James Troup wrote:
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Troup wrote:
They don't compile from freshly unpacked source.
How odd. Other maintainer must work substantially differently than I, then.
If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a
freshly unpacked
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Really? I use cvs, and hence all my packages are indeed built
from scratch. I was under the impression that more and more people
are etting converted to CVS, but I guess that is wishful thinking.
Well I don't use cvs, but my hand-crafted version control and
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
kushni
kushniIf there were some Debian oriented database, where one could
kushniadd his experience about installation of Debian on some
kushniunusual hardware, I would add mine about ThinkPad 380XD.
THERE IS ! FAQ-O-MATIC !
Joseph Carter wrote:
Dpkg now does support gpg though not by default (you might have still been
away at the time this came up) and it was planned to modify dinstall to
support both. Did the dinstall mod not happen or something?
Indeed not. It turned out that gpg was not consistent enough in
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Stephen Crowley wrote:
crowThat is ridiculous, there is no reason to remove gnome before the freeze,
if you
FWIW, one of the slashdot commenters on the slink-freeze, commends
slink for including gnome ( he did install the packages, too) .
John Lapeyre [EMAIL
Marc Singer writes:
I was under the impression that putting hooks in to use crypto was enough
to raise the hackles of the export hounds.
Standing near the border and thinking about prime numbers is enough to
raise the hackles of the export kooks. Ihere has got to be some limit to
the amount of
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
meskesOn Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote:
meskes libmagick4-dev19332 libmagick:
ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67 [217] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott K.
Ellis))
meskes
meskesI wish I would understand a message like
This is characteristic of reading and writing outside of array
bounds. (as determined by malloc)
I linked it with Electric Fence. It didn't report anything though...
M. S.
Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y
Hi, John!
Thanks for reminding me about that. Part of the reason I forgot is that there
is no direct link to it from main Web page. Perhaps FAQ-O-Matic deserved it's
place on Main page.
Sasha.
kushni
kushniIf there were some Debian oriented database, where one could
kushniadd his
At 21:19 +0200 1998-10-10, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Oct 09, J.H.M. Dassen Ray\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can see pcmcia (28-Sep-98 is needed) and netutils (so that IPv6 is
supported), but not a lot of packages.
IIRC, libc6 doesn't support IPv6; you need a beta version for that. So this
is only an
James Troup wrote:
Who said they were bad?
You did. A few days ago you agreed that bin-only NMU's were not ideal. I
can't dig it up right now.
They are very rarely necessary however, since
99.5% of the time (the only exception I know of is Hartmut's packages)
i386 packages are already
Hartmut Koptein wrote:
1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity
Probably.
2. every NMU must be with source
I hope.
3. Porters needn't to ask maintainers for permission
No-one has to ask for permission for a NMU. That's the point of a NMU. You
file a bug, you wait a reasonable time, if
At the top of /etc/X11/Xsession, a comment is given:
# global Xsession file -- used by both xdm and xinit (startx)
However, neither xinit or startx appear to be aware of its existence.
Does anyone know whether this is a question of the comment being
obsolete, ahead of its time, or simply wrong?
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 06:02:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was under the impression that putting hooks in to use crypto was enough
to raise the hackles of the export hounds.
Standing near the border and thinking about prime numbers is enough to
raise the hackles of the export
Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this..
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend,
and apt has the backend.
Well, I could do with some apt in-built
Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and
is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,
it looks rather pretty, it's slightly more functional than dselect but
that's about it.. It doesn't
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
What do you mean by break? If you restart syslogd you have to
restart some other programs as well (squid, teergrube, inn, named come
to my mind.)
Can you explain this? This doesn't sound very normal to me.
Sure.
Avery Pennarun wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
What do you mean by break? If you restart syslogd you have to
restart some other programs as well (squid, teergrube, inn, named come
to my mind.)
Can you explain this? This doesn't sound
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 06:48:24PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
Are we going to include apt in the base system? Its package
ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but
currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A multi-cdrom-apt
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 11:39:28AM -0700, David Welton wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:31:59PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
What would you like to see on the first CD?
Why don't we look at what the most popular downloads have been? Some
Perl/Python type person ought to be able to
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
That said, multi-CD support in APT would make me an extremely happy
camper...
This is being worked on, it's a bit of a tricky problem and got caught up
in the Big Rewrite : So it will take a bit to arrive, maybe before
release, depending how long the
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
I vote for leave them in. I feel much in favour of presenting
them to the world. Basically they work.
rantPlease remove gnome, esp. gnome-freecell and gnome-mahjong.
