Accepted eject 2.0.13-3 (i386 source)

2003-10-04 Thread Martin Mitchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:57:11 +1000 Source: eject Binary: eject Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0.13-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted eject 2.0.13-2 (i386 source)

2003-10-03 Thread Martin Mitchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:23:07 +1000 Source: eject Binary: eject Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0.13-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xmame 0.74.1-1 (i386 source all)

2003-09-20 Thread Martin Mitchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:10:16 +1000 Source: xmame Binary: xmame-gl xmame-svga xmame-fx xmame xmame-x xmess-x Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.74.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted eject 2.0.13-1 (i386 source)

2002-12-22 Thread Martin Mitchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:30:19 +1100 Source: eject Binary: eject Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0.13-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xtrlock 2.0-7 (i386 source)

2002-08-31 Thread Martin Mitchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:49:26 +1000 Source: xtrlock Binary: xtrlock Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL

Re: NcFTP is free again?

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Mitchell
J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 01:41:18 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: So we can't do squat with NcFTP 3 until Mike includes a license. I switched to lftp myself at the time of the previous ncftp license issue, and haven't looked back. Is there

Re: Intent to package: apcupsd

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Mitchell
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote: Leon Breedt wrote: apcupsd is a package to monitor and control APC UPS's. May I ask you where I can download its source code? :) http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/index.htm#TOP I was looking for it some time ago and wasnt able to find any

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Waters writes: I *strongly* oppose eliminating it, and I'm not real big on the idea of making the default be off. Installing new packages takes a while, I don't mind a few extra moments there. I *do* mind run-time delays, even if they're small,

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-02-01 Thread Martin Mitchell
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But dpkg-multicd is more than multiple-cds. There's multi-nfs, multi-mount, ... that replace nfs, mounted, ... That's why we think dpkg default methods can be removed/extracted to a different package. Ok, I didn't realize this. If the multi-mount,

Re: Seeking Helmut Geyer Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de

1999-01-30 Thread Martin Mitchell
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Helmut Geyer is listed as the maintainer for xxgdb and bzip - xxgdb hasn't had a maintainer upload since when bo was frozen, and bzip's last maintainer upload was longer ago than that. Mail sent to his listed address goes unanswered, but maybe that's

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread Martin Mitchell
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 12:21:00AM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.31 Severity: important Please remove the following methods (based on disk): harddisk

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread Martin Mitchell
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 31 Jan 1999, Martin Mitchell wrote: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.31 Severity: important Please remove the following methods (based on disk): harddisk mounted cdrom nfs

Re: libtool rpath

1999-01-26 Thread Martin Mitchell
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: an easy fix for that? Splitting the packages is a possibility, but libgeda is of absolutely no use on its own yet, and I don't think there is anything for a libgeda-dev. I have found this in the policy:

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-17 Thread Martin Mitchell
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for i386! So if I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha, the Alpha will have the current versions, and perhaps the Sparc

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Mitchell
Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed. If you read the GPL word for word you will find that a binary distribution requires ALL libraries to be distributed under the GPL. Interesting that you do not even quote the GPL to try and back up your non-arguments. Martin.

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-24 Thread Martin Mitchell
Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been away a few days. Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Jun 1998, Martin Mitchell wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the old .rc file, left behind by a dpkg artifact during the upgrade. While future versions of ae

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-16 Thread Martin Mitchell
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the old .rc file, left behind by a dpkg artifact during the upgrade. While future versions of ae will be able to remove this file, I don't see Brian letting it into hamm, but as it is only useful in this mode during an install, everything will

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-15 Thread Martin Mitchell
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but note that the current version of ae fixes a lot of these problems. [I found this out while attempting to verify some of my gripes about ae.] Is it just me, or does the vi mode in the current version of ae not work at all? I tried ae -f

Re: dpkg bug when overwriting directories.

