Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > To cap it off, the discard service seems to be enabled out of the box. So > is daytime. Daytime's not too bad, but discard? I personally believe we > should be shipping sarge such that it installs offering the smallest > number of n

Re: Bug#215556: ITP: gsysutils -- Set of utilities useful to system administrators

2003-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Mathieu Roy wrote: > The current sysutils contains: > > * procinfo - Displays system information from /proc (v17). > * memtest - Test system memory for errors (v2.93.1). > * bogomips - Shows the current bogomips rating without rebooting (v1.2). > * tofromdos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text fil

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-18 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: >It's too trivial to ask a debconf question > about it upon install so it boils down to a popularity contest. As an aside, you might want to make this a low priority debconf question. It might be trivial, but it's obviously generating a

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:24:20PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:20:03PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > You aren't trying to make debian/rules a jam script are you? > > Even if he was, that would be fine if he knew how to do it properly. It would? 4.8. Main building scrip

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Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-18 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:18:00 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uid 31 is reserved forever (speaking as the base-passwd maintainer), but > new installations of postgresql should have a uid in the system range, > namely 100-999, as created by 'adduser --system'. See the changelog for >

Unidentified subject!

2003-10-18 Thread Danish Saeed
Dear Sir, We introduce ourselves as importer, exporter & traders of general commodities in Pakistan as you are aware of the fact that Pakistan is a large importer of raw cotton and exporter of finished goods to the other European countries. For these reasons we are in need of

Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:29:37AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:18:00 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uid 31 is reserved forever (speaking as the base-passwd maintainer), but > > new installations of postgresql should have a uid in the system range, > >

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 02:47:38AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > >It's too trivial to ask a debconf question > > about it upon install so it boils down to a popularity contest. > > As an aside, you might want to make this a low priorit

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2003-10-18 Thread Jens Goedeke
Dir sirs, sorry if this is not the correct address for feature requests, but I don't know where to send this mail to. I've installed a debian system (knoppix 3.2) with kernel 2.4.20 on my toshiba laptop (satellite pro 2100). Under KDE in any application I've got a offen occuring repeating error.

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 18, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got a bit of spare time up my sleeves at the moment, and would like >to help make netkit-inetd not part of a base install. What would it take? Helping to complete the update-inetd rewrite. If you are really so much interested please sen

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:30:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Sure, the ideal would be to rebuild everything in pbuilder Stop. Who has been perpetrating this myth? It's idiotic. The objective is not to create Debian packages that build in an artificial environment. The objective is to create De

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Josip Rodin | On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:20:03PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: | > You aren't trying to make debian/rules a jam script are you? | | Even if he was, that would be fine if he knew how to do it properly. Nope: 4.8. Main building script: `debian/rules' ---

RE: recent spam to this list

2003-10-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Kris Deugau wrote: > > > OK, I think I've thought of a sort of a counter-example: [...] > > > I'm sending "from" myfriendsdomain.com's server, but I don't have an > > > account there. I do, however, have an account [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > on my own server- to which I want all replies/bounces/etc to

Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Lukas Geyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's trivial to reconfigure it in nethack's option screen, just like any > other option. I'm not sure why this one should be special. > > IMO, leave it at the upstream default; you'll surprise nethack players > coming from non-Debian systems less that wa

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Policy 4.8: > >This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the > I don't remember why we don't allow anything > that meets the expected interface. One reason that comes to mind is that it can sometimes be convenient to assume that

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:00:19PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > You aren't trying to make debian/rules a jam script are you? > > > > Even if he was, that would be fine if he knew how to do it properly. > >Policy 4.8: > >This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the >

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 02:31:07PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > One reason that comes to mind [...] We've heard it all before. Kindly refer to bug #88029. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.

Re: search-citeseer_0.1-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2003-10-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Agustin Martin Domingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Last time I read about that, if is byte compiled it should depend on > virtual package 'emacsen' (provided by all emacs flavours), since > otherwise emacs-package-install failed if no emacsen was installed. If that is true, shouldn't it be c

Bug#216395: general: qt applicatons don't use kde style

2003-10-18 Thread Momes
Package: general Severity: normal I've problems with qt applications (lyx, qtparted, ...) that do not use kde style, instead they always use the default qt style. I've been searching the mailing lists as well as Debian bug report and found no reference to this problem, sorry. I'm using Sid with

Bug#205457: ITP: waproamd -- wireless access point roaming daemon

2003-10-18 Thread Thomas Hood
* Package name: waproamd Version : 0.3b Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Poettering) * URL : http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~lennart/projects/waproamd/ * License : GPL v.2 Description : wireless network roaming daemon Waproamd makes a specifie

