Re: dropped from private? (was Re: Packages that disappeared)

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a single mail on private for at least two months. Could anyone please check whether I'm still listed there? Me too. I haven't gotten mail from private since about

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Lees wrote: I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. This looks quite impressive. Good work! One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses strange size. The y-stretch was about 5 times of the title bar. That looks ugly. I'd rather like it to

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -c util.c -o util.o gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Ben Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Waters wrote: Ben Gertzfield wrote: I'm the nethack maintainer. If you wish to package up and maintain gnomehack, I'd be perfectly happy, so long as you use the same sort of debian/* files that I use in the nethack package, and if you find bugs in them you let me know :) Ok,

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Waters wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Just in case we misunderstand each other, you're not listed in my list of new maintainers. Thus the new-maintainer have not yet received your application. No -- maybe I'm missing something, but the Developer's Reference seems to say that I

Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

[inigo@bipv02.bi.ehu.es: (small) ANNOUNCE: gcad 0.0.2 (and CVS)]

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Is somebody going to work on this one? Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends. ---BeginMessage--- Well, just a few letters to announce that gcad 0.0.2 can be downloaded from: http://gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? panorama: www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be stable enough to put in what's the name of that forever-unstable¹ distribution?. Good luck. gCAD:

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | gCAD: | gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ | | From what I can tell, this isn't really useful, so I don't know | whether there is any point in packaging it yet. | | I just took a look at gcad. It compiles and runs. During

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
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 method should be added quick. NO! It does not _obsolete_ other methods.

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Lakofski wrote: Hi, Going to contradict myself after some more investigation that I've done: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. It is now. I'm too lame to type. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just

yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too

Re: Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the submittors? You need to close both, imho. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Re: yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | After the first crash it run but wasn't able to display the icons. Hehe. I complained to the author about the same thing. He told me that I was lucky because the current pixmaps were so ugly. Then I got suspicious and did: my_favourite_image_viewer

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian White wrote: mount 27421 mount: fails to parse existing /etc/fstab [10] (Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I've just fixed this in a non-maintainer upload with prior negotiation with the official maintainer. -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Does

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later I realized I hadn't received any mail for the day and saw no qmail entries in my logs.

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Jim Pick wrote: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. What do you

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:59:42PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Seth M. Landsman wrote: Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, just in case you haven't noticed yet, I've uploaded a fixed sysklogd package which is already installed in the archive. I've reverted a patch that caused problems. You can also find the package from: ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/sysklogd_1.3-28_i386.deb Michael

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 14 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Thomas Lakofski wrote: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is universal (only

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Armstrong wrote: The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be a 1.0 release coming up in a few months that will be thoroughly tested and

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Wednesday 14 October 1998, at 12 h 19, the keyboard of Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following are packages I feel we can remove: ... netatalk 25598 netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64] (Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Marc Singer wrote: I installed it yesterday to get a glimpse at what they are doing. I'd say it should be left out because it doesn't really work. It is a fine demonstration, but it doesn't add value to Debian until it can be used either a) to hack against, or b) to provide a workable

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth M. Landsman wrote: I've traced the problem to splogger blocking. If I kill splogger, everything is happy, but no qmail messages get logged. The problem is that no new unix domain sockets are accept()'ed. I don't know why. Furthermore, I've found that qmail writes to the log

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
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

Re: Secure Locate 1.2 (findutils?)

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
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

Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
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

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
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

Re: Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
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

Re: Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
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

Intent to packge wordinspect

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
I feel that this is an appropriate addition to the common dict client. GTK-based Dictionary Client This package provides a graphical frontend to dict, which is a client that queries the dictd server. Since it is TCP based, it can access servers on the local host, on a local network, or on

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Brent Fulgham wrote: I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and generate an appropriate lilo.conf file? This would be nice.

Re: Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, just a short remark on the version I uploaded today. The methods don't require the regular `Packages' files but use their own ones which are named `Packages.cd' or `Packages.cd.gz' resp. This makes other methods of dselect still work with the new cds. However this requires two sets of

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Christopher Barry wrote: Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208pid=128#147 Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole bunch' of code names? scnr Joey -- GNU GPL: The source will be with you...

Re: Uploaded sysklogd 1.3-29 (source i386) to master

1998-10-18 Thread Martin Schulze
reopen 24893 thanks Alex Romosan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes: sysklogd (1.3-29) unstable; urgency=low, closes=24893 . * Re-Applied patch provided vom Topi Miettinen with regard to the people from OpenBSD. This provides the additional '-a' argument used

Re: Possible serious problem with the newest sysklogd?

