Re: Offering up the List Manager position

1997-12-17 Thread Martin Schulze
manager and I will keep that. Whoever wants to take over the job you're not alone. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb

Re: Problems compiling packages

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Schulze
-coding the architectures which do (or don't) have libc5 isn't very aesthetic. Does anybody have a better idea? That's what I wanted to prevent but I'd be happy with any other mechanism. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg

Problems compiling packages

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Schulze
release will fail, and so does the packaging step. I'd suggest that all such packages only try to compile and package the libc5 packages if there is a libc5 installed. Thanks, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http

Re: where ist elf-x11r6lib?

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Schulze
that one installed try to force the installation with '--force-depends. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: announcement lists

1997-12-09 Thread Martin Schulze
that. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Who's root on Master?

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Schulze
-- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Contents.gz

1997-12-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Folks, could anybody tell me which program created the Contents files? Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Mailinglists documented

1997-12-02 Thread Martin Schulze
the first version of this file. I took over maintenance of this recently. I will try to keep it up to date and to describe new lists. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
On Jun 27, Christian Schwarz wrote I wrote exactly the same thing in Perl (on your request!) some time ago. I have attached it to this mail. I don't know which version is better. It looks like Lars' implementation has hard coded a lot of HTML tags for processing. Mine is based on Perl's

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
security problems and if the user doesn't need it why should that daemon be started? I could live with your addition but I would like to be prompted, too. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
the *documentation* for the daemon! I should be able to install a package in order to read the docs, and not have to run it... Hmm, sounds reasonable. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media

RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-27 Thread Martin Schulze
xHjUTD6bNmXj1uP4iMgfHsTtJEfDJZ0YvfITwMyZ/XVgjFTgcaxINGHpej6g6Vgy WWYOhpPyV2s= =5Wae -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media / / -- H. Peter Anvin

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-25 Thread Martin Schulze
On Jun 25, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote yes, i would like to install files into debian/tmp without being root, but currently it doesn't work without root. and to delete debian/tmp/*, i also have to be root :-( if you have too much time (or someone else): go ahead and write a wrapper. we

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: klogd?!

1997-06-22 Thread Martin Schulze
-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: mgetty Needs Maintainer!

1997-06-21 Thread Martin Schulze
be available again, soon. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Debian because of 1000 packages. And for my feeling the documentation belongs to the package itself. I don't want to install another package just because I need some documention. OTOH I do understand your way. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129

Re: bazaar model for Debian software development

1997-06-21 Thread Martin Schulze
. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: create Packages.gz file from directory

1997-06-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring Debian GNU/Linux motd von irc.funet.fi / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: How do we encourage bug reports?

1997-06-11 Thread Martin Schulze
. Perhaps you could think over the whole thing and how we could arrange to have an installation without the need to answer questions. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring

Re: new mantainer

1997-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Francesco Tapparo writes: Hi, I'm reading this list from some time, and now I think I'm ready for my first package; I've read that Martin Schulze is finding a new mantainer for his xdaliclock package. If Martin agrees, I can take the mantainance of the xdaliclock package. You got

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Martin Schulze
. an added menu file, a spelling-fix). Please note that the procedure for stable might be different. Hmm, where is the change? You still have to publish the fixed version, haven't you? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / This copy

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Martin Schulze
. The aliasfile could be generated by a cronjob via examining the most recent Packages file. Comments? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / This copy of Netscape has expired. -- Netscape / /Ein weiterer Grund Mosaic

Bug#4557: Last file on iso9660-image always corrupted

1996-09-26 Thread Martin Schulze
do so just yet because I don't have a partition free. It isn't a problem with the loopback becaus it also occurs on written images later. :-( I have seen this problem but havn't investigated it that fas as Winni. Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg

Bug#4556: inn shouldn't limit message size

1996-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: inn Version: 1.4unoff4-1 The innd is compiled with a maximum size of news articles. The Eunet company posts monthly news statistics that are longer... Here are the used values: *ott--* stesch ## Largest acceptable article size; 0 allows any size *ott--* stesch =()MAX_ART_SIZE

Bug#4559: faxq doesn't restart suspended jobs

1996-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: mgetty Version: 0.99-4 The help screen of faxq says that `-r' restarts suspended jobs, but it doesn't as the following excerpt shows: troi!joey(ttyp1):~ faxq -r /usr/bin/faxq: invalid option: -r valid options: -o: show old jobs -s: show suspended jobs -a: show all jobs -v:

Bug#4547: X-Server should depend on xfnt*

1996-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: xserver-svga Version: 3.1.2-5 The X-Server packages should depend on any xfnt package, because without any X-Font the postinst would fail (X -probeonly fails). If it is needed I can investigate if xfnt100 and/or xfnt75 are enough. Regards, Martin

Bug#4552: xf86config: message is confusing

1996-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: xserver-svga Version: 3.1.2-5 While configuring this package one is asked the following question: Now give the full device name that the mouse is connected to, for example /dev/tty00. Just pressing enter will use the default, /dev/mouse. Mouse device: /dev/tty00 is the first serial

ae as default editor?

