Re: Imminent Checker upgrade release

1997-05-14 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (I actually had to install an extra hard drive in order to build this >> package. It takes over 200MB of hard disk space to build--is that a >> record?) > > No, IIRC the just the XFree86 sources take ~250MB :> The

Re: compiling with gettext

1997-05-14 Thread Tom Lees
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > Yesterday I reported that I was no longer able to compile the package 'sp'. > Santiago Vila and Tom Lees both kindly offered suggestions, but both of > these still leave sp in an uncompilable state. > > Santiago pointed out that the problem might b

e2fsprogs_1.07-1 still in 'experimental' !

1997-05-14 Thread Yann Dirson
"Package": master.debian.org Version 1.07-1 in experimental of e2fsprogs has been superceeded by 1.10-2 in unstable. I think it should be removed. (experimental shadows unstable on my system; I think this is normal...) -- Yann Dirson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson

Re: sendmail/smail with relaying blocks?

1997-05-14 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Walker) wrote on 14.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I beg to differ. I think what is the sensible default depends on the > usage of the machine. For departmental mail servers, then you are > correct relaying is more sensible, but for "Satellite" systems, it is > more sens

Re: Imminent Checker upgrade release

1997-05-14 Thread Tom Lees
On 12 May 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > (I actually had to install an extra hard drive in order to build this > package. It takes over 200MB of hard disk space to build--is that a > record?) No, IIRC the just the XFree86 sources take ~250MB :> -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: sendmail/smail with relaying blocks?

1997-05-14 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My exim package currently allows relaying; as Craig points out below, what >> you allow relaying to/from is extremely site-dependent. > > I beg to differ. I think what is the sensible default depends on the > usa

Re: New Source Formats and Source Package Verification

1997-05-14 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 13.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Or, thirdly, we use pristine sources iff they are in supported > formats, or else the upstream source is massaged into a supported > format, and BIG signs are posted pointing to the real sources and the > st

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-14 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 13.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >>"Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kai>> Well, yes. Scan the temp dir after unpacking. If it contains one Kai>> directory and nothing else, that directory is the main package Kai>> directory. I

Pbs with locale and fonts

1997-05-14 Thread Mathieu Guillaume
I've encountered two little problems in hamm. First one shows while using dselect. I have the following message several times: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset),

Re: sendmail/smail with relaying blocks?

1997-05-14 Thread Chris Walker
Tim Cutts wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 May 1997, Mark Baker wrote: > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Thomas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > I don't know what's in Tim's debian package though, as I was already > > > running ex

Re: Bug#8814: dpkg: Executable conffiles in /etc/cron.*/ run even if package is deinstalled.

1997-05-14 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > Nicolas Lichtmaier writes ("Bug#8814: dpkg: Executable conffiles in > /etc/cron.*/ run even if package is deinstalled."): > ... > > $ l /etc/cron.weekly/man* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 148 Mar 31 1996 /etc/cron.weekly/man* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: Sending closed bug notices to interested parties.

1997-05-14 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Chris Walker wrote: > Further to the announcement from Ian Jackson about the creation of a > mailing list for closed bugs > > There may be circumstances when I wish to know if a bug has been closed, > but am not the person who reported the bug (eg I want to know when the

Re: FreeQt ?

1997-05-14 Thread Daniel Quinlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Noel Maddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Berate me for missing the obvious, but couldn't KDE just be compiled > with a QT clone for Debian? What am I missing? Probably, but I haven't seen whether the KDE license itself is free. A good bet might be getting KDE

Re: FreeQt ?

1997-05-14 Thread Daniel Quinlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Besides, Qt is 'almost-free' software. If it doesn't become a runaway > commercial success, I'd bet Troll Tech would re-release it as free > software after a few years. Troll is using a different economic model for genera

Re: compiling with gettext

1997-05-14 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Yesterday I reported that I was no longer able to compile the package 'sp'. Santiago Vila and Tom Lees both kindly offered suggestions, but both of these still leave sp in an uncompilable state. Santiago pointed out that the problem might be intrinsic to the existing gettext-0.26, and suggested I

Re: FreeQt ?

1997-05-14 Thread Jim Van Zandt
Jim Pick wrote: >I'm not really clear on what the best toolkit for development really >is, but some of the free ones look really, really good. Can you summarize the good and bad points of the free GUI toolkits/frameworks you've checked out and/or point to reviews?

Re: New Source Formats and Source Package Verification

1997-05-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : BTW: Do you know anybody who really needs to put all the tools needed : to build source packages onto floppies? :-) Yes, I do. A friend has an older laptop that has a floppy drive, and that's his only current path of getting bits in and out. He may