1998-10-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Gregory S. Stark wrote: You'll also find the new version which has the offending code removed: ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/sysklogd_1.3-28_i386.deb Does -29 have it reinserted? I'm seeing the same problem. Yes. That was the intention - which failed again. *sigh*

Re: Uploaded sysklogd 1.3-29 (source i386) to master

1998-10-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Alex Romosan wrote: Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i just installed sysklogd 1.3-29.1 on one of my systems. i'll let you know if i have any problems with it or not. thanks. well, i can't send any mail out, and there is nothing logged to syslog. i can't su either. looks like

Re: something is f***ed

1998-10-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephen Crowley wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 11:20:28AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: : On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 06:07:17PM -0500, Stephen Crowley wrote: : Ok, i just apt-get upgraded about an hour ago, to my horror i can no : longer

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Avery Pennarun wrote: I think we should play a simple game of numbers, and I think FTP statistics are a good place to get those numbers :) Since this script will only really be useful to CD-makers, this project would be mostly independent of dpkg-multicd or whatever. But not independent of

Re: Need Povray 3.1 Maintainer

1998-10-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Drake Diedrich wrote: Povray 3.1 (a raytracer) has been released, and I've had a request to package it. Unfortunately, 3.1 deleted experimental features in 3.0 (halos), and does not have the patches I applied to the 3.0 codebase (PVM, isosurfaces). Some of the new 3.1 features are already

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution screens. (using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them *all*, or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious* dependency/conflict check *before* the deep

Bug#32068: multicd can't reinstall removed package

1999-01-18 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Package: dpkg-multicd Version: 0.11 Severity: important I'm awfully sorry but apparently I have to file an important bug report against this pkackage (or dpkg?). It should be fixed before we release slink. First the symptoms

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution screens. (using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them *all*, or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious* dependency/conflict check

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution screens. (using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them *all*, or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: package foo needs to be priority extra since foo and bar conflict and are both optional. Fine, but why should this be more quickly fixed than the same text sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] against ftp.debian.org? Both should be fine, the bug report should be even better. I

No intend to package vbox

1999-01-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it. I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate if s/o else would step forward. Regards, Joey -- orgatech - Ihr Partner in Sachen

Re: No intend to package vbox

1999-01-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: Hi, here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it. I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate if s/o else would step forward. As Ruud reminded me isdnutils

Re: Bug#32068: multicd can't reinstall removed package

1999-01-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Andy Mortimer wrote: Solution: multicd has to copy the Packages files into $methdir/multicd/ and access them directly instead of the available file. Since this needs a redesign of the installation method and I'm somewhat short with time I'd appreciate somebody sending me a proper

Re: Is anyone reading wnpp mail?

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Joop Stakenborg wrote: I have done some posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I never get an answer and nothing really happens. The most easiest way to reach the maintainer is to enter IRC, server irc.debian.org and /msg netgod. Is anyone reading the wnpp mail? Generally yes, but only frequently

Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Federico Di Gregorio wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:54:55PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: End of June.. sounds like I'll be able to be there. Does anyone know any cheap places to stay for a couple of days in the neighborhood? I am

Re: No intend to package vbox

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it. I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate if s/o else would step forward. As Ruud reminded me isdnutils

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian White wrote: nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions This is important?? I don't know what this bug is referring to, but there is a new dpkg-ftp which can handle multiple servers. I wrote a dpkg-multiftp method for the same reasn, the new dpkg-ftp

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve McIntyre wrote: Santiago Vila writes: smail is still optional, but conflicts with exim, so it should be extra. hello-debhelper conflicts with hello, and has absolutely no extra functionality over ordinary hello, so the binary should be removed, in either case it should be extra.

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Martin Schulze wrote: When selecting all packages of a certain priority there should be no conflicts. I think that if I try to install every package with priority extra some things will start complaining very loudly.. Isn't that what Santiago pointed

Re: Bug#32068: multicd can't reinstall removed package

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
A fixed version has just been uploaded to Incoming. Regards, Joey -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

The days of mSQL are counted

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Schulze
WHO needs the mSQL database? For quite a while I'm very unhappy with it. For half a year I have worked actively in moving to a different db. Yesterday I ported the last remaining program at home which was based on mSQL to PostgreSQL though a general SQL API. There are however some programs

Re: mark bug #31824 (html2ps: can't execute) as critical?