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:30:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Sure, the ideal would be to rebuild everything in pbuilder > > Stop. > > Who has been perpetrating this myth? It's idiotic. > > The objective is not to create Debian packages that buil

udev 0.3 package

2003-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ -- ciao, | Marco | [2477 ca6Z/n9AUWKfQ]

Howto find packages that build-depend on pkg

2003-10-18 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
How can I find all packages that build-depends on a package? In my case, I'm looking for packages that build-depends on docbook-xml and docbook-xsl. -- Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU Solfege - free eartraining, http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/

Re: Howto find packages that build-depend on pkg

2003-10-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I find all packages that build-depends on a package? > In my case, I'm looking for packages that build-depends on > docbook-xml and docbook-xsl. apt-cache show grep-dctrl MfG Goswin

Re: Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, > namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment > (in woody it seems to be just $), but IMHO things to be auto-pickuped > are "$!?+/=, and some char

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:17:27AM +0400, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: > > Nevermind... I still have problems with `jam install`. I don't know how > > to pass to it directory prefix. > Sorry, if this does not help. What about the '-s' option? It didn't help. Or maybe I can't use it properly. Well... I'v

Re: Howto find packages that build-depend on pkg

2003-10-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:55:22PM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > How can I find all packages that build-depends on a package? In my > case, I'm looking for packages that build-depends on docbook-xml and > docbook-xsl. Please excuse the somewhat terse answer of our fellow Goswin... You

Re: Howto find packages that build-depend on pkg

2003-10-18 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:57:13PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How can I find all packages that build-depends on a package? > > In my case, I'm looking for packages that build-depends on > > docbook-xml and docbook-xsl. > > apt-cache sh

Re: Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)

2003-10-18 Thread Lukas Geyer
"Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, > > namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment > > (in woody it seems to be just $), but IMHO th

Re: [debian-devel] Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Magosányi Árpád
Hi! If you are at it, please also arrange that netbase do not depend on any network daemons. I guess lot of us want to have /etc/services, but do not want inetd and portmapper. Thank you. 2003-10-18, szo keltezéssel Marco d'Itri ezt írta: > On Oct 18, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Howto find packages that build-depend on pkg

2003-10-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:57:13PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > How can I find all packages that build-depends on a package? > > > In my case, I'm looking for packages that build-depe

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Its good for the autobuilders to check again if a package builds in a > mainly minimal environment. That's an argument for building it *once* in such an environment. It is definitely not an argument that it should only be buil

Re: Howto find packages that build-depend on pkg

2003-10-18 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:37:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:57:13PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > How can I find all packages that buil

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:02:10 +0200, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 88029 yeah well. That is not all the dfiscussion there was on it. In March 2001, we had more than those comments on it: == If people

Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:57:34 +0200, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:00:19PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: >> > > You aren't trying to make debian/rules a jam script are you? >> > >> > Even if he was, that would be fine if he knew how to do it >> > properly. >> >

Re:

2003-10-18 Thread John Belmonte
Jens Goedeke wrote: sorry if this is not the correct address for feature requests, but I don't know where to send this mail to. I've installed a debian system (knoppix 3.2) with kernel 2.4.20 on my toshiba laptop (satellite pro 2100). Under KDE in any application I've got a offen occuring repeating

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > To cap it off, the discard service seems to be enabled out of the box. So > > is daytime. Daytime's not too bad, but discard? I personally believe we > > should b

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:48:47AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I would like to see inetd leave the base system as well, but what problem > > could you possibly have with the discard service? > > Well it's been so long since I'

Re: search-citeseer_0.1-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2003-10-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:22:33PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > James is ftp-master, DAM, autobuilder admin, and part of the > debian-admin team as well. Wow! -- gram signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:48:47AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > To cap it off, the discard service seems to be enabled out of the box. So > > > is daytime. Da

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:32:54PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:48:47AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Yes, it receives data from the network and throws it away. But I don't see > how this figure

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > It's pretty trivial with netkit-inetd as well; you edit /etc/inetd.conf and > comment out what you don't want. > Additional packages that wish to register an (x)i

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

2003-10-18 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:37:58PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: | Hmm, am I the only one that thinks | | dd if=/dev/zero | nc victim discard | | is a bad thing, in an environment where the victim is paying cents per meg | for inbound traffic? I'm no so much talking about DoSing anything, but |