Accepted hebcal 3.5-2 (source amd64)

2010-11-12 Thread Shaya Potter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:20:06 -0500 Source: hebcal Binary: hebcal Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.5-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Shaya Potter spot...@cs.columbia.edu Changed-By: Shaya Potter spot

Accepted hebcal 3.5-1 (source amd64)

2006-06-15 Thread Shaya Potter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:33:17 -0400 Source: hebcal Binary: hebcal Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted hebcal 3.4-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-22 Thread Shaya Potter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 08:50:11 -0400 Source: hebcal Binary: hebcal Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted hebcal 3.4-2 (i386 source)

2005-05-22 Thread Shaya Potter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:25:06 -0400 Source: hebcal Binary: hebcal Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New 2.4 kernels in unstable when archive reopens?

2003-12-04 Thread Shaya Potter
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/debian/kernel/ those are Herbert's packages, archive isn't processing yet, so can get them from the above link. On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 17:49, Nathanael Nerode wrote: It's clear that it's important to fix the brk vulnerability. It is intended to release

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-09-02 Thread Shaya Potter
might it be more friendly to tab'ers to rename the dir base-doc instead of doc-base On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 02:01, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 23:11, Giorgio Mandolfo wrote: ... I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to /usr/share/doc/ but to look directly to

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-09-02 Thread Shaya Potter
that just solves a single instance, most people including me are not experts on this, and just want it to work, while I get around it by adding a '/' at the end of doc others might be just very annoyed. On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 14:25, Clint Adams wrote: might it be more friendly to tab'ers to

Accepted hebcal 3.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-08-21 Thread Shaya Potter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 22:24:40 -0400 Source: hebcal Binary: hebcal Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-15 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 11:02, John Hasler wrote: Russell Coker writes: If software can't be freely used for any purpose then it can't be released under the GPL. The NSA assert that they have the right to release under the GPL and that therefore the patent issues have been dealt with.

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Shaya Potter
btw, when I said stole i didnt mean it to be harsh. sorry if it came off that way. shaya On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 04:26, Russell Coker wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 05:35, Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:09, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:48, Russell Coker wrote

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 06:50, Sam Vilain wrote: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written SE Linux policy for administration of a chroot environment. That allows me to give full root administration access (ability to create/delete users, kill processes running under

Bug#156606: ITP: hebcal -- A Perpetual Jewish Calendar

2002-08-13 Thread Shaya Potter
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-13 Severity: wishlist * Package name: hebcal Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : Danny Sadinoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.sadinoff.com/hebcal/ * License : GPL Description : A Perpetual Jewish Calendar

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-13 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:09, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:48, Russell Coker wrote: I have written SE Linux policy for administration of a chroot environment. That allows me to give full root administration access (ability to create/delete users, kill processes running

Re: IBM Key alliances ?

2002-01-09 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 23:54, Adam Majer wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:50:49PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: There's more, if you replace the RH system they pre-install, you're losing the warranty on the hardware. Where does it say that? IMHO, that would be _very_ stupid on IBM's

Re: mozilla 0.9.7 - galeon

2001-12-26 Thread Shaya Potter
I've updated my unstable galeon package with a pull from the cvs that compiles against mozilla 0.9.7 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/galeon_1.1-1_i386.deb wget it, dpkg -i it it seems to work fine for me. Note that this is a cvs pull from 11am'ish EST on Dec 25th, so it could be unstable.

