The GGI group has issued its first public release. Was someone packaging
this for Debian? GGI will solve a lot of security problems of X and SVGAlib
programs, some problems of X configuration, and it makes it possible to run
two complete SVGA/keyboard/mouse consoles on PCI machines that have a
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:26:53AM -0601, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
The sources are compiled with a newt version that is NOT 0.10; there are
tons of functions not present in 0.10, I don't know if their's newer,
older or plain different.
They have newt and newt-devel 0.21 in their binary RPMs
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On 8 Jan 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
Can /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.gz be uncompressed in the future?
It will be uncompressed in the future. See Bug #15025.
I hope this will be fixed before the release of 2.0? If so,
On 7 Jan, Igor Grobman wrote:
Is anyone maintaining the Debian installation manual?
I know that Sven is no longer doing it. If not,
we will need a volunteer.
I'd like to maintain it. I plan to be active on the
testing front, so I should be aware of all the quirks with the
Still one problem. /wg-15-locale/s//wg15-locale/
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote:
Still one problem. /wg-15-locale/s//wg15-locale/
damn. i thought i got that one this morning.
i wont bother posting the script again. it's easy enough to fix.
craig
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I get this when I try to look at bug tracking database:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl on
this server.
Maybe /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl hasn't x bit set again?
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Roberto Lumbreras wrote:
Hi...
I get this when I try to look at bug tracking database:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl on
this server.
Maybe /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl hasn't x bit set again?
Yeah, again :
Thanks, fixed.
On 07-Jan-1998 11:35:45, Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schwarz) wrote:
(b) We set up a certain directory (say /usr/lib/cronjobs) where each
package can install its own crontab file
Another person has requested use of the Debian logo. As most people
are pretty happy with the license I added a clause saying the logo
is usable under the current license (http://www.debian.org/logos/logo.html.
Update should reach there soon) until 31 January 1998 and told him he could
use it
Disconnect from the ICQ network.
Then go into the Preferences folder/Connections tab and select Permanent
LAN and I'm behind a proxy server/firewall.
Then click on Firewall Settings. and set ICQ to use the range of tcp ports
from 2000 to 4000, not the default automatic selection of
Hello Frederic!
On 26 Dec 1997, Frederic Lepied wrote:
I'm working on xmbdfed which is a powerfull X11 font editor. It works
with lesstif.
[...]
PS: Anthony could you setup a development package for freetype ? I
have to build xmbdfed from your sources...
It is finally here! :)
Bruce Perens wrote:
The GGI group has issued its first public release. Was someone packaging
this for Debian?
Doesn't it still need a kernel patch?
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On 7 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Sanders) wrote on 07.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 7 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
Hi,
I currently maintain xsqlmenu, an xforms front-end for mSQL. As I
have switched from mSQL to the free PostgreSQL, I am not in a good
position to continue maintaining xsqlmenu.
Volunteers welcome.
John
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Dauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I e-mailed a question to this address a while back and you answered. So I
have a question...I can not put Linux on my hard drive and I can't put it on
my Syquest for some reason. So where could I find a boot disk like the kind
I use to access DOS?? Just
Some files at llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming are stamped on 10 January
1998. As I write, nowhere on Earth is it now 10 January.
Alan Davis
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some files at llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming are stamped on 10 January
1998. As I write, nowhere on Earth is it now 10 January.
that just proves how advanced debian is, doesn't it :-)
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On Thu 08 Jan 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
Any more suggestions?
I think it would be sensible to fix the ftp site. There is a
debian/upgrades directory that contains hopelessly out-of-date info.
Beginning of the README says:
/debian/upgrades contains files needed by users upgrading from
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:02:05PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
I currently maintain xsqlmenu, an xforms front-end for mSQL. As I
have switched from mSQL to the free PostgreSQL, I am not in a good
position to continue maintaining xsqlmenu.
As I'm maintaining some other mSQL stuff I'll give it
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:54:40PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
I get this when I try to look at bug tracking database:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl on
this server.
Maybe /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl hasn't x bit set again?
Yeah, again :
On Jan 8, James A.Treacy wrote:
Now that they have something running, one thing I'd like to know
is how fast it is. Have they done any tests comparing it to
XFree86?
Or against the video stuff in 2.1'er kernels? Console speed, ...
Thanks,
Hartmut
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:07:52PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
This seems to be the consensus, and it's my favorite too, and looks to
be easy to implement (especially given the nice way that cron reads/parses
crontabs).
Here's the proposal:
In addition to reading /etc/crontab, the cron
On 07-Jan-1998 11:35:45, Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schwarz) wrote:
(b) We set up a certain directory (say /usr/lib/cronjobs) where each
package can install its own crontab file
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:26:53AM -0601, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
The sources are compiled with a newt version that is NOT 0.10; there are
tons of functions not present in 0.10, I don't know if their's newer,
older or plain different.
They
On 8 Jan 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On 8 Jan 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
Can /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.gz be uncompressed in the future?
It will be uncompressed in the future. See Bug #15025.