1996-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Change password data. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Ich glaube nur der Statistik, die ich selbst gefälscht habe! /

Bug#4488: Useless LF in faxspool

1996-09-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: mgetty Version: 0.99-3 There is a useless '\n' in front of a line: Transcript: troi!joey(tty4):/tmp faxspool 1234567 faxtest.txt spooling to /var/spool/fax/outgoing/F02.1206... spooling faxtest.txt... faxtest.txt is format: ascii Initializing... done. Ghostscript 2.6.2 (4/19/95)

Bug#4488: Useless LF in sendfax

1996-09-13 Thread Martin Schulze
The same happens to messages sent by faxq: Transcript: --- Subject: your fax to 9808557 From: root (Fax Subsystem),\n Your fax has been sent successfully at: \c Fri Sep 13 15:06:51 MET DST 1996 \n\nJob / Log file: phone 9808557 user joey input faxtest.txt pages f1.g3 Status Fri Sep 13 15:06:51

Bug#4490: Request for Entry: application/octet-stream exe

1996-09-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: mime-support Version: 2.02-1 Downloads of .exe (DOS *sigh*) files doesn't work correctly without it. Thanks, Martin

Bug#4459: klogs does not find System.map

1996-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ /Eine Kette ist nur so stark wie ihr schwächstes Glied /

Bug#4297: msql 1.0.16 cannot connect to remote DBs

1996-09-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Linux? Have a look at the manpage, you can specify a host using '-h gate:1222' if the other engine runs on port 1222. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/

Bug#4254: msql config problems

1996-09-03 Thread Martin Schulze
running old daemon) Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/

Bug#4310: (no subject)

1996-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Subject: index.html ist installed a+x Package: apache Version: 1.0.5-1 I don't know why but the index.html file that is installed in /var/web/webspace is of mode 755 instead of 644. I think this is a bug, right? Regards, Joey

Bug#4176: mkdosfs has file conflict with dosfstools

1996-08-17 Thread Martin Schulze
is the predecessor of dosfstools. I have asked Guy to remove the first one. It seems that he has more important work to do. Regards, Joey PS: Guy, would you please remove mkdosfs from the archive and close this bug.-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg

Bug#4181: Searching for wrong active file

1996-08-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: nn Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01 Debian's INN has its active file located in /var/lib/news/active. The nn newsreader mentioned above unfortunately tries to read it from /usr/lib/news/active. Here's an strace excerpt: wazergate!joey:~ strace nn [...] uname({sys=Linux, node=wazergate,

Bug#3961: 14 character file name limit in zoo

1996-08-12 Thread Martin Schulze
seem to have the same problem, but I am not sure }if I had compiled it, or had gotten it from a very old slackware install. As zoo comes from DOS I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to support long filenames. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129

Bug#3185: NCR SCSI 810 support lacking in bootdisks

1996-08-12 Thread Martin Schulze
. There are only modules missing, just skip that section. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! /

Bug#4049: access permissions for sysklogd

1996-08-12 Thread Martin Schulze
-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! /

Uploading dosfstools 1.0-3 (Utility to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems)

1996-08-08 Thread Martin Schulze
-- Begin Changes -- Date: 7 Aug 96 19:45:50 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Binary: dosfstools Source: dosfstools Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0-3 Maintainer: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: Utility to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems Inside of this package

Uploading manpages 1.11-6 (Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 manpages)

1996-08-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Good night folks, After much work on and with manpages I'll upload another set for Debian. -- Begin Changes -- Date: 04 Aug 96 02:04:48 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Binary: manpages Source: manpages Architecture: source all Version: 1.11-6 Maintainer: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED

BETA: miniSQL database engine tools v1.0.16

1996-07-12 Thread Martin Schulze
. Please send me comments about it. Have a pleasant weekend, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for! /

Bug#3539: (no subject)

1996-07-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Subject: mkisofs stops if an error occurs Package: mkisofs Version: 1.05-1 mkisofs unfortunately stops if a permission problem occors on the source filesystem, like a directory isn't world executable or readable. I would appreciate if it would report a warning and go on. Some users (like

Bug#3540: mkisofs stops if a problem occurs

1996-07-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: mkisofs Version: 1.05-1 Mkisofs unfortunately stops if a permission problem occors on the source filesystem, like a directory isn't world executable or readable. I would appreciate if it would report a warning and go on. Some users (like myself) can't provide two times 650 MB space

Bug#3703: mkisofs stops if a permission problem occurs

1996-07-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: mkisofs Version: 1.05-1 I would like to add this as a hint to the existing bugreport but as usual I can't find it. I even haven't received a confirmation. Anyway... I would appreciate if mkisofs would test each file for read access while it builds its directory structure and _before_

Uploading 1.2.2-4 1.2.2-3 ()