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-11 Thread Shaya Potter
-Original Message- From: John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lyx is currently in contrib. Lyx is licensed under the GPL (version 2) . It is dynamically linked against a non-free library (libforms) . According to the GPL and our interpretation of it in the KDE statement, this means we

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-11 Thread Shaya Potter
-Original Message- From: Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:20:55AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Has it been verified that lyx can't be linked against fltk? Just try and you see it won't compile. But I have not much knowledge about these toolkits so maybe

Re: gdselect alpha 2

1998-10-09 Thread Shaya Potter
-Original Message- From: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] alpha 2 is released at http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ I was trying to compile it, had a little problem with some includes on glib, which I overcame, but it seg faulted (or something like that, said glib caught it) in the

Re: slashdot

1998-10-09 Thread Shaya Potter
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Private [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 11:49 AM Subject: Re: slashdot John Lapeyre writes: Something that came up in the discussion. Does anyone have any idea what the U.S. legal system (or

Re: XEmacs, TeX, and Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures

1998-10-04 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 09:27:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. It's too bad that he wasted time that he could have spent finishing _The Art of Computer Programming_ on trivia like typesetting. It's just that he realized that typesetting isn't trivia at all, but very interesting.

possible bug in xemacs20/w3-el

1998-06-25 Thread Shaya Potter
I was trying to install the updated w3-el package, but it wouldn't work with xemacs on my machine, it seemed not to do any of the compiliation that was done for emacs20. It also killed the w3-el that came with xemacs. Is w3-el meant to be installed with xemacs? Shaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-03 Thread Shaya Potter
At 12:46 PM 6/2/98 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Shaya == Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shaya Also, linuxconf shouldn't be used to configure a user's Shaya personal information, such as .bashrc, .pinerc, those should Shaya be left to either the program itself like in pine

Consesus on Linuxconf?

1998-06-03 Thread Shaya Potter
I was wondering if we have reached some sort of consesus on Linuxconf. The points that I see are *Linuxconf can't lose any info. --This might mean that Linuxconf will error out if it can't parse the file, if you've made private changes to it. That's the tradeoff, you take a risk that you won't

Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-02 Thread Shaya Potter
Ok, I see their has been a lot of talk on if the way linuxconf does its thing is good for debian. first things first, a user doesn't have to use linuxconf. If a user wants to edit the file by hand they can use the existing tools that we have. Even those aren't perfect, if I edit my sendmail.cf

Linuxconf not losing info.

1998-06-02 Thread Shaya Potter
Sorry for not responding directly, I only get debian-devel-digest, so I can only respond to what I catch. I believe linuxconf will version every change that it makes, i.e. if you make changes w/ linuxconf and see that it didn't work, you can go back to your previous configuration or any one of

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-29 Thread Shaya Potter
At 14:17 28/04/98 -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which is my point on, the fact that it's a little hypocritical (not very, but a little), for the FSF to make emacs compilable out of the box for Motif. They would never do that for Qt, which would be free

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-28 Thread Shaya Potter
At 13:04 27/04/98 -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an aside, I am beggining to think that we need a better license, from a legal perspective, because with all the issues of shared libraries, essential parts, and who knows what else, if someone would really

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-28 Thread Shaya Potter
At 13:04 27/04/98 -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you did need a special license to compile for Motif. Good point. which is my point on, the fact that it's a little hypocritical (not very, but a little), for the FSF to make emacs compilable out of the box

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-28 Thread Shaya Potter
distribute such a program. Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize in advance for anyone who thinks I'm trolling, but wouldn't that fail the discrimination part of the DFSG? Richard has oversimplified that clause. It really says that you can't distribute such a binary with the commonly

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-27 Thread Shaya Potter
At 12:08 26-04-98 -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're probably thinking of xemacs. [Or, as other people have pointed out, emacs for systems where you don't need a special license to be legally entitled to use motif.] But you did need a special license to

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-27 Thread Shaya Potter
At 04:14 PM 4/26/98 -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an aside, I am beggining to think that we need a better license, from a legal perspective, because with all the issues of shared libraries, essential parts, and who knows what else, if someone would really

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-27 Thread Shaya Potter
Richard Braakman wrote: Shaya Potter wrote: What defines a standard linux installation. Each dist. in reality is it's own OS. Red Hat ships Motif, would it be legal for them to distribute a GPL'd program linked with Motif, and not for debian? The GPL specifically forbids the OS vendor from

