Re: Bug#284219: please remove gnu-standards

2004-12-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
too much trouble for maintainers to remove FDL documents. I had time to file this bug, so it's just a matter now of whether the ftpmasters have time to remove the package. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing I do know is that traditional apps like df (and anything > that uses stat(), I guess) don't know about /.dev, and so return > false information: > > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda39843

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unacknowledged NMU for > one year, either update or remove: > >Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > gccchecker Build-Depends: gcc-2.95 I recently filed a request to have this package removed. It is not maintained

Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

2006-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
nd dangerous, as it is underquoted: AC_CHECK_HEADER(stdio.h, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_STDIO_H), AC_MSG_ERROR([Sorry, can't do anything for you])) -- -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://ben

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12-Mar-06, 04:22 (CST), Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:43:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> > This is a warning and not an error, because using one's own strdup() >> > function (that would take ints) is p

Re: Possible bug in dpkg-source? Possible fix?

1997-05-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
s -z; -z by itself is not sufficient as far as I know.) -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12167 Airport Rd, DeWitt MI 48820, USA *Note*: New PGP key available at http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/pgp.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Infocom Games (Was: long list of give away or orphaned packages)

1997-06-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
e source code? Just a thought... (I know nothing about the Infocom game language or the binary format.) -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12167 Airport Rd, DeWitt MI 48820, USA *Note*: New PGP key available at http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/pgp.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-06-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
reupload it. This would take a couple hours but wouldn't be too difficult. However, I don't see any point to the change. `A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.' --Emerson -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12167 Airport Rd, DeWitt MI 48820, USA *Note*: New PG

Re: XFree86 3.3 now available

1997-06-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
512 Jun 2 02:52 3.3/ [...] -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12167 Airport Rd, DeWitt MI 48820, USA *Note*: New PGP key available at http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/pgp.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RFC: Splitting manpages into 2 packages

1997-06-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One package with misc/general manpages and another with development > manpages. What do you think? What would be the relative sizes of each? In theory I'm in favor. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1216

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
roblem, I admit. What does the law say about copyrighted works > when the copyright holder dies? I believe that he may have meant this in a figurative sense. If an author simply disappears from the net and there is no way to get in contact with him (her) then we're out of luck, because there

Re: RFC: Splitting manpages into 2 packages

1997-06-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3 Jun 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > One package with misc/general manpages and another with development > > > manpages. What do you think? > > What would be the relative sizes of each? In the

Re: locale errors

1997-06-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
This is, of course, a problem nearly as serious as that about utmp. Not really. This is an issue only with `unstable' (as far as I can tell from the discussion), and `unstable' means exactly that--everything might not work properly. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: checker libs with debugging symbols

1997-06-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
checker yet, so I don't know. But I assume that the libraries > without debugging symbols would work. They would work. But it isn't The Right Thing To Do. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben PGP key: http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/pgp.html o

Re: checker libs with debugging symbols

1997-06-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
reason, to double the effort just so someone can avoid typing `sudo strip /usr/i486-linuxchecker/lib/*'. Checker is for debugging, and if you really want to do debugging, you need those symbols. Like I said before, it's not The Right Thing To Do. I am happy, however, to find that my packa

Re: svgalib-dummy again

1997-06-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
work at all under svgalib but beautifully under X.) -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben PGP key: http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/pgp.html or a keyserver near you Linux: choice of a GNU generation -- Debian GNU/Linux: the only free Linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Weird message ftp'ing master.debian.org

1997-12-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
try again later. There is currently a limit of 10 530-anonymous users for your domain group. 530- 530 User pfaffben access denied Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
which would allow > me to do it? No, it doesn't. There might exist software to do this, but it's likely expensive and commercial. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: question

1997-12-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
ave a lot of trouble doing your customizations, you can edit the source code, for that matter. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Breaking GNU standards off from autoconf

1997-12-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
this new package installed by default if autoconf was previously installed? Or should I just use Suggests: on the part of autoconf? -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: copyright infringment

1997-12-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
gt; have any legal recourse ? I think that you should put the photo under the GNU GPL and distribute as part of the Debian system. :-) -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: BOY, DID I GET A WRONG NUMBER!

1997-12-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is there anything we can do about this luser sending the same annoying message to debian-devel repeatedly? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Emacs 20 volunteer wanted

1997-12-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: > I'd promised to package up emacs 20 at some point (since that would > save the hassle of going back and forth to sure emacs19 and xemacs* > would all coexist :-) but I recently joined a new startup company, and > with some of the other projects eating my

Re: syslogd taking up lots of CPU..