My productivity has severly dropped since I discovered them. They
are just too darned good and
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hmm. The revision can be passed through the env var
DEBIAN_REVISION, and possibly pcmcia is aware of that and uses that?
From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the
correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian
Replying to one's own message on the same day... sign of not enough
research having been done on my part. Sorry; here's the update:
On Oct 15, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
At the top of /etc/X11/Xsession, a comment is given:
# global Xsession file -- used by both xdm and xinit (startx)
However,
Avery Pennarun wrote:
I can whip up something like that if someone can feed me the FTP statistics.
One set of stats is available at
http://www.lh.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/debian/toplist.packagesnoversion.txt
that's only for one ftp mirror, though.
--
see shy jo
Anyone give any thought to packaging Secure Locate 1.2? Is there any way to
package this without it conflicting with the standard locate provided in
findutils?
This seems like a much better way to enhance privacy without running
updatedb as nobody and thus making users unable to 'locate' files in
If the package replaces the utilities from findutils and is commandline
compatible, you might want to find out how dpkg-divert and update-alternatives
work. I'd vote for update-alternatives. In any case please negotiate with
the findutils maintainer.
Regards,
Joey
Brian Ristuccia
The APT team is proud to announce release 0.1.7 of the next-generation
packaging tool, APT, which enables users to easily upgrade their whole
system of Debian GNU/Linux packages to the latest versions on the
world-wide network of Debian HTTP and FTP mirrors.
This release covers a few issues with
Ok, fine, then please insert a pointer to the patchs in the description,
Sorry for that..
But that still leaves the rest of my argument fully intact, and someone
stated in past messages that they sent the patchs directly to the
maintainer and NOT through the BTS, for a binary only NMU.
Martin Schulze wrote:
I brought it up already but nobody jumped on.
Great, this time people were sensitively watching.
Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images.
Everybody agrees?
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:08:46PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard.
I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6...
The Debian standard is
All I can say, Joey and Heiko, is congratulations. :) Debian's needed
this for a long time, and now we've got it! :)
Ben
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I wanna be Twist Barbie! -- Shonen Knife
Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow?
Philip Hands wrote:
So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This
does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib,
non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds.
This needs to be addressed quick!
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
to support a new field for each package CD
I know this question is slightly off-topic but I don't know where else to
ask.
There are some files which are required in multiple places in the CVS
such as debian/kderules. When I find bugs in such files I'd like to fix them
all at one go (otherwise I'll surely miss some and make things more of
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
to support a
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the
first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each
CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fits with the URI
Please implement it.
On 16-Oct-1998, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the
first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each
CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fits with
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:56:56PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we
Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time
Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
method when it reads in the CD info.
Indeed, why don't we do that instead of complicating the CD making
process with a
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
method when it reads in the CD info.
Indeed, why don't we do that instead of
Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we
Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time
Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why
Dan the compiled libstdc++2.8 package whose
On 15-Oct-1998, Joao Cardoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
|
| Hurrying before the slink freeze, here is my intention to package:
|
| Package: octave-plplot
| Version: 0.3-1
[...]
| [This will be a great improvement for Octave, IMHO.]
|
| Actually, I already
3. Porters needn't to ask maintainers for permission
No-one has to ask for permission for a NMU. That's the point of a NMU. You
file a bug, you wait a reasonable time, if it's not closed, you do a MNU.
^^^
Ahhh! Now
Hi,
Brian == Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to release them as a part of a
stable distribution, as they really aren't. There aren't any
guarantees that the stuff that runs today is going to run tomorrow.
Brian I would agree with you. They should
Hi,
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wichert From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the
Wichert correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian revision
Wichert I needed to parse that file anyway. So I just changed the regexp
Wichert a
Hi all,
At the moment I am using pgp2i, but I would like to try and change to
gnupg. My question is - will I need to generate a new public/private key,
or is it possible to use my pgp one with gnupg?
I would really prefer to keep my old one, as otherwise I'll have to
distribute a new key, not
Hi,
Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and
is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,
it looks rather pretty, it's
On Thursday 15 October 1998, at 17 h 31, the keyboard of Michael Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files. Magicfilter will print them, as
will a2ps (maybe some others will too, haven't tried it.) Netscape reads
...
will grep them. vim reads them just fine. I'm
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 04:06:18PM +1000, Chris Leishman wrote:
At the moment I am using pgp2i, but I would like to try and change to
gnupg. My question is - will I need to generate a new public/private key,
or is it possible to use my pgp one with gnupg?
