This is the current list of bugs that are headed for the horizon.
I generated it from the bugscan report of Mar 21 15:08, and removed
the bugs that were fixed by uploads installed today.
I'll start mailing the maintainers of packages on this list.
I am most concerned about the packages that are
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
I'm sorry to disagree with you, the GNOME project *does*
distribute binaries (and packages too), looking
in http://www.gnome.org/start/ will give you pointers
to packages for Caldera, RedHat and SuSE distributed
from the
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:56:54AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
Attached you'll find context diff files against files in the ntp, chrony and
util-linux packages, as well as a new README.Debian.hwclock file for the
util-linux package.
I don't read debian-devel frequently, so I just caught
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:45:37AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote:
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
[...]
I have seen a similar symptom on 1 out of three computers that I have
running
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
License: MPL.
Which section would this go? web or text?
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:53:47PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:21:22 +0200
From: Lauri Tischler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc
should not use colors)
Junichi
Hi all,
I've got a useful cron job that many of you may find useful. It uses
apt-get to download updated packages in the wee hours of the morning while
the rest of the internet sleeps (well, at least most of it sleep :). I
mentioned it on my local LUG list, and Ben Armstrong gave me some
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
I've got a useful cron job that many of you may find useful. It uses
apt-get to download updated packages in the wee hours of the morning while
the rest of the internet sleeps (well, at least most of it sleep :). I
mentioned it on my
There is apparently a printing system out there that is designed to
replace lpr-based ones, called PDQ. I notice this is not yet in
Debian. Is anyone planning to package it? Does anyone have any
experience with it? If so, how do you like it?
I had some debs at
I'm formally orphaning minivend.. I've gotten too busy with some
programming
projects of my own. Though I haven't uploaded any real packages, I do have
a
preliminary version I had put together a while back. It's a bit outdated
by the current upstream version, but it can be found at
I just scanned through the quota bug reports and found that 4 open bugs
(34980, 44585, 46610, 48103) are fixed in the latest upstream version.
Does this justify a new package in frozen? From the changelog it seems that
the only other changes are source code restructuring and one patch:
* Added
Radovan == Radovan Garabik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Radovan On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May
Radovan wrote:
For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my
editor to go to the top of the file, and all of a sudden, the
escape comes detached
[Please Cc: debian-sgml for SGML/XML-related stuff.]
On Tuesday 21 March 2000, at 22 h 42, the keyboard of
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
License: MPL.
Good, there is not one entirely free XSLT processor in
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:42:38PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
URL?
Which section would this go? web or text?
I'd say text. Otherwise we could also dump all databases, scripting
languages and most other stuff in web.
--
The idea is
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:33:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Radovan == Radovan Garabik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Radovan On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May
Radovan wrote:
For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my
editor to go to the top of
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:56:54AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
I don't read debian-devel frequently, so I just caught up on all this
discussion, however I did file one of the bugs about this. Thank you
for taking on this issue! I have one
Richard Braakman writes:
The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
(do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
Kernel 2.2.14 is severly broken (OOM problems). We had crashes and
killings of essential processes on several machines.
I
Hi Rodrigo!
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other
key. When I do type other key, it beeps and I get no output on
screen. I reinstalled bash, libncurses5, libc6 and already trying
changing my keymap, but I wasn't
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
Hi Rodrigo!
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other
key. When I do type other key, it beeps and I get no output on
screen. I reinstalled bash,
OPAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. specializes manufacturing the man-made stone-OPAL
STONE. Opal Stone are both excellent in quality and reasonable in price.
The Opal is a new kind of decoration material synthesized by nature mineral
powder, nature pigment and high function polymer under vacuum
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So a note that GNOME packages are available from the regular Debian
mirrors would be sufficient, no?
Perhaps linking to an up-to-date list, like
Yes it is possible and I have used a similar configuration in the past.
The key is to use pam
i cannot remember the exact login configuration
but something like
auth required pam_ldap.so
in /etc/pam.d/login
and in /etc/pam_ldap.conf something like
host ldapserver
base o=TREE_NAME
with
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:13:03PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
I just scanned through the quota bug reports and found that 4 open bugs
(34980, 44585, 46610, 48103) are fixed in the latest upstream version.
Does this justify a new package in frozen? From the changelog it seems that
the only
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik was heard to say:
An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character escaping the
next
char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and what we know as an escape character
would be represented as Esc Esc.
But this would probably
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Richard Braakman was heard to say:
[snip]
59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir
FWIW, I've never seen this bug.
Package: rep-gtk (debian/main).
Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build error
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This advice ignores the admonitions I've read in many places that one
should never adjust the system clock discontinuously, especially not
backwards. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Check into ntp, that will do the right thing. (It slows your clock
down).
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
Package: autofs (debian/main).
Maintainer: Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon
crippled
[STRATEGY] Patch available, waiting for reply from upstream
We should probably go with the patch
Previously Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
Out of curiosity, what is XSLT?
Wichert.