I hope this
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 01:07:29PM +, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:26:53AM -0601, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
The sources are compiled with a newt version that is NOT 0.10; there are
tons of functions not present in 0.10, I
I have been trying to create a more up to date bo custom disk and have
run into a snag.
I added the .32 kerenel from hamm to the packages and installed the kernel
and its modules on the rescue and drivers disks. When I go to install, the
resc and drv disks seem to get loaded ok, but when I go to
Following the discussion on debian-policy and elsewhere, there is now
a new `important' bug severity level, which is between `grave' and
`normal'.
It is for bugs which do not meet the criteria for `grave', but which
are nevertheless release-critical.
Ian.
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while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt
we also just set the 0
to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ?
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On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt
we also just set the 0
to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ?
There is really no advantage to that. 64 bits will last long enough,
no need to change the epoch! And it would
Quake 2 uses the glide library to do rendering on 3dfx Voodoo hardware,
such as the Monster 3d and Righteous 3d cards, so I'm going to package
it. The library is available at
http://www.3dfx.com/software/download_glidel.html
The package will have to go in non-free. The license on the
Dale, you mentioned a couple of days ago that you had orphaned imap4 and
someone else was going to upgrade it to libc6 etc. Has that person gotten
back to you?
The reason I ask is because I have urgent need of this package at work so
I've just compiled it. I've fixed all the extant bugs I
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Steve Greenland wrote:
Here's the proposal:
In addition to reading /etc/crontab, the cron daemon will also
read each file in /etc/cron.d (chosen for similarity to init.d). Each
of the files in cron.d is considered a crontab fragment, and should
be formatted exactly as
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One change that is needed is to change lines such as
A HREF=ftp:rawrite2.exerawrite2.exe/A
to
A HREF=rawrite2.exerawrite2.exe/A
I am afraid this is the shortcoming of debiandoc-sgml which generates the
text
and html versions. Should I
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:30:43PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
Isn't it easier to have all packages that place something in /etc/cron.d
(or whatever is's called) call an update-cron script which conctenates all
files in /etc/cron.d/ into /etc/crontab? The /etc/crontab we have
currently
James A.Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Another person has requested use of the Debian logo. As most people
are pretty happy with the license I added a clause saying the logo is
usable under the current license
(http://www.debian.org/logos/logo.html. Update should reach there
soon) until 31
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt
we also just set the 0
to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ?
There is really no advantage to that. 64 bits will last long
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The update-cron script could be very simple, like:
#!/bin/sh
cat EOF /etc/crontab.tmp
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. It will be overwritten by the update-cron script.
# Instead, edit the appropriate file in /etc/cron.d and re-run update-cron .
#
EOF
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
Then if we want to change the licence we publish version 2 instead,
leaving version 1 available but stating that it is no longer
available. Users of the logo have to go and check each year that the
These last two sentences are a little wacky. You mean,
On 09-Jan-1998 13:03:45, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I object to this proposal. I'd rather have only _one_ systemwide crontab
called /etc/crontab than introducing a new directory for these reasons:
. /etc/cron.d is fully incompatible to any other flavour of Linux
or Unix.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Morton) wrote on 08.01.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
To the group, let me say:
Those of you who saw my first message as an attack or a flame, what nice
Well, it was.
little utpoia of the planet do you come from? sheesh! If that's all
it takes to ruffle your
nighthawk is a clone of paradroid - a C64 game that was the precursor to
Quazatron. You have to shoot things, but there is strategy involved too:
http://www.downunder.net.au/~jsno/
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lacheck is listed as orphaned in wnpp.
I'm willing to take it, if no one objects.
Thanks,
Davide G. M. Salvetti - IW5DZC [JN53fr]
Take a look at Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org/.
Debian is the free operating system with open development model.
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob Maybe you already knew this, but I just got around to looking
Rob at the movemail source for emacs 20, and it really looks like
Rob movemail already knows how to handle liblockfile. Check out
Rob MAIL_USE_MAILLOCK and
Neil A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
afterstep-1.0-5 (Mixed dependencies)
It seems that Neil hasn't worked on this package in about four months,
so I'm preparing a non-maintainer release which should fix at least
the mixed dependencies and bug #15395 (chmod a+x
/etc/menu-methods/afterstep).
You could use m4. There's an article about doing that in the Linux
Gazette:
http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue22/using_m4.html [1]
Hope this helps.
Footnotes:
[1] URL located from `browser-history'! (Grin. It works!)
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Well, I've build an autoupgrade kit based on the upgrade script posted
here recently. It includes all the packages mentioned in the script (I
hope). I need people to test it however, since I don't have any more bo
machines to test it on at this time.
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
There are a number of unresolved questions:
* Do we want a separate logo and licence for `powered by Debian' ?
Considering the time it has taken to come to closure on the first one, I
would not recommend it. 'Powered by Debian' or any other marketing
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Joel Rosdahl wrote:
Neil A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
afterstep-1.0-5 (Mixed dependencies)
It seems that Neil hasn't worked on this package in about four months,
so I'm preparing a non-maintainer release which should fix at least
the mixed dependencies and bug
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote:
Still one problem. /wg-15-locale/s//wg15-locale/
damn. i thought i got that one this morning.
i wont bother posting the script again. it's easy enough to fix.
