Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: > any news one getting php4 into testing? pretty please :)) And here was me thinking you already knew all about this... Okay. First, php3 and apache. The apache in testing is old, old, old. Getting the apache from unstable into testing, w

Re: character sets

2001-04-27 Thread zhaoway
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I have the unstable xemacs21-gtk mule installed, I only have > mule input methods for Japanese and Chinese. Just FYI, most Chinese users use XIM based IMs, instead of Emacs based IMs. Emacs IMs for Chinese lags very behind in comparing. -- http://dim.

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Herbert Xu wrote: > > Now, my gut instinct says that, as of this moment in time, no one has > > addressed the building of this initrd, to use at boot time, AFTER > > installation. Yes, we may have an installation initrd, but, in almost all > > circles, that is going to be different that what is us

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
I'm coming in a bit late, but I have not seen this addressed in the thread: What about other kernel modules packages that are part of debian? Will we need 6 or 7 pcmcia-modules-2.2.3-* packages, for example? If so, that quickly grows beyone unweildly, both in archive size (Craig's complaints are m

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:46:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm coming in a bit late, but I have not seen this addressed in the > thread: What about other kernel modules packages that are part of > debian? Will we need 6 or 7 pcmcia-modules-2.2.3-* packages, for > example? Yes. However, we alrea

Re: debconf in potato

2001-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Does anyone know how to fix or work around this? > > lists:/etc/apt# dpkg -i > /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_3.22.32-6_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 12496 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace mysql-server 3.22.32-4 (using > .../mys

porting questions

2001-04-27 Thread Joshua Haberman
This is a re-post of questions I posted to debian-mentors several days ago. I received no replies, but in a private e-mail another developer said that he'd asked the same questions before and never received a definitive answer. Trying to play the part of the conscientious maintainer, I wanted to m

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:13:37AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:00:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: > > > Package: cvs (debian/main) > > > Maintainer: Eric Gillespie, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 95263 missing build depe

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > I think in principle glib may be a good idea, but it is overdone. I think I disagree. Look down the road five or ten years. Maybe at that point, there will be a good reason for gint to be different from the standard C int, but yet backwards-compatible

Re: ITP: ghfaxviewer - the GNU HaliFAX Viewer

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:30:41AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:49:11AM -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > Package: ghfaxviewer > > Version: 0.21.1-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Licence is GNU General Public License version 2 > > Don't CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when m

Re: character sets

2001-04-27 Thread Brian May
> "Stephen" == Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> 1. use xemacs mule latin input mode. It doesn't work for Brian> me, have to try and find out why. Maybe I need to include Brian> something in my .emacs file, or m

Re: fortunes-atheist copyright again (would be FW: Re: copyright)

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:37:10PM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: > I currently, and intentionally, have no copyright over the fortunes > collection. I encourage everyone to copy it and use it freely, and as > far as your system goes, you're most certainly welcome to it. That's all we need. A full

Re: ITP: ghfaxviewer - the GNU HaliFAX Viewer

2001-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:49:11AM -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > Package: ghfaxviewer > Version: 0.21.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Licence is GNU General Public License version 2 Don't CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when mailing debian-devel. Instead, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] only and put 'X-Debbugs-CC

Re: ITP: mped -- a small editor with syntax highlighting and more

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Roberto Suarez Soto's email, 28-04-2001: > Package: mped > Severity: wishlist > Version: 3.0.98l > > Minimum Profit (mp, mped in Debian Systems) is a programmer's text editor. > It features small memory and disk requirements (68kB), syntax highlighting, > context-sensitive help for the sourc

Re: openldap question and possible feature conflict

2001-04-27 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I have got a bug report #95246 requesting Heimdal be Brian> compiled against openldap2. This would enable being able to Brian> store the Kerberos database in the openldap database. All Brian> data is stored in LDAP encry

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Even if your idea sounds a little bit crazy, this is probably the best > way at the moment to get a well suited kernel. But I'd rather see a > kernel where all options were compiled into separate modules so simply > choosing the right modules constructs the