--
/ Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Previously Miguel de Icaza wrote:
Sadly, those packages are seldome updated, and there is not an ongoing
effort to keep them up to date. I tried to assemble such a team, in
the gnome-packaging-list, but that group never produced binaries.
[.. snip snip ..]
Because nobody did contribute
The following reports an error during compiling:
--
#include stdio.h
FILE *output=stderr;
int main()
{
fprintf(output,Hello World\n);
}
--
The problem is that its not possible to
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
License: MPL.
Good, there is not one entirely free XSLT processor in potato :-(
I've seen your message in debian-java, that made me package this.. =)
Which section would this go? web or text?
I would say text, XML is not Web-specific.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100 , Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
Package: debianutils (debian/main).
Maintainer: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59121 run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs
This is a nasty one..
Hmm. Why not go with the patch in
Package: cvs (debian/main).
Maintainer: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist
Isn't this just cvs init?
I think this is supposed to be a script that creates the repos that you
listed in the configuration (debconf). Doesn't appear to eexitist even in
the
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
Out of curiosity, what is XSLT?
It's a standard language to describe a transformation among two XML
documents. It's used as a styleseet, because you can do XML - HTML, XML -
FO - PDF, XML - whatever.
If we had an XML Packages.gz, we could
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
URL?
I really don't remember. I've checked out the code from the mozilla CVS.
Which section would this go? web or text?
I'd say text. Otherwise we could also dump all databases, scripting
languages and most other stuff in web.
I've
Read the gnu libc FAQ, it contains info about why this happens, and it
pretty much explains that the first example you show is not valid ANSI C.
So in affect, it is a bug in the program to do that (since std{out,in,err}
are not really constants, but are runtime dependant).
The example you show
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:15:01PM +, Michal Fecanin Araujo wrote:
--
#include stdio.h
FILE *output=stderr;
int main()
{
fprintf(output,Hello World\n);
}
--
The problem is
HLaTeX is a Korean TeX support macros fonts collection. You can see
it in CTAN.
The license is GPL.
The only problem is its size, if it's really a problem. The total
size of the 3 hlatex packages is 50 megabytes. So it requires
additional 100 megabytes master space including the sources.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:54:54AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Package: rep-gtk (debian/main).
Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build error (prototype mismatch)
This appears to be an upstream problem specific to that version, which isn't
Yes, given docbook*, task-sgml, psgml, yasgml, and especially jade,
are in text, I'd concur that transformiix should go there too...
Philip Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm formally orphaning minivend.. I've gotten too busy with some
programming
projects of my own. Though I haven't uploaded any real packages, I do have
a
preliminary version I had put together a while back. It's a bit outdated
by the current upstream
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:35:04AM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
Hi Rodrigo!
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other
key. When I do type
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:38:58PM +, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:35:04AM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
Hi Rodrigo!
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
get the key
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
Package: autofs (debian/main).
Maintainer: Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon
crippled
[STRATEGY] Patch
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59592 grmonitor needs to depends on libgl1 instead of mesag3
Is this release-critical? Not sure. It's only a recompile btw.
Package:
Rodrigo Castro wrote:
Did you look at your ~/.inputrc file?
Yes. I even created a new user with no .inputrc and no $INPUTRC (no
.bashrc, .bash_profile too). I don't know what kind of stuff could be
in my files to screw up only letter E. The problem occurs in console and in
xterm. :-(
I
I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the
superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of
some programs in 'sbin' directories.
For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in
/usr/sbin). Other (questionable) ones
Chad Miller wrote:
Which is wrong? Is it bash' assumption that only the superuser executes
stuff in sbin, or that these programs should be in sbin? Essentially,
by question boils down to To which packages should I apply a bug
report -- bash or the others?
This has been discussed (and
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote:
Which is wrong? Is it bash' assumption that only the superuser executes
stuff in sbin, or that these programs should be in sbin? Essentially,
by question boils down to To which packages should I apply a bug
report -- bash or the
On Mar 21, Robert Thomson wrote:
In /etc/apt/apt.conf
DPkg
{
Options {--force-confdef;}
}
This will automatically choose the default action.. if the conffile
has been modified, the default is 'N'. If it hasn't, the default is
'Y' (99% sure)
This is in only as of potato's dpkg...
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote:
I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the
superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of
some programs in 'sbin' directories.
For instance, a program joeuser uses often is
Hi folks.
I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting
it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story:
I have a rack of 20 machines needing to talk to a Pix firewall with
gigbit interfaces on it. To do this, we set up a test rig using an Alteon
switch with 1 gigabit
Hi,
This is an intent to package Lua : an extensible language. I do not use it, but
my package clanlib uses it and I did not find it in Debian. If anyone is
already working on it, speak now or stay silent forever.
Regards,
Vaidhy
PS: Website is at http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~lhf/lua/
Chad Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the
superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of
some programs in 'sbin' directories.
For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and
traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or
/usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is that things that
could be needed to rescue a broken system should
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote:
Any suggestions/comments? I'd be surprised if I'm the first person to
think of this, but I didn't see anything that suggested it anywhere.