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Schulze
severity 31824 important thanks Thomas Gebhardt wrote: shouldn't we mark #31824 (html2ps: can't execute) as critical? html2ps does not work at all with this bug. Fortunately the bug can be fixed by deleting an erroneous character in the script. I believe we should. netgod will upload a new

Re: special boot disk

1999-01-29 Thread Martin Schulze
David Stern wrote: Hi, About a month ago a developer posted that he had a special boot disk image in his debian.org home directory to alleviate a hang at install time, but I can't locate the post now. I only know about www.master.debian.org/~doko/ Regards, Joey -- The only

Re: Uploaded lilo 21-3.1 (source i386) to master [NMU]

1999-01-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Vincent Renardias wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: thanks for the NMU without asking the maintainer FIRST, AGAIN :-/// No problem, I will mail you next time. Note: the last upload of this package was last month and there is no reason for a quick uplaod since there

Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-02-02 Thread Martin Schulze
FYI: I have sent in two abstracts for talks at the Linux Tag, one of them is about Debian GNU. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

CoolEdit Text Editor

1999-05-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package the CoolEdit HTML editor? From: http://www.netins.net/showcase/Comput-IT/cooledit/ CoolEdit is a text editor for the X Window System. It provides many features that are very useful to programmers. Things like: *

Hardware working with Linux

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened

Bug#37755: general: Woes from upgrading 2.0 - 2.1

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Inaky Perez Gonzalez wrote: Package: general Version: N/A Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful. I have received a report about upgrading as well. He failed... But: There were two things which

Re: PostgreSQL INC Press Release

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Schulze
I have received this, you'd know better what to do. Regards, Joey Jeff MacDonald wrote: Greetings, Today we (PostgreSQL INC.) made our Initial Press Release at http://www.pgsql.com/release.html Regarding the beginning of techincal support etc. Also we are

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel, when one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan to order myself a machine when my

Re: new arch required

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: i'd like to request debian/pa-risc. i am packaging binutils as we speak. after this, i will package egcs. however, there will not be a working kernel for a number of months. with egcs and binutils, packages should be able to built even before there is a working kernel :)

Re: new arch required

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: If you have a compiler packaged, somebody else is working on kernels, i am not sure when the kernel changes will be merged into the linus kernels. whispervger/whisper would you like me to start a list on the ift server? i expect it will be extremley low traffic until

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: Justin, can you find out if those machines are binary compatible. I've heard that there are two general types flying around (5i and 3i, iirc). I wonder if one new architecture is enough or if we need both - like for mips. which two machines? the ones the puffins

Re: correct apt deb line for non-us?

1999-05-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthias Klose wrote: Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with apt-get? Or is the reorganisation not finished? Currently neither of the following lines work: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian unstable

Naming and Identifying

1999-05-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, recently I have been fouled by some very nasty incidents which made me think that I have made something wrong with our boot floppies. Here is the story. I've created German boot-floppies, but only regular ones, no tecra images. I had to create a slink cd set for a German distributor

Re: sgml-tools and super weirdness

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Schulze
- * NMU for slink - -- Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:57:04 -0500 + -- Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:21:39 +0100 super (3.11.7-1) stable frozen unstable; urgency=high Apparently we need a cluebat for one of our security officers... Yep, I do

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Schulze
James Troup wrote: Eh, calm down, Joey. I not only can, but should and have decided that GnuPG keys must be verified before they enter the keyring, i.e. I'm not going to add a random key from a random developer without proof it comes from that developer. I'll hope you'll be so kind as to

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: All it means is that GPG should be used in a mode where it will not interoperate with PGP 2.x. This is what Joey's HOWTO recommended more or less. So correct it. You seem to want to give it away rather strongly, so I'd be happy to pick it up and add a few

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And an updated version is at http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2). Err, can you please wait for this until a) debconf has been accepted and b) there will be proper support for it and c)

Debian's involvement in another exhibition

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
. Debian will have a free booth, staffed with.. somebody Contact: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] German Events [EMAIL PROTECTED] Involvement: Free booth, organized by Debian maintainer Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/ -- A mathematician is a machine

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Just a quick inquiry -- Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.

