Intend to take over wmaker, application?

[Marcelo E. Magallón]

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Hi,

my name is Marcelo Magallón, and I'd like to take over the
maintainance of wmaker, since there are several bugs against wmaker, in
particular a mixed dependencies bug. I have tried to contact the current
maintainer, Neil A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but he doesn't seem to be
at that email anymore.

I have several local packages for WindowMaker:

libproplist0_0.7.1-1_i386.deb
wmaker_0.12.3-0.1_i386.deb
(*) wmaker-data_0.1_all.deb
libwmaker0_0.12.3-0.1_i386.deb
libwmaker0-dev_0.12.3-0.1_i386.deb
libwraster0_0.12.3-0.1_i386.deb
libwraster0-dev_0.12.3-0.1_i386.deb

(*) not finished yet.

The wmaker package closes all bugs filed agaisnt Neil's package.

A couple of weeks ago I sent an application to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but I haven't received an answer yet. I
maintain ftp://simula.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian, and I already have
accounts on master, mmagallo, and mmagallM, but my PGP key is not in the
keyring.

As a side note, Neil also maintains AfterStep, but I don't want to
maintain that. If anybody is interested, and Neil is really no longer
maintaining it, it may be worth for somebody to take over it, since
WindowMaker and AfterStep, along with Enlightenment seem to be pretty
popular among Linux folks, according to a recent poll on Slashdot.org, 
(population sample over 1000)


Marcelo.

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Re: Intend to take over wmaker, application?

[Joey Hess]

Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
>   my name is Marcelo Magallón, and I'd like to take over the
> maintainance of wmaker

Yay!! Maybe we'll get a new version now. :-)

> since there are several bugs against wmaker, in
> particular a mixed dependencies bug. I have tried to contact the current
> maintainer, Neil A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but he doesn't seem to be
> at that email anymore.

He's only been out of touch since 31 august. That's not too long in real world
terms, esp. if he got hit hard by finals and then went on winter break.

Of course window maker has come a long way in that time and we desperately 
need a new release. However, you might want to consider just doing 
non-maintainer releases for a few months, in case he shows up again, and 
spend some more time hunting him down and finding out if he wants to keep 
maintaining it. 

He still seems to be attending cwru.edu; he has a web page at 
http://b62724.student.cwru.edu/~nrubin/. There, he lists a different email 
address you could try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, by fingering him I found 
another email, [EMAIL PROTECTED] By the way, finger says he's been active 
recently:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>f [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
[b62724.student.cwru.edu]
Login: nrubin   Name: Neil A. Rubin
Directory: /home/nrubin Shell: /bin/tcsh
Office: 108 Hitchcock, x7-1697  Home Phone: +1-708-362-4989
Last login Mon Dec 22 17:27 (EST) on ttyp0 from 173-52-205.ipt.aol.com
...

> I have several local packages for WindowMaker:

I'd be happy to try any/all of these if you put them up for ftp someplace.

> The wmaker package closes all bugs filed agaisnt Neil's package.
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I sent an application to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I haven't received an answer yet. I
> maintain ftp://simula.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/debian, and I already have
> accounts on master, mmagallo, and mmagallM, but my PGP key is not in the
> keyring.

Don't give up, it takes time, but you'll get in there. :-)

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

[Will Lowe]

On 28 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> Marco> But non-free is mirrored on several FTP servers in Germany. And
> Marco> a child could download the games from a German FTP server and
> Marco> this is not allowed.

Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory,  which just
wouldn't get mirrored (be default) in Germany?  That way,  if a child gets
it, they've got to get it from someplace outside Germany,  which the
German government can't hope to control.

It's going to get nuts if we have to have a non- directory for
every country,  but maybe we'll have to do this.  If that's the case,
maybe they should be seperate distributions,  like "contrib" and
"non-free",  so dpkg can keep track of them.  I know that dpkg isn't used
in the mirror process,  but having this information stored someplace in
the package file itself (other than in the description and COPYRIGHT)
might be useful for other scripts,  etc...
Will


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Re: Intend to take over wmaker, application?

[Marcelo E. Magallón]

On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote:

> He's only been out of touch since 31 august. That's not too long in
> real world terms, esp. if he got hit hard by finals and then went on
> winter break. 

Being a student myself, I quite understand his situation.