1996-07-09 Thread Martin Schulze
-- Begin Changes -- -- End Changes -- PS: As usual first in ftp.infodrom.north.de in /pub/people/joey/debian/ -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you

Bug#3479: (no subject)

1996-07-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Subject: copyright occurs twice Package: mkisofs Version: 1.05-1 The files /usr/doc/copyright/mkisofs and /usr/doc/mkisofs/README.DEBIAN are exactly the same. I'm sure the first of them is enough. Regards, Martin

Bug#3480: (no subject)

1996-07-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Subject: missing information in manpage Package: mkisofs Version: 1.05-1 The manpage issues the possibility to set a volume-id with -V volid but forgets to mention which size it may be, other sizes are mentioned: preparer_id, publisher_id Regards, Martin

Bug#3481: (no subject)

1996-07-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Subject: jkj Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2-5 Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2-5

Automatic mount of cdroms

1996-06-30 Thread Martin Schulze
it then should belong. The cron package? Another base package? A package of it's own? I won't do that, just ad an option to one of the base packages. Have a nice sleep, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org

Uploading sysklogd 0.0-0 ()

1996-06-30 Thread Martin Schulze
-- Begin Changes -- -- End Changes -- PS: As usual first in ftp.infodrom.north.de in /pub/people/joey/debian/ -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you

Re: Where are the bugs?

1995-12-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning Ian! }Martin Schulze writes (Where are the bugs?): } I'm missing bugs. In fact on ftp.debian.org /debian/debian-bugs/text } only bugreports up to #1810 do exist. Where are newer ones? } }We're working on it. The US bugs mirror is broken atm - use the UK }site instead. No problem

manpages-1.9-1

1995-12-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening folks, I'm about packaging the 1.9 manual pages. Therefore I have some questions: 1. Should I provide a RECOMMENDED: man line in the control file? (or should this even be a DEPENDS? Have a pleasant day, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129

Re: debian-1.0 availability

1995-12-09 Thread Martin Schulze
, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Es braucht dann allerdings Tage, bis jemand / / sehr lange Ohren bekommt. -- Lutz Donnerhacke zu Spamcancels /

manpages-1.8 .tar.gz .diff.gz

1995-12-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning folks, I took over the manpages package, but I can't find these files anywhere. I only see a .deb package. Could someone please send me these files. Thanks. Have a pleasant day, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884

Bug#1902: manpage for wtmp wrong

1995-11-27 Thread Martin Schulze
I'm at it, I'm not sure but it } could be the same error for the utmp. } }/var/adm is linked to /var/log, wtmp is in /var/adm. }utmp is in /var/run } }wtmp is not in /etc on my system So the bugreport can be closed, right? Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED

Some questions concerning further sysklogd upload

1995-11-25 Thread Martin Schulze
the installation procedure? Have a nice weekend anyway, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / / This copy of Netscape has expired. -- Netscape

Bug#1853: top fails after 130 processes?

1995-11-13 Thread Martin Schulze
the work to compile this himself or to copy it from whereever. I'm a bit confused if this beat Debian, too. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz

Bug#1833: srb@cuci.nl: patch for Debian sysklogd package]

1995-11-10 Thread Martin Schulze
in the configuration file? The `-' indicating that the logfile shouldn't be fsync'd? I have to think about it some time. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz

Bug#1792: vipw, vigr missing

1995-11-06 Thread Martin Schulze
version 2.5, 2.6 will be a havily improved package) In the util-linux package actually there is no vigr included. But for some reason I work on this. Perhaps it would be a good idea if the miscutils maintainer (I don't know who that is) could contact me then. Regards, Joey -- / Martin

Bug#1695:

1995-11-01 Thread Martin Schulze
reassign

Re: package uploading probs

1995-10-30 Thread Martin Schulze
be a good idea if that machine gets an alias as ftp.europe.debian.org, so that it can be easily found and used. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / / Germany.Net ist vergleichbar

Re: Distribution

1995-10-30 Thread Martin Schulze
to people ? Partially Gruesse, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / / Germany.Net ist vergleichbar mit einem Telefon/ / ohne Waehlscheibe und Klingel

Bug#1739: syslog is uncommented in /etc/services by default

1995-10-25 Thread Martin Schulze
when installing the sysklogd package. This could be done in my postinst script (if I'm not mistaken). Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Debian Incoming

1995-10-21 Thread Martin Schulze
/debian/private/project/Incoming yes ftpadmin ftp 0600 dirs Cheers Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / /Erfahrung ist eine n|tzliche Sache / / Leider macht

Bug#1708: passwd' not interruptible when invoked by `adduser'

1995-10-21 Thread Martin Schulze
looked at the passwd program that is used by Debian. So far, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / /Erfahrung ist eine n|tzliche Sache / / Leider macht man sie

Bug#1713: procps: manpage doesn't tell the truth

1995-10-20 Thread Martin Schulze
recommend a) change the manpage entry or b) change the whole handling of 'w'-processing. If the maintainer is interested, I can send him a patch for the latter Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * LoginPasswd: nuucp

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