Re: Debian's involvement in another exhibition

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/ : The dnsserver returned: : : DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found : (authoritative). Doesn't look like the DNS is set up yet. Also

Re: Debian 2.1r3

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Rutter wrote: The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right? I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2, but I thought I received a message from the security team about r3 last week somtime. Just wanted to check before I filed a boring bug

Re: Shortening release cycles

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Greenland wrote: I liked a lot of these ideas, but: On 12-Sep-99, 20:22 (CDT), Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our current situation results in our stable release being hopelessly out-dated and the unstable release not being releaseable. That's quite bad for a lot of our

Re: Packages removed from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Richard Braakman wrote: I removed these packages from frozen today. Package: xexec (debian/contrib). Maintainer: Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Also removed from unstable] 56762 xexec: GPLed software linked against non-compatible Qt2 According to this short description it needs to be

Re: cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a 'loginfo' file configuration that works for alioth. I thought I have found a solution few days ago, but when I came back, it no longer seems to work correctly: CVSROOT/loginfo contains: DEFAULT /usr/bin/cvs-mailcommit --mailto [EMAIL

Re: Bug#345091: ITP: checkgmail -- Alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Sandro Tosi wrote: I looked at the homepage, and while this does appear useful, is it really nescessary to be packaged all by itself? Think about a collection package; I don't think debian should be overloaded with tons of single-program packages. I'm getting used to package software

Security update modifies (inofficial) ABI and hidden API

2006-02-11 Thread Martin Schulze
We could use some advice and help with the GnuTLS / libasn1 update that would fix the vulnerabilities reported recently. The fix for libasn1 adds arguments to exported function. However, these functions are named _asn_* and should not be used outside of this library. Unfortunately GnuTLS is

Sending letters

2006-03-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi Henrique! The debian/changelog file is a file to document changes in the respective package and not an arbitrary file to collect letters to the stable release manager or anybody else. The latter should be reached via mail. Also, talking to the release manager before uploading a package, best

Re: New packages.debian.org

2006-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Montag, 6. März 2006 18:29 schrieb Martin Schulze: The Debian project happily announces the re-availability of the packages.debian.org service on a new machine. The system has been donated by Schlund + Parner where it is hosted as well. It is a DualCore

Re: New packages.debian.org

2006-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Robert Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] really cool and thanks to schlund and partner, but the links to the changelogs and the copyright file at the bottom of each packages page don't work. probbaly just something really minor... Didn't such things use to be

Re: The Debian Backup Server

2006-03-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: The services in the backup are: Are there any plans to add svn.debian.org / alioth to this set? No. Alioth will have its own backup facility. (/me is glad he's still backing up his svn repos on his own..) Good. Regards, Joey -- Life

Re: Debian Backup Server (was: Questions to the candidates)

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Küster wrote: Moving this to -devel, it's off-topic for -vote; Cc to -admin. Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At some place where it can be found even if you don't want to look up a month-old announcement. What about http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, and the developers

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Nathanael Nerode wrote: It looks approximately as though nothing has been examined since a month ago. Although that doesn't explain the packages listed up top. DWN permanently lists new packages, have this always been false positives? Regards, Joey -- The only stupid question is the

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Nico Golde wrote: Could be, but I believe I heard that most NEW processing is done by one of the assistants while the mirror split is done by someone else. I guess that one person got busy or demotivated. I suspect NEW Well, that person is currently on the CeBIT and manning the

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-13 19:19]: Nico Golde wrote: Could be, but I believe I heard that most NEW processing is done by one of the assistants while the mirror split is done by someone else. I guess that one person got busy

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Schulze
[Sorry for the late response, I don't read -devel daily anymore.] martin f krafft wrote: As someone who has served (and continues to serve) on several core teams within Debian, would you be able to give us some insights into how the situation may be improved? In theory the team needs to

Re: idea for project machines

2006-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was ranting about that on irc before, and was told that this is 1) considered to be a security risk and 2) not worth the effort. The additional concern I had was that an automatic solution would put less load on DSA.

Re: Bug#59907: emacs19: Unable to update to latest release

2000-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Stevens wrote: Package: emacs19 Version: 19.34-21 Hi. Unable to update to latest stable release -- typescript of failure attached. Script started on Wed Mar 8 11:43:42 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aapt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package

Resume from CeBIT fair 2000

2000-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
We're back from CeBIT exhibition, taking place in Germany from Feb 23rd to Mar 1st. Several developers have met there and presented both Debian and Debian-related distributions. We've had a lot of fun and appreciated the contacts we were able to make. We're trying to summarize our experiences

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