Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian White wrote: mount 27421 mount: fails to parse existing /etc/fstab [10] (Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I've just fixed this in a non-maintainer upload with prior negotiation with the official maintainer. -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Does

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later I realized I hadn't received any mail for the day and saw no qmail entries in my logs.

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Jim Pick wrote: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. What do you

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:59:42PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Seth M. Landsman wrote: Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, just in case you haven't noticed yet, I've uploaded a fixed sysklogd package which is already installed in the archive. I've reverted a patch that caused problems. You can also find the package from: ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/sysklogd_1.3-28_i386.deb Michael

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 14 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Thomas Lakofski wrote: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is universal (only

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Armstrong wrote: The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be a 1.0 release coming up in a few months that will be thoroughly tested and

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Wednesday 14 October 1998, at 12 h 19, the keyboard of Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following are packages I feel we can remove: ... netatalk 25598 netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64] (Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Marc Singer wrote: I installed it yesterday to get a glimpse at what they are doing. I'd say it should be left out because it doesn't really work. It is a fine demonstration, but it doesn't add value to Debian until it can be used either a) to hack against, or b) to provide a workable

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: I've traced the problem to splogger blocking. If I kill splogger, everything is happy, but no qmail messages get logged. The problem is that no new unix domain sockets are accept()'ed. I don't know why. Furthermore, I've found that qmail writes to the log

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Waters wrote: Ben Gertzfield wrote: I'm the nethack maintainer. If you wish to package up and maintain gnomehack, I'd be perfectly happy, so long as you use the same sort of debian/* files that I use in the nethack package, and if you find bugs in them you let me know :) Ok,

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Waters wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Just in case we misunderstand each other, you're not listed in my list of new maintainers. Thus the new-maintainer have not yet received your application. No -- maybe I'm missing something, but the Developer's Reference seems to say that I

Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

[inigo@bipv02.bi.ehu.es: (small) ANNOUNCE: gcad 0.0.2 (and CVS)]

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Is somebody going to work on this one? Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends. ---BeginMessage--- Well, just a few letters to announce that gcad 0.0.2 can be downloaded from: http://gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? panorama: www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be stable enough to put in what's the name of that forever-unstable¹ distribution?. Good luck. gCAD:

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | gCAD: | gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ | | From what I can tell, this isn't really useful, so I don't know | whether there is any point in packaging it yet. | | I just took a look at gcad. It compiles and runs. During

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Enrique Zanardi wrote: Are we going to include apt in the base system? Its package ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A multi-cdrom-apt method should be added quick. NO! It does not _obsolete_ other methods.

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Lakofski wrote: Hi, Going to contradict myself after some more investigation that I've done: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. It is now. I'm too lame to type. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just

yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too

Re: Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the submittors? You need to close both, imho. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Re: yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | After the first crash it run but wasn't able to display the icons. Hehe. I complained to the author about the same thing. He told me that I was lucky because the current pixmaps were so ugly. Then I got suspicious and did: my_favourite_image_viewer

Re: GNotepad

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: wget + ./configure + vi src/main.c + make just finished. It looks nice, it seems to work. We should include it. However if I push the exit button I get a Gdk segfault message. Please upload it. I'd

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthew Parry wrote: I think a much more important implication of the KDE debacle is what problems the GPL might make now that Linus is allowing proprietary drivers to be loaded into the kernel. Isn't this effectively the same as linking against a library? Err. a) The free kernel links

Re: New Debian maintainer Jakob Borg

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Please ensure that it's not illegal to distribute replay. 8hz.mp3 was removed due to patent/license problems. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.

Re: gtop

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: Where is the gtop binary nowadays? It has been moved outside of gnome and has its own cvs directory. Unfortunately the new maintainer has problems compiling it so it's not likely to meet the freeze date. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing.

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 07:58:58AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: x11amp-static mp3.8hz You didn't watch the 100 messages thread on debian-private? I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a single mail on private for at least two months. Could

Re: dropped from private? (was Re: Packages that disappeared)

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a single mail on private for at least two months. Could anyone please check whether I'm still listed there? Me too. I haven't gotten mail from private since about

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Lees wrote: I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. This looks quite impressive. Good work! One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses strange size. The y-stretch was about 5 times of the title bar. That looks ugly. I'd rather like it to

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -c util.c -o util.o gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Ben Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c

Re: [larsbj@ifi.uio.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:07:31PM +, Raja R Harinath wrote: I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx with XForms. I don't see how it follows. we have

Re: GNotepad

1998-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Is anyone packing gnotepad? [ Sorry if anyone tried to a post of mine and bounced. I played with exim.conf and forgot to unplay the rewrite. ] wget + ./configure + vi src/main.c + make just finished. It looks nice, it seems to work. We should include it. However if I

