Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody). Pointer? Oops. scsidev is a part of the scsitools package. Remco -- qn195-66-31-144: 11:00pm up 8 days, 23:14, 6 users, load average: 2.03, 1.49, 1.69 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default) scd devices are group audio,

Re: gnome-panel-data

2000-08-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:15:18PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: Now, I like asclock and I want to keep it. I also want to be able to test a couple of gnome apps (like irssi). Is there a way to make dselect SHUTUP! and keep away from my

Re: Packages removed from potato

2000-03-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: Package: smail (debian/main). Maintainer: Soenke Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] [HELP] Mail to Soenke bounced. 59135 smail: Smail doesn't work with the latest libraries Has anybody been able to reproduce this bug? I have been running smail from xinetd

Re: Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Exactly. A better designed package manager would support modular package format handling. then we could simply do (let's call the package manager hpm for now): hpm -i blacksteel.etheme instead dpkg -i etheme-blacksteel.deb hpm -i

Re: netscape crashes on potato

1999-05-25 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:13:56PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: So the people who don't see crashes, which version of Netscape are you using? Do you use java successfully in Netscape? Do you have plugger installed? Do you have any other plugins

The f-word in kernel source (Was: Re: Emacs, RMS and sex(6))

1999-05-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Edward Betts wrote: All food for thought. Finally on a slightly serious note, sex(6) is quite explicit and some might find it offensive. We have fortune-off separate, so people can leave it uninstalled. I suppose the kernel source does include the word f*** a good few

Re: WARNING: Re: debhelper /usr/bin/passwd

1999-01-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: I'd say installing debhelper 1.2.28 with --force-conflicts is a _very_ bad idea. Unfortunatly, it looks like the current version of dpkg has --force-overwrite (which is what I meant to say above) enabled by default. And so anyone

Re: pppd 2.3.5 (was RE: getting kernel 2.2 into slink)

1999-01-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Ed Boraas wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote: The issue being that there IS a problem - e.g. are we going to provide ppp1 and ppp2? That sounds like trouble to me. Real Question (not a snipe): Is there any reason everyone couldn't use a current pppd

Re: LSB?

1999-01-19 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Jan 18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: It contains many interesting things that I know we disagree with. Someone should look at it perhaps? Among the interesting things: snip *** Reference 3.8-1(A) The /opt directory exists and is searchable

Re: Bug#23436: vrwave should maybe go in contrib?

1998-06-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Well, vrwave only needs a java runtime environment to run. The dependancies I've marked are related to jdk 1.1 (jdk1.1-runtime) or jdk 1.0.2 (jdk-shared OR jdk-static). Alas, I sent a mail to wnpp because I don't like this

Re: RETRACTED msql 2.0.3-4

1998-06-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 14 Jun 1998, Guy Maor wrote: passwd is required and that is enough. You can assume that all required packages are always on the system. I disagree. Since you are able to remove a

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote: I noticed that apt is not yet in hamm. In my opinion, this is the currently the single most important issue for hamm: unless we have a real good reason, we should be focussing our efforts around putting apt into hamm. IMHO, the single most important

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-11 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote: Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: everyone can use joe. it might be very frustrateing but it's possible. We already have that with ae. Is Joe smaller than ae? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /bin/ae /usr/bin/joe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-11 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Dale Scheetz wrote: ae already does this, and provides a reasonably vi ish interface, just to satisfy those whose fingers are only programmed for vi. Personally, I find ae's vi-compatibility even worse then normal ae: it tricks me

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
personally do not have/use samba, but I know of at least 2 people that use it successfully with xinetd. If someone else could confirm this bug, then I will forward it to the upstream maintainer, otherwise I will close it.. I (as the Samba maitainer) feel a bit guilty about this. Remco Blaakmeer

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08

1998-06-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: At 18:29 -0700 1998-06-08, Richard Braakman wrote: Package: login Maintainer: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore As I quoted in a reply to 22191: Here's what the author says in libmisc/chowntty.c: #ifdef

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-08 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: The bug report pretty much says: xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration problem. I personally do not have/use samba, but I know of at least 2

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote: [libpaperg contains binaries also needed by libpaper - libpaper depends on libpaperg, which is undesired] The possible solutions are: SOLUTION 1 (Suggested by Wichert) - Create the packages: libpaper - the

Re: Coming to closure on ae...

