Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 09:49:22PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:38:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland writes: While I agree in principle, you might want to ask Michael Elkins first; it's conceivable that he could be brought into any litigation I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I

Re: mutt

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:42:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco writes: Look like there is consensus to move mutt-i to main. In the next days I will upload it along with some fixes. Do you think we should check with ME first? While I don't believe he is at any risk of

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-16 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:56:56PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-15 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:05:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without a -dev. Is anyone going to do this? Ben See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time to

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Brian White wrote: Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) PowerPC has

Re: libapache-mod-perl

1998-10-12 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 08:01:42PM -0500, Justin A. McCright wrote: Is anyone going to try and get a version of this that works with newer Apaches out before the freeze? I'm working on it. It's very broken at the moment! Dan

Re: Perl policy for managing modules ?

1998-10-08 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:31:40AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... écrivait: I do worry about what this might break as well. Another option would be to have /usr/lib/perl5/debian(/$arch)? be the first element of @INC and leave /usr/lib/perl5/$version(/$arch)? there with only the Perl

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 09:34:46AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Depends what image you want for the system. The HHGTTG was good, but I don't think it is worth naming the releases after it. I prefer the penguins. BTW, wasn't it Slartibartfast, one word? Another vote for penguins. Speaking

Re: PERL: patch for glibc 2.1

1998-10-07 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 01:34:42AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: I know what's going on with IPC, and I'm guessing the DBM test is failing because of a bug in the libc. So, what's going on with IPC? IPC until very recently was completely hosed on powerpc. We have hopes that a new

Re: PERL: patch for glibc 2.1

1998-10-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:19:51PM -0700, Darren Stalder wrote: Matt McLean, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: this is necessary since the semun union is no longer in the libc. its been awhile since your last perl upload, and newer versions have come out.. are you still alive? :-)

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

1998-10-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: I study law. And I can tell you that there´s not a problem with the GPL licence in the KDE project. Even if the GPL (read very narrowly and literally) prohibited the use of QT, every judge/lawyer would reinterpret this

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
The problem with roadrunner is this: They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, except maybe identd. A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :) So be careful. Dan -- To

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think that not only should bugs be marked by the distributions they exist in, they should also be classified by architecture; Actually, I think we can do the same way more

Re: Upgrade report from bo to hamm :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:09:51PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: Actually the true killer was the upgrade of the teTeX packages. It is pretty hard to stand seeing three time in a row Running initex [...] This will take some time on a 486DX-2/66 at the configuration stage. This alone consumed

Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
Or at least offer an xterm-cons or xterm-black-bg. Also, could someone PLEASE figure out the remaining options to make xterm behave graphically like a console? I can't get the combination of bold and 16 colors to work correctly. Dan On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Alexander E. Apke

Re: RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

1998-06-20 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
Will do, then. This leaves me one big question, though. This is going to require mixing four things: (A) apache 1.3.0 (B) netgod's massive apache diff (C) mod_perl upstream -- probably going to version it by date and use the CVS tree instead of the rarer new releases. (D) My own diff for this

RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

1998-06-18 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
Since the dynamic version of mod_perl is quite broken right now (I believe Jules advised the perl maintainer of the problems; loading dynamic shared objects from another DSO reults in a few undeclared symbols from libperl.a - I'm guessing somehow the lowest level module can't see them, and don't

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-16 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 12:34:38PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Andreas Jellinghaus writes: what then ? joe. Well, that's IMHO an idea worth worth studying. When I first installed Linux, I was coming from DOS and Borland's editors, which joe mimics quite closely. And joe, like ae,

Intent to Package: mod_perl

1998-06-16 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
is almost ready. Source: libapache-mod-perl Section: main/web Priority: optional Maintainer: Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Standards-Version: 2.4.1 Package: libapache-mod-perl Architecture: i386 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, apache (= 1.3.0), perl Description: Integration of perl with the Apache

Re: Propersel for standerd configuration system.

1998-06-12 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
Now, don't get me wrong...I hate windows registries just as badly as anyone else, and I've been using linuxconf on and off for ages. But this has one darn good idea to it: many programs using the same data source. For instance, I just installed this machine with one hostname before realizing

Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
I ran through my first x86 install today, and had a wierd problem. After pounding my bios into properly detect both c and d drives, I started the install using loadlin planning to avoid floppies altogether. However, when the time came to select a partition to find the resc1440.bin for drivers,

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 09:55:57AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: Not yet. A few questions: Which filesystem type has hdc1? Which version of the boot-floppies were you using? I assume hdc2 and hdc3 were properly detected in previous steps (initialize swap initialize linux partition), right?

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 12:28:24PM -0400, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote: Where or what is your /dev/hdb drive? Is your hdb drive your cdrom? If so, it should be detected. I don't know if the cdrom has been compiled as a module, if so they must be loaded from the drivers disk. hdb is my cdrom,