Bug#278246: 278246 -- does not reproduce for me.

In both KDE (e.g. Konqueror, Kmail) and GNOME (e.g. gedit) applications Cyrillic letters are displayed as double-width. Ah, that was a long time ago that I had that problem. (But for me mozilla used to have the problem too, not any more though) I just tried again with gedit, and I cannot reproduce

pgp-gpg keys, uploaded package not dinstalled?

Hi, Until recently I only had a PGP key, and as suggested by /usr/share/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz, I've now generated a GPG one, signed it with my PGP key, and submitted it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A couple of hours later I uploaded a package (fakeroot_0.4.4-5) signed with my new GPG keys. That

Re: Bug#37602: apt: Segfault at the end of apt-get

Je 1999/05/20(4)/10:05, Joost Kooij montris sian geniecon skribante: Hi, On Wed, 19 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Joost Kooij wrote: Technically, I wholeheartedly agree with you in the above matter. The problem _at_hand_ is that a lot of people are seeing a segmentation fault

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

Hello! On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:19:11PM +0200, joost witteveen wrote: The document authors already can enforce a lot of things, keeping the document free: [...] I want to hear valid reasons why this is not enough before I even think about non-free documents in main

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

1) The document must be free but may require a change in the title for a modified version (for example FSSTND would become Debians implementation of the FSSTND or something without the acronym FSSTND at all). 2) Many authors don't want their work to be published out of their control. This

Re: mirror-2.9 released, and hopefully DFSG compliant

A new mirror_2.9-1 is now on master. The copyright has changed (see below), and should be fine with us. Or is the 'changes must be distributed as patches' policy too restrictive for us? So here's the copyright: Copyright _ 1990 - 1998 Lee McLoughlin Permission to use, copy,

Re: fix for xaw security hole

Hi, Joey, At the moment it's really difficult for me to apply those patches to xaw* Could I beg you (or anyone else) to do a NMU? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /tmp exploits

?_$7?_$7?_$7?_%_PO\'[)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ` end -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

, sweets, etc, joostje -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 tries). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: menu category for personal info. manager apps

, Calendar I agree: that belongs to something like Personal. joost witteveen, (I'm preparing for my promotion 1998/1/7, and have less than zero time to spend on anything that isn't really related to that (or esperanto)). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

libc6 perl, Can't load POSIX.so

; dpkg-shlibdeps use POSIX qw(:errno_h :signal_h); Does anybody know what I did wrong? The perl compile went really smoothly, but apparently something went wrong? Thanks (if anybody knows, anyway). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj

Re: Calendars

extract _one_ line from a discussion and then say please don't discuss politics. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's

Re: Could anyone please explain this to me?

doesn't mention anything about this, the execve manpage sais that execve does inherit stuff). Thanks in advance Well, actuall I don't think this all works, but hey, it could, cound't it? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

[ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] joost witteveen: So, there's a first version of fakeroot sitting in ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/upload I suggest a simpler solution, which doesn't require intricate hacking to work: At the moment, debian/rules binary is executed

Re: Some new package proposals!

* xaw3d-dev-1.3(see ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/;) Is there already anybody working on these packages and thus making my efforts unnecessary? Yes, xaw3d-dev will come up in a week or to. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN

Re: why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

are executed, only not from the commandline, but within other binaries. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

these are important, and even if they are, I guess it will be possible to get it right. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

permissiosn to the $FAKEROOT file, the third command will not work. However, I planned to make the wrapper chmod function attempt to work as expected (as long as it can, above it can), in addition to logging the permissions to $FAKEROOT. So, there shouldn't be a problem. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: Build a shared library which wraps all calls to chown(), then set LD_PRELOAD to that library. Should be pretty foolproof. Yeah, I like that: wrap chown (and friends) _and_ stat

where aclocal? (for a dpkg build)

it eighter. (I need a libc6 dpkg for fakeroot). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

package, but it's not this release isn't yet. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

in the debian/rules binary process, they will not use the LD_PRELOAD stuff, and things may go wrong. (But as long as those binaries are setuid root, they wouldn't need the libfakeroot). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H

Re: RFC: library conventions for libc5 and libc6 in hamm Take 4

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: 5. Conflicts Dependencies for hamm packages [..] The hamm libfoo package has to depend on libc6 and has to conflict with libfoo-dev and libc5-dev. Are you sure here? I'd say you mean this: The hamm libfoo

Re: svgalib-dummy again

else see any problems with method 2? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa

Re: Dpkg in C for speed?

++. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

old versions: svgalib-bin?

I'm not very inclined to trust him). [1] other than something as vague as fails to surrender priveleges. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack

Re: RFC: library conventions for libc5 and libc6 in hamm Take 4

] The location ../libc5-compat was introduced in the ldso package. As ldso is a package on all linus distributions we'll keep it for s/linus/linux/ -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

was in the original archive. If 'patch' isn't smart enough to create a directory that didn't exist originally, what can I do about it? Patch is smart enough, it's just that dpkg isn't smart enough to tell patch to be smart enough. (Maybe this changed in dpkg-1.4.0.18 though). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL

Re: Moving away from MD5

back. I don't really believe it's possible get the same MD5 checksum by just flipping one bit. But 4 bits, yes it should be theoretically possible. [1] 500M Byte = 2**32 bits. With those 4 bit-flips, you can make (2**32)**4 combinations = 2**128 = number of different md5sum's -- joost

svgalib where new version (security hole)

will address). Is there anybody here who knows where to find this? I used to think them dec people were competent, but with a security allert that doesn't even attempt to explain where the hole is, and no possibility of us really fixing it, I start to wonder. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr

Re: svgalib-dummy again

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: So, what method do you prefer? Or do you have better ideas? How hard would it be to implement versioned Provides: in dpkg? Or are there other reasons not to implement it? Is solution 2) too kludgy? I strongly prefer method 1. I really think

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

-root package builds. (in fakt so much, that I may be tempted to write it myself. You don't need that many changes). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

utilities can take advantage of this field too... But at the moment the file modification date on most mirrors reflects the Entered-Date quite accurately. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p

Re: Calendars (was: Re: leap second)

, prossibly always) simply cannot calulate the length of a day accurately enough to know well in advance when to insert them. But I'd say the two animals are at least related, if not mother and daughter. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

. Some packages failed because I didn't have the time to install the stuff they needed. This list is only 40 packages. We've got about 10 times more than that -- how many packages do you know compiled did compile? really 330? not too bad for a start, isn't it? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

generate the gcc packages too, and you could sometimes even have _less_ bytes move through your modem! Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g

Re: Correct path for upgrading to libc6-dev?

problems). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: checker libs with debugging symbols

). - give the developper extra work - give the mirrors more work, make debian even larger (If you want to do this, why not simply say strip /usr/lib/*? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n

Larry Daffner, svgalib1 libc6

ahead (well, I'll give Larry a few more days, but then I'll just upload it). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H

Re: Larry Daffner, svgalib1 libc6

-- Start of PGP signed section. On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: I would very much like to have a libc6 version of that package available (no, I don't use svgalib myself, but some of my packages do, and I want to fix bugs in them). If you are unable to create libc6 packages

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

thought don't fix what ain't broken, but I've changed libg++272's priority now to Important -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H

libc6 system for libc5-only maintainers

send you your account info pgp-encrypted, so you will need pgp on your system. Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H

Re: Status of Debian Policy

. The nice thing is, it will Jim be broken into separate pieces, so it will be easy for many people to Jim work on it and improve it simultaneously. Jim Jim Cheers, Jim Jim - Jim Jim -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H

Re: Debian target audience

to install. And even then, why not install lib5-altdev? Then there is no problem whatsoever. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H

Re: Bug#10516: gs-aladdin: Depends on svgalib1 (= 1.210-1) which does not allow svgalib-dummy to fulfill the dependency

On Jun 12, joost witteveen wrote Well, OK, I can see *somebody* wants this. But still I'm not convinced this warrants inclusion in stable. Are there other people that would like the dependancy change - Depends: svgalib1 (= 1:1.2.10-2) + Depends: svgalib1 (= 1:1.2.10-2)|svgadummy

Re: Simple policy question...

important security fixes, and there seems to be no other way to close the security holes currently in debian 1.3.0 than to include Xfree 3.3, so there is a chance that will be included. I'm much less sure about XEmacs 19.15 though, although I believe it also does fix stuff. -- joost witteveen