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural configuration

Re: Tiny libraries

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 5 May 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: I have a package that uses two very small libraries, shhmsg and shhopt. I packaged the libs separately from the program that uses them, but it has been suggested that I just incorporate them in the package that uses them (snake4). The libs are

Re: Intent to package: eggdrop

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Johnie Ingram wrote: This software has served the #debian channel for over 9 months, and is GPL. From the README: Eggdrop is an IRC bot, written in C. If you don't know what IRC is, this is probably not whatever you're looking for! Eggdrop, being a bot,

Re: Intent to package: eggdrop

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 5 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I guess we shold also remove rm. That program can be downright nasty in the hands of the uninitiated. What about mkfs? oh, man, the kind of damage _that_ does. Oh, you say that that can only harm the local machine? Well, we should take

Re: xfsft deb package

1998-04-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A few days ago (maybe a week or so? I am too lazy to look back and check...and it doesn't REALLY matter) I mentioned an interest in xfstt which is listed as needing a new maintainer and got no reply

Re: x 3.3.2-4

1998-04-29 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 12:25:56PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: What happened? Were the files simply removed? I was just downloading them to test the new version. Oops. Sorry, yes, they were, hence my WITHDRAWN message on

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: xdm-shadow is already available. Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the pri=, umask= and ulimit= fields in /etc/passwd? And do

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 21 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are useless. If a user had a value pri=5, he would only have to do something like echo 'command' | at now to get 'command' executed at normal

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: xdm-shadow is already available. Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the pri=, umask= and ulimit= fields in /etc/passwd? And do cron and at also know about these fields? If cron and at don't know about them and don't

Re: elvis package

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:51:57PM +0100, James Troup wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's free as it seems from the first view. The second view tells you it's non-free, unfortunately. Nevertheless I'm packaging it

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, David Frey wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:27:39PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: The comment field is used by various system utilities, such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present in the comment field. They are pri= - set initial value of

Re: Bug#20952: Bad dependency for tetex

1998-04-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 06:58:45PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: Package: tetex-bin Version: 0.9-3 Severity: grave tetex-bin has the following depends line which cannot be resolved using hamm: Depends: libc6,

Re: Number of Maintainers

1998-04-10 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 9 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote: Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting

Re: intent to package: coda (+ copyright question)

1998-04-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote: I'm looking into packaging CMU's coda distributed filesystem. It is based on AFS, with enhancements to allow disconnected use. There are kernel drivers for it in the 2.1.x series and they are available as patches for the 2.0.x series. Seeing

Re: Netscape4 installer package broken? [solved]

1998-04-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote: the new navigator unpacks itself in navigator-v405.x86-unknown-linux2.0 and not in the current directory. you have two options. manually recreate the netscape tar file so it unpacks in the current

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Steve Greenland wrote: Here's the proposal: In addition to reading /etc/crontab, the cron daemon will also read each file in /etc/cron.d (chosen for similarity to init.d). Each of the files in cron.d is considered a crontab fragment, and should be formatted exactly as

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: For Deity at least is it VERY important that the version number of packages be exactly associated with the .deb file, there must never be two .debs with the same version that are not exactly the same. As soon as that happens it is no longer possible

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: On 5 Jan, Christian Schwarz wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: I think that /usr/src should the be domain of the local admin. I disagree. /usr/local/src is for local admin. Indeed. In general: - /usr/local is for the local

Re: FTP Archive cleanup

1998-01-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 5 Jan 1998, Guy Maor wrote: Apparently there are some commercial packages which are only available in a.out format, so we ought to at least provide libc4. I don't think it's necessary to support development. I agree. I think xcompat should also be provided, for the same reason. Remco

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-19 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Raul Miller wrote: Todd Graham Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Count mine as one vote for a new LOG_DEBIAN facility. Is syslogd guaranteed to not lose events under debian? No, you could go into single user mode, where syslogd is simply turned off, and use dpkg to do

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: hamm: libc5-altdev, depends on hamm-libc5, OK. conflicts with bo-libc5-dev and hamm-libc6-dev, Unnecessary. provides

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hello all! I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good old commodore 64 days?). To be honest, I already did. I also contacted the author, and we work together on a new upstream release. The whole thing is

Re: Is cp -a allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: So use this, which should work on any Unix anywhere: cd source; find . -print | cpio -pdm target But then the package would have to pre-depend on cpio, which isn't even a `required' or `essential' package. I think this is a bad thing to use in a

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: Why can't we do the following: In both bo-updates and hamm: libc5: No conflicts, no depends (predepends on ldso, of course) (solves the problem of not being able to upgrade easily) In

Re: dselect, argh

1997-12-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: For some reason, dselect just decided to remove a whole bunch of packages that I CERTAINLY DID NOT MARK FOR REMOVAL, like lynx, apache, mutt, gs-aladdin, and goodness knows what else since I hit ^C. The available packages list looks fine, so they

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: This still forces people installing libc6 to upgrade libc5 past a version that can be used with libc5-dev. Would it? What if they would also upgrade

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote: Sorry, but don't we keep on agreeing that the --- key generating DEL is the right thing to do ? No, we don't. I could have sworn that I've been in several discussions that resulted in that conclusion, with the caveat that people should be able to