Technically it is possible to use
On 16 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
If we are going to staret removing packages because of the quality of
the software, wonderful. I move to remove all traces of the travesty
of editors, vi, from Debian, since obviously as editors they are less
than alpha quality software.
and we should
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:51:45AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
emacs
M-x toggle-auto-compression
M-x auto-compression-mode
depending on your Emacs. Somebody will probably know how to put this
into a .emacs. My Elisp is quite ... rusty.
Antti-Juhani
--
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:40:38PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
Hi,
I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't
work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe
that
the best thing that can be done to support laptops is to
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
:
: There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
: method when it reads in the CD info.
... but not, if the first CD contains all packages files
Is there anyone out there who could do an upload for me?
I have a new better iceconf package ready for upload but I´m sitting on a
mail-only account. So I could mail the package to someone who then copies
it to incoming on master.
Michael
--
Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61,
Hartmut Koptein wrote:
Ahhh! Now you have it! This is very bad! Because: low on time, low on hd
space,
low brain :-), and so on ...
Forget it then. This is not possible. (Reminder: porters (i) talk about 200
packages, and after my list 'work for developers' only two people get in
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:56:06PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote:
The bootstrap compiler is distributed (mostly) as assembler
source, so they're clearly platform dependant. The sources
for the rest of the system are distributed as Modula 3 source
code, so they're clearly platform
i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a
message or in the boot disks).
when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the prompt
1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot off partition 1. the disk
controller is AHA-2940. any solutions
Hi all,
I was just working away on my machine, and using xv to display the latest
results from my raytracing project. The pic came out too small, and so I
went to press shift '' to zoom it up, only I missed and hit shift ''.
Low and behold my xserver crashed.
I've since tested and found that
Probably a pretty dumb question:
dpkg-shlibdeps got the dependencies wrong for a single deb in the
python package (tkstep8.0 instead of tk8.0).
The package is already DONE; is it possible to reupload just that
single python-tk with a fixed control file and the same revision, or
do I have to
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote:
i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as
a message or in the boot disks).
when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the
prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot
Hi,
Doesn't the version number convey the alpha nature to people?
Like, it isn't even version 1.0?
Anyway, seeing that it is the maintainer who is asking for the
removal, and the fact that I am not that much of a GNOME user (I fail
to see the point, so far), I withdraw my
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:19:22AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Probably a pretty dumb question:
dpkg-shlibdeps got the dependencies wrong for a single deb in the
python package (tkstep8.0 instead of tk8.0).
Hi, I am the maintainer of tkstep. Can you please make your package
to depend on
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:21:06PM -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote:
FWIW - I have the same problem. No idled. No logoutd.
No lines in /etc/porttime. Still get booted off the console
after several hours.
Perhaps it's your shell; tcsh has auto-logout functionality.
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote:
Hmm, I'm going to have to add a negative data point here. Debian
installed almost perfectly on my laptop (a Gateway 2300SE) right off of a
CD. I did have to recompile the kernel for APM stuff and pcmcia
utilities, which
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:02:41PM -0500, Stephen Crowley wrote:
That is ridiculous, there is no reason to remove gnome before the freeze, if
you
dont like it dont use it. There are several programs that wont run without it,
including GtkICQ which is about the only usuable icq replacement
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
While you're all on this thread, what about mozilla?
The current Debian package doesn't work with the current libc (#27181,
severity: grave).
I was going to ask Brian for an extension for mozilla as I won't make
00:00 Saturday
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
Whether or not a program sucks or is alpha has never been a criteria for
inclusion or noninclusion in Debian, as far as I know. Debian evaluates
only the quality and policy conformance of the *package*, not the
*packaged
Does anyone know where to find the patches for the infra red serial port?
At least I think there are patches floating around somewhere
Michael
--
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Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein
Fire!
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
snip
Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files.
zless nothing, a simple lesspipe.sh works great, for bigger stuff a not
so simple lesspipe.sh (Can give a real complete one if you want, its
what I use) works GREAT...
Gives file listings
On 16-Oct-1998, Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
:
: There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
: method when it reads in the
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:24:53PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
IMHO it is not appropriate to ship beta software under the guise of
release software. If it is really desirable to ship gnome, it sould
be categorized as ALPHA and installed only when a user explicitly
requests it.
I wonder what
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
While you're all on this thread, what about mozilla?
