Re: Problems with javalex

of the javalex package. (Due to Sun's lawyers, JavaLex is now called JLex instead. See URL:http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/JLex/) -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66

Including non-PIC code in a shared library?

-headed machines) and that if multiple copies were run, the kernel would simply load multiple copies of the code. I'm a little worried that mixing PIC and non-PIC code might do some other harm. Does it? Or will it just make this shared object unsharable? Thanks, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages

Re: Including non-PIC code in a shared library?

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Does anyone use virtual-dev? (was Re: updated vs. bdflush -- which is better?)

Avery mentions, I would expect it to become even more so. So I'd like to ask: does anyone actually use virtual-dev? If not, I'll ask that it be removed from the archive. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB

What's a suitable terminal type for xvt?

? Should I change xvt back to xterm? Are there plans to muck about with this again in the future that I should know about? Thanks, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2

Re: What's a suitable terminal type for xvt?

Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 03:33:27PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: [what's happening with the xterm terminal types?] Please read /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian and see http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html. Of course, I should've looked

Intent to package: GramoFile

I just rediscovered GramoFile, which was announced on c.o.l.a. a while ago. It's a program for filtering the sound from a gramophone record to make it suitable for recording onto a CD. I've packaged it, and will upload it shortly unless I hear otherwise. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages

Uploaded new package: yada

, there should be no reason for 'conffiles' not to be automatically generated, with no further input. Urgh. I really ought to get on with my work now... Thanks for reading, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint

Bug#142235: O: x2x -- Link two X displays together, simulating a multiheaded display

Package: x2x Version: 1.27-6 I no longer have the time or the inclination to maintain x2x. I've just fixed a quick imake bug and orphaned it. A previous NMU'er has helpfully debhelperised the package for you. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith Hacking Free Software for fun and profit When

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

the authors to ask them to change the licences for these programs (if I should, if fact, do that)? Thanks, --Charles Briscoe-Smith PGP key fingerprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 White pages entry, including PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: deleting binary soft link on ftp sites

? --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

be using... What about W95 keys (3 of them)? Define as F20 or something? I heard it suggested that someone should get some keytops printed with little penguins and then sell pairs of them to Linux users with Win 95 keyboards... ;-) --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http

RFC: Splitting manpages into 2 packages

manpages installed (because they're big), so whenever man regenerates its database, I get warnings about bad symlinks from any packages which use undocumented. --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94

Proposed new virtual package: zcode-interpreter (long)

haven't got a master account yet, so I can't upload them, but the packages are at URL:ftp://pcsw104b.ukc.ac.uk/pub/cpb4/ in case anyone wants them. Thanks, --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94

Re: Status of Debian Policy

the machine, it's the interpreter's fault, not the game's. I'm not saying that anyone -should- keep their source secret (quite the opposite), but it does happen. --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

the -dev package (which depends on it). The only time you really want to select it by hand is when another package had faulty dependencies, or when you're installing a non .deb'ed binary. What do you think? --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp

GNU stow

(the graphical debugger) with a view to packaging them. Anyone else working on these already? --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

packages to go in contrib, too, without having to change policy. --Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Proposal to package propsel

: N/A Platforms: gcc, X11R5. Copying-policy: GPL Any objections? Thanks, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: `COAS'

that. :-) -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: gated

the download if the script doesn't find a copy already downloaded? -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Can I stay current using source packages instead of binaries?

over a dialup connection. Has this been discussed on debian-devel? I think someone suggested it. Was it Jim Pick? ISTR the idea was to use an rsync-like algorithm to generate the binary patches. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

on demand, too.) -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: [PGP]: can someone in NYC sign me?

!) Also, I'm pretty sure there's a section in the PGP manual about how to organise meetings to sign the keys of people you haven't met. That's more authoritative than me. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C

Re: [PGP]: can someone in NYC sign me?

!) Also, I'm pretty sure there's a section in the PGP manual about how to organise meetings to sign the keys of people you haven't met. That's more authoritative than me. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there. (This cache is something that was knocked up locally, I

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: ...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there. (This cache is something that was knocked up locally, I

[From debian-doc] C-A-D entry in inittab

quickly after the reboot starts, but before the machine comes back up again. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: package pre-selections tool

to before any of the other dictionaries get configured, though, otherwise the 'broken' symlink will be moved out of the way! Hope this helps, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66

Re: elvis package

into Mozilla and distribute the result. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

, and suggest they use an XFree86-like licence rather than this BSD-like one. Thanks, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

-ish and less BSD-ish, and thus help prevent the problem spreading. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: elvis package

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raul Miller writes: Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure that a program must be either entirely GPLed, or contain no GPLed parts. More precisely, the non-gpled parts must not have terms which prevent compliance with the gpled parts

Intent to package libggi-dynamic

(I mentioned this before, but at the end of another thread which you probably didn't read...) I intend to package libggi-dynamic, a 2d graphics library which provides a common front-end for doing 2d drawing via KGI, svgalib, xlib, aalib and others, or several at once. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith

Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]

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