Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
dinstall, the software which installs packages into the hierarchy, can now announce packages and close bugs for you. Ah, you beat me to it! I was planning to work on this one next week ;-) Well done!! dinstall will announce to debian-changes and/or debian-devel-changes as appropriate. It

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-02-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:29:46 +0100, Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have to say we are very far in the deep-freeze to consider breaking the dpkg-packge apart.. Actually, I'm just advocating the removal of the disk methods. The only really release critical bit of this report is to

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, is it really a good thing to have dinstall announce the uploads? I often depend on the announcements to alert me to new versions in Incoming. In the new setup, the announcements won't come until the package is installed, which in some cases can

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. Joseph Carter writes: That's been taken... Has been taken by... ? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread Erick Kinnee
Stampede Linux On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:31:52PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. Joseph Carter writes: That's been taken... Has been taken by... ? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI --

Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
This is kinda neat, considering what we were talking about with libtool and all, examine this ldd output: Wakko{jgg}~/work/apt#ldd `which wmakerconf ` libgdk_imlib.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1 (0x4000f000) libgtk.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgtk.so.1 (0x40031000) libgdk.so.1 =

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question: Would this system be useful to others? If so, how do you suggest that I release it? I have a certain amount of ftp space available to me, enough that I could put up a full binary and source release. You've already had a

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:20:00PM -0500, Brian White wrote: Previously Brian White wrote: apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files [0] (Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]) We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve this. You know, I

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 01:16:49PM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: Also, does it check that the bug it's closing actually is related to one of the packages in the upload to avoid the eminent typos? No, but it's not as if I've increased the danger of typos. Before you might have sent email to the

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
You know, I don't see this as grave. It means that a user can effectively export to the world any file readable by www-data. In general, this means only things that can be read by public. So, the user can't intentionally export anything that he/she couldn't already do by other means.

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
Previously Brian White wrote: apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files [0] (Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]) We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve this. You know, I don't see this as grave. It means that a user can

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:10:25PM -0500, Brian White wrote: I understand. My point, however, was that anyone who exports those things on purpose could just as easily copy the file, ftp it, email it, or whatever. Plugging a whole in the side of a boat doesn't help when the boat has no

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. Erick Kinnee writes: Stampede Linux Stampede? I would have expected something to do with cattle. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Oscar Levi
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:01:00PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: jdk1.132548 Java doesn't work at all for me on slink [0] (Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This bug should probably be downgraded. Java works fine without the named script. I looked into performing an NMU to

Re: gnuserv/gnuclient problem

1999-02-01 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Amos Shapira wrote: On Sun, January 31 1999, Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro te: |packages from potato. I am running the mule xemacs. Do we fill a bug |report against gnuserv ? I've already filed a bug report against gnuserv on October 19th:

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took the sources to cfdisk.c, ripped all the user interface code out, and replaced it with code that essentially does the following: You should try using sfdisk instead for things like this. It's the best

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Oscar Levi
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:11:54PM -0600, Jonel Rienton wrote: Slink's latest lprng is broken, it's give me a problem about permission or something'. Best to submit a bug. Make sure to make it important.

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took the sources to cfdisk.c, ripped all the user interface code out, and replaced it with code that essentially does the following: You should try using sfdisk instead for things like this. It's the best of {s,c,}fdisk, but it has no frontend. Guy

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Jonel Rienton
Slink's latest lprng is broken, it's give me a problem about permission or something'.

Re: Crack? Cops?

1999-02-01 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:25:10PM -0700, Bear Giles wrote: On a related note, I noticed that 'cops' is absent. Again, is this deliberate or does it need a maintainer? AFAIK noone ever proposed packaing it. So go ahead and do it. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF

Intent to package netStreamer

1999-02-01 Thread Shaleh
NetStreamer is Internet Radio at its finest (=. There is a server, a transmitter, and a reciever -- all following the radio station analogy. The Server listens for receivers and also sends out the transmitters data. the transmitter(s) take audio from stdin, /dev/{audio,dsp}, or .tape files and

Re: Article introducing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:23:14 +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm currently writting an article for an online magazine based on free software proyects called OpenResources (www.openresources.com) who where interested in having a preview of what Slink will

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or something that runs as root should check if it uses gettext, and if so recompile it with the

