I'll take radiusd-merit

1997-12-15 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
Hi! I'd like to maintain package radiusd-merit (orphaned in 1.61 version of prospective-packages), if nobody is working on it yet. Regards, Roberto Lumbreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp 143BE391 Lander Internet, Madrid-Spain-UE; http://www.lander.es Who the

Re: RAS on an NT box.

1997-12-15 Thread Philip Hands
You need to enable ms_chap in PPP --- see README.MSCHAP80 Thanks...read it. Is there any reason, besides the libraries that this hasn't been simply built into our standard ppp package? Not that I've noticed. How much bigger does it get if you static link libpam and libdes? I thought that

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

1997-12-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Remco Blaakmeer wrote:' On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote: Definitely not! libc5-dev implies that libc5 is the default compilation environment installed in /usr/include. Sorry, I must have been half asleep when I wrote the above. libc5-altdev doesn't have to conflict with either

Re: I'll take radiusd-merit

1997-12-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Roberto Lumbreras wrote:' Hi! I'd like to maintain package radiusd-merit (orphaned in 1.61 version of prospective-packages), if nobody is working on it yet. Excellent. Maybe you can find the buffer overflow when shadow support is included? -- Christopher J. Fearnley |

[FIXED] Re: insmod sound makes a mess

1997-12-15 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote: Anytime I do insmod sound or run any program which causes kerneld to have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while -- Thanks for your help. I managed to find another copy of an old .config file for my kernel compiles, and

RE: news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Please disregarde the first 10 line of my previous message. (Error with the mouse). __ Please do not look directly into laser with remaining eye. E-Mail: Mark Ciciretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Dec-97 Time: 21:16:00 -- -- TO

Re: I'll take radiusd-merit

1997-12-15 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: : I'd like to maintain package radiusd-merit (orphaned in 1.61 : version of prospective-packages), if nobody is working on it yet. : : Excellent. Maybe you can find the buffer overflow when shadow support : is included? Humm... could you send me more

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-12

1997-12-15 Thread Adam Heath
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mdutils-0.35-5(extra) I have successfully recompiled mdutils for libc6, but will have wait until another day to u/l it. I have to apply to become a maintainer, and I have stayed(sp?) up too late as it is. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the

RE: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

1997-12-15 Thread Michael Meskes
I second that. Please do not put symbols in normal packages. I take it there are more people like me who have problems fitting all the packages they like to have on the disk. And symbols eat so much disk space. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL

RE: RAS on an NT box.

1997-12-15 Thread Michael Meskes
Yes, that's what I meant. And no, I don't need it for installation, but for using the up and running system. Up to now I have to reboot to NT to be able to access the net. Argh! Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: status of bzip

1997-12-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 12 Dec 1997, Paul Slootman wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote: Andy Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is different becuase the lzw patent holders (HP?) have given a general license for non-profit use of the patent. That's true. It's Unisys that holds the patent, btw.

Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Mitchell
Hi, I noticed some new updates of packages recently have not complied with changelog policy[1]. They are packages that I had made non-maintainer releases of previously, and to which I had added a changelog entry. It is clear that the actual maintainer, when preparing the new release, did not

Re: Amiga port of Debian

1997-12-15 Thread Brederlow
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It most certainly is not. Hmmm? What's missing then, since we are running a perfectly working 1.2.17 system... Any sane Amiga installation disks; a non-buggy-pseudo-1.3 base set. And as of

Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is clear that the actual maintainer, when preparing the new release, did not downloaded the non-maintainer release beforehand. The non-maintainer releases were made about 2 months before these current releases. While I don't consider these problems that

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Christian Leutloff
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe that debhelper address one of Ian's main complaints at all. If I remeber correctly, that complaint was that when you use debmake (or debhelper), you end up with debian package source with non-deterministic behavior. Depending on the

2.0.32, XNvidia, Vtk

1997-12-15 Thread Alexander Supalov
Dear Gurus, I saw today that Linux kernel 2.0.32 had been released as a Debian package. Is it safe to upgrade the existing Debian.1.3.r4 to this kernel? What about all the libc6 stuff? Should I have it installed or should I better wait until the the next major Debian release arrives? If so, when

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Leutloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it's nice to have, but brings no advantages. If we change the autoconfish thing we get the same different binaries as through changing debhelper/debmake. It's IMHO only a different view but no substantial change. And debhelper is working NOW - the

Re: news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread bruce
Ian, My main concern is whether we are getting completely clueless people who are not interested in Linux at all on debian-devel because of the news gateway. If that is not the case, I dont' have justification to remove it. I don't see a reason to take it off the gateway because it would unsettle

Strange mail problem

1997-12-15 Thread liiwi
Hello! I'm having trouble with fetchmail and procmail. The trouble is that fetchmail ignores the 'mda formail -s procmail' line totally and delivers all mail to port 25. nice. I can't remember, how many times I have checked everything. This might have a connection with another problem

Re: 2.0.32, XNvidia, Vtk

1997-12-15 Thread bruce
Vtk would fit in non-free. I think it's worth it to ask them to modify their license to fit the DFSG, I'll fire off a note. This probably means changes in diff files only (which Ian hates, but I still think is a good compromise). Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Leutloff wrote: I don't believe that debhelper address one of Ian's main complaints at all. If I remeber correctly, that complaint was that when you use debmake (or debhelper), you end up with debian package source with non-deterministic behavior. Depending on the version of

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: With debmake, new functionality was added all the time, and was added into the same debstd program, changing its behavior, and so different versions could have widly differing results on the same package. With debstd, each individual program has a well-defined job, and so

Nags...