ITP: mped -- a small editor with syntax highlighting and more

2001-04-27 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Minimum Profit (mp, mped in Debian Systems) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements (68kB), syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, wo

tomcat and apache troubles

2001-04-27 Thread J. R. Westmoreland
I'm obviously doing something wrong but I can't find it! :( There appears to be a communications problem between apache and tomcat. When I attempt to link to a .jsp file I get "you don't have permission". What am I doing wrong? J.R. -- J.R. Westmoreland (W7JR) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:25:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > I still don't understand why the policy (version 3.5.3.0) > > doesn't simply say "must" rather then "may". > > > > Debian is a community which exists for the mutual benefit of its members. > > Members playing games lik

fortunes-atheist copyright again (would be FW: Re: copyright)

2001-04-27 Thread Carlos Laviola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Like I said before (see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0104/msg01443.html), I intend to package Wayne Aiken's atheist fortunes available at his site (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aiken/). This is the response I've got from him. I'm waiting for advice (i

ITP: mped -- a small editor with syntax highlighting and more

2001-04-27 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
Package: mped Severity: wishlist Version: 3.0.98l Minimum Profit (mp, mped in Debian Systems) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements (68kB), syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing,

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:11:41AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:13:37AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > The policy says: > > > > > > A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict >

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I still don't understand why the policy (version 3.5.3.0) > doesn't simply say "must" rather then "may". > Debian is a community which exists for the mutual benefit of its members. Members playing games like 'policy does not say I *HAVE* to do it' do not make Debian a better place. let's a

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-27 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:48:52PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > See http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/hardware/46g.png for some quick > benchmark results showing the differences between a single IDE > drive, two drives on separate channels, and two drives on the same > channel. Hm. The server r

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:13:37AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > The policy says: > > > > A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict ^^^ > > on a binary package. [...] > Some 3.x policy version added bui

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-04-27 Jérôme Marant wrote: > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > So come on people, let's install all 6000 packages, because maybe we > > could use them once. > > > Listen, I've packaged it in order to make available in debs for > people willing to test it. Now, don't b

SSH-1.2.3-9.3 Building from source package.

2001-04-27 Thread Emerson Farrugia
Hi, I'm trying to build ssh-1.2.3-9.3 from a souce package on a Potato box. (Reasons for using source package are optimization, control over ./configure flags, etc). The box is to be used for server applications, and does not have X or GNOME libraries, which the build process is looking for. ./de

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:00:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: > > > > Package: cvs (debian/main) > > Maintainer: Eric Gillespie, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 95263 missing build dependency > > The policy says: > > A source package may declar

Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:00:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: > > Package: cvs (debian/main) > Maintainer: Eric Gillespie, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 95263 missing build dependency The policy says: A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict on a binary package. Th

Re: have apt use an rsync style tool ?

2001-04-27 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Jean Charles wrote: > wouldn't it be great if you could just download what has changed > on some package ? for exemple > > the maintainer changes something in /etc/init.d/sendmail and you > have to download 1mo . > with rsync you would just download the part that changed ...

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:51:05 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Lehmann) said: > them to some extent. I like several of the routines, but > things such as g_malloc() and g_free() are equivilent to > functions in the standard C libary. I am also very suprized Not at all. Why should

Re: have apt use an rsync style tool ?

2001-04-27 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Jean Charles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > wouldn't it be great if you could just download what has changed > on some package ? for exemple There was a HUGE flameware on this issue a few months ago. Check the archives and be sure you have something positive to add before you st

have apt use an rsync style tool ?

2001-04-27 Thread Jean Charles
wouldn't it be great if you could just download what has changed on some package ? for exemple the maintainer changes something in /etc/init.d/sendmail and you have to download 1mo . with rsync you would just download the part that changed ... well just an idea

Re: Problem with installing Postgres throught APT

2001-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Rahul Jain wrote: >I had a horrible time upgrading and I ended up removing some packages with >--force-depend, and then apt-get dist-upgrading. Would adding a replaces: to >some packages help? I know that the pgsql-pl and ecpg packages were merged, >so >at least it will help there.

