Re: WNPP: working on xmbdfed

1997-12-28 Thread Anthony Fok
On 26 Dec 1997, Frederic Lepied wrote: I'm working on xmbdfed which is a powerfull X11 font editor. It works with lesstif. [snip] PS: Anthony could you setup a development package for freetype ? I have to build xmbdfed from your sources... Thanks for the note! I'll see what I can do!

Re: slib and Debian ?

1997-12-28 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Jim == Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Here's a possible slibconfig script with support for Guile in Jim it: I think you forgot to make the symlink: ln -s /usr/lib/slib /usr/share/guile/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

next release ?

1997-12-28 Thread LordVaXen
when will be the next release ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: next release ?

1997-12-28 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
when will be the next release ? I think that no less than 2 months. But.. you may install hamm now from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/! It's fairly stable for general use. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-28 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: I don't think that the dot locking done by `movemail' is nfs-aware. You'd need to use libnfslock for that, I guess, or patch `movemail'. Assuming you're right, and movemail is used for all mail locking, then if we patch movemail to use

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-28 Thread bhmit1
On 26 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote: The question is, who owns /usr/src, Debian or the local sysadmin? I'm not the official word on this but I think Debian owns everything but /usr/local (in which it can only make a directory). There are exceptions if your directory isn't in the file system

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-28 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob Assuming you're right, and movemail is used for all mail Rob locking, then if we patch movemail to use liblockfile, we Rob should be fine. I volunteer to try rolling those patches into XEmacs 20.5. I think that configure ought to

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-28 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Along with this, in the similar thread, I think we should set aside a place in our /usr/src/ for the building of Debian packages, using `cvs-buildpackage'. (which I promise to _try_ and grok this week.) How about... /usr/src/debian/{build,work}? It would be good to put into policy a naming

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob The question is, who owns /usr/src, Debian or the local Rob sysadmin? Rob A recent run-in with the latest pre-release libc6 packages made Rob me realize that I hadn't fully considered the role of /usr/src on Rob a Debian system. The

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1997-12-28 Thread Eric Lewis
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xcdroast 0.96d beta 2 packages

1997-12-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I've put together an experimental package for xcdroast 0.96d beta 2. This adds support for a lot more writers since it uses cdrecord now. It should fix a lot of other bugs too. So far it has been tested on a Philips CDD 2600 and a Yamaha 400 without any problems. There is on catch though: you

Re: next release ?

1997-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 02:08:00AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: when will be the next release ? I think that no less than 2 months. But.. you may install hamm now from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/! It's fairly stable for general use. Be sure to read the howto

Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-28 Thread Richard Braakman
This is a list of packages in the main distribution that need work to be fully libc6-based. I base it on the Packages file at my local mirror, so it may be a day or two out of date. If you have questions about why a particular package is on the list, or if you think there is an error, don't

Re: su and init scripts

1997-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Meskes, Michael: Hmm, I should have mentioned that I use secure-su not GNU su. Could it be you use GNU's version? Yep, standard GNU su Then I guess it's a bug in secure-su. Time to file a bugreport.. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage *

my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread Jon Björklund
Hi there guys! I am using Debian 1.3.1 and finds it a perfekt linuxdistribution. But there is one _very_ BiG problem in all unices I have tested, and that is the users and root. What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as root but at the same time it shouldn't be root. Is there

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Jon Björklund wrote: What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as root but at the same time it shouldn't be root. Is there a way of fixing this?? Well, you can use sudo, which lets normal users to superuser tasks. And I do not want to go around su:ing

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread AzCaPpY
Not to mention it is EXTREMELY dangerous to your system since root can wipe out your system. Root cannot log in remotely due to security restraints... but if you give normal usernames root capabilities... they can log in remote thus creating a security breach. It is better to leave root and the

Re: debian-kbd needs M4 hacker

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Marco d'Itri writes: The debian-kbd list needs some help from an experienced M4 guru. I wrote the macros to generate keyboard tables, but some of them do not work. We need someone to debug them, otherwise we can't progress. The macro set is about 150 lines. I'm not really a guru, but I

Re: Libc6 progress for contrib and non-free (Dec 1997)

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: non-free: xforms0.86-0.86-2 xmysql (contrib) is not listed, but depends on both libc6 and xforms0.86. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email:

NEW PACKAGE: obtuse SMTP front end

1997-12-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
I'm planning to package the anti spamming SMTP frontend from www.obtuse.com. -- ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ftplib package

1997-12-28 Thread Hani Saliba
Hello, After looking at the WNPP document, and getting some advice from people on the mailing list I ask to adopt/maintain a relatively simpler pakage: the ftplib package (it's a package that, roughly, encapsulates ftp commands inside C functions). I haven't examined the package throughly yet,

Re^2: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-28 Thread Marco Budde
Am 27.12.97 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH Good grief. Well, it's already in non-free, I guess that's good enough JH (since stuff in non-free cannot be safely distributed unless you examine JH it's license). But non-free is mirrored on several FTP servers in Germany. And a child

Re: Uploaded wwwoffle 2.0-1 (source i386) to chiark

1997-12-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Federico Di Gregorio writes: * Added cron job to purge wwwoffle cache. Isn't it automatically handled by wwwoffled ? There is a Purge section in /etc/wwwoffle.conf (v1.3) that seem to indicate there's an internal mecahnism for this. -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Stop making

Re: Re^2: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Marco == Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco Am 27.12.97 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Marco Moin Joey! JH Good grief. Well, it's already in non-free, I guess that's good JH enough (since stuff in non-free cannot be safely distributed JH unless you examine it's license). Marco But

Re: my user on my box!

1997-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:14:43AM -0800, Jon Björklund wrote: Hi there guys! I am using Debian 1.3.1 and finds it a perfekt linuxdistribution. But there is one _very_ BiG problem in all unices I have tested, and that is the users and root. What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as