Re: Debian 2.0 CDs back in place on ftp1

1998-06-05 Thread Yann Dirson
Johnie Ingram writes: 620062720 Jun 3 13:30 CD0/Debian-i386-2.0-980603-1730Z.iso So main+contrib finally fits on 1 CD ? 335355904 Jun 3 11:16 CD1/Debian-misc-2.0-980603-1516Z.iso Could you give a brief description of what this misc CD is ? Thanks, -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL

intent to package vmailer

1998-06-05 Thread LaMont Jones
I intend to package VMailer (Wietse Venema's mail transport agent, see http://www.porcupine.org/vmailer). In keeping with Wietse's desires, the package will not be available until he releases it... LaMont Jones -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: New Project: COPYRIGHT HOWTO.

1998-06-05 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around 03 Jun 1998 23:25:12 +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: Hallo all, as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would like to start this (hopefully) littly project. I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which might be send to authors

Debian Bazaar Politics (was: Debian Re-organization proposal)

1998-06-05 Thread Fabien Ninoles
I just split the subject of the previous to take more about politics in Debian and let people discuss about the proposal. I think we too much mess up with wordin like democracy and government. Debian are neither. It's a bunch of volunteers trying to work together. If voting let you think it's a

Re: Debian Bazaar Politics (was: Debian Re-organization proposal)

1998-06-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just split the subject of the previous to take more about politics in Debian and let people discuss about the proposal. I think we too much mess up with wordin like democracy and government. Debian are neither. It's a bunch of volunteers trying to

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 11:36:14AM -0400, Brian White wrote: The freeze of Hamm is about to become much more solid. The installation has been determined to be stable and now testing is proceeding to the individual packages. This will start with the testing of those marked essential and work

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 12:14:33AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 11:36:14AM -0400, Brian White wrote: The freeze of Hamm is about to become much more solid. The installation has been determined to be stable and now testing is proceeding to the individual packages.

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Well, our news server (Diablo, #threehundredsomething in the top1000) crashed regulary with all the 2.0.x kernels but with the later 2.0.34pre kernels it has been rock-stable. 2.0.33 regulary hangs on newer Intel chipsets. I installed Debian on a

Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Marco Pistore
Hi! Recently, Santiago opened a bug against libpaper. This is one of the RELEASE CRITICAL bugs, and we were not able to find a satisfactory solution. Hopefully, you have some useful suggestion... Here is the history: On Thu, 28 May 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: Subject: Bug#22942: libpaper

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Roman Hodek
SOLUTION 3 -- Well, we can also decide that to leave the situation as it is. In this way, however, users would not be able to install the new version of the library without also installing libpaperg (and libc6...) That isn't the real problem, but the upgrade from an old system (e.g.

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Roman Hodek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SOLUTION 3 -- Well, we can also decide that to leave the situation as it is. In this way, however, users would not be able to install the new version of the library without also installing libpaperg (and libc6...) That isn't the real

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
So, where do I find the source? Helsinki only has 2.0.33? On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Well, our news server (Diablo, #threehundredsomething in the top1000) crashed regulary with all the 2.0.x kernels but with the later 2.0.34pre

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Dale Scheetz: So, where do I find the source? Helsinki only has 2.0.33? I downloaded 2.0.34 from ftp.funet.fi yesterday morning (the patch that is, I did not check to see if a complete kernel was there). You can also find a copy of the 2.0.34 patch on

Re: Intent to fix base-passwd

1998-06-05 Thread Christian Meder
Hi, sorry for being such a nuisance :-/ On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:20:52PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 10:18:40AM +0100, James Troup wrote: Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: while testing the base packages I hit the critical bugs surrounding the

Documentation/License freeness (what RMS says about it) [rms@santafe.edu: Re: GPL itself non-free]

1998-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! This is thereply I got from RMS about the copyright freeness issue. I think it is clear that we should lay the license freeness issue ad acta. Debian should include all licenses in whole, and the dfsg should not exactly apply to them. Note that we require the dfsg-freeness for the

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Richard Braakman
Martin Schulze wrote: dark: Could you run your script that checks each priority for completeness? (don't depend/... on packages of lower priority) http://master.debian.org/~dark/lintian/reports/depcheck.html#i386 :-) It's generated daily. I was going to announce it together with a number of

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Raul Miller
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://master.debian.org/~dark/lintian/reports/depcheck.html#i386 :-) Looks like libstdc++2.8 and libgdbmg1 should be required, and that dpkg-dev, dpkg-perl, and libnet-perl should be standard. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like libgdbmg1 should be required, [ ... ] No; perl shouldn't depend on libgdbmg1. libgdbmg1 is obsolete and deprecated. I asked the perl maintainer if he could fix this back in March or so, apparently it hasn't happened. -- James ~Yawn And Walk

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Raul Miller
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No; perl shouldn't depend on libgdbmg1. libgdbmg1 is obsolete and deprecated. I asked the perl maintainer if he could fix this back in March or so, apparently it hasn't happened. This close to hamm's release, we should probably rely on non-maintainer

On holiday next week

1998-06-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I'm going on holiday until the 15th, feel free to make NMU of any packages I maintain for hamm (and slink if it's really that urgent). None have important bugs outstanding AFAIK. Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing.

Re: Documentation/License freeness (what RMS says about it) [rms@santafe.edu: Re: GPL itself non-free]

1998-06-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hello! This is thereply I got from RMS about the copyright freeness issue. I think it is clear that we should lay the license freeness issue ad acta. Debian should include all licenses in whole, and the dfsg should not exactly apply to them.

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote: [libpaperg contains binaries also needed by libpaper - libpaper depends on libpaperg, which is undesired] The possible solutions are: SOLUTION 1 (Suggested by Wichert) - Create the packages: libpaper - the

Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I was hacking around on xfstt earlier today. I decided that it was too limited in that it would only accept 1 simultaneous connection (ie for each xfstt you run you can only have 1 session of X using it as a font path) so I decided to see if I could make it accept multiple connections... This

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think I'm failing to follow something basic here. Does paperconf depend on the libc6 shared libraries? If so, there is no way one could use the binaries without loading libpaperg, right? Secondly, Hamm is supoposed to be libc6. Marco == Marco Pistore [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: This turned out to be almost trivial...simply a few mods, instead of servicing requests after connect, it fork()s and lets the child service that connection while the parent loops and waits fo rthe next connect. [I think I changed 10 lines of code

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, James == James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only remedy is to remove the old libpaper, and then to install libpaper and libpaperg. James Where *did* you get this idea from? It's 200% bogus. 14:20:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~/temp $sudo dpkg -iEG libpaper_1.0.3-9.deb

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, in cases like this the order in which the deb files are presented to dpkg is relevant. So if a novice is upgrading a large set of packages, and the packages are not presented in the corect order, the upgrade process issues ominous

Twin Package

1998-06-05 Thread Brian White
I've heard that somebody is packaging twin. Does anybody know who? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.04. For this and

Hamm install on laptop

1998-06-05 Thread Steve Tonnesen
I'm getting unresolved symbol errors when cardmgr tries to insmod the 3c589_cs module for my 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card. Is this a problem with the boot disks, and/or is there a solution for this? The laptop is an AST Ascentia J series, and the card is a 3C589C. Steve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Hamm install on laptop

1998-06-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Steve Tonnesen wrote: I'm getting unresolved symbol errors when cardmgr tries to insmod the 3c589_cs module for my 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card. Is this a problem with the boot disks, and/or is there a solution for this? The laptop is an AST Ascentia J series, and the card