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Aaron Lehmann
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Now I agree that there's lots of bloat in Gnome, but I have to disagree > with you about Glib. Glib provides many handy routines (such as linked > list management, and a threads API) for C programmers. Having Glib provide > these routines is a much better choice than

Re: searching for Raphael Bossek [Mailer-Daemon@master.debian.org: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2001-04-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:45:57PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > The BTS got several of these... FYI, I tried to contact him several times before NMUing commonc++, and got neither bounce nor response. Other bug report logs against his packages seem to indicate that he has been MIA for som

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-27 Thread Rahul Jain
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:48:52PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > See http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/hardware/46g.png for some quick > benchmark results showing the differences between a single IDE drive, two > drives on separate channels, and two drives on the same channel. > > Apart from one

Re: simple g++-3.0 problem

2001-04-27 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Friday 27 April 2001 20:49, Dale E Martin wrote: > #include use #include cheers U

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't seem very reasonable to expect the Debian packagers to try > to fix upstream bugs like this. Certainly it might be more work than I could expect Christian to do, and I don't expect him to try and fix it. I expect him to forward the bug upstr

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TB> 1) Upstream author didn't change an API, they changed a direct user > TB>issue. > > False. You know, your utter reluctance to do more than write the minimal possible words causes frequent problems. Here's how it's a direct user issue.

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > > + mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! > > mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no > > longer available?) > > mpg123 won't work with the newer AL

Bug#95525: where are libssl09 and libssl095a?

2001-04-27 Thread Luca Filipozzi
Package: libssl096 Version: 0.9.6-1 Severity: normal In bug report #78410 entitled "libssl096 does not provide /usr/lib/lib*.so.0", Ivan Moore complains that libssl096 fails to provide libcrypo.so.0 etc. After several email exchanges, Ivan and the maintainer, Christoph Martin, end up agreeing tha

Re: simple g++-3.0 problem

2001-04-27 Thread Dale E Martin
> g++ << 3.0 handled the "std" namespace incorrectly and let you get away > with this. g++ 3.0 requires that you either declare "using std" or explicitly > say "std::string getString()". > >Not looking forward to fixing this in all my own code, I knew it had to be something silly like this

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-27 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Anthony Towns writes: > + mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! > mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no > longer available?) mpg123 won't work with the newer ALSA, and there seems to be no real mpg123 activity. I'll drop ALSA

Re: simple g++-3.0 problem

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:31:12PM -0400, Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Basically, it doesn't like the declaration "string getString()"... > g++-2.95.4 doesn't seem to mind this code, and I can't for the life of me > figuer out why it would be broken. I think this is the

Re: simple g++-3.0 problem

2001-04-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Dale E Martin wrote: > does not compile with g++-3.0 - I get the following error: > ~/test/c++> g++-3.0 simple-problem-g++3.cpp -o simple-problem-g++3 > simple-problem-g++3.cpp:9: parse error before `)' token It doesn't now string, since that is in the std namespace. Either insert "usin

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:46:19PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Please note that did not ITPed it since I'm not sure people except > from me are interested in such a browser. And It does not seem to make > you very happy. Unless people are interested to see it in debian > I won't uplo

simple g++-3.0 problem

2001-04-27 Thread Dale E Martin
Hi, I'm using the prerelease g++-3.0 for some testing. I've got a weird compilation problem that I don't understand at all, and I was wondering if anyone could shed any insight on it. This program: // Begin c++ program #include #include class foo { public: foo(){} ~foo(){} string getS

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Otto Wyss
>In fact, most of the options could be auto-detected from >/proc/cpuinfo. > >It could also be useful as a hardware tester at install time: >"Would you like to test your hardware (and get a kernel custom >build for your hardware at the same time)? This process will >potentially take a long time."