One suggestion: for some people, it makes sense to use the `apt-move'
package after downloading the .debs.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03 +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
(do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
and perl-5.005.
Package: g++ (debian/main).
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers [EMAIL
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and
traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or
/usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
URL?
I really don't remember. I've checked out the code from the mozilla CVS.
The 'readme.html' of TransforMiiX is available as
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/transformiix/docs/readme.html.
KUSANO Takayuki
Gak! I'd like to unask the question (and I do promise to have myself
flogged soon) except for Jacob's sub-topic:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different
catagory that ping?
That, I think, is a good
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:33:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character
escaping the next char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and
what we know as an escape character would be
We have done, in the past. I started a movement which ended with
gnome 1.0 debs on gnome.org, if I remember correctly. Miguel - if, at
release time (e.g. of 1.2 or 2.0) you want debian packages, the place
to bug is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am sorry, but I can not chase people down, much less at
Chad Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
OTOH, i would leave ifconfig in /sbin, as it _is_ about this system, and
it doesn't provide (much) information that DNS doesn't, unless there's
sysadminning to be done. (There's also a huge amount of inertia that it
be in /sbin/ .)
inertia aside, i
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:18:00AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
We have done, in the past. I started a movement which ended with
gnome 1.0 debs on gnome.org, if I remember correctly. Miguel - if, at
release time (e.g. of 1.2 or 2.0) you want debian packages, the place
to bug is [EMAIL
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and
traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or
/usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is that things that
could be needed to
Dylan Paul Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different
catagory that ping?
traceroute is deeper than ping. It exposes things that the casual
user neither sees nor
Joseph Carter wrote:
IMO, dist and a half is mostly fluff as far as press releases go. potato
and a half would be a potato dist with a 2.4 kernel, possibly some new X
stuff if it can be done and a new apache. It's still out of date potato
otherwise. I want a REAL upgrade!
In the case of
On 21-Mar-00, 20:06 (CST), Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Linux text console is readable (barely), but xterm uses and even worse
colour for ANSI blue. (assuming black background). The fix for this
is to change the colour used by xterm for ANSI blue, instead of changing all
apps
On 22-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Steve Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One suggestion: for some people, it makes sense to use the `apt-move'
package after downloading the .debs. Apt-move will move the .debs out of
the cache into a Debian archive hierarchy naming convention.
This is quite handy
Daniel Burrows wrote:
It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to
actually
catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses (and
slang?) were modified to handle this, most programs would inherit the changes,
and (b) even among the programs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: hostname (debian/main).
Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59410 hostname: found how to set domainname for linux
That is not a bug at all - I've mailed an explanation to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and set the
Hi everybody,
the package xfce seems no more maintained by Kevin Donnelly, someone
should take it over. The maintainer seems MIA ... trivial bugs are
not corrected for more than 172 days.
Anyone wants to take it over and package the new upstream version ? it
should be quite easy to do since
On 22-Mar-00, 05:50 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
Package: cvs (debian/main).
Maintainer: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist
Isn't this just cvs init?
59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:43:45AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
Not unless the listed bugs are release-critical. Are you sure that the
I though bug fixes were allowed into frozen at any time. Ah okay, there is
one new feature.
Michael
--
Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:15:42PM -0800, Joey Hess was heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to
actually
catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses
(and
slang?) were modified to handle
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:30:03AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
Gary Willis (www.garywillis.com) did a little ear training thing on
his web site; he is a master level bassist (really, master among
masters) and is also very generous with info about how to play. The
ear training drills are geared
I'm packaging the bnc IRC bouncer.
--
ciao,
Marco
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 21:19:36 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we
should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as
suggested in the bub report #60258.
I'd second that suggestion. Unlike the old
Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dylan Paul Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different
catagory that ping?
traceroute is deeper than ping. It
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:23:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
garabik COLOR:1:cyan:black
garabik COLOR:5:brightcyan:black
The same can be said about the default ls colors.
It shows directory names with blue on black.
yep, i forgot to mention that until after i'd sent the message.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:21:22PM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote:
The same can be said about the default ls colors.
It shows directory names with blue on black.
These must be set up by some bug-eyed alien with colour-resolution
going well into ultraviolet. :)
now that you have discovered the
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:43:08AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
Package: cvs (debian/main).
Maintainer: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist
Isn't this just cvs init?
I think this is supposed to be a script that creates the repos that you
listed in
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:50:10AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
Chad Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users
and the superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the
placement of some programs in 'sbin' directories.
For
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:19:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Hi everybody,
the package xfce seems no more maintained by Kevin Donnelly, someone
should take it over. The maintainer seems MIA ... trivial bugs are
not corrected for more than 172 days.
Anyone wants to take it over and
Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
in short, add the sbin directories to your PATH and move on.
hey, i no more want to participate in a flamewar than the next guy. :-)
i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the
normal user's path by default. i see your
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 04:59:23PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
i don't think appending to the default path would break anything.
anyone have a problem with that?
nope. in fact, i routinely edit /etc/profile on new systems to do
that (i pre-pend the sbin directories, not append them).
it only
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