Re: WARNING: Re: debhelper /usr/bin/passwd

1999-02-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] Previously Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Is there any way of changing that default behaviour (e.g. some config file) apart from recompiling dpkg? I'd like to leave it disabled at all times no matter what the

Intent to package sniffit

1999-02-01 Thread Alexander Koch
Hello. I am about to package sniffit since it has been orphaned and wnpp also says it is free. Now if nobody is working on it already I will take it. Alexander -- The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world it's own shame. -- Oscar Wilde Alexander Koch - - aka

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Guy == Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guy In your changelog, the perl regular expression Guy /closes:\s*(bug)?\#\d+(,\s*(bug)?\#\d+)*/i is used to build the Guy Closes field. Here is an example: Note: the regular expression does not allow for a space between `bug' and `#'

Unidentified subject!

1999-02-01 Thread Brian May
I may have old versions of a lot of packages (most come from hamm), however, this behaviour of fakeroot has me very puzzled, and I wondered what is going on??? Is this something to do with buggy signal handling putting the foreground zsh process into the background??

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes: There was a suggestion a while back for the .changes file to have two fields, a Maintainer field and an Uploader field. If these are identical, then it's a maintainer upload, otherwise it's an NMU. If there's no Uploader field, then fall back to

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes: There was also the idea of running the announcement part of dinstall every ten minutes or thereabouts. I could announce new packages as they're processed. (They'd be announced twice then.) Are people actually sitting around all day waiting for new

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remember having looked at it but, IIRC, the source was less comprehensible, which at the time was the most important thing. I don't think you would have to make any changes. It's design to be easily run from scripts. Guy

Intent to package: wmaker dock apps

1999-02-01 Thread Darren
I've recently switched to Window Maker as my window manager. I'm also trying a bunch of dock apps, kinda like a kid in a candy store. Anyway, the I've decided to maintain a few of them as packages if they're not already taken. They are: wmWeather - local weather per airport weather system

Regarding several things......

1999-02-01 Thread talein
Hrmm -- several points/questions here. 1) now that I'm a maintainer, if chameleon is still available, I'll go ahead and adopt it. 2) *wince* -- since becoming a maintainer, I've modified my key... I added my debian.org email and removed my whitestar.soark.net email from my key -- and changed my

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, are spaces legal, or not? Oops. The regular expression is correct, and the example is not. There may not be a space between `bug' and `#'. Guy

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Richard Braakman
Joey Hess wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or something that runs as root should check if it uses gettext, and if so

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Oscar Levi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:11:54PM -0600, Jonel Rienton wrote: Slink's latest lprng is broken, it's give me a problem about permission or something'. Best to submit a bug. Make sure to make it important. 32628 was submitted 30 Jan. It could be

domex SCSI install disk

1999-02-01 Thread Pierre Ljungberg
Hello My name is Pierre Ljungberg and I have a little problem. I have a domex UW SCSI controller and UW SCSI disk that I would like to install Debian on, but the controller is not supported by Your distribution install disk. However I have downloaded a patch for the kernel to make the controller

Re: domex SCSI install disk

1999-02-01 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 12:46:05PM +0100, Pierre Ljungberg wrote: Hello My name is Pierre Ljungberg and I have a little problem. I have a domex UW SCSI controller and UW SCSI disk that I would like to install Debian on, but the controller is not supported by Your distribution install disk.

intent to package vstream/rtjpeg

1999-02-01 Thread Robert Edmonds
i intend to package rtjpeg and vstream: rtjpeg is real time jpeg compressor with client/server mechanisms to allow running a BTTV card over a network using ~1/10 of 10BaseT bandwidth; and vstream is an app targeted at making mpeg movies from a BTTV stream. -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 12:05:27PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or

Logo contest

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Here is the announcement of the logo contest I intend to send out later today, since the gimp contest starts today. If anyone has commments please tell me about them so I can make changes. -- As you might know Debian

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 30 January 1999, at 16 h 41, the keyboard of Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that some of the most obvious installation profiles of slink stay to be unnecessarily bloated. Giving the size of the current

Intend to package Net-RawIP-Perl.deb

1999-02-01 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I would like to package the Perl module Net::RawIP. It is, like the name suggests, a low level Networking module. It allows you to create any kind of IP package and gives special support for TCP, UDP and ICMP. There is even raw Ethernet support. This package makes it possible to write

