Re: possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-28 Thread John O Sullivan
These files include such things as fvwm, koules and xbill. There doesn't seem to be any tools specifically for building packages. I know the source for all the packages is kept under the source directory, but these files aren't in their subcategory directory. eg we have

possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread John O Sullivan
Hi all, I've noticed something that seems odd to me. On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this directory. Is this the correct behaviour? Is this related to the switch to package pools? I'm curious because the same thing

Re: possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:41:02PM +, John O Sullivan wrote: Hi all, I've noticed something that seems odd to me. On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this directory. Is this the correct behaviour? Is this

Re: possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:41:02PM +, John O Sullivan wrote: Hi all, I've noticed something that seems odd to me. On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing

Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 08:28:25PM -0700, Guy Maor écrivait: Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by Hey guys, where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ... I /REALLY/ hope that

Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ... I /REALLY/ hope that someone will step up ! Even if the job is not always funny this is a really useful job for

Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-17 Thread Christian Meder
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ... I /REALLY/ hope that someone will step up !

Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Christian Meder wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ...

Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-16 Thread Guy Maor
Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by processing new packages from incoming. The procedure is basically this: You get a daily email report of new packages in Incoming. You run lintian on them and check for egregious errors, read the copyright file to see if

Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-16 Thread Jim Ziegler
This does not sound like fun, but it sounds necessary. How much time commitment is required? Must somebody already be a maintainer? On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Guy Maor wrote: Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by snip If this sounds like fun, reply to this email.

Re: disappearance of dists/stable link from ftp archive

1998-04-29 Thread Guy Maor
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9804/msg01409.html A reasonable amount of time has passed. I'll check a few randomly selected mirrors and restore the links if all is well. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

disappearance of dists/stable link from ftp archive

1998-04-28 Thread James A . Treacy
The link dists/stable - ../bo has disappeared from the ftp archive. According to the dists/README, this is supposed to be the canonical way to access the different distributions. Having something like the stable link disappear without any notice makes it rather difficult to keep the web pages

Re: FTP Archive cleanup

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Meskes, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure nothing depends on the older tcl an tk versions? If so, they need to be updated. We're only going to have 7.6/4.2 and 8. I'll start running pkg-order on the archive on a regular basis and file bugs on unmet dependencies. Guy -- TO

FTP Archive cleanup

1998-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
I had written a script which checks the archive for missing and extra source and binaries some time ago. I've finally acted on its output. I've orphaned any old source packages. Some are obviously obsolete (such as tcl74, tcl75, tk40, tk41). Others are useful but have no active maintainer.

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: FTP Archive cleanup

1998-01-05 Thread Meskes, Michael
-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: FTP Archive cleanup I had written a script which checks the archive for missing and extra source and binaries some time ago. I've finally acted on its output. I've orphaned any old source packages. Some are obviously obsolete (such as tcl74, tcl75, tk40

Re: FTP archive

1995-09-28 Thread Bruce Perens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * ncurses-runtime has been moved into `misc'. It belongs in base. dpkg depends on it. Bruce -- -- Attention Radio Amateurs: For information on Linux for Hams, -- read the WWW page http://www.hams.com/LinuxForHams, -- or e-mail the word help to [EMAIL

Re: FTP archive

1995-09-28 Thread Ian Murdock
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 16:29:57 -0700 From: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * ncurses-runtime has been moved into `misc'. It belongs in base. dpkg depends on it. I was under the impression that the terminfo files for the common terminals (linux and vt100,

Re: FTP archive

1995-09-28 Thread Ian Murdock
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 16:47:52 -0700 From: Michael E. Deisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:13 EST, Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * auto-pgp and pgp has been moved into `non-free' due to the fact that it cannot be distributed