1998-06-10 Thread Martin Mitchell
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says do not install /usr/doc files? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o them. And /usr/doc/pkg/copyright? We still need that for every file, as part of policy. Martin. -- To

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Mitchell
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to recommend that linux 2.0.34 be made available as a part of hamm. This is because 2.0.34 is a bugfix-only upgrade to 2.0.33. However, I don't think we have enough experience with 2.0.34 to eliminate 2.0.33 from the distribution. So

Re: PalmOS programs

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Mitchell
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the binutils-m68k-palmos-coff package. However, it appears that it requires some gcc packages that you orphaned awhile back. I'd like to adopt those packages but can't seem to find the original sources anywhere. I'd rather start from what

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-09 Thread Martin Mitchell
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll wait then. I was talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this, and whipped up some packages for the new version. They're done, but I won't upload them until Jens or Sami gets back to me. Martin Sami gave us http://www.x11amp.ml.org/ as website

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-24 Thread Martin Mitchell
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 02:22:39PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: On the contrary. This is an excellent point you made. ncftp is now

Re: dpkg-perl should predepend on perl?

1998-04-23 Thread Martin Mitchell
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wouldn't it be enough to make dpkg-perl predepend on perl-base instead of the whole perl? Or does it need some functionality not provided in perl-base? If dpkg-perl depended on perl-base instead of perl, the problem would disappear. However I don't

libfdisk problem in dinstall

1998-04-23 Thread Martin Mitchell
Another thing that caused trouble when I tried installing from the base disks (1998-04-11) yesterday was a libfdisk error that prevented dinstall from detecting that a swap partition had been created. An error message was printed before returning to the dinstall menu, and it came from this section

Re: libfdisk problem in dinstall

1998-04-23 Thread Martin Mitchell
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Was your swap partition a logical partition? libfdisk had a bug reading extended partitions in big disks. A fixed libfdisk will be included in next boot-floppies release. Yes, it was a logical partition. It seems this problem is well known now.

Re: libfdisk problem in dinstall

1998-04-23 Thread Martin Mitchell
Roman Hodek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was receiving the message error reading sector 0 all the time, but cfdisk handled the partitioning just fine, so I expect this is a problem in libfdisk or dinstall somewhere. That's really strange, since the message is about a real read error. Is

dpkg-perl should predepend on perl?

1998-04-22 Thread Martin Mitchell
I installed a debian hamm system yesterday and noticed a problem involving dpkg-perl. After installing the base system from disks, I ran dselect to install some more packages. On the first installation run however, dpkg-perl was the first package installed, and it failed because perl was not yet

Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-20 Thread Martin Mitchell
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just go get this right: As Policy Manager I have fiat power WRT policy decisions. (This was stated by Bruce when I was nomiated and repeated by Ian J. on 8 Dec 97--check out debian-private if you have doubts.) As I wrote to debian-policy a few

Re: elvis package

1998-04-18 Thread Martin Mitchell
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone wrote: 4 or 5? No, in fact there are only 2 vi clones in main: nvi and vim. ae and emacs in vi-mode certainly don't count. elvis, unlike nvi and vim is the only one with X support. We should continue to push for it to be made free.

Re: Uploaded timidity-patches 0.1-3 (source all) to master

1998-04-18 Thread Martin Mitchell
Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the copyright: From the README on archive.cs.umbc.edu: 1) GUS instruments were freely obtained from anonymous ftp site: archive.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/pc/ultrasound/gravis/disk So they were extracted from the GUS install disks

Re: elvis package

1998-04-17 Thread Martin Mitchell
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will take over the orphaned elvis package, unless someone else has already said they'll do it. Elvis is non-free and the author ignores all mail coming from us, both copyright mails as well as bugreports and fixes. We should not give up so

Re: elvis package

1998-04-17 Thread Martin Mitchell
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:13:52AM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote: 4 or 5? No, in fact there are only 2 vi clones in main: nvi and vim. ae and emacs in vi-mode certainly don't count. elvis, unlike nvi and vim is the only one with X support. We

elvis package

1998-04-16 Thread Martin Mitchell
I will take over the orphaned elvis package, unless someone else has already said they'll do it. Martin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procps