> However, you might want to consider just doing non-maintainer releases
> for a few months

At some point I thought that would be the nicer thing to do. In fact the
packages I've just uploaded to a local ftp server carry a version
0.12.3-0.1. The maintainer field has my name 'cause I don't want to mix
things up and have ppl complaining to Neil because of my mistakes. To
make this a proper non-maintainer release I have to change that back to
"Neil ...", right? If I ever upload this to master, I'll do that.

> in case he shows up again, and spend some more time hunting him down
> and finding out if he wants to keep maintaining it.

I'll try to get in contact with him.
 
> I'd be happy to try any/all of these if you put them up for ftp someplace.

They are on:

http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/~mmagallo/debian/wmaker

ftp://simula.efis.ucr.ac.cr/pub/users/mmagallo/debian/wmaker

To get the WindowMaker package going you'll need

wmaker_0.12.3-0.1_i386.deb
libwraster0_0.12.3-0.1_i386.deb
libproplist0_0.7.1-1_i386.deb

and you may want wmaker-data_0.1_all.deb, too. Those are GPLed pixmaps. 
Right now the wmaker package doesn't include any, not even the GNUstep
logo. The dependencies for wmaker are: 

Depends: libc6, libjpegg6a, libpng0g, libproplist0, libtiff3g,
libwraster0 (>= 0.12.3-0.1), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0),
zlib1g, cpp

I've tested this version for a couple of weeks, and it works for me. 
I've been fine tunning the package, and it's usable now ;-) Be sure to
read README.debian (Ok, ok, I have to work on the documentation) 


Marcelo.


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Re: Libc6 progress for contrib and non-free (Dec 1997)

[Richard Braakman]

Yann Dirson wrote:
> Richard Braakman writes:
>  >   non-free: xforms0.86-0.86-2
> 
> xmysql (contrib) is not listed, but depends on both libc6 and
> xforms0.86.

Ah, yes.  That's a deficiency in the way I construct these lists.
Packages like xmysql will not show up until there is a libc6 version
of xforms0.86.  There might be a way to fix this (without also dragging
in all the -doc packages etc.), but not at this time of the morning :-)

Richard Braakman


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Re: my user on my box!

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "Jon" == Jon Björklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jon> What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as
Jon> root but at the same time it shouldn't be root.

 There are several ways of doing that.  `secure-su' lets you set
things up so that certain users can `su' to become certain other
users, and bypass the password.  It's convienient to allow some folks
to become `webmaster' for instance.

 `super' lets you set up certain commands to be run as another user.
It's pretty easy to do; once you RTFM you'll know as much as I do
about it, so I won't go into details.

 `sudo' is another way; it is perhaps the most popular method of
allowing users to run commands as root or as other users.

 Scripts may be set `SUID' two different ways.  Perl programs may use
`suidperl', and shell scripts can securely be run SUID using
`suidexec', which may be found in the `suidmanager' package.


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Re: my user on my box!

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marcus> If you want to give ceed access to floppy, cd, sound and
Marcus> other, add "ceed" at the end of the appropriate lines in
Marcus> your /etc/group file. This file controls the access for
Marcus> common files and devices.

 `adduser ceed groupname'  will do that for you.


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Re: Intend to take over wmaker, application?

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Joey> Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
>> my name is Marcelo Magallón, and I'd like to take over the
>> maintainance of wmaker

Joey> Yay!! Maybe we'll get a new version now. :-)

 Yes!  When I tried it, the icons it made where like static on a color
TV set.  It looked like it was supposed to be making minitures of the
windows, but wasn't working right.


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What happened to perl's strict.pm?

[Paul Slootman]

I've been testing the upgrade path from bo to hamm on a spare system
(in preparation to upgrading my main system). As I don't have a
permanent connection (dialup only), I'm only downloading what I need.
It's amazing what interconnected dependencies there are! :-)

Anyway, basically it all went OK except when xaw3dg is configured:
here the following message is given:

---snip-snip--
Setting up xaw3dg (1.3-6.1) ...
Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers/ 
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00402 /usr/lib/perl5 
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at 
/usr/lib/perl5/Getopt/Long.pm line 523.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Getopt/Long.pm line 523.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 57.
dpkg: error processing xaw3dg (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
---snip-snip--

Investigation shows that strict.pm used to be part of the `perl'
package, but now has disappeared. However, Getopt/Long.pm still
references it...

Another thing: I first had perl_5.004.02-1 installed. Replacing this
with perl-base_5.004.04-3 and perl_5.004.04-3 left me with a
/usr/bin/perl which was still the old version, and a
/usr/bin/perl5.00404 which is the new one.  Why do I still have the old
binary?