Re: Debian Security Issues

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 30 January 1999, at 23 h 31, the keyboard of Larry Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The professor asked me to find out : What is distinctive about Debian Linux development that affects its assurance? As a recent Debian developer (Sep. 1998), let me give my opinion: What

RE: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 1999 12:29 AM To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Debian Developers; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What hack in ld.so? On Jan 30, 1999, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wish to

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously John Hasler wrote: Has been taken by... ? Stampede Linux iirc. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jonel Rienton wrote: Slink's latest lprng is broken, it's give me a problem about permission or something'. Vincent already uploaded a fix for that. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brian White wrote: Hmmm... If things were installed by hand (dpkg --install dpkglib...) or if install were to fail between the two packages, then you could have a problem where the install tool doesn't function, right? Right. But since libdpkg is still a part of the dpkg package we

Re: Bug#29166: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:54:20AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change. [41] (Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]) [...] There's supposed to be a new version of the X

RE: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Marcus Brinkmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 1999 12:53 AM To: Jason Gunthorpe; Alexandre Oliva Cc: Debian Developers; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What hack in ld.so? Hi, On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 04:06:04PM -0700, Jason

RE: Ian's solution [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-02-01 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Gordon Matzigkeit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 1999 5:41 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ian's solution [was: What hack in ld.so?] Hi, all! There's been so much traffic on this thread, that I

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 1, 1999, Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once more this proves that -rpath is harmful: If Devian use -rpath thsi will *force* the other distribution makers to place Devian-specific stuff in /dev (and if Devian was crazy, placing standard stuff in /dev, their programs will

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-02-01 Thread Martin Mitchell
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But dpkg-multicd is more than multiple-cds. There's multi-nfs, multi-mount, ... that replace nfs, mounted, ... That's why we think dpkg default methods can be removed/extracted to a different package. Ok, I didn't realize this. If the multi-mount,

RE: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-02-01 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 30, 1999 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-devel@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 1, 1999, Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that I want to be able to obtain with libtool the same service I can obtain usually without it (although with a lot more difficulties): Build shared libraries and executables, that will work on various libc5 or libc6

RE: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 30, 1999 11:39 PM To: Buddha Buck Cc: Jason Gunthorpe; Debian Developers; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What hack in ld.so? On Jan 29, 1999, Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [exact

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 1, 1999, Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, it's convenient to store the path in the executable any time a shared library is installed in a directory which the dynamic linker does not search by default. Especially if it is related to the executable. If it's a

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 1, 1999, Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since modifying the next release of libtool won't contribute at all to fix the problem in already compiled programs, which are the only programs affected by this problem I usually still build production code with a libc5 setup, and

`Vedova Linux' (was forwarded message from Ian Murdock)

1999-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
I've had a brief look at this; would anyone like to take a closer look ? Ian. ---BeginMessage--- --- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) --- Received: from optima.cs.arizona.edu (optima.CS.Arizona.EDU [192.12.69.5]) by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with

Intent to package GoldED

1999-02-01 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes From freshmeat appindex: GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind for Fidonet and quite usable for Internet. For Internet mail and news you need a

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 31 January 1999, at 0 h 48, the keyboard of Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot-floppies 32269 partion harddisk fails if WIN95_EXTENDED present [0] (Enrique Zanardi debian-boot@lists.debian.org) The report log is a little unclear. It looks like there is a version

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remember having looked at it but, IIRC, the source was less comprehensible, which at the time was the most important thing. I don't think you would have to make any changes. It's design to be easily run

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Dale E. Martin
Oscar Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my opinion, this problem is not sufficient to warrant an upload at this time since, contrary to the bug reporters claim, it does not prevent the packing from functioning. It is annoying, yes. Interesting that it works for you. It really doesn't for

Re: `Vedova Linux' (was forwarded message from Ian Murdock)

1999-02-01 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Ian Jackson wrote: I've had a brief look at this; would anyone like to take a closer look ? Not only the correct URL seem to be http://WWW.VEDOVANET.BBK.ORG/linux/vedova/, but given the filenames and directory layouts it rather seems based on Slackware than Debian... ;)

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
Hmmm... If things were installed by hand (dpkg --install dpkglib...) or if install were to fail between the two packages, then you could have a problem where the install tool doesn't function, right? Right. But since libdpkg is still a part of the dpkg package we shouldn't need to worry

Re: Intent to package netStreamer

1999-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: [ intent to package snipped ] Is there a URL for this, or is the code only available via supernatural revelation? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL

jdk1.1 grave bug (Was: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 1 February 1999, at 10 h 54, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) wrote: java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java ... The binary is somehow actually missing, and I've not done anything weird as far as I know. The other folks who are

What to do with CPAN ?