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: xadmin Request by maintainer=author, iirc. x11amp-static mp3.8hz You didn't watch the 100 messages thread on debian-private? Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation

Re: problem with new icewm

1998-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: I installed both packages. After starting X I found that the old name is no longer the one compiled for gnome which removed all my applets from the panel. I changed my setup to call icewm-gnome instead and re-created my panels but had to notice that the panel applet no

Re: GNotepad

1998-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Is anyone packing gnotepad? [ Sorry if anyone tried to a post of mine and bounced. I played with exim.conf and forgot to unplay the rewrite. ] Since nobody stepped forward, I take it for now. It in the process of being built right now. Regards, Joey -- Linux

Re: Fix buildd@powerpc.debian.org bounces!

1998-10-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Guy Maor wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:54:40 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mail failed, returning to sender |- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...

Re: Debian 3.0 and release goals

1998-10-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi Eloy! I wrote: Please check out http://www.debian.org/~joey/goals/index.html or http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/master/goals/index.html Since release goals were abandoned due to the hamm desaster no goals for slink were accepted. All listed goals on my page reflect

Bug#27663: project: installing linuxconf on my maschine running Debian slink

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
reassign 27663 linuxconf thanks Runo Førrisdahl wrote: Farris: ~/install# dpkg -i linuxconf_1.10r34-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 62852 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linuxconf (from linuxconf_1.10r34-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Purpose of the list would be problems with porting to new architectures, either package specific or general. Problems with bootstrapping a new architecture. Cross compilation of Debian packages. Maybe setting up some documents or entries in the FAQ-O-MATIC. Do you

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Ole Is there an easy way to have both libgtk-dev and Ole libgtk1.1-dev available? I have trouble with yagirc and Ole libgtk1.1. It compiles but I get a sigsegv when I try to run Ole it. I was hoping that linking with libgtk (stable) would fix Ole it,

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben You cannot have libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev installed at the Ben same time, but you don't need to. Martin gnotepad+ does not work with gtk 1.1 while many Martin application that come with Debian

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin gnotepad+ does not work with gtk 1.1 while many Martin application that come with Debian are linked against 1.1. Martin Thus you can't compile gnotepad+ on that machine. Ben Sure, but you can

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Hmm, so I have 1.1 installed as well as 1.0-dev. Now if I Martin compile, I compile against 1.0. So it's dynamically Martin linked against 1.0. But 1.0 is not installed and even Martin

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Craig Sanders wrote: imo, we should grant Lyx the same courtesy we did KDE. send them a request to change their license, and give them some time (say a few weeks rather than the months that KDE got) to change. if they ignore the request or choose not to change their license then we have to

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
James Troup wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Do you think this list would be useful or that the already existing lists can carry the load (namely debian-devel)? This list is not needed and I don't consider it useful at all. (As a porter

gtop and slink?

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I wonder if there will be a new gtop in slink now that it has been moved out of gnome-core (or another core Gnome module). Regards, Joey -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

Re: 1st unpacking, 2nd dependency checking

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: But occasionally I notices that dpkg first unpacks and installs the files in a particular package and checks dependencies afterwards. This means that wrong dependencies are discovered when it is too late since the old version of the package is already overwritten.

[conrad@srl.caltech.edu: ANNOUNCE: Fulcrum scientific plotting tool update]

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
I wonder if somebody plans to package this one. Regards, Joey - Forwarded message from Conrad Steenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:08:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Conrad Steenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://archive.redhat.com/gtk-list/ Subject: ANNOUNCE: Fulcrum

[ettrich@troll.no: Live and let live]

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
I don't want to hide this mail from you. Regards, Joey - Forwarded message from Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Live and let live Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:43:07

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Joseph Carter wrote: I wonder if you know that LyX is founded by the same person who has founded KDE some years later. Not that this has to imply anyghing... It's irrelevant. Lyx is free code using a license that does not allow us to I know. But it may end up in the same flame fest

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Joseph Carter wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: imo, we should grant Lyx the same courtesy we did KDE. send them a request to change their license, and give them some time (say a few weeks rather than the months that KDE got

Re: Reverting to Perl 5.004

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Darren Stalder wrote: I suspect that it's in the best interest of the freeze to revert to Perl Thanks. 5.004. I'm currently uploading the 5.004.04-6 release to master's Incoming. I'll file a bug on ftp.debian.org that the 5.005 release should be deleted and the 5.004 release installed.