1997-12-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
That EAGAIN disturbs me. We're not even close to being out of disk space; what could be causing this? EAGAIN doesn't mean out of disk space. The gnu libc manual says this: - Macro: int EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable; the call might work if you try again later. The macr

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Mark recently informed me that he'd accepted my offer to work on the new emacs20 package. I just wanted to let everyone know that I was getting started. I'd like to get something out very soon, but the holidays may interfere a little. I had already offered to package up emacs20 mysel

Re: new developer

1997-12-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
Looking for someone in the Lansing, Michigan, USA area willing to sign my PGP key. I am in DeWitt, MI, near Lansing. I'm willing to sign PGP keys. Get in touch with me for a time and place. Can someone remind me of what the secure protocol for exchanging keys is? I don't seem to see it i

Re: Re^2: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
JH> Good grief. Well, it's already in non-free, I guess that's good enough JH> (since stuff in non-free cannot be safely distributed unless you examine JH> it's license). But non-free is mirrored on several FTP servers in Germany. And a child could download the games from a German

Question/request concerning master

1998-01-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Firstly, there is this: blp:/raid/home/blp$ ftp master Connected to master.debian.org. 220-This system is for internal use by the Debian developers. It is not 220-open to anonymous FTP. Please use ftp.debian.org or one of its many 220-mirrors. 220- 220 debian FTP server

Re: Is my hard drive FUBAR, or is it dpkg?

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
I noticed in /var/log/kernel.log that there are lots of messages like the following: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 18:57:49 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17 Apr 7 18:58:22 ever

Re: Packages depending on essential/required packages

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > . >* need mktemp so depend on debianutils >= 1.8 > I notice several packages in my available file that depend on debianutils. As it is essential/required, this doesn't need to be done. This partitcular pa

Re: please retain floppy installs!

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Will Debian 2.0 (and on) retain the ability to install from a small core system off of floppies? I sincerely hope so. Believe it or not, there are a lot of computers out there where floppies are still the easiest way to install things. Old laptops, for example. Debian 1.3's install m

Re: Question on copyright

1998-04-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
/** msadpcm.c * (C) Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1993. All rights reserved. You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce and distribute the Sample Files (and/or any modified version) in any way you find useful, provided that you agree that Mi

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
> What would be the use of looking at a screen full of control characters? Because when I look at a binary with less, I *mean* to do that... usually to look for corruption (blocks of nulls) or things like *short* strings or strings not in the text section, that "strings" *won't find

Re: How to handle troff sources

1998-04-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
2) If yes what would you include in the Makefile? 1. troff -> ps (of course) 2. troff -> what else You could support troff -> html and so on if you use the troffcvt package to do most of the work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
register-window-manager [pathname] with no arguments, enters interactive mode with one pathname argument, invokes interactive mode with "add" action and pathname already done, thus prompting for priority (see below) Could we instead have a default priority assigned to each window

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Branden Robinson writes: > The long-term plan is: > > 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase > 2) mark it as a conffile > 3) separate twm into its own package > 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager I don't think shipping an empty file, and marking

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
> Could we instead have a default priority assigned to each window > manager? So postinst scripts would run it like this: > >register-window-manager pathname priority You know, this looks like a job for update-alternatives. Maybe we should have a /usr/X11R6/bin/sensible-win

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
> Actually I like that a lot better myself. Could we do it that way > instead, Branden? Uh, I've never played with alternatives before. Would someone care to flesh out this proposal? Okay, here we go: /usr/bin/sensible-window-manager (or whatever) is a symlink to one of the install

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
So I go to all the trouble of drafting a proposal for register-window-manager, and even start coding it, and you guys don't want to use it? Don't overreact. Marcelo just brought up what may be a valid point. Does either proposal include support for varying default command-line options fo

Re: Intent to package: uedit

1998-04-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'll take it as read that there are no objections. How could there be? Gadzooks! You know, it's almost May 1, but that's not the same thing as April 1, not at all. I hope that this is a joke, at any rate it's not a very funny one. This program is a monstrosity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: who info and /etc/utmp

1998-05-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
The who info page indicates that who finds its data in /etc/utmp, but I have no such file and who works ok. The file I do have is /var/run/utmp, which I can only assume who knows about. Yes, it does. Is the info page wrong? Should I submit a bug? Yes and yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Why is premail in non-free?