1999-02-01 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I wonder if there was already a discussion about what to do with all those CPAN libraries. Should we package all of them (naaa...) or only the best, or none of them (oohhh :-(). Or should we create some Big-Packages i.e. say the user ok, you can get CPAN/Networking of CPAN/Databases but

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:42:06PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. Just like Stampede has it? Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org

Re: Intent to package GoldED

1999-02-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:16:39PM +0100, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes From freshmeat appindex: GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind for

Re: Logo contest

1999-02-01 Thread Randy Gobbel
Wichert Akkerman wrote: ... we would like to have two logos: one logo with a very liberal license that everyone is free to use (for example on things like webpages, shirts, etc.), and a more official logo with a restricted license which can only be used on more official things (like Cd's

Debian's -rpath policy [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-02-01 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Hi! Speaking for myself as a Debian maintainer (not a libtool maintainer): Alexandre is angry because we have deliberately chosen not to fully implement Red Hat's ugly (and effective) ld.so hack, but yet we also claim that we're ``just following what everybody else is doing,'' and that none of

Re: Intent to package GoldED

1999-02-01 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:24AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes From freshmeat appindex: GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind for

libg[dt]k-1.1.so.13? (was gnome-apt)

1999-02-01 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, when I tried to have a look at gnome-apt_0.3_i386.deb I found that it depends on several potato packages. I tried to install as much as needed (well, as the deb dependencies indicate) but still get some missing so dependencies: # gnome-apt gnome-apt: error in loading shared libraries

Re: jdk1.1 grave bug (Was: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Ruud de Rooij
On 1999/02/01, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 1 February 1999, at 10 h 54, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) wrote: java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java ... The binary is somehow actually missing, and I've not done anything weird

Re: libg[dt]k-1.1.so.13? (was gnome-apt)

1999-02-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: Hi, when I tried to have a look at gnome-apt_0.3_i386.deb I found that it depends on several potato packages. I tried to install as much as needed (well, as the deb dependencies indicate) but still get some missing so dependencies: # gnome-apt

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) writes: Oscar Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my opinion, this problem is not sufficient to warrant an upload at this time since, contrary to the bug reporters claim, it does not prevent the packing from functioning. It is annoying, yes. Interesting

Re: jdk1.1 grave bug (Was: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Stephane == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephane Sam's message indicates that the i686 directory is Stephane used. Since the name includes a .. could it be a symbolic Stephane link problem? Sam, any symlink in /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin? Any Stephane chance when deinstalling jdk and

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 1/02, Steve Dunham wrote: | | I have the same problem. The file does show up in dpkg -L: | |/usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/i686/green_threads/java | | But on the filesystem, the i686 directory is a symlink to the i586 | directory, and i586/green_threads is empty. Perhaps this is a bug in | dpkg?

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Oscar Levi
jdk1.1 works for me on a slink machine. It is true that Java on Debian seems poorly supported and the maintainers overloaded. I'll do an NMU to avoid the warning...but only if we (read as Brian) deem it necessary for release.

Re: Intent to package netStreamer

1999-02-01 Thread Shaleh
On 01-Feb-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: [ intent to package snipped ] Is there a URL for this, or is the code only available via supernatural revelation? Only the truly blessed may wonder upon its blessed page .. No (=

Re: Intent to package GoldED

1999-02-01 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 06:04:45PM +0100, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:24AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes From freshmeat appindex: GoldED is a very nice console full-screen

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Richard Braakman wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or something that runs

jdk1.1 and checkVersions not fixed by reinstall

1999-02-01 Thread Oscar Levi
The reinstall may coerce some missing files to be properly installed. It doesn't fix the checkVersions warning. On inspecting the source I find the script. It claims to be part of the Linux port of the jdk and not from the sun sources. It is the debian/rules files that deletes it. To make the