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

[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 FTP server and this is not allowed.

Is it sufficient to add to the Description something along the lines
of:

If you are a German citizen less than 18 years old, you are
prohibited by law from using this program.

or the equivalent translated into German?  This seems to me to get the
point across quite well.



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Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

[Douglas Bates]

Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes:
> 
> > Alan Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >   f2c-960717-0 (Old source format)
> 
> isn't this obsoleted by the f77 frontend to gcc!?

I believe there are still some Fortran constructions that can be
handled by f2c but not by g77 so it would be a good idea to keep f2c
in the distribution.  Also, f2c is useful by itself in trying to
convert legacy Fortran code to native C or C++ for later development.  


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Re: What happened to perl's strict.pm?

[Paul Slootman]

On Mon 29 Dec 1997, Paul Slootman wrote:

> Investigation shows that strict.pm used to be part of the `perl'
> package, but now has disappeared. However, Getopt/Long.pm still
> references it...

Amazing. I restored the 'bo' system, and restarted the upgrade process.
Now that I had all the packages I needed for the upgrade, the problem
I reported disappeared. It all went relatively smoothly this time.  Only
thing that was curious is that e2fsprogsg didn't get selected
automatically by dselect. Oh well.

Upon reflection, what probably happened was that I had the new
perl-base, but not the new perl. Perl-base got installed, and then I
ftp'ed perl and installed that. Replacing the old perl with the new one
probably removed the strict.pl which used to belong to the old perl, but
is now part of perl-base.


Paul Slootman
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`dpkg' severe bugs list is long.

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

 Is there any reason why the fixing of the several severe bugs against
`dpkg' is being put off?  It installs everything under UID 1000, which
could be problematic anywhere but on a home machine.


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Re: debian-kbd needs M4 hacker

[Stephen Zander]

"Marco d'Itri" wrote:
> The debian-kbd list needs some help from an experienced M4 guru.
> I wrote the macros to generate keyboard tables, but some of them do not
> work. We need someone to debug them, otherwise we can't progress.
> The macro set is about 150 lines.

Did you get an answer or do you still need help with this?  Let me know
if you still need help.

Stephen
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[Eric Lewis]

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Re: Yet another glibc pre-release

[Stephen Zander]

David Engel wrote:
> I've put another pre-release of glibc 2.0.6 (pre5) at
> ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux.
> 
> Please note that I will be out of town for the rest of the week.  Any
> problems will have to wait until I return on Saturday.

The libc6-dbg package has a problem. A simple test:

$ cat t.c
int main () { return 0; }
$ gcc -pg -o t t.c -lc_p
$ ./t
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ gcc -static -pg -o t t.c -lc_p
$ ./t
$ exit

I've traced the problem to __environ == 0x0 in the init routine when using
-lc_p.  However I'm not certain why that's occuring (weak symbol in -lc_p
being overridden perhaps?). As you can see, using -static prevents the
core dump but I can hardly build the applications I was to test this way.

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Python upgrade: dependency question

[Gregor Hoffleit]

I'm currently trying to prepare python for an non-maintainer upgrade from  
1.4 to 1.5, and I'm running into several issues that I don't know how to  
resolve correctly. Since some people classified python as an important  
package, I'm reposting this mail to the bigger audience of debian-devel,  
hoping to get some more answers.


1.) Python 1.4 (at release 1.4-4) consisted of one base package  
python-base and several extensions: python-dev, -misc, -tk, -mpz, -gdbm,  
-curses, -bsddb, -net, -stdwin, -elisp and -examples. All of them depend  
on python-base (= ${Source-Version}).

python-base installs the interpreter in /usr/bin/python and .py libraries  
in /usr/lib/python1.4 (with a symlink from /usr/lib/python to python1.4)  
and it calls a python script, compileall.py, in its postinst to precompile  
the .py files in /usr/lib/python1.4. postrm removes the precompiled .pyc  
files. The extensions also use compileall.py in their postinst and postrm  
to precompile and remove their .pyc files.

The .pyc format of python 1.5 is not backwards compatible with 1.4.

Principly, python 1.4 and 1.5 can happily coexist on one system, if there  
wasn't /usr/bin/python, which both of them want to use. Debian only has a  
very small number of packages that depend on python, and apart from the  
pyc format, 1.5 should be nearly completely backwards compatible with 1.4,  
therefore I don't see a need for a cohabitation solution.