1998-05-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Could anyone tell me why premail is in non-free? I've read the license a couple of times, and I really don't see anything that would prevent it from= =20 being in main (or at least contrib). Am I missing something? I see nothing that would make me object to its inclusion in main. --

Re: "Visual" IDE?

1998-05-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Even XEmacs with Sparcworks integration doesn't do it for me. So basically I use XEmacs to edit my source and make files, and the command line to compile. I debug with whatever debugger is best for the platform I am using that day. What exactly are your objections to Emacs' compile-mod

Re: Bug#303667: ITP: cycle -- calendar program for women

2005-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cycle is a calendar program for women. Given a cycle length or statistics > for several periods, it can calculate the days until menstruation, the days > of "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to ovulations, and define > the d.o.b. of a child. It

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Games serve a purpose: they entertain the user. What is the purpose of > sdate? The same. If you are not entertained by sdate, then you do not need to install it. That said, the following script is probably just as amusing, and undoubtedly simpler: #!

Re: need help on #271678 (sizefo struct?)

2005-05-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Zweije) writes: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:06:37PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > || In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > || { > ||struct x25_route_struct rt; > ||struct sockaddr_x25 sx25; > || ... > ||memset((char *) &rt, 0, sizeof(struct x2

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Advancement of the strong chess engine fruit, it is > even stronger, and will be further developed. Please work on the phrasing. It doesn't make much sense as written. Perhaps "Advanced chess engine under active development.&

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

2006-08-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 04 August 2006 09:57, Wouter Verhelst took the opportunity to say: >> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:21:28AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: >> > In short, it's a mess. Lots of improvements can be made, to MUAs, MLMs, >> > as well as MTAs. An RFC s

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
rce packages based on an installation tarball > (a la java-package). How will its output differ from "alien --to-deb --scripts" based on the VMware .rpm? -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
o distinguish between "this is what the language > says it will do" and "works for me". Use of gnulib can help with this. It provides a number of useful abstractions that can help to avoid #ifdefs in some common situations: http://savannah.gnu.org/p/gnulib -- Ben Pfa

Re: Bug#386706: ITP: hellanzb -- Nzb downloader and post processor

2006-09-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description : Nzb downloader and post processor > > Python application designed for *nix environments that > retrieves nzb files and fully processes them. The goal being to > make getting files from Usenet as hands-free as possible. Once >

Re: debian-private and Gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
he discretion of Stanford University and subject to applicable laws. If we're going to disallow getting developers' debian-private mail delivered to gmail, then we're going to have to disallow it getting delivered to Stanford, too, at least if the developer ever uses the webmail system

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
conf to drop the documentation, I added a suffix to the version number. In retrospect I would have chosen a suffix different from the one I did choose, but I didn't think then that it was an unethical thing to do, nor do I think so now. It's confusing and undesirable, but not, in my

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
sion compatible of the DFSG. How about adding a file named, e.g., README.dfsg or README.changes-from-upstream to the modified .orig.tar.gz version pointing out what has been done? A version number or a package name is easy to misinterpret, but adding a file with an explanation should be unambiguous (altho

Re: Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the > contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before > you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily > check the CD at any time: just comp

Re: Bug#368309: ITP: pcf2bdf -- convert X11 font from PCF to BDF format

2006-05-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
ible values. I don't think that "irresponsible" is the word you are looking for. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netatalk and SSL

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > >>> Except, they *are* loaded together. > >>> Making "shim" libraries does not change the licensing rules at all, >>> which for the GPL, apply to the comp

Re: Bug#379196: ITP: beaglefs -- implements a filesystem representing a live Beagle query

2006-07-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
t would helpful to include a sentence explaining what "Beagle" is and how or why one queries it. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#379196: ITP: beaglefs -- implements a filesystem representing a live Beagle query

2006-07-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Andrew Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Description : implements a filesystem representing a live >>> Beagle query >>> >>> beaglefs implements a

Re: Build failure with autoconf 2.60: "requires autoconf 2.53 or newer"

2006-07-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Half of KDE and a number of other applications currently fail to build > with a message similar to: > > | *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. > | *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer > > Before I file bugs on these packages, I wanted to

Re: copyright vs. license

2005-01-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [updating copyright years] > I have a handy-dandy emacs lisp frob that will do this automagically > for you if you like. I would like this. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: copyright vs. license

2005-01-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There could be if you do so in a way that could be construed as an attempt > to fraudulently extend the life of the copyright. At the moment it seems doubtful that any current copyright will ever expire. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For those of us who attend in multiple countries we could book plane flights > together (hopefully get a good deal), play network Quake in the plane, etc. Then we need a sponsor with a big wallet.