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:32:06AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > Yes, but only when you ignore the bloat from the horrible Gnome > libraries that entangle it. "Encompas doesn't take much ram, the ram > is all taken up by libgnome, libgnomeui, libbonobo, libgnomevfs, > libesd, libaudiofile, libgal,

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > - even if you had 2 power supplies... > - most motherboards only has one atx power connector True. And if you went for redundant PS's and a mobo that supports them, the cost would go way up. > - are the two power supplies pro

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Christian Marillat
"CW" == Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CW> Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Programs shouldn't gratuitously break configurations which worked. >> When woody is released, and people upgrade en masse to it, they will >> want their configurations to carry on working. CW> In

Grand Opening

2001-04-27 Thread Merchandise WholeSale
First off I would like to Thank You for taking time to read this letter. Second of all your e-mail address was pulled from an on-line source, if this was unsolicited from an unclean source we're very sorry, but you will not receive any other e-mails from us. This is the only & last mes

Re: Braille, anyone??

2001-04-27 Thread pm
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:09:28AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > The RNIB have released the source to their Braille conversion program > Braille-It under the GPL. This is a tool, written in C, which will URL? -- Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (work) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (home) <[EMAIL

Re: libc6 broken?

2001-04-27 Thread Ulrich Wiederhold
Hello Mike, * Mike Markley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010427 11:41]: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:40:24PM -0500, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake > forth: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:28:51PM +0200, Ulrich Wiederhold wrote: > > > If I try a ./configure or a "make xconfig" with a new Kernel, I get this

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Colin Walters
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Programs shouldn't gratuitously break configurations which worked. > When woody is released, and people upgrade en masse to it, they will > want their configurations to carry on working. In my experience, GNOME has had this problem since version 1.0; almos

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:15:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:54:30PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > > "TB" == Thomas

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:49:13AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:33:19PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high > > > speed file access he

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread mdanish
> Maybe because they're bloated, take huge gobs of memory, and are > designed only to emulate the mistakes and misdesign of a certain OS > from Redmond? I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas imp

ITP: ghfaxviewer - the GNU HaliFAX Viewer

2001-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Package: ghfaxviewer Version: 0.21.1-1 Severity: wishlist Licence is GNU General Public License version 2 This program is the GNU HaliFAX project's viewer. It is able to display fax files output by the HylaFAX(tm) system as well as any other G3/G4-encoded TIFF fax file. The range of suppor

Re: How to remove a package from ftp.debian.org?

2001-04-27 Thread David Whedon
Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:52:58PM +0200 wrote: > Subject says it all. Do I have to file a bug against ftp.debian.org? > yes http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-archive-manip.en.html#s-removing-pkgs David P.S. this sort of question can probably be best asked on -mentors. > Michael >

Re: How to remove a package from ftp.debian.org?

2001-04-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Michael Meskes wrote: > Subject says it all. Do I have to file a bug against ftp.debian.org? Yes.

Re: How to remove a package from ftp.debian.org?

2001-04-27 Thread Stefan Hornburg Racke
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subject says it all. Do I have to file a bug against ftp.debian.org? Yes. Ciao Racke -- Tech beats design - hold your breath for http://fuckdotcom.de For projects and other business stuff please refer to COBOLT NetServices (URL: http://www.

Re: searching for Misha Nasledov [Mailer-Daemon@master.debian.org: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2001-04-27 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:00:33PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Hmm, is this a typo in the domain name? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > unrouteable mail domain "nsaledov.com" Typo. He's at nasledov.com.

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:25:46AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > I mainly focused on low memory consumption, and Encompass meet this > requirement. Yes, but only when you ignore the bloat from the horrible Gnome libraries that entangle it. "Encompas doesn't take much ram, the ram is all taken

Re: How to remove a package from ftp.debian.org?