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Ian Jackson wrote: Martin Schulze writes (Contacting authors): tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright file or digging

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of the perl issues (see my last message) and the message Linus just sent off to linux-kernel about 2.1.125 and 2.2.0p1 could the freeze be pushed back a week to see if we should QUICKLY re-target slink towards 2.2.0? No, this would hold the release for at

Re: Debian 3.0 and release goals

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Please check out http://www.debian.org/~joey/goals/index.html or http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/master/goals/index.html Regards, Joey -- No question is too silly to ask, but, of course, some are too silly to answer. -- Perl book

1st unpacking, 2nd dependency checking

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
This might be an faq. But occasionally I notices that dpkg first unpacks and installs the files in a particular package and checks dependencies afterwards. This means that wrong dependencies are discovered when it is too late since the old version of the package is already overwritten. I'm sure

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Darren Stalder wrote: Is it possible for dpkg to have a depends line similar to: Depends: perl (=5.005) and have that include 5.005-\d+? Or will I need to put a = means equal. I guess it's logical that 5.005 != 5.005-1 Thus I believe it would need to use (= 5.005-0) Provides: perl5.005 in

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Russell Coker wrote: I have one question to that - in what way does distributing a binary suddenly resolve a licence conflict? According to the GPL, GPL'd code can not be linked to QT; _only_ the author of a given piece of code has the right to make an exception to that rule. Because the

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 01:59:40AM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: Thus I believe it would need to use (= 5.005-0) (= 5.005) should work too, no ? Check out what dpkg thinks about it: finlandia!joey(tty5):/tmp dpkg --compare-versions 5.005 lt 5.005-1; echo $? 0 So

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: Thus I believe it would need to use (= 5.005-0) But it would also have to use ( 5.006-0). I don't think this is a problem. (I thought that debian-devel had reached a consensous that it's not a good idea to change the perl version less than 14 days before

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Alexander Koch wrote: On Thu, 8 October 1998 00:07:26 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Re spam: I'd like to make it optional so it does not have to be used but only should. Each pkg. maintainer could negotiate with the upstream author about this feature and not use it if the author doesn't

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Before this screwup I didn't realize that most but not all modules are placed in /usr/lib/perl5/$version/$arch-linux/$dir while plain /usr/lib/per5 would be sufficient, too. We should have made it policy that modules have

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Richard Braakman wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:14:18AM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: Another solution would be a) to postpone the freeze for some time or b) allow fixed perl uploads within the freeze. b) would be fine for me. Because perl uploads

Re: Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I'm currently maintaining squid, and squid-2.0 has been released. We have been running the beta versions on our own machines for quite some time and it's much better/faster than the 1.2 versions. However the problem is dat squid-2.0 is totally incompatible with

Support for multiple CD's

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
I guess that we all have realized that slink doesn't fit on one CD anymore. Slink's total size for binary-i386 e.g. is 749 MB. Thus slink has to be splitted over two official cd roms. Currently slink doesn't contain an access method that can handle multiple cd roms if not all cd-roms are

Re: Support for multiple CD's

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Kenneth Scharf wrote: I installed a second CD rom drive in my computer. Some people have CD 'changers' that can have 3 - 5 disks in the stack. (Some of these take up several drive letters in windows/dos...do they appear as separate lun's in scsi or separate partitions under linux)

Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Lees wrote: Wow, it looks nice. However I wonder why you changed the ordering of the two main windows. Regards, Joey PS: I also wonder if one may express wishlists. -- The only stupid question is the unasked one.

Re: debian for non linux systems ...

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember some month ago there was a discution some time ago about debian for non entirely debian systems (i think it was a debian-solaris thing). What happened to it ? i was given a ultra sparc 1 with solaris 2.6 here at the university, and þerhaps i

Re: Top source

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Peter Iannarelli wrote: Hello all: What package hosts the top command? finlandia!joey(tty11):~ dpkg -S bin/top procps: /usr/bin/top netstd: /usr/bin/toport finlandia!joey(tty11):~ dpkg -l procps Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

debian/rules and find

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, this afternoon I occurred a serious problem where some of our debian/rules file will fail. xargs will *always* execute the command, even with no input. This means that all constructs like find -name foo|xargs chmod g+w will fail as soon as find doesn't find any file. As Joey pointed out

Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Section: x11 Priority: optional Maintainer: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author: Matt Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] this one Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0 Package: gtkfind Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Graphical File

Flagging squid bug as important

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I'd like to flag Bug#27444 severity important since it filled up my disk to 100% for the fourth time two days ago. This suxx and since there is a patch provided it won't hold the release (except nobody makes a new upload for it). http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/db/27/27444.html Do

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaleh wrote: On 07-Oct-98 Martin Schulze wrote: Hi, tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright file or digging

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Alexander Koch wrote: Hi Joey. What do you think about it? Will it produce more mail to the authors? Will *they* like it? Which author doesn't like to be contacted wrt his software? Besides, you can leave it out. Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks.