My question is now, what Depends, Replaces and Conflicts I have to choose  
to make the upgrade smooth.

An added complication is that I'd like to merge the mpz, gdbm, curses,  
bsddb, net and stdwin packages back into python-misc.


One problem is that python-base-1.4 is needed in the postrm's of all the  
other 1.4 packages, therefore -base has to be the last to be replaced.  
OTOH, base-1.5 should conflict with base (<< 1.5), while misc-1.5 will  
depend on base (= 1.5), so I can't simple replace misc-1.4 and friends  
with misc-1.5.

The only solution I found so far is to completely remove all python-1.4  
packages and then install the 1.5 packages, but then I'm also forced to  
remove all other packages that depend on python like dpkglint or  
dpkg-python. Hmm, since they may have to recompile pyc files, that may be  
a necessity anyway ?

Is there a clean solution for those kinds of problems ?

Gregor


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Re: intent to package: doom!

[Kai Henningsen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff)  wrote on 28.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Is it sufficient to add to the Description something along the lines
> of:
>
> If you are a German citizen less than 18 years old, you are
> prohibited by law from using this program.
>
> or the equivalent translated into German?  This seems to me to get the
> point across quite well.

That probably wouldn't change anything. AFAIKT, it's not prohibited to own  
the stuff, it's prohibited to let (certain) other people access it.

Such a message doesn't do anything to keep people from accessing it.

However, I think the more important question here is, do we actually have  
to assume that kids are freely browsing the net? In that case, _no_ above- 
18 stuff would be possible without strong authentication. I seem to  
remember even politicians agreeing that this is nuts.

The 'net is not like a typical store, in that you have to pass significant  
barriers to get access to anything at all. That's the place where control  
should be applied.

The rule in westfalen.de, for example, is: access to minors only if their  
parents agree, in writing, that they know about all the bad stuff that's  
out there, and will take full responsibility.


MfG Kai


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Re: Yet another glibc pre-release

[David Engel]

On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 11:24:15AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
> The libc6-dbg package has a problem. A simple test:
> 
> $ cat t.c
> int main () { return 0; }
> $ gcc -pg -o t t.c -lc_p
> $ ./t
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> $ gcc -static -pg -o t t.c -lc_p
> $ ./t
> $ exit

Use -profile instead of -pg/-lc_p when profiling, e.g.
$ gcc -profile -o t t.c

David
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problems with nfs and libc6

[Martin Schulze]

Hiho,

today I upgraded the machine that hosts my debian mirror to libc6.
Everyhthing went fine, only some partially resolved dependencies took
some time but didn't meant a problem.  Thanks to StormCrow for his
FAQ.

But rpc.nfsd keeps on dying because of some memory problems.

I'm using the most recent libc6 and netstd from incoming:

kuolema!root(ttyp1):~# dpkg -l libc6 netstd
[..]
ii  libc6   2.0.6-1The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii  netstd  3.00-1.1   Networking binaries and daemons for Linux

strace shows me that it dies at this:

munmap(0x400d9000, 4096)= 0
mremap(0x8061e28, 0xfffc, 0x1000, 0x1, 0x1000) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
argument)
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

These are its dependencies:

kuolema!root(ttyp1):~# ldd /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4000e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40014000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)

Does anybody have an idea where the problem is?  Under normal
circumstances this would prevent my debian mirror to be visible to
most of the machines - I treat this as mission critical.

Regards,

Joey

(PS: rpc.nfsd from bo still works, thank god.)

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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

[wnpp]

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.64 1997/12/29 23:13:55 johnie Exp $

1.  General Questions

1.1.  Before reading this document

You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
.

1.2.  Purpose of this document

This document is intended to identify areas that need your
contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite
often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.

1.3.  Getting newer versions of this document

Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:

  o  

  o  

  o  

1.4.  Feedback

Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP
maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Please mention to which version of this
document your comments refer.

Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're
talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all "Re: Work-
Needing and Prospective Packages" emails. A suggested subject line
reads "WNPP: removing foopackage" or "WNPP: working on barpackage".
Thanks.