Re: Is this a bug in grep, or is it me...

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ grep -w debhelper override.potato > debhelper optionaldevel > hello-debhelper optionaldevel > > In the man page, under the -w option, it says that, in order to match, the > string must be either at the beginning of the line, or pr

Re: Is this a bug in grep, or is it me...

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The hyphon at the ned of hello in "hello-debhelper" isn't any of these, > > > but grep declares it to match anyway! Is this something to do with the > > > form of my expression? > > > > It's preceded by a character that isn't a letter, digit or under

Intent to give away: gradio, troffcvt

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'd like to give away gradio and troffcvt to someone who is interested in maintaining them. I am willing to maintain them both indefinitely, but I do not use them any longer, so they aren't really anything I'm excited about. Neither one has any reported bugs. They have not yet been converted to

Re: Intent to give away: gradio, troffcvt

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes: > > > gradio is a simple program suitable for a newbie maintainer, > > though I suppose we don't have any newbie maintainers given that > > we don't have any new maintainers.

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
"A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could we have a potato mailing lists? That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another list for it? -- "MONO - Monochrome Emulation This field is used to store your favorite bit." --FreeVGA Attribute Controller Reference

Re: RFC/ITP: everybuddy-cvs

2000-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
"michael d. ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because EB > releases tend to lag pretty far behind the code in CVS. I called my > package ebsnap, and made it conflict with everybuddy. I put it on my > site, and that was that. > > N

Re: ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mozilla was relicensed under the GPL... Not quite, as I understand it: Mozilla is *in process* of being relicensed under GPL. All contributors have to be contacted to verify agreement first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: long long support on all archs?

2005-09-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could have written this with equal validity: > long int typedef long int64_t; Not a good idea, though, because C99 says this: 6.11.5 Storage-class specifiers 1The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning o

Re: Bug#331287: ITP: criawips -- full featured presentation tool

2005-10-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Criawips aims to become a full featured presentation application > that offers the perfect platform both for small presentations > used to explain a few things to other people and for big > presentations used for commercial presentations. > > Thu

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it time to think about removing kerberos4kth from the archive > anyway? Stanford still uses Kerberos 4. Would removing kerberos4kth be tantamount to dropping Kerberos 4 support? When I've tried to use Debian's other implementations of Kerberos in the p

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
KDC to a krb5 KDC is probably necessary. I don't see how that will help users who have no control over the KDC that they use. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug closing etiquette

2005-11-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
bnoxious? I think it's a reasonable thing to do. It is what I do. Anyone have a suggestion about what to do when the maintainer can't reproduce it and the reporter can only reproduce it on one of his machines? I'm kind of stymied on #329333 for Autoconf. No idea what the problem

dependencies for autoconf

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
ws any one of them to satisfy the dependency, but of course this is no guarantee that this is the correct version for the package being autoreconf'd. I would appreciate some guidance on this issue from debian-devel. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
this a "possible bashism". It's not a bashism (at most, it's an XSI-ism) and it's so pervasively supported that even Autoconf uses it. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
that even posh supports. Is there a good reason that we do not in general accept XSI extensions? The ones that I've noticed while reading SUSv3 are features that I expect a normal Unix system to have. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
SUSv3 does not say that numeric signal numbers are interpreted in a system-specific way. It is very specific that numeric 1 is SIGHUP, 2 is SIGINT, 3 is SIGQUIT, 6 is SIGABRT, 9 is SIGKILL, 14 is SIGALRM, and 15 is SIGTERM: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.ht

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-02-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
o POSIX doesn't allow you to use just any numbers. It specifically lets >> you use numbers for HUP, INT, QUIT, ABRT, KILL, ALRM, and TERM and nothing >> else. I think that's fairly portable. >> > > So should I only ignore those specifying a signal number in the 1-15

Re: Bug#467217: RFP: python-pypdf -- Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit

2008-02-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description : pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit Very odd phrasing. Sounds backward: "PDF toolkit built as a pure-Python library" makes more sense to me. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
ependent of the capabilities of the machine downloading it. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: autoconf AC_FUNC_MKTIME breaks with gcc 4.3

2008-03-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
eel free to file a bug against the autoconf package. I do my best to fix important problems as soon as I can. It's easy in a case like this where an upstream fix has already been committed. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changes to the ddpo-by-mail service

2008-06-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ddpo-by-mail sends monthly emails (one per maintainer), containing a > list of issues in the package that person maintain: How long has this been going on? I don't recall receiving any of these mails, and I don't recall unsubsc

Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
GNU `diff' can produce this format and only GNU `patch' can automatically apply diffs in this format. For proper operation, `patch' typically needs at least two lines of context. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Anybody have a spare sparc machine?