Could this script be uploaded to ftp.debian.org
On 09-Jan-1998 17:00:04, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:30:43PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
The update-cron script could be very simple, like:
#!/bin/sh
cat EOF /etc/crontab.tmp
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. It will be overwritten by the update-cron
I was subscribed to linux kernel. I haven't received anything since Dec. 29. I
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| On Friday, 9 January 98, at 10:16:39 AM
| Jaldhar wrote about imap4
Dale, you mentioned a couple of days ago that you had orphaned imap4 and
someone else was going to upgrade it to libc6 etc. Has that person gotten
back to you?
The reason I ask is because I have urgent need of this package
I notice netcat was moved to project/orphaned recently. I don't see it
listed in the Libc6 Progress report - why not? I thought I remembered
someone planned to work on this package. If I don't hear from anyone in a
day or 2, I will do a non-maintainer release to build it with libc6 and get
it back
Am 08.01.98 schrieb aqy6633 # acf5.nyu.edu ...
Moin Alex!
AY I would like to question the need for this requirement.
???
AY While this can be of importance to some users, it can be quite
AY annoying to others.
??? Please remember, a lot of languages need 8 bit clean programs. Non 8
bit
Am 08.01.98 schrieb aqy6633 # acf5.nyu.edu ...
Moin Alex!
AY it is nice property of less (as opposed to more) that it filters
AY out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
AY sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
AY doing less some binary
Am 08.01.98 schrieb schwarz # monet.m.isar.de ...
Moin Christian!
CS Depending on how doc-base is configured, it will convert texinfo files
CS into PostScript, generate info files from texinfo source, etc.
But how long should this take? This would slow the installion of Debian.
And remember
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
-=-
One of the release requirements for 2.0 is that the --force-overwrite
flag for dpkg can be turned off by default. This means that there
should be no problematic overlaps between packages in the main
distribution. To help
Hi folks!
I've started to collect release-critical bugs. Here are some first
guidelines regarding release-critical bugs:
- No package included in Debian 2.0 may have open release-critical
bugs. If release-critical bugs are present at release time, either the
release will be postponed
Hello collegues,
I don't understand dpkg's version compare algorithm:
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg
--compare-versions 1.15 lt 1.2-1; echo $?
1
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg
--compare-versions 1.15 lt 1.20-1; echo $?
0
([EMAIL
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, David Frey wrote:
Hello collegues,
I don't understand dpkg's version compare algorithm:
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg
--compare-versions 1.15 lt 1.2-1; echo $?
1
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Steve Greenland wrote:
[snip]
3.3.7. Configuration files
--
[..]
If two or more packages use the same configuration file, one of these
packages has to be defined as *owner* of the configuration file, i.e.
it has
David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why is 1.15 1.2 ?
Because 1 = 1 and 15 is 2; dpkg breaks the version number into
chunks (in this case delimited by '.').
See verrevcmp() in lib/vercmp.c from the dpkg source for more details.
Is it necessary to fill in trailing zeroes?
Yes. 20 15 -
It seems that Neil hasn't worked on this package in about four
months, so I'm preparing a non-maintainer release which should fix
at least the mixed dependencies and bug #15395 (chmod a+x
/etc/menu-methods/afterstep). I'll upload it soon if noone
complains.
I have already done that. It's
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, David Frey wrote:
: Hello collegues,
:
: I don't understand dpkg's version compare algorithm: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
: /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg --compare-versions 1.15 lt
: 1.2-1; echo $? 1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
: /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg
I happened to copy the libc5 badblocks binaries onto my libc6
system, for a project I'm working on, and for curiousity's sake,
ran ldd on it;
[10:12am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:DLX.lilo/rd-tree/bin# ldd ./badblocks
libext2fs.so.2 = /lib/libext2fs.so.2 (0x4000b000)
libcom_err.so.2 =
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Joel Rosdahl wrote:
I have already done that. It's not 0.6.3 but 0.12.3. This [...]
Well, that's great! But what I intend to fix is afterstep, not
wmaker... ;)
Oops... I read way too fast... Then both packages are fixed! :-)
Marcelo
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I haven't seen Susan Kleinmann arround for some time. If nobody objects,
I'd like to make a non maintainer upgrade of sp. There's a new version,
and it's requiered to parse the W3C Recommendation regarding HTML 4.0. I
have packaged the HTML 4.0 DTD and documentation, and I'd like to upload
that,
Richard == Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Overlap between msqlperl_1:0.91-2 and
Richard libdbd-mysql-perl_1.1821-1: usr/lib/perl5/Msql.pm
Richard usr/lib/perl5/Msql/Statement.pm usr/man/man3/Msql.3pm.gz
Richard Reported as bug#16784 to to msqlperl msqlperl and
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote:
Still one problem. /wg-15-locale/s//wg15-locale/
damn. i thought i got that one this morning.
i wont bother posting the script again. it's easy enough to
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