2.  Recent Changes

2.1.  Since version 1.63 1997/12/22

  o  Frederic Lepied  is working
   on xmbdfed, a powerful X11 font editor.

  o  Boris D. Beletsky  is working on a
   Scheme->C translator.

  o  Glimpse has been adopted by Marco Budde
   .

  o  Herbert Xu  has taken over
   netpbm and chimera.

  o  Andreas Franzen  has
   adopted xarclock.

  o  New maintainer Adam P. Harris  is
   adopting addressbook.

  o  Igor Grobman  is working on xbattleball.

3.  Orphaned packages

(An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you need to orphan a package

  o  when you believe that the following list is incomplete

  o  when you would like to maintain one of these packages.

Emilio Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  ratfor77 (old source format)

  o  ftnchek

Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  majordomo

Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  kde

  o  giflib

Dominik Kubla

  o  vgrind

Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  blt

Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  auctex

  o  ghostview

  o  lacheck (libc5)

  o  libc5

  o  libc5-altdbg

  o  libc5-altdev

  o  libc6.1

  o  libc6.1-dbg

  o  libc6.1-dev

  o  libc6.1-pic

  o  libproc-dev

  o  procps

  o  xproc

  o  xxgdb

Orn E. Hansen :

  o  xega

  o  xmailtool

  o  xspread

Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  compress-package

  o  ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs

  o  psptools

Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  arpd

  o  csh

Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  zyxel

Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  j1 (in old source format)

  o  sam

Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mh-papers

  o  term

Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  apsfilter

Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mathpad

  o  mfbasfnt

  o  wenglish

Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  xarchie

  o  bibindex

Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  pgcc

Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  fsp

Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  dld (do we still need this ?)

Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mailpgp

Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  motifnls

Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  file-rc

David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tcl74

  o  tcl75

  o  tk40

  o  tk41

Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tclx74

  o  tclx75

  o  tix40

Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  javalex

  o  java-cup

  o  rsynth

Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  courtney

  o  freelip

  o  groupkit

  o  imgstar

  o  lee

  o  objpak

  o  pgapack

  o  premail

  o  saoimage

  o  snns

  o  tcs

  o  tkdiff

  o  wily

  o  xbattle

  o  xephem-smotif

Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hyperlatex

  o  latex2rtf

Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  gettyps

Others:

  o  rc

  o  xcompat (should we drop it ?)

  o  libc4 (a.out compatibility)

4.  Packages needing a new maintainer

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package

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  o  when you would like to maintain one of the packages.

Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  seyon

  o  lpr

Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  adbbs

  o  adpkg

  o  autofs

  o  berolist

  o  bonnie

  o  bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X)

  o  c

Re: Uploaded wwwoffle 2.0-1 (source i386) to chiark

[fog]

On 28 Dic, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Federico Di Gregorio writes:
>  >* Added cron job to purge wwwoffle cache.
> 
> Isn't it automatically handled by wwwoffled ?  There is a "Purge"
> section in /etc/wwwoffle.conf (v1.3) that seem to indicate there's an
> internal mecahnism for this.

Well, not really. When you issue the command:

wwwoffle -purge

all the files older than the time in the Purge section are automatically
deleted, other are removed until the size of the cache goes down to the
requested size. If you never give that command, the cache is *never*
purged by wwwoffled! (I have 28 days and 10Mb and I got a cache about
150Mb with file 3 months old myself, then I realized how all the stuff
works...)

Ciao.


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Re: Yet another glibc pre-release

[Stephen Zander]

David Engel wrote:
> Use -profile instead of -pg/-lc_p when profiling, e.g.
> $ gcc -profile -o t t.c

Thanks! That makes it a gcc bug instead. :) (-profile is not mentioned
anywhere in the docs.)

Stephen
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non-hub 10baseT connections

[Stephen Zander]

This is a little off-topic but given my intent I hope no one minds...

I have a spare SUN Sparc-5 that I'd like to configure as a linux box (why?
because I can :)).  Anyway, my *entire* network is token-ring and I don't
have a spare token-ring card (let alone a linux driver) so my question is:

can I direct connect two 10baseT ethernet ports?

I can setup the SUN on my desk to act as a router, no problem. I just don't
have a 10baseT hub lying around, nor the money for one :(

Any help appreciated.

Stephen
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Unidentified subject!

[Martin Soto]

Hi:

This is to state my intention of packaging the kernel drivers for the Gravis 
Ultrasound family of sound cards, made by Jaroslav Kysela and the Linux 
Ultrasound Project (see http://home.pf.jcu.cz/~perex/ultra/).  If nobody 
objects, I'll be uploading a first version of the packages in a couple of days.

Regards,

M. S.

Martin A. Soto J.   Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
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