2001-04-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Michael Meskes wrote: > Subject says it all. Do I have to file a bug against ftp.debian.org? Yes, magic wands have not been perfected yet :) Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenien

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:15:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:54:30PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > "TB" == Thomas Bushnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > TB> I'm perfectly happy for hi

How to remove a package from ftp.debian.org?

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Meskes
Subject says it all. Do I have to file a bug against ftp.debian.org? Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So come on people, let's install all 6000 packages, because maybe we > could use them once. > Listen, I've packaged it in order to make available in debs for people willing to test it. Now, don't blame me about those gnome dependencies since

Re: character sets

2001-04-27 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> 1. use xemacs mule latin input mode. It doesn't work for Brian> me, have to try and find out why. Maybe I need to include Brian> something in my .emacs file, or maybe I need to unstable Brian> version of xemacs. Try usin

Re: auditd as logrotate replacement?

2001-04-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0300, Alejo Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:35:51PM -0300, Alejo Sanchez wrote: > > > well, your version would do it the dlopen() way. > > > actually we were going to ask if there was a > > > restriction on depending on dlopen(), as it could > > > b

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On 27 Apr 2001, Christian Marillat wrote: > *You* are a serious problem. > If you don't want to change your configuration each time you did a apt-get > upgrade, then install potato. > testing/unstable is for real men (tm). In that case, perhaps these packages should be removed from testing. Th

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:54:30PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > "TB" == Thomas Bushnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TB> I'm perfectly happy for him to just do (3). But what he wants to do > > TB> instead is declare real

Re: auditd as logrotate replacement?

2001-04-27 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
Hi Arthur and discussion round, On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Arthur Korn wrote: > So, basically, since auditd does feature encryption, it does not > have any chance to be the default for log rotation, even if it > was a lot better than logrotate? What giant pile of crap. But what you could do is a virtu

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-04-27 Jérôme Marant wrote: > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > May I ask why you don't mention that this is a web browser for Gnome? > > This information would be helpful for people that look for a lightweight > > HTML browser, but don't want to install Gnome. For those people th

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:00:49PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:19:56AM -0700, David Schleef wrote: > It could also be useful as a hardware tester at install time: > > "Would you like to test your hardware (and get a kernel custom > > build for your hardware at the same

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
David Schleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 26 April 2001 09:05, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> > _Afair_ it is necessary to run a k6 (or athlon) "optimized" kernel to >> > use 3DNow! in applications like xmms or lame. This probably applys to >> > ISSE, MTTR and MMX, too. > This is not corr

ITP: cgen -- cpu tools generator

2001-04-27 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist >From Red Hat, CGEN (pronounced seejen) is a framework for developing generators of CPU-related tools such as assemblers, disassemblers and simulators. It specifies a description language for describing the architecture and organization of a CPU without referenc

ITP: avrprog -- Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrolers

2001-04-27 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Package: avrprog Version: 0.1.0 Severity: wishlist Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrolers that uses PC paralell port to program the device in serial mode. The device can be programmed "in-system". Comes with a schematic of the hardware required. The hardware was designed to be efficient and un

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 27 April 2001 06:33, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high > > speed file access here though... cheap is the objective. > > You'd be suprised at the performance h

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2001-04-27 Thread Josip Rodin
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Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > "TB" == Thomas Bushnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TB> I'm perfectly happy for him to just do (3). But what he wants to do > TB> instead is declare real bugs non-bugs, on the grounds that he "can do > TB> nothing". If h

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2001-04-27 Thread Josip Rodin
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Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:41:54PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > I believe that dpkg only does that when the maintainer has changed the > script in the newer version. That's been in dpkg for a very long time. I still wonder why it doesn't work in a lot of cases though. In every upgrade I get aske

Re: libc6 broken?

2001-04-27 Thread Ulrich Wiederhold
Hello, * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010427 07:44]: > > * Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010426 21:40]: > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:28:51PM +0200, Ulrich Wiederhold wrote: > > > > If I try a ./configure or a "make xconfig" with a new Kernel, I get this > > > > error-msg: > > > > /lib/libc.so.