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Darren Benham wrote: Before packaging something, I check with the upstream author. I know it's GPL but I like to be polite about it. In one case, I had the upstream author make some suggestions and one of them was to make sure any and all mail about the package got sent to me. I think he'd

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright file or digging in the source if the maintainer forgot to add

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] would redirect the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] who is the current developer of hypermail. It seems like a good idea in general. The only 2 problems I can see are that we would have to keep track of authors changing their email addresses, and that

Re: Live file system

1998-10-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice addition for those short in disk space. Please send an appropriate patch to the debian-cd maintainer. Regards, Joey -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for!

Re: Live file system

1998-10-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:37:10PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice addition for those short in disk space. Please send an appropriate patch to the debian-cd maintainer. That means there is none

New list debian-snapshots

1998-10-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, a new mailing list, debian-snapshots@lists.debian.org, has been created by request of Jim Pick. The purpose of this list is to discuss various topics about automatic building of binary packages out of upstream CVS repositories. A tool is planned that will handle this sort of

[Milan Zamazal] Re: Intent to package sabre

1998-10-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Milan Zamazal wrote: I'd like to package sabre if nobody objects. sabre is an svgalib flight simulator. License: GPL 1. Milan Zamazal -- Having GNU Emacs is like having a dragon's cave of treasures. Robert J. Chassell -- VFS: no free

Re: Craig Small here?

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Schwarz wrote: [Please CC: any replies to me, since I'm not subscribed to your list] Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me mail about the Debian CD web pages on www.debian.org. Unfortunately, this address bounces (host scooter not found) and also his @debian.org address bounces

Re: pine in other distributions

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Kikutani Makoto wrote: I'm sorry, Pine again (and again and...). Does anybody know if other distributions (RedHat, slack...) have Pine package ? They have. If they have it, I assume their license policy is not hard as Debian. Indeed. Debian is know for its maximum pickyness wrt

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Martin Schulze wrote: The namespase lasts for five more releases. Or do I misunderstand something? On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? I don't see a reason for not continuing this scheme

Re: pine in other distributions

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Kikutani Makoto wrote: On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 05:52:47PM +0200, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if other distributions (RedHat, slack...) have Pine package ? They have. If they have it, I assume their license policy is not hard as Debian. Indeed

Intend to package gtkfind

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
gtkfind-0.7 is a graphical file-finding program using the gtk toolkit A screenshot can be found here: http://www.oz.net/~mattg/gtkfind.gif Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror.

Re: Suse supports linuxconf

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Rainer Dorsch wrote: I remembered, that there was some time ago some discussion about linuxconf on the list. I just picked up, that Suse will support linuxconf (beside yast) in Suse 6.0 (release date: end of 1998). Please check our experimental such as

Re: Intent to Package GNU nana

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Brent Fulgham wrote: I am working on a project that could benefit from the GNU nana package. It would be a cool idea if you would provide a description what nana is or does. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror.

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: Joey Hess, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: Do you have any plans to offer it as something like /usr/bin/perl-t? (or would modules need to be rebuilt too?) It will be available as /usr/bin/perl5.00502-thread. I could manage the /usr/bin/perl-t

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
This leaves the following possible names: Ben Gertzfield wrote: Here's what imdb.com says: Cast overview, first billed only: Don Rickles Mr. Potato Head John Morris (III) Andy Laurie Metcalf Mrs. Davis R. Lee Ermey Sergeant Sarah Freeman Hannah

Re: What about a bookmarks-package ?

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: Why not creating a Debian package that contains a huge html file with links and some bookmarks-file converters for Netscape/IE/lynx etc. P.S.: Yes, I would like to be maintainer - if all of you be contributers =;-) I'd say: Go ahead. First start for the search

[joey: Intent to package mswordview]

1998-06-25 Thread Martin Schulze
I apologize, but I used the wrong list... Regards, Joey - Forwarded message from Martin Schulze joey - --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! I plan to package this. It's distributed under the GPL

Retract packaging mswordview

1998-06-25 Thread Martin Schulze
. and International Patents. TRADEMARKS: Taligent and the Taligent Design Mark are registered trademarks of Taligent, Inc. I have now contacted the author and hope he'll get a replacement. Regards, Joey PS: If s/o needs this package, contact me. -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL

Need help with file-rc

1998-06-17 Thread Martin Schulze
/db/23/23057.html Thanks in advance, Joey -- / Martin Schulze http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows],[EMAIL PROTECTED] / / repartitioning Disk for Linux ... / pgpGjtqSXoR9b.pgp Description

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
there is no need for another one but fwiw I'd also be willing to help in cases something needs to be done. I'm mainly speaking of small/quick admin tasks not the longterm ones. (for the record) Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
it was based on a non free SQL db and the maintainers were fucked up by the rant. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is / / only acquired just after one could have used

Re: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. Regards, Joey -- / Martin

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