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ryan Niebur writes: > This is a sparc only FTBFS, and none of us own a sparc machine. Does > anybody have a spare one they could let me (or somebody else in the > Perl group) ssh into to debug it? http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi lists a number of Debian sparc machines. -- Ben Pf

Re: Anybody have a spare sparc machine?

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ryan Niebur writes: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:53:26PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Ryan Niebur writes: >> >> > This is a sparc only FTBFS, and none of us own a sparc machine. Does >> > anybody have a spare one they could let me (or somebody else in the >

Re: Bug#548720: ITP: libkml -- The C++ library for supporting OGC KML 2.2 standard

2009-09-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Francesco Paolo Lovergine writes: > Description : The C++ library for supporting OGC KML 2.2 standard > > This is a Google's library for use with applications that want to > parse, generate and operate on KML. It is an implementation of the OGC > KML 2.2 standard. It is written in C++

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
he only ballot I recall containing non-ASCII characters, which could be the cause. So then I sent in a signed and encrypted ballot. This caused the whole ballot to be base64-encoded. Presumably this sidestepped the quoted-printable problem, because it was accepted. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.o

Re: Bug#427248: ITP: promethee -- a productive numeric working space

2007-06-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
"lambda (sbrice)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description : A productive numeric working space > > promethee is an all-inclusive education project (called numeric > working space) which support school managing and What is a numeric working space? You don't say, and the URL that you poin

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
package maintainer to implement a pair of build-time options. The most obvious trouble I can see with it is packages that invoke tools through absolute paths or reset $PATH themselves. (I haven't followed previous discussion of these options. If this approach has already been considered and

Re: [Help] Autoconf problems when trying to build WordNet 3.0 package

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
ows no hits at all. Ditto for TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC. What do you expect to set TK_PREFIX and TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Help] Autoconf problems when trying to build WordNet 3.0 package

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Sergei Golovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6/27/07, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The puzzling thing to me about this situation is what is expected >> to set TK_PREFIX. "grep TK_PREFIX" in the wordnet directory >> shows TK_

Re: [Help] Autoconf problems when trying to build WordNet 3.0 package

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
into why. Quite possibly there's another missing substitution. (By the way, it also appears that AC_LANGINFO_CODESET in configure.ac should actually be AM_LANGINFO_CODESET although I'm not 100% certain.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#500671: ITP: pgtap -- Unit testing framework for PostgreSQL

2008-09-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
ons. Please state briefly what a TAP is somewhere in the description. (To me, a TAP is a virtual Ethernet device, but I think that that is not what is meant here.) -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: canonical list of port-specific CPP symbols

2008-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
"Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a canonical list of symbols defined by each of the > Debian architectures, e.g. do I test for Sparc using > __sparc or __sparc__ ? How about m68k, hppa, etc? It's not Debian-specific, but the website at http://predef.sourceforge.

Re: Bug#508829: ITP: surefire -- Surefire test framework for Java

2008-12-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Torsten Werner writes: > * Package name: surefire > Version : 2.4.3 > Upstream Author : Apache Software Foundation > * URL : http://maven.apache.org/surefire/ > * License : Apache-2.0 > Programming Lang: Java > Description : Surefire test framework for

Re: Linux stuck when serial cable is disconnected

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
o my PC everything is > OK and I can see the outputs in the terminal. > When I disconnect the serial cable my Linux get stuck. Even my telnet > connection doesnt responds. My guess is that syslogd is blocking on a write to the serial port, and other software is blocking on sending a log mes

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
time is only used in interactive shells, so this might not be > that important. IMHO it could be relegated to optional. I use "time" in benchmarking scripts. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:34:10 -0800, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I use "time" in benchmarking scripts. > > I do not find the built in time to be a substitute for the good > old f

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