On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 03:10:43PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
i started with slang and noticed that there is nearly no documentation and
no good screen/kbd support at all.
The S-Lang packages do not contain the documentation; there is good
reference documentation available from the S-Lang
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:41:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed xftp on the WNPP as being orphaned, and it is a program that
I have used and sort of like (but always thought it could use some work)
xftp, so I thought I would grab the source.
xftp is in main in both hamm and
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 08:01:51PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
For some reason with the newest hamm I have been getting lots of cca*
files in /tmp, they are all 0 size and all created by my user. There are
about 1000 of them right now - anyone know what is making these files so I
can file a
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:54:57PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Now I don't know: When I recompile the package using the official g++ 2.90
/ libstdc++ 2.80 combo, this may introduce new bugs, therefore I'm sure
Brian won't allow this to go into frozen.
IIRC, at least one package has been
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
who maintains the mkdosfs package
There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into
'dosfstools' which is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HTH,
Ray
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On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:10:52PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
why is mutt compiled without pgp-support as default?
Because of US export restrictions on software containing cryptographic code.
The version that's available from ftp.debian.org and its mirrors (mutt) is
compiled without PGP
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:28:46PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We _must_ have a vi (or at worst, vi clone) available in the base
system.
mode=aolME TOO/mode
This doesn't touch the fact that MC would be a very convenient
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:26:38AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
Btw: Am I right that C++ programs need to be compiled with egcs for debian
now?
They do not necessarily need to be recompiled with g++ (which is egcs's);
libg++272 still runs and development of binaries with it is still possible.
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 07:59:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
It seems to me that bug #21998 against xbase (xbase provides a manpage
for Xnest) should be promoted to severe: while this bug exists it's
impossible to install xnest.
Am I way off base here?
Not really, except that Branden is
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:03:46PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote:
I've a Planetc satfeed and there's a module satlink.c (.o
respectively) which doesn't want to compile w/ glibc.
No prob with that, I added a -I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/ to
the gcc call and it compiled.
The recommended way of
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:28:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
I am wondering that there is no libg++ in hamm compatible with egcs. I
know, that a lot of things moved to libstdc++, but for me things like the
Integer class are still useful.
Has somebody a libg++ debian package?
I'm working
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 08:16:56AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 16:29 +0200 1998-05-07, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 1998 at 07:43:45PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
Nope! Non-Maintainer releases doesn't justfify closing of bugreports.
They only justify 'severity normal'.
I was noting
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:10:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
I remember Debian 0.04.
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:50:45PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
Further, the policy should require maintainers to tag bug reports about
programs running suid root critical.
From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html#severities
:critical
: makes unrelated software on the system (or
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 06:14:05PM -0400, krynux wrote:
I was wandering, is there a DEC Alpha version of Debian linux or are you
planning on doing one ? I know there is a RedHat version, but...
People are working on an Alpha port of Debian GNU/Linux. The mailing list
for it is
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:25:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
FWIW, I just tried it on my Debian 2.0 2.0.32 machine:
what means FWIW ?
For what it's worth.
Note: there are several useful acronym lists / search systems on the web,
e.g.
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 02:17:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
I also got this warning, which makes me nervous. Anyone care to explain to
me what is happening?
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp-xlib6/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6.1': `
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:58:57AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I have been getting bounced mail from the testing mailing list sent to Dan
Quinlan. Can anyone verify that he has indeed left the project, or give me
a new address for him?
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ still has a mailto [EMAIL
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 12:22:32PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Since ae has been converted to slang I have been having many problems with
the keybindings for ae.
I have just done a NMU of slang1 for slink; please check if using that makes
a difference.
Greetings,
Ray
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On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 07:00:24PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 09:53:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you
disagree.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
purpose on
As far as I can tell this license is DFSG-free; please let me know if you
disagree.
Copyright (c) 1997-1998 by Armin Biere.
Author: Armin Biere.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it freely,
subject to the following
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:45:27AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
It is currently, but not for too much longer, sitting in:
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg/Public/Usenix-88-lexic.pdf
Please let me know if you've got a home for it, so I'll know when I can
remove the file from the http
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:05:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote:
jhttp://www.reference.com/
j and
jhttp://www.findmail.com/
Nice for spams :(.
We already have lists archives on the web; your homepage has two email
addresses on it already.
I don't think archiving our messages at other
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 09:48:42AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
That will be a problem with lyx as the upstream side is thinking about a
switch anyway, but qt is the leading candidate there.
I got the impression that KLyX is a forked version, and that the LyX
maintianers are trying to make
There now appear to be a few search sites that cover a lot of mailing
lists:
http://www.reference.com/
and
http://www.findmail.com/
Both already have many major linux lists (like [EMAIL PROTECTED])
(for reference.com: search mailing list directory for Linux; for
findmail.com: see
You wrote:
Apparently, it doesn't like version numbers in Packages which contain a
colon. It stops at cdda2wav, because the version number contains :.
That's the epoch feature, used in cases where the upstream version
numbering scheme changed, to make set dpkg's idea of which versions are
newer
Hi Fabrizio, Ulf,
Currently, the libdb2++ and libsidplay1-dev packages are the only ones that
depend on the virtual libg++-dev package.
In the past, upstream libg++ (e.g. libg++27) contained both the C++ standard
library and the GNU specific C++ classes. Currently, upstream libg++
contains only
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 11:07:02PM -0500, Alex Romosan wrote:
and the error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
but the library exists:
ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4*
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 12
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:27:25AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
Regrettably, we don't have a libg++2.8.1.1 package yet.
Well that means prcs should be moved out of hamm unfortunately unless we
back off to libg++272.
Unfortunately, yes.
Please ask the prcs upstream authors to move away from
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:32:12AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I also had a very similar problem with -lXt, the only difference is that I
used altgcc for compilation. Btw, what is the prefered way to use it?
I don't think there's just one right way to use it. Personally, I'd try
something
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 06:12:34PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
I think we should backout egcs and libstdc++2.8 from hamm and go back to
the old g++. For one, altg++ doesn't even work with it.
I strongly disagree. g++2.8/egcs + libstdc++2.8 is the first version of the
GNU C++ development
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 09:43:08AM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
Looking for support for Qmail's maildir format in Debian packages, I came
up with empty hands.
Look more closely. Mutt handles maildir.
Would it be possible to add this to the debian policy to have Maildir
support in packages like
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 01:47:53AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFAIK there is no DFSG-free MTA that supports Maildir. Therefore I don't
think that Maildir support should be obligatory via Debian policy.
Exim does.
In that case I'm in favour of
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 07:45:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. It is more or
less an excersise for package bundling and maintaining.
Well, you could make it a coding exercise by modifying it to be able to
choose a pixmap through
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 02:18:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
But who is xcaptainblueeye???
If I remember correctly, Captain Blueeye is the name of the entity
depicted in the Debian logo.
Come to think of it, xtux might be a better name than xpenguin (as the Linux
Penguin is called Tux).
Ray
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 04:20:07PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
I am using lftp 0.14.3.980328-1
Upgrade.
From the new changelog:
lftp (0.14.3.980402-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
* null dereference in rglob.cc fixed (very nasty bug! lftp was giving
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 01:56:41PM +, Markus Schauler wrote:
junkbuster is a www privacy-enhancer. Acting a a filtering proxy, it
prevents private information (browser type, operating system..) from
beeing revealed to the outside and blocks unwanted advertisements and
cookies.
Already
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:49:31PM +0100, Meskes, Michael wrote:
I just filed bug reports against nextaw and xaw95 because they don't list
axe as incompatible. However, afterwards Ray told me that I could as well
include the incompatibility list with axe. So I wonder which way is to
prefer?
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 03:13:05PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 03:10:19PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote:
I mut say I find the policy with respect to split or renamed packages
getting stuck in Incoming suboptimal. First e2fsprogsg, now killall.
Please file a bugreport
A few shortcomings of the current install docs:
They don't even mention fips anywhere, let alone how to use it to avoid
having to reinstall windoze (The developer who creates the tools to
safely ,i.e. non-destructively, modify existing partitions during the
installation should get the
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done
deliberately. It looks like the
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides
unzip make unzip to be a virtual package?
Yes. Though other packages can still have Depends:, Conflicts: etc. with
the concrete pkunzip package if there is a
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:33:25PM +0200, Amos Shapira wrote:
I might be missing something here, but after being beaten by crackers who
simply put a password sniffer on one of my Debian machines, I'd strongly
recommand the Debian leaders to reconsider the policy of plain ftp and
telnet. In
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 12:30:09PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
If anyone else has a more pressing need to maintain these packages, now is
the time to step forward. If I hear no objections, I will work toward
applying David's patch and getting a new release of libc5 out ASAP
You did notice the
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 07:09:38PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
[-lc issue]
Basically, I agree with you. However, I think we should stick to the usual
procedure. That is, we should prepare a policy change which will then be
discussion on
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 07:08:44AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing
the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone
pretty please do this?
I've tried to, but it missed a description for the -dbg
On Jun 27, Graham C. Hughes wrote
There's a slight problem with that, BTW. From the Amulet documentation:
Amulet is available for free by anonymous FTP or WWW. ... The only
restriction is that the documentation for Amulet is copyrighted, so you
cannot distribute the Amulet manual or
On Jun 21, Mark Baker wrote
For libg++, I'd wait until there's a libg++272 package, and install the
development stuff from that; for ncurses there are libc6 versions of the
library itself, I'm not sure about the development stuff but a
force-depends seems to work (the header files aren't
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