Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-18 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You'll also find the new version which has the offending code removed: ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/sysklogd_1.3-28_i386.deb Does -29 have it reinserted? I'm seeing the same problem. greg

Netscape packages and lesstif

1998-10-18 Thread Gregory S. Stark
The dmotif netscape packages seem to depend on lesstif, does this mean you can run them with just lesstif? Or is that in addition to requiring real Motif libraries? I'm surprised (but happily so) since i thought lesstif aimed only at source-level compatibility not binary level. greg

Re: I2O specs mailed to webmaster

1998-10-12 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it was mailed from a dummy hotmail account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and the originating IP was from an ISP in Norway. On the off chance that the original sender is reading this, or looking at the e-mail archive: Hotmail is not an anonymous mailing system,

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kikutani Makoto writes: I'm a Japanese living in the United States, but not a permanent resident. I've heared that the usage of PGP in the States by a person like me is controversial. You heard wrong. Your nationality and residency status is irrelevant.

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This a kind of interesting looking package. It is GPL'd but depends on a no-source-available library. I just reread the relevant portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar. Can the GPL be properly applied to this ?

Re: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ may not be conffile ?

1998-10-03 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Policy states: *Application defaults* files have to be installed in the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/'. They are considered as part of the program code. Thus, they should not be modified and should not be tagged

Re: Canada to remain mostly free

1998-10-03 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 10:35:54AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: Manley announced new crypto policies, and though the speech is low on detail, despite being particularly long-winded, it seems Canada may remain in the free world. Very cool. It

Re: Including non-PIC code in a shared library?

1998-06-24 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I asked about this on ggi-devel, and the responses I got indicated that it probably wasn't a problem, because there would only ever be one libGGI program running the xf86dga target at once on a given machine (not true for multi-headed

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread Gregory S. Stark
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:24:52AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: A typical error message is (this occurs on 2 of three drives): Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel:

Re: 2.0.34 and x-bit on libraries

1998-06-24 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, as somebody (Harald Schueler [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out and as we (Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] and me) could reproduce after some grief about a non-functional ftp server (using wu-ftpd-academ) we got the impression, that .

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 11:54:05AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: In both these examples the cludge only hangs around for a while, while the epoch gets stuck on the version forever. Is it really that bad? You said you don't want the clutter of it but

packaging PAM modules? anyone?

1998-06-21 Thread Gregory S. Stark
I asked once earlier, but no one responded: Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? Where should they be installed? Is there some way to register them, or some script to run to offer the sysadmin the option of making the new module the global default? Personally I think PAM modules

Proposal, new system for dealing with non-us stuff

1998-06-20 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Here's an idea for another way to deal with non-us stuff that should be less error-prone and make it easier to implement some new features. I would like to see each package include an Excluded header listing country codes the package should be excluded from. The header could be used in several

Re: fltk anyone? + packaging questions

1998-06-20 Thread Gregory S. Stark
I already uploaded a fltk package. BTW, this is why you're supposed to announce intention to package something before working on it. Incidentally, I just skipped form.h and glut.h, on the assumption that someone could just could just create a dummy file like it in their build directory.

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-18 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. Is there any possibility we could get permission from Netscape to skip the reporting clause? Frankly I'm

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/. This sounds excellent. On one machine I am running

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Marco Pistore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, in hamm the binaries are only in libpaperg, since they are linked against libc6 libraries; package libpaper in hamm contains only the libraries. So, the original cause of the problem is that the binaries were in the library package. The policy

Re: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1998-06-09 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yann Dirson writes: Hm, assuming the b1 means it's beta stuff, I think it would be better to keep it in the Debian version. Changing the version number Yes, but then slink is also beta. * heavily using epochs I HATE epochs! * add a

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-08 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) There needs to be a new terminal type, xterm-debian, which tracks the latest XFree86 xterm entry but incorporates our keyboard policy (and anything else we want to customize). I need to coordinate with the ncurses-base maintainer and some other

What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Currently the version of glibc in frozen is older than the version in Slink. Does this mean we plan to release Hamm with that prerelease of glibc? Or are we planning on including 2.0.8 when it's released? If we plan to include 2.0.8 we really ought to push the latest prerelease into frozen to

