debian 1.3.2

Hi, congratulations on the best Linux project out there, I was wondering when will the new debian come out?

new kde package

new debian versions of kde are available: beta2-2 is available at : ftp.inka.de/sites/dungeon/packages/kde-new libc6 beta2-2.1 is available at : ftp.inka.de/sites/dungeon/packages/kde-new5 libc5 if you can't find some package required by kde : look at ftp.

Re: libc5

On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 07:01:01PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I think David Engel is working on an interim libc6 release. But it seems > there are quite a lot of packages to be worked on. > > Michael > > > -- > > Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Donnerst

Re: Does it conform our demands?

Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to disagree with Bob on this issue. I had a 3c905 a while back It's Rob :> > and at that time the kernel driver (v0.40) had serious problems but > mostly when run on 10Mbit. Now that the 2.0 kernel series ships version > 0.46 I have yet to run

Re: Does it conform our demands?

I have to disagree with Bob on this issue. I had a 3c905 a while back and at that time the kernel driver (v0.40) had serious problems but mostly when run on 10Mbit. Now that the 2.0 kernel series ships version 0.46 I have yet to run into a 3c905 related problem. And my machine is filleserver (samba

Re: bo -> hamm

On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from > > Debian > > to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient). > > > > If so,

Re: debian-private archives

Christian Meder writes: > as my email is still not added to debian-private (I don't want to bug > anyone) and it's election time I would like to ask some kind soul to > send me the archives of the last two months of debian-private (need > some background material for voting :-) It would be a good

Re: Who's root on Master?

Eduardo Marcel Macan writes: > Hello, I need to have my password changed in master, who is in > charge of maintaining the user accounts there? I finally got [EMAIL PROTECTED] working. This alias will forward mail to the others who have root access to the machines. Thanks, Joey -- / M

Re: Does it conform our demands?

Jozef Bednarik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Debian supports all of these features you mention in both the current stable release (1.3), also known as bo, and the upcoming release (2.0), also know as hamm. All of the software in our main distribution is free, and will remain that way (see our polic

AW: libc5

I think David Engel is working on an interim libc6 release. But it seems there are quite a lot of packages to be worked on. Michael > -- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 1997 16:49 > An: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re:

Re: Bug: #15573: perl should predepend on perl-base

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Santiago Vila Doncel, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >On 4 Dec 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: >> Hmm. A thought as I spell-checked this. Can you pre-depend and depend >> on the same package? perl's control will now look like: >> ... >> Pr

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

Dermot John Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ah I'd missed the bit there about simply renaming the existing tarball > after extracting the code and before running deb-make. Great, now all my > updated packages will use pristine source. You can even just make a symlink with the right name to

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

On 5 Dec 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Well, I guess just a checklist outlining things from the policy guide > is what I had in mind. Like whether it follows the FSSTND or FHS, > there's a copyright statement, compressed man page, menu file with > the dwww link and a menu item for X (with s

Re: bo-updates packages

On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 05:37:10PM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Guess > > why i proposed to name a directory with libc5 compiled hamm packages > > "bo-unstable"? > > Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not > something th

Re: perl pre-depends on perl-base (>=5.004.04-2)

Hi, >>"Darren" == Torin's Auto-Reply Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> So, I didn't follow the policy manual and get consensus for a Darren> pre-depends in perl. I wanted to get this package out quickly Darren> rather than try to wait for consensus on debian-devel. Far be it fo

Re: interesting problem in perl vs perl5-lib\d+

Hi, make the symlink in the postinst? manoj -- Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews XI, 1. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 1

Re: dpkg-source problem

Hi, >>"Ulf" == Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ulf> Hello, Ulf> when I use dpkg-source on an unchanged source tree it complains Ulf> about "unrepresentable changes". dpkg-buildpackage exits with an Ulf> error code. Is this a bug or a feature? How can I circumvent it? Us

Executable stack problems

Hi! I've installed a kernel with the executable stack patch. There has been two programs I have encountered segfaults with(so far). Both