got anything useful to say, you are just pissing people off. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Ben Collins
to be unbootable, which I hope is not your intention. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
? Without package support, it is almost impossible without a system layer handling it (snapshot of preinstall state, so you can revert completely back to it). Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Ben Collins
. You are missing the fact that it is not as simple as replacing files. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
the /usr/doc - share/doc symlink. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:00:26PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: from the secret journal of Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Solution: just deal with the few spam we get so as not to hinder real discussions. Ben amen. OK, if you can do that, I'm absolutely thrilled to do

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I can ignore it, so can everyone

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:38:58AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I think aside of one diff or many diffs a list of patches done to the code and where you got them from is a good thing to have in every package. Most patches are done by the maintainer, or submitted as bug

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-12 Thread Ben Collins
reports. Those are listed in the changelog, but even then, it doesn't help dereference the patched source to it's individual patches. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: determining if we're using db.h from libc6 or libdb2?

2000-09-12 Thread Ben Collins
, since in a few days, it wont matter. Db2 is getting removed from glibc, and your only choice will be db.h or db2/db.h from libdb2 (both the same file, just db.h is the default place). -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 06:55:54PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Collins wrote: That kind of packaging is a hack, and a very user unfriendly one. I'd like to have native bzip support, to have a lftp.orig.bz2. lol, whoever said our source package format was user friendly to begin

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:43:07PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Collins wrote: It doesn't matter if it's user-friendly. The DBS package format is not developer-friendly. But it's maintainer friendly, and that is far more useful for us to have good packages. I was using developer

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 08:26:37PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Collins wrote: Still, documentation. Dpkg-source isn't friendly without documentation. Nothing is. Oh look, here's a tarball. Hm, and here is a patch that seems to apply to it. Ok, I see a full source tree now and I'm on my

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Collins
in and make the end result suitable for everyone. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Upcoming changes with glibc and db2

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Collins
woody releases, I want to remove the libdb2 dependency from libc6. It's only there for now to keep things from breaking on running systems. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

NSS db module, split from glibc

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Collins
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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 releases tend to lag

Re: ITP: dpkg-python

2000-09-09 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-04 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-04 Thread Ben Collins
style setups. Yes, it's sort of a hack, but it's a clean hack and the system provides much more than a way to package up .bz2 tarballs. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-04 Thread Ben Collins
of headaches. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for September 1, 2000

2000-09-04 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-03 Thread Ben Collins
, and I think most people feel the same way. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-03 Thread Ben Collins
, one of those being to support bzip2 in the package format. However, I don't see it being used in Debian's archives right away. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:54:34AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Well, IMO, anything that goes on the Debian website better be Ben created by free software. No offense, but if I start seeing Ben Made with Macromedia or Designed

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:09:27PM +0600, Sergey I. Golod wrote: Ben Collins wrote: Yeah, but I guess it would take about twice the time to unpack. Please don't do that to my poor 486 :-(( But extra size = extra traffic = extra money, that's worse. Unpack no cost at all

Re: RFC/ITP: everybuddy-cvs

2000-09-01 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Essential virtual packages

2000-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
the same version as the original kernel, then it replaced that package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-18 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-18 Thread Ben Collins
down the m68k errors, and now that you blew off that, it probably wont build on there anymore. Good job Ean. You've done an excellent job of maintaining a quality package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic

Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Ben Collins
be handled a lot better AFA mirroring (before being made world readable to the public), but I'll leave that to the debian-cd folks to decide how to make that better. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:43:48PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: I've gotten reports that the ISO for CD#1 on sparc is completely broken. Although the packages and dist files are there, the CD will not boot, since almost none of the boot1 files

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: kernel-image with the same version

2000-08-15 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: ITP: gcc, binutils, libc, gdb for Amtel AVR microcontrollers

2000-08-14 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: ITP: gcc, binutils, libc, gdb for Amtel AVR microcontrollers

2000-08-14 Thread Ben Collins
the libc is not part of glibc at all, so that most likely needs to be its own package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: ITP: lirc, devfsd

2000-04-03 Thread Ben Collins
, leave it for some one else to do. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: ITP: lirc, devfsd

2000-04-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 06:42:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:09:30PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Similarly, I have packaged devfsd (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/). This one still needs a couple of problems ironing out first. No offense, but I

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-04-02 Thread Ben Collins
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[WARNING](sparc): (not an april fool's joke) libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-8 is broken on sparc

2000-04-01 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
, they will not have their deps met for potato. Woody on the other hand... Anyhow, they should be removed. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
Package: ivtools (debian/main) Maintainer: Guenter Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] 57250 ivtools_0.7.9-5(frozen): build errors Changelog for 0.7.9-6 says this is fixed, so I've closed it. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
Package: kaffe (debian/main) Maintainer: Ean R. Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59420 kaffe_1:1.0.5e-0.3(frozen): bad register names on m68k NMU'ing this one (again) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 61389 silo: newer version available for better cd boot support Maintianer asked me to NMU, already done and in incoming. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:19:39PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: Package: gap4-doc-dvi (debian/non-free) Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60695 gap4-doc-dvi depends on nonexistent package Package: gap4-doc-html (debian/non

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I'll do my best to get this fixed sometime this weekend. Build in progress, will be uploaded soon. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
is that various versions of sane and xsane were not compiled with the appropriate libgimp libraries on non-i386 platforms. Which gimp libraries should they be using? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Ben Collins
if such a situation exists using the same check? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Ben Collins
on alpha Likewise? Couldn't be more wrong. Bugs are bugs...a package with a serious bug on a supported arch, affects that package period, no matter what arch you are talking about. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:02:46PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Ben Collins: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: May I assume that the latter two bugs will not delay the release of potato for i386? Couldn't be more wrong. Bugs are bugs

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-29 Thread Ben Collins
Sorry, simple reply for the sake of testing out poor mail server. Ben

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