Re: Compiling with libc6

is connected to the internet via a 6kbyte/s link, so up/down loading your (large) packages will not be very fast, but at least it works. Mail me if you want an account on my unstable machine. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

to do something about it. But I don't think there will be many of those packages. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's

Re: RFC: libc6 policy supplement 2nd try

-altdev | /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/{lib,include} Here again, unless I'm really confused, the g is mixed up. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g

Re: Bug#10516: gs-aladdin: Depends on svgalib1 (= 1.210-1) which does not allow svgalib-dummy to fulfill the dependency

. Or if they have serious reasons not to install svgalib, why do they install xlib? Because they want to run remote X Sessions. So it will at least not just be a web-server. But anyway, I get your point. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN

Re: Possible Xaw{3d,95} bug / Re: Debian freeciv bugs

but not the standard widget set). One possible solution is to link Xaw statically in the freeciv binary. That's what I do with aXe. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s

Re: S-Lang for use with libc6 uploaded (source, i386)

(documentation f In short, thanks for the clarification. I hope I didn't mess up too badly with libg++, and I havent had/seen any problems yet from my packages, but with your post, I'm not too sure any more. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j

Re: Possible Xaw{3d,95} bug / Re: Debian freeciv bugs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: One possible solution is to link Xaw statically in the freeciv binary. That's what I do with aXe. Or you can just use -rpath when you compile to force it to use a particular dynamically linked libXa*. I think that was the solution used in gv

Re: Copyright question

, and has to go into non-free, even if you're allowed to make money distributing it. Non-free it is -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H

Re: kernel header files : problems (yes, again)\

are in libc ? i know that nearly anybody sais, that this is the right way, but sometimes i get frustrated and start to disbelief). /usr/doc/lib5/FAQ.gz -- where else? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U

Re: stumped with source package problem

), I also tried to unpack xkobo, and only succeded after downgrading my patch-2.2 (unstable) to patch-2.1 (from bo). Probably the real bug is in dpkg, though. (sending this to the mailinglist in case other people still want to know this). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777iX

Re: official C library

), etc. I believe it's the same with X libs. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: IMP: downgrade ldso to bo: no ldso left!

On May 11, joost witteveen wrote I just downgraded my ldso from the one in unstable, to the one in bo, and I appear to be left with a system that doesn't have a dynamic linker! This is because of a change from a hard link to a symlink in one of the 1.9.x versions. I'm not sure that I

new package: nfsroot boot any client into Linux on network

Version: 0.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: nfsroot- Set up server to allow nfsroot clients to boot. Changes: nfsroot (0.0) unstable; urgency=low . * initial version. Files: f9c7ce1d75ea9d92824309458072817d 528 net optional

Bug#4574: gs -g flag does not work

-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEWIDTH=100 -dDEVICEHEIGHT=100 Q.ps and gs usually only uses the last defention on the commandline, but here it apparently uses the first one. So, I'll indeed have to change the wrapper. Thanks -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

where are guidelines?

source format -- but I must be overlooking something very obvious (I'm sure), as I cannot find this eighter. Thanks a lot, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4495: gs fonts should be in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts

) prefers them in ghostscript/fonts, I'll move them. Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4384: gcc_2.7.2.1-1.deb g77_0.5.18-2.deb incompatible

should solve (with a little assistance from g77, (the symlink) to tell gcc where to look for f771). But I don't know how David (gcc maintainer) think s about this, so I cc'd him on this. David? Alan (g77 and f2c package maintainer) -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED

gs-3.33 + gsfonts

who didn't read this are going to send), -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

uploading gs-4.01-4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 29 Aug 96 21:19 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: gs Version: 4.01-4 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview

uploading gs_4.01-3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 28 Aug 96 21:19 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: gs Version: 4.01-3 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview

Bug#4317: xosview should display cached mem

buggers: try procmeter!) Although I guess the upstream maintainer would be interested to correct this one, I think, togehter with the other ones, I'll just try to move xosview to contrib. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

uploading gs_3.33-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 28 Aug 96 18:39 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: gs Version: 3.33-1 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview

Bug#4269: xosview has only XOSView as application resource file

don't know what to do. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4267: xosview doesn't understand -geometry very well

didn't say when. Xosview-1.4.1 AFAIK doesn't use it. I'm closing this bug, as I cannot do anything about it, and the upstream maintainer doesn't care. Thanks anyway, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

screen-3.7.1-8: utmp bug fixed (uploading)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 24 Aug 96 07:47 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: screen Version: 3.7.1-8 Binary: screen Architecture: i386 source Description: screen: A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal

uploaded screen-3.7.1-7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 21 Aug 96 17:00 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: screen Version: 3.7.1-7 Binary: screen Architecture: i386 source Description: screen: A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal

uploading pixmap_pl2-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 21 Aug 96 17:23 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: pixmap Version: 2.6pl2-1 Binary: pixmap Architecture: i386 source Description: pixmap: A pixmap editor. Changes: * upgraded

uploading gsfonts-4.01-2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 20 Aug 96 17:28 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: gsfonts Version: 4.01-2 Binary: gsfonts Architecture: all source Description: gsfonts: Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter

Re: Packaging questions (newbie)

to, and my first language isn't English eighter. Good luck with your packages! -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Re: libpaper 1.0 on master

-system and wait to see them included in the next release? If you don't want to do that, could you send your patches to me, so that try to handle it? Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4169: pixmap dies

with the patch, I don't want to upload the new pixmap to master. I've put it on ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/joost/pixmap_2.6pl1_4* for you (and other interested parties) to try out, and I've asked the pixmap mailinglist for more advice. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

uploading pixmap_2.6pl1-3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 21:21 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: pixmap Version: 2.6pl1-3 Binary: pixmap Architecture: i386 source Description: pixmap: A pixmap editor. Changes: - Fixed bug 4100

pixmap_2.6pl1-5 uploaded

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 16 Aug 96 19:51 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: pixmap Version: 2.6pl1-5 Binary: pixmap Architecture: i386 source Description: pixmap: A pixmap editor. Changes: - Upstream

gs+gsfonts 4.01 uploading (finally)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 11:53 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: gsfonts Version: 4.01-1 Binary: gsfonts Architecture: all source Description: gsfonts: Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter

uploaded gs_4.01-2 (missing dep:libpaper)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 15:44 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: gs Version: 4.01-2 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview

Bug#4118: xosview doesn't use XUSERFILESEARCHPATH

what paths it searches, it's also how it parses the appdefauls files (all manually). So if you've got any better ideas, I'd like to close this bug. But thanks for the bug-report anyway, it's nice to know people use xosview. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Bug#4081: xosview doesn't install a binary

mailing me in advance of doing so). Thanks. BTW Ian also sent mail to debian-devel saying that this bug was in his uploaded version. xosview-1.3.2-6 doesn't contain this bug. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Package priority: Extra/Optional

extra). Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4058: etc/papersize doesn't allow spaces

is gs.real, the wrapper is gs). What is causing me not to upgrade gs at the moment is this SVGA stuff: someone (svga maintainer) wanted a patch in that would make a setuid root gs safe, but I'm still having problems with this. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Bug#3768: axe info files incorrectly installed

to change axinfo in one place. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4058: etc/papersize doesn't allow spaces

, and I do wonder if gs really should read A4 . Some people were really glad I added a wrapper to allow gs to read /etc/papersize. Some are angry it didn't read A4 . Well, you never please them all! -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

axe_6.1.2-5 uploaded

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xosview_1.3.2-6 uploaded

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 22 Jul 96 12:02 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: xosview Version: 1.3.2-6 Binary: xosview Architecture: i386 source Description: xosview: Fun to watch CPU/network usage programme

axe_6.1.2-4 uploading

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transfig_3.1.2a-3 uploaded

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transfig_3.1.2a-2 uploaded

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xfig_3.1.4a-4 uploaded

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Re: Bug#3415: Xdvi and postscript fonts

and Statistics, Lancaster University [EMAIL PROTECTED] x3952 http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk:2080/~maa036/ BTW, if anyone else is working on the *TeX* packages, please tell me. Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#3414: gsftopk is missing

: This is sure related to the bug with MakeTeXPK someone reported some days ago, when using the times package. Dunno. I can use the times package. The Times package, as far as I know _should_ work without extra binaries -- or am I wrong? -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Nils/TeX maintainer, where are you?

people willing to take it over, I'll be glad to dive into the TeX packages. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!