1997-12-15 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
FYI, I'm receiving all of the bug system nags for Christian Linhart for his abandoned packages (xarchie and bibindex). I guess his account was eliminated from master and my master account username is the same as his old one, so the bug system is nagging me. I don't have a problem with the nags

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 12:20:10AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good old commodore 64 days?). AFAIK,

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-12-15 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I am wondering that NIS+ is not in the list of packages which are not yet available in Debian. Did nobody ask for it? Reference: http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni StuttgartTel.:

Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

1997-12-15 Thread Adam P. Harris
Fabrizio == Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could let the -dev versions of packages have diversions of the libraries to unstripped versions, and have the runtime versions have stripped versions. Interesting idea. I can't say I'm completely clear on

Re: new GTK+ release

1997-12-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
bruce == bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bruce There is a new GTK+ release 0.99.0 . This is coordinated bruce with the upcoming GIMP 0.99.16 release. I'm packaging this up as we speak, with epoch 1:, to make it libgtk1 version 1:0.99.0. Hopefully the GTK+ folks will keep with this new

Re: Nags...

1997-12-15 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: FYI, I'm receiving all of the bug system nags for Christian Linhart for his abandoned packages (xarchie and bibindex). I guess his account was eliminated from master and my master account username is the

Re: Nags...

1997-12-15 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Santiago Vila wrote: Please, tell Brian White about this. Will do. Thanks! Current maintainer for bibindex in hamm is Debian-QA Group, so you should not receive any message about that because of bibindex. Yeah, looking back through

Re: /sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot

1997-12-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel LESPINASSE) wrote on 14.12.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My immediate problem is that I have the hardware clock set to GMT and my system clock is never getting set to the local timezone. Do you see /etc/localtime when you type date +%Z ? If so, then I'd say that you ran

Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems

1997-12-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I just can't understand this. I'm the maintainer of libgtk, the GIMP toolkit, which is the widget set for The GIMP and Gnome and other nice X programs. Ever since gtk+971109, however, I've been running into a problem that nobody who isn't running Debian has been running into. libgtk *compiles*

Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems

1997-12-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
A quick followup: Someone on the GIMP IRC network recently reported the *exact* same problem with certain gtk versions. But they're running SuSE 4.4.1, very tweaked. Now I don't think the problem is Debian-specific. (I had hoped it wasn't :) -- Brought to you by the letters F and Q and the

ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Adam P. Harris
Maybe I should submit this as a wishlist to the bug system, but I was interested in getting some comments first. I think that /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down should use 'run-parts' against, say, the directories /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/. This would allow, for instance, MTA packages to ship

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Brian Bassett
I think this is a very good idea. I know that the ipmasq package would greatly benefit from this kind of arangement. Brian On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote: Maybe I should submit this as a wishlist to the bug system, but I was interested in getting some comments first. I think

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Adam P. Harris wrote: Maybe I should submit this as a wishlist to the bug system, but I was interested in getting some comments first. I think that /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down should use 'run-parts' against, say, the directories /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/. So do I. I first asked

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Avery Pennarun
This would be helpful for my new wvdial package as well -- from a user interface standpoint, I would like to have a way for pppd to call me back once we're properly connected. Avery On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote: Maybe I should submit this as a wishlist to the bug system, but I

Problems compiling packages

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening, during compiling re-packaging of some libraries on the powerpc I noticed several problems regarding our libc. On the powerpc - as on the alpha - there is no libc5 package and will never be (I guess). As a result compilation of any library that provides both a libc5 and libc6

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Adam == Adam P Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Maybe I should submit this as a wishlist to the bug system, Adam but I was interested in getting some comments first. Red Hat 5.0 has a complex network configuration setup... I didn't have time to look it over in detail, but think

Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems

1997-12-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 15 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: libgtk *compiles* fine, but when I run a program that uses it, the fields where you enter text into only display bizarre characters -- which change from version to version. For instance, when trying to get gtk+971201 to work, I only got blank characters

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap

1997-12-15 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Brian Bassett wrote: I just would like to pick everyone's brains and make sure of something. I think that the following copyright would be acceptable under the DFSG: --- Copyright (c) 1992-1996 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-15 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Yann Dirson wrote: Correction: it works now (probably a compilation option that wasn't used at the time). Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables, not libs), and includes the libs symbols: aha, but shared libs are executable files, so I succeeded building a

Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems

1997-12-15 Thread bruce
It doesn't happen on my laptop running Debian 1.3 or my SGI running IRIX. I bet it's a GLIBC 2.0 interaction. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Plan to package xscavenger

1997-12-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 06:46:20PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 12:20:10AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 10:32:51PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-12-15 Thread wnpp
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.62 1997/12/15 22:51:11 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this

Debian Administration tool

1997-12-15 Thread Brian Bassett
Hi all, I recently switched to Debian from RedHat 4.2 and the one thing that I think that Debian could really use is an administration tool. Thus, I've decided to try and write such a tool. I've set up a webpage (http://www.butterfly.ml.org/debadmin/) and a mailing list (instructions at the

redirecting stderr to memory

1997-12-15 Thread Enrique Zanardi
Hello! Is there an easy way to redirect stderr to memory? I was thinking about something like: FILE *stream,*tmpstream; char *streambuf; size_t streamsize; stream=open_memstream(streambuf,streamsize); tmpstream=stderr; stderr=stream; but it doesn't work, because stderr is not a

Re: Debian needs guinea pigs

1997-12-15 Thread Mark W. Blunier
Add me to the list. I have the room to test both upgrades and fresh installs. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Yann Dirson
Adam P. Harris writes: I think that /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down should use 'run-parts' against, say, the directories /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/. This would allow, for instance, MTA packages to ship little scripts to flush the mail queue when the link comes up, pop-deamons to start