Re: Packaging irc clients

1997-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: I was poking around the bitchx sources to see if I could make a new package since the current one is somewhat (lightly put) outdated. After some studying I discovered that there are many things not present in the bitchx sources, but that are common to all irc clients.

Re: Packaging irc clients

1997-12-27 Thread David Welton
Speaking of which, will we be seeing the new ircII 4.4 anytime soon? Happy Vacationing, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

1997-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: It occurs to me that the menu files ought to have fields for: Xresources to get `xrdb -merge'd when the program is launched. (lazy eval) (and removed perhaps, on the delete window hook? Does the X server gc?) Sounds hard to do. Menu font, color, icon, a

Re: menu category for personal info. manager apps

1997-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
joost witteveen wrote: I'll give my opinion here, but I'm running very low on time at the moment. So, I'll probably not participate in much of this discussion untill (well?) after 1998/1/7. Joey Hess also has a great feel for these things, and I will gratefully adopt any desicion he makes

Re: menu category for personal info. manager apps

1997-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: joost witteveen wrote: I'll give my opinion here, but I'm running very low on time at the moment. So, I'll probably not participate in much of this discussion untill (well?) after 1998/1/7. Joey Hess also has a great feel for these things, and I will gratefully adopt

Help!!

1997-12-27 Thread Johnstons
I really don't know if this is the right place to go for help, but I can't seem to find anyone who has had this experience before. I'm somewhat new to linux, and I'm installing debian linux 2.0 on a 486 Fast Data computer. I have made all the needed disks by rawriting (in DOS) the files from the

Hercules Stingray 128 3D

1997-12-27 Thread Frank Unger_0
Hello I´ve read under the Suse-site that there exists modified x-servers. how can i install this clear in my debian system? is there any package on your site?(i didn´t found any) when will be the next release with support of the AT3D chipset produced by Alliance Semiconductor? thanks for your

Re: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-27 Thread Marco Budde
Am 24.12.97 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current JH x11 elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will JH probably pattern it after the quake packages, with a seperate package for JH levels

Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)

1997-12-27 Thread Colin R. Telmer
I don't know if this is a bug with procmail(3.10.7-1.5), exim (1.81-1), or me, so I thought I would ask. I recently switched to exim from smail on my hamm (currently as up to date as possible) which unfortunately bounced all of my mail. It seems that exim doesn't like the mail filter pipe used by

Re: slib and Debian ?

1997-12-27 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I installed the slib-2c0, and applied the patch to ice-9/slib.scm, and made a symlink: total 7 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 12 08:23 1.2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 27 12:51 app lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 25 20:17 slib - /usr/lib/slib/

Non-maintainer release of python-1.5 appreciated ?

1997-12-27 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
I expect a new python release, 1.5, in the next few days (a public 1.5b2 is out and will be the last beta). Since the current python packages are still libc5 and Klee Dienes as maintainer seems to be quite busy otherwise, I wonder if a non-maintainer libc6 release of python 1.5 is

tk 8.0

1997-12-27 Thread Ted Holden
An application of mine is written using Tcl/tk and a number of C routines which are compiled into Tcl and, hence, requires that Tcl and Tk be compilable on a platform on which I intend to run it. The program has always worked well on RedHat linux and Windows NT. Code compiled under the last

Re: Non-maintainer release of python-1.5 appreciated ?

1997-12-27 Thread Richard Braakman
I'm willing to take over maintenance of python in order to get python 1.5 into the Debian 2.0 release. I have a libc6 version of python 1.4 at home that fixes several of the bugs and brings it up to date with current policy. I have it installed now and have so far not had any problems. (My code

Re: ldconfig warnings

1997-12-27 Thread Guy Maor
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my experience, the warnings have come from dangling symlink in the lib directories. I'm not sure how they get there. The dangling symlink could either be from a package which doesn't include the symlink that ldconfig would create, or because the

exim or procmail bug?

1997-12-27 Thread Colin R. Telmer
Sorry to waste bandwidth, but I thought I should repost this as I forgot to change the subject line. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 11:07:58 -0500 (EST)

Re: slib and Debian ?

1997-12-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I have no idea about guile and scm and slib: Should I file a bug against guile that it should apply Marius' recent patch to ice-9/slib.scm I have already done that, no need to worry. and furthermore that it should use slib when installed ? Or

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)

1997-12-27 Thread Jim Pick
I don't know if this is a bug with procmail(3.10.7-1.5), exim (1.81-1), or me, so I thought I would ask. I recently switched to exim from smail on my hamm (currently as up to date as possible) which unfortunately bounced all of my mail. It seems that exim doesn't like the mail filter pipe

Re: problem with libmime-perl_3.204-1.deb in hamm

1997-12-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libmime-base64-perl is a new package. I sent email to its maintainer about how and why it is bigger/better/a possible replacement for mine, but I have yet to hear from him. Michael ? Sorry, been away for a week. libmime-base64-perl implements a

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1997-12-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote: [snip] If the binary changes, the version number should change. Completely agreed. Everything else will only result in a big mess. I'll check our how I can make policy more clearly on this point and include

Re: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Marco Budde wrote: Great, but then we need a new non-german section :). You're not allowed to give doom and quake (!) to children younger than 18 years. Good grief. Well, it's already in non-free, I guess that's good enough (since stuff in non-free cannot be safely distributed unless you

Re: tk 8.0

1997-12-27 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Ted Holden wrote: with xxgdb, but I can't even get Tk 80p2 to configure and make under Debian. Why bother? There are debian packages of tcl 8.0 and tk 8.0 at ftp.debian.org, or you can search for them at http://www.debian.org/packages.html It means you'll have to

RE: su and init scripts

1997-12-27 Thread Meskes, Michael
Hmm, I should have mentioned that I use secure-su not GNU su. Could it be you use GNU's version? Then I guess it's a bug in secure-su. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager| topystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL

Re: su and init scripts

1997-12-27 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Meskes, Michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hmm, I should have mentioned that I use secure-su not GNU su. Could it be you use GNU's version? Then I guess it's a bug in secure-su. Take a look at bug report 14551 for the maintainer's view on this. Personally, I liked the idea of secure-su but

Wanted: volunteer to test amd and findutils

1997-12-27 Thread Kevin Dalley
I need a volunteer who uses amd to test updatedb. I need to determine the file system needed to have updatedb prune all automounted file systems. Does the current value of PRUNEFS set in /etc/find.conf cause updatedb to avoid amd files? To test, run updatedb by running /etc/cron.daily/find

Re: slib and Debian ?

1997-12-27 Thread Jim Pick
[ Sorry for the exploding cc: list - this is a Debian packaging issue, so please limit the follow-ups to debian-devel. ] Mark Galassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Perhaps I should declare a dependency on the slib package, Absolutely not! It would be a great loss if Guile were