Please keep it in, too. This one's another major visibility package for free
software.
I was going to ask Brian for an extension for mozilla as I won't make
00:00 Saturday GMT,
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:39:05PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
Will try to do an upload before the freeze.
Which brings me to a general question. Let's say I maintain software A
version 1.0 and it has open bugs during freeze. Then shortly after it I find
time to look at it and find that version
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:10:20PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
: On 16-Oct-1998, Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
: :
: : There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: : files on the CD -- that
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
theone wrote:
Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after
userfriendly characters.
Oooh.. that means our releases would even have their
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:56:02AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
Which brings me to a general question. Let's say I maintain software A
version 1.0 and it has open bugs during freeze. Then shortly after it I
find time to look at it and find that version 1.4 has been out already
which among
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:19:22AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Probably a pretty dumb question:
dpkg-shlibdeps got the dependencies wrong for a single deb in the
python package (tkstep8.0 instead of tk8.0).
The package is already DONE; is it possible to reupload just that
single
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:52:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this..
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and
is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest
Let's look a bit further at those bugreports..
balsa 27726 balsa cannot be run [0] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J.
Tetlie))
balsa 27894 balsa is linked against ancient version of gtk [0]
([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie))
A new balsa has already been uploaded
Agreed. To think otherwise is silly.
As I am about to swith to Alpha, I have a conern: I maintain some
dozen or so packages, currently under i386. There are people that go
around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody
goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs
thread...
==
It's alpha software, but it's free and doesn't break your system. Let's
ship it.
If we are going to remove all packages which are buggy, we have to
ship an empty CD ROM. Bug free software doesn't seem to exist per
definition
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs
X-Mailing-List: debian-devel@lists.debian.org archive/latest/16743
[Want to know how Debian violates the GPL all the time? Check how
many GPLed packages in Debian have modifications
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
Michael Perhaps an incremental approach is good: a good gui for the
Michael existing product in this release, other features in other
Michael releases. Maybe apt will be better, but we haven't seen it
Michael yet (referring to the UI). Apt's
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:26:38PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:56:06PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote:
Couldn't you extract the arch dep parts in different subdirectories and move
them to the correct place in the debian/rules file just before building?
So you
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved an
d
is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,
I may be clueless, but could someone explain to me why this license is
automatic ticket to non-free?
quote
6. Legal
This software can be used freely for any purpose. It can be distributed
freely, as long as it is not sold commercially without permission from
Tomislav Uzelac [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hartmut Koptein wrote:
1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity
Probably.
Wrong.
--
James
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a
freshly unpacked foobar_1.1-3.dsc?
Yes.
Congratulations; you're in the minority.
Binary-only and normal NMU's are the same thing,
No they're not. Why do you insist on this
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Each day you autobuild say, 30 packages from Incoming.
Building (especially auto-building) packages from Incoming is a bad
idea, please don't encourage it.
--
James
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Troup wrote:
Who said [binary-only NMU's for i386] were bad?
You did.
No, I said binary-only NMUs as a whole were not ideal; I didn't say
anything about binary-only NMU's for i386. Please try to stick to the
facts.
They are very rarely
I wrote:
It occurs to me that upgrading a package should delete old versions
of user-uncompressed doc and info files.
Santiago Vila wrote:
The package system is not supposed to read your mind.
You should never uncompress files in place because then dpkg will be
unable to remove the
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:20:02AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs
X-Mailing-List: debian-devel@lists.debian.org archive/latest/16743
[Want to know how Debian violates the GPL
[Cc'd to debian-devel and the findutils maintainer]
In debian-devel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone give any thought to packaging Secure Locate 1.2?
Yeah, I posted an intent to package about the same time you posted this.
BTW, at least version 1.3 is out now.
Is there any way to
package this
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved
an
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Want to know how Debian violates the GPL all the time? Check how
many GPLed packages in Debian have modifications yet don't obey 2(a).]
I think there should be a /usr/doc/emacs20/README.Debian what says that
/usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/startup.el was
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:54:53PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Are you trolling? As I've said 3 times already (at least): because
they only affect one architecture. And because there are perfectly
valid reasons to do binary-only NMUs (which you seem
Hi,
I agree with the enclosed copyright notice.
Octave's author also has no objections.
Please correct, if still possible, my e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks,
Joao
Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Ola Joao,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
> "JC" == Joao Cardoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...and as of yet, no libssl09 on non-us.debian.org.
(there's a 180 day old bug report on this one)
-Thomas
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