Re: Proposal for new architecture support/distribution

1999-02-01 Thread Jim Pick
Phillip R. Jaenke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A bit of history first, as it is somewhat important. For those of you who don't know; Linux runs on PowerPC's. Yes. It does. Now, what big names do we know that have PowerPC based systems? Let's see. Apple. Amiga. UMax. IBM RS/6000 (RISC System

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
nonus.debian.org 23780 nonus.debian.org: libssl-dev is obsolete [220] (Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... Will non-us ever be fixed? It is but I'm afraid the bugs have not been closed. Heiko seems really overloaded (and does not reply a lot even on other subjects) so an

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-01 Thread Jim Pick
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is kinda neat, considering what we were talking about with libtool and all, examine this ldd output: Wakko{jgg}~/work/apt#ldd `which wmakerconf ` libgdk_imlib.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1 (0x4000f000) libgtk.so.1 =

Re: Debian's -rpath policy [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-02-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Feb 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: In short, we have only three choices, regardless of what happens in libtool: 1) Implement Red Hat's ugly patch in our libc5 ld.so, and thereby be bugwards compatible with everybody else's Linux. 2) Find some other way to make -rpath on Debian

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Feb 1999, Jim Pick wrote: And note that it links to libglib twice. Turns out this is because there is two 'gdk-imlib1' packages with the same soname but linked against different versions of glib! By my count we have 72 different package that depend on gdk-imlib1.. I made the same

Re: Logo contest

1999-02-01 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
the rationale behind two logos is that one is a debian is cool logo and another is a this is official debian logo. they should look different enough that you can tell whether someone is merely praising debian or actually shipping it. i agree, though, that there should be no restriction that the

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Stephen Zander
Steve == Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve But on the filesystem, the i686 directory is a symlink to Steve the i586 directory, and i586/green_threads is empty. Steve Perhaps this is a bug in dpkg? (I suspect that if you Steve remove the jdk1.1 package and reinstall it,

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Feb 1999, Jim Pick wrote: I somehow sense that slink/potato gtk/gnome is going to be painfull.. I agree. I'm only planning to support Gnome 0.99.x/1.0 on potato. Oh, I was just reminded of this on the dpkg list.. The gtk (gdk? I forget) library packages have been internationalized

Re: stupid stats (was Re: xfree86_3.3.2.3a-9 (source i386 all) uploaded to master)

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, you asked for it, you got it. Note this is a count of source package uploads, not binary packages which would have inflated the hit count for people maintining multiple binary packages. Well, I might have made it on the list if you weighted by compile

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-01 Thread Jim Pick
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1 Feb 1999, Jim Pick wrote: And note that it links to libglib twice. Turns out this is because there is two 'gdk-imlib1' packages with the same soname but linked against different versions of glib! By my count we have 72 different package

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
First, we build this large badger... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Santiago Vila
[ Congratulations! ] Guy Maor: dinstall will look for a Format field of 1.6 and a new Closes field. Is the 1.6 format required for the automatic announcement? If yes: Would not be better to always announce it, regardless of the format? -- a87a357fb4f02064e32569602502da28 (a truly random

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-01 Thread Jim Pick
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1 Feb 1999, Jim Pick wrote: I somehow sense that slink/potato gtk/gnome is going to be painfull.. I agree. I'm only planning to support Gnome 0.99.x/1.0 on potato. Oh, I was just reminded of this on the dpkg list.. The gtk (gdk? I

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
Phillip R. Jaenke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why a dolphin? Well, they're intelligent. Definitely intelligent. They're pretty cute. :) And they're definitely flexible. (I'd like to see *you* burst out of the water, do a backflip or two midair, and make a perfect reentry.;) Right, and they

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
Alexander N. Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok .. beat me for this .. but it does not realy meen 'good bye and thankyou for the fish' ! Dolphins are not more intelligent then paes or other animals. Intelligence referes also to somewhat of abstract thinking which no animal has. Um.

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 06:46:49PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: nonus.debian.org 23780 nonus.debian.org: libssl-dev is obsolete [220] (Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... Will non-us ever be fixed? It is but I'm afraid the bugs have not been closed. Heiko seems really

Re: Debian's -rpath policy [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-02-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 12:19:48PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: In short, we have only three choices, regardless of what happens in libtool: 1) Implement Red Hat's ugly patch in our libc5 ld.so, and thereby be bugwards compatible with everybody else's Linux. 2) Find some other

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