Re: Strange problems...

2001-04-27 Thread xsdg
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:08:04PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > Previously Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > > 1. figure out what uses insane amount of memory and apply kill and/or rm > > So, this is a common response from a

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:50:24AM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > Admittedly, it's "sort of" buried; I don't see why we couldn't modify > update-rc.d to use one of the unassigned but allowed runlevels to keep track > of this junk. I have no problem with removing all but the K symlinks in > {0,6}.d to

Re: [doko@cs.tu-berlin.de: Bug#95285: Incorrect globbing under locales]

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:59:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul Martin wrote: > > Looks like it would be a good idea to add "export LC_ALL=POSIX" to the > > default dh_make "rules" file. > > Well, we _could_ do that. It would probably have nasty effects if you > expected to be able to build a pa

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:50:24AM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > Admittedly, it's "sort of" buried; I don't see why we couldn't modify > update-rc.d to use one of the unassigned but allowed runlevels to keep track > of this junk. I have no problem with removing all but the K symlinks in What would

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
27.04.2001 pisze Christian Marillat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > TB> 3) He can report the problem to the gnome maintainers and mark the bug > TB>forwarded. > Apparently you don't understand. Read my lips ((c) G. Bush) I'll *never* > change the upstream API, I'll *never* ask the upstream author to

Re: RFC: Thoughts on building modules

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that all of the solutions I discussed involved this complexity. > I was objecting to your implication that setting up module source > packages was as simple as setting up arch-specific kernel image > packages, not saying the complexity was unnecessary.

Re: Formal request for review: [Sam Hartman ] Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes ("Formal request for review: [Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?"): > Hi. I posted the following message to debian-devel last night and > have received agreement with the summary and apparently (it was not > expli

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats fine if you have already booted Linux. However, if you are > reading the installation instructions (as what Steve was saying), then > you probably do not have a Linux system yet. > Whats the point of finding out what the correct kernel is only after >

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-27 Thread Christian Marillat
"TB" == Thomas Bushnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] TB> The current bug (94684) he said "I can do nothing if upstream author TB> changes their API". Well, this has many problems: TB> 1) Upstream author didn't change an API, they changed a direct user TB>issue. False. TB> 2) He

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:19:56AM -0700, David Schleef wrote: It could also be useful as a hardware tester at install time: > "Would you like to test your hardware (and get a kernel custom > build for your hardware at the same time)? This process will > potentially take a long time." (Yes, I re

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Markley
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:36:41PM -0400, Jason Lunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake forth: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > It is possible to disable a service simply by removing links in > > /etc/rc*.d . So long as you leave at least one (/etc/rc0.d/K*package > > would seem to be a good candidate), upda

Re: libc6 broken?

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Markley
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:40:24PM -0500, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake forth: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:28:51PM +0200, Ulrich Wiederhold wrote: > > If I try a ./configure or a "make xconfig" with a new Kernel, I get this > > error-msg: > > /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: wnpp: ITP: gq - gtk ldap client

2001-04-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ondøej Surý) writes: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A > Severity: wishlist > > GQ is a GTK-based LDAP client. Features include: > > - browse and search modes > - LDAPv3 schema browser > - template editor > - edit and delete entries > - add entries with templates > -

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > May I ask why you don't mention that this is a web browser for Gnome? > This information would be helpful for people that look for a lightweight > HTML browser, but don't want to install Gnome. For those people this > browser will not be a alternative

Re: wnpp: ITP: gq - gtk ldap client

2001-04-27 Thread Ondřej Surý
> What's wrong with the current gq package? Sorry, I hadn't noticed... I will close that bug. I appologies. -- Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Globe Internet s.r.o. http://globe.cz/ Tel: +420235365000 Fax: +420235365009 Pláničkova 1, 162 00 Praha 6 Mob: +420605204544 ICQ: 2

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