1998-01-08 Thread Martin Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes: where should 'ps' reside, according to the standard? In the latest version it moved from /bin/ps to /usr/bin/ps. I noticed this too, and filed a bug. The maintainer says it will return to /bin in the next release. Martin. -- TO

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Mitchell
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know, however it would allow people to much more easily install and maintain their own kernel sources for these includes. Surely if they're clever enough for that, they're clever enough to override

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 06.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 06.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Mitchell
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does libc6 depend on kernel-header ? It's libc6-dev that has that dependency. Perhaps weakening the dependency to Suggests might be the best solution

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 06.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why does libc6 depend on kernel

Re: gnuchess gnuchess-book

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes: When I use 'dpkg -i gnuchess_* gnuchess-book_*' (ie. in an alternate sequence) this doesn't happen. I found, that this is caused by a divertion in gnuchess-book. 1) Should there really be a diversion here? Probably not. I'll take a

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-05 Thread Martin Mitchell
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that /usr/src should the be domain of the local admin. I agree. I don't think kernel-{header,source}-x.xx.deb should exist, really, because I don't think source code should be distributed as .deb files anyway. So I'm not unhappy about making a

Re: New required base packages for Amiga, Atari, ... detection

1997-12-25 Thread Martin Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: I seem to recall that the case in question (it _was_ Atari vs. Amiga, right?) still allowed you to run _the_very_same_kernel_ on both systems. This has nothing to do with the kernel, please do not confuse the issue. specific programs that only

Intent to package synaesthesia

1997-12-20 Thread Martin Mitchell
Hi, I intend to package a program called synaethesia. It is a cd player with graphical effects, and is quite compact. The license is GPL, the section would be hamm/sound. Martin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Mitchell
Hi, I noticed some new updates of packages recently have not complied with changelog policy[1]. They are packages that I had made non-maintainer releases of previously, and to which I had added a changelog entry. It is clear that the actual maintainer, when preparing the new release, did not

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread Martin Mitchell
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'Martin Mitchell wrote:' The 5.4.33-6 package is _not_ broken, and should not be removed. It rightly conflicts with libc6 due to the different utmp format between libc5 and libc6. The 5.4.33-7 package in hamm has modified utmp routines so it can

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread Martin Mitchell
Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Installing libc5 from hamm forces you to abandon your old libc5 development system since it CONFLICTS (correctly) with libc5-dev. Not everyone is going that route yet. True, so they can stay with bo for now. Okay there is a different utmp format. Lets

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread Martin Mitchell
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Chris Fearnley wrote: libc6: Conflicts: (libc55.4.33-6) (Necessary due to utmp issue -- Hell, someone upgrading from a CD with stock 1.3.1 will be able to

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread Martin Mitchell
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote: Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Chris Fearnley wrote: libc6: Conflicts: (libc55.4.33-6

Re: Bug#15859: libc5 in stable is horribly broken (fwd)

1997-12-12 Thread Martin Mitchell
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Huh? The upgrade path is quite clear: install a newer libc5 (5.4.33-7) from hamm, then you may install libc6. The solution isn't quite so simple. The libc5 from hamm DEPENDS ON libc6. There is a definate problem here. You install both hamm

Re: Bug#15859: libc5 in stable is horribly broken (fwd)

1997-12-12 Thread Martin Mitchell
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still doesn't solve the problem of the hamm libc5 conflicting with libc5-dev and the bo libc5 conflicting with libc6. It is a compilation of different breakages here. My concern is for people who still want to do libc5 development WITH THEIR NORMAL

Re: ncftp and glimpse orphaned...

1997-12-09 Thread Martin Mitchell
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm officially orphaning ncftp and glimpse, for a couple of reasons. I shall take over maintenance of ncftp, unless anyone objects. Martin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Mitchell
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guess why i proposed to name a directory with libc5 compiled hamm packages bo-unstable? Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not something that will be discarded in a few months. Martin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Mitchell
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not something that will be discarded in a few months. Sure, but why invest my time in hamm which will be obsoleted in half a year anyway? Wrong. What is your basis for saying this?