Re: Debian Bazaar Politics (was: Debian Re-organization proposal)

1998-06-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just split the subject of the previous to take more about politics in Debian and let people discuss about the proposal. I think we too much mess up with wordin like democracy and government. Debian are neither. It's a bunch of volunteers trying to

Re: Intent to package inorwegian, norwegian words for ispell. (and a bit about wnorwegian)

1998-06-04 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: all that's left is the copyright document As for the norwegian wordlist wnorwegian, I've been unable to produce a copyright, seems that this just evolved on the net. In at least some countries simple lists of words are not copyrightable.

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

1998-06-03 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Manoj hit all the major points, and about every other point under the sun :) But I would like to expand on what I think are the key differences. 1) It's a distributed volunteer based system with lots of contributors. This sometimes leads to long arguments, but it means that policies must be

krb4 0.9.8.980514-2 uploaded to nonus (source i386)

1998-05-28 Thread Gregory S. Stark
kerberos4kth-services kerberos4kth-user kerberos4kth-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.8.980514-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Gregory S. Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: kerberos4kth - Shared libraries for kerberos security system. kerberos4kth-clients

Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks. This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with the floppy drive light lit after displaying Loading root.bin... Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it

Install process

1998-04-19 Thread Gregory S. Stark
I just went through the process yesterday, and I found it quite tedious. Downloading and creating all those floppies, plus debugging problems with rawrite and the bios floppy drivers. And it should all be completely unecessary. It would be really nice if we supported the loadlin method of

Re: Install process

1998-04-19 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Sigh, after writing that whole thing i looked at the new install.html and saw that more or less precisely what i described is in there. As someone recently said on linux-kernel, what tasty shoe leather i'm wearing today. Sorry, greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Image names rescue and default was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Oh, also another problem. Various commands from the ramdisk hung, i had to reboot a couple times when all the virtual terminals were hung. And many commands on the installed partition didn't work. I imagine this might be some kind of shared library snafu, though who knows? Maybe it would make

Re: dpkg memory usage

1998-04-16 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On `small memory' systems dpkg switches to a different data structure which is about twice as slow for general access on a big machine, but has a much smaller working set so is much faster for setup and access on small machines. dpkg uses sysinfo(2) to

Re: Test Report (was: Re: boot-floppies_2.0.4 (source i386) uploaded)

1998-04-15 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After running kbdconfig manually, basis layouot was okay, but I couldn't enter german keys. I think this is because /etc/inputrc has set convert-meta off commented out. I think it should be the default. In

Re: Free-World maintainer for xpdf ?

1998-04-15 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a Canadian resident, I don't think I can deal with the encryption code (as I understand it, the US laws for encryption technology make no difference between US and Canadian residents). The status of Canadian crypto laws is currently in flux. A

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-13 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is it really so difficult to handle this situation though? Using Steve's test program on Solaris does as expected: Yes, it would be quite difficult to do efficently. There's no good way to tell that the

Re: APT broken ?

1998-04-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
So as I see it there are at least three cases here: The install is accidentally broken. Because we've all been living without apt for so long, various inconsistencies can arise. It would indeed be a great feature if apt offered to fix the problems. Since there may be many ways of fixing

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- 1.6 Definitions of terms ... Permissible undefined behaviour ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results, to ...

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The nice side effect of my packaging, is that in the original tarball, you have to download both the static and dynamic versions. My packaging has them split up. Also, -java is the same between Navigator and Communicator. Any chance of getting a

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Permissible undefined behaviour ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results, to behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner charecteristic of the environment (with or

Re: How to install editor lisp files?

1998-04-10 Thread Gregory S. Stark
You should just include the .el file, without bytecompiling, in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/packagename/ If there's code you want every user to run on startup. you can create a file in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/packagename ideally it should only contain autoloads. The imporant section from

Re: intent to package: coda (+ copyright question)

1998-04-09 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Anders Hammarquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This file contains some code identical to or derived from the 1986 version of the Andrew File System (AFS), which is owned by the IBM Corporation.This code is provded AS IS and IBM does not warrant that it is free of infringement of any