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-26 Thread Shaya Potter
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:49:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why haven't we seen this enforced, or has it happend but quietly? I do note that there is no kemacs.., but there are things like krpm.. hrm.. I'd have

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-26 Thread Shaya Potter
At 09:06 26-04-98 -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: My main point was this: if the GPL has this clause about the components of a program being free, what with the large quantity of programs being Qtized, why haven't we seen any action? Probably because it's allowed, doesn't the FSF distribute

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-26 Thread Shaya Potter
At 09:28 26-04-98 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 09:06:56AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Linking with Motif of GPL'd software only allowed on operating systems which get shipped with Motif as an essential part of it (like Solaris). Which means that linking with Motif on

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-26 Thread Shaya Potter
At 09:40 26-04-98 -0600, James LewisMoss wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 09:52:32 +0300 (IDT), Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My main point was this: if the GPL has this clause about the components of a program being free, what with the large quantity of programs being Qtized, why haven't

Re:libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-11 Thread Shaya Potter
You should make sure that you record which -dev packages are installed. You also might be able to set up a script that can take a list of -dev packages from bo, and tell dpkg to install the comparable packages from Hamm. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: New official mirrors

1998-01-10 Thread Shaya Potter
Debian has it's newest official mirror. This one is in Korea. We now have a mirror on the mainland of Asia (yeah, I know that Japan in in Asia too). South America and Africa are being difficult. It'll be really be nice when we get our first official mirror in space though. Anybody got connections

RFC: ideas on Restructering the dist

1998-01-10 Thread Shaya Potter
Last week, I posted some ideas to debian-private, however, it seems to have been read widely, as not a lot of people have responded to it, and the people that have, have mostly been about the language used. I am therefore resending it, however, this time to debian-devel (which is probably more

please remove pgcc from the dist.

1997-12-25 Thread Shaya Potter
I think pgcc should be removed from the dist. because 1) the version in the dist is probably way out of date now, 2) because egcs probably contains everything that is in pgcc, and 3) because no one wants to adopt it. As I was the last/only maintainer of it, I reccomend that it should probably be

Re: How about e2compr? Was: fixhrefgz debate

1997-06-29 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Christoph Lameter: There are just the elect few who can handle X. This comes from the man that says it's OK to require people to have Pentium 200's... I'm sorry, but I can't really stand idiots, especially ones who grasp any straw they can in

Re: Calendars

1997-06-29 Thread Shaya Potter
On 28 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yukhimets) wrote on 22.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd expect that to be a problem for people in both parts of Jerusalem, for example. I am very sorry but I just don't think that debian-devel is a proper place to

Re: Calendars

1997-06-29 Thread Shaya Potter
My comment was about Israel disregard for International law, that was inappropriate. If it has to do with computers or linux, then this is the proper forum, else it doesn't. I didn't mean to say end the posix time discussion, but end talking about Israel's place in politics. Shaya On Sun, 29

dselect/new dist format

1997-06-29 Thread Shaya Potter
I just saw a post on this, but I deleted it. How are we suppose to use dselect with the new dist format. I have tried many things, such as setting the dist path to /pub/mirrors/debian/dists/unstable and using main non-free contrib as the ones I want to get. dselect chokes on this because the

RE: fwtk should be removed IMO

1997-06-28 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote: It's out of question that the software is very useful. I do use it myself (the 2.0 version that is). But we must not distribute that version at all. I wonder if it's a good idea to distribute the old version. I'd rather have an install package for

porting to libc6.

1997-06-27 Thread Shaya Potter
I got a free machine, that I can use to help the port to libc6. I have it running libc6-dev now, and also downloaded the ncurses stuff. so if anyone wants libs packaged up, tell me where to look, and I'll make a non-maintainer release (with the premission of the maintainer, of course). I would

Re: problems with SHA-1

1997-06-25 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: On 25 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote: : : IBM developed a cypher called lucifer. The NSA examined it, : recommended some changes to the algorithm, and the result was DES. : :Changes which, we now know, *strengthened* it against differential

Re: problems with SHA-1

1997-06-24 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: The problem with SHA-1 is that it is a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard, and I don't trust that the U.S. government will not place export restrictions on it. I'm also wary of U.S. FIPS for the same reason I'm wary about DES - various spy

RE: checker libs with debugging symbols

1997-06-20 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote: Sorry but I disagree here. For a user who only wants to debug his own program debugging symbols in the libraries are not needed. I'd prefer to have several packages: checker-bin, checker-libs, checker-dbg or something like that. Remember, we do

Bugs (i think) in our glibc

1997-06-19 Thread Shaya Potter
In trying to compile linuxconf for libc6, I think I ran into a couple of problems with our header files, I'll send more info later, but mostly I needed net/if.h always with netinet/ipfw.h, i.e. linuxconf had the #iclude for ipfw.h, but not if.h, and I got an error message of IFNAMSIZ not defined

Whose packagin linuxconf.

1997-06-19 Thread Shaya Potter
I don't want there to be any overlap on packaging, but I hear now that someome else is packaging linuxconf, but I don't know who. I am (was) packaging it for libc6, and I had to make a couple of changes because either it's glibc support is broken or our header files are broken. I have it using

Re: Corel Wordperfect and Java Office

1997-06-18 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Raul Miller wrote: On Jun 6, Colin R. Telmer wrote I just noticed that Corel is just in the process porting Wordperfect 7 to Linux and the following is on the web page http://www.sdcorp.com/wplinux7.htm: Certified Operating Systems RedHat 2.0.18 Slackware

Tri-Linux's discription

1997-06-08 Thread Shaya Potter
I think one thing we need to seriously work on for Debian 2.0, is our reputation. It seems we have a reputation for being hard to install, even though, IMO, 1.3 was very easy to install. Just look at this c.o.l.a announcment from tri-linux Our most popoular CD, TRI-LINUX has been completely

Re: Packager needed for Freedom Desktop

1997-06-04 Thread Shaya Potter
I'll take a look at it, but I can't gurantee anything yet, with graduation in 2 weeks (yea), after that when I am working full time, I actually will have more time. Who knows, I might be able to get a Pentium pro 200, to do some work on. Well I'll look at it tomorow after I finish with my last

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-03 Thread Shaya Potter
Well, maybe the GPL is broken when it comes to situations like this. What I don't understand is, if something doesn't contain any GPL'd code, how can the GPL force me to put my product under it. So it has the interface calls to library/.dll, copyrights don't cover how something works, patents

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: Yes, very limiting. The code actually cannot be linked statically! Can't be linked dynamically either... read the GPL. I'm not sure from a copyright standpoint how that works. A copyright means that you are protected from me using your copyrighted

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Shaya Potter
On 2 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote: Now, when you link -- statically or dynamically -- you are including portions of libc5 in your binary. This results in your binary being Umm, no, actually -- the whole point of dynamic linking is that you're *not* including portions of libc5 in your

www.debian.org isn't mirroring.

1997-05-16 Thread Shaya Potter
The website hasn't mirrored the mailing list archive (maybe everything) since last saturday. I checked cgi.debian.org and the lists were up to date there. Oh, just wondering when the search will work. Thanks, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

I'm (almost) back (and Linuxconf)

1997-05-13 Thread Shaya Potter
I am almost finished with my AP's, only having Biology tomorrow. During my free time I have thaught up a way that may allow us to use Linuxconf, and all of it's starting/stoping features w/o replacing init. The author of linuxconf liked the idea so it looks like we might have an easier time

Re: Debian and Linuxconf (again :-) ) (fwd)

1997-05-13 Thread Shaya Potter
This is the message I got from the developer. If you have any comments cc: me, as I have resubscribed to the lists yet. Shaya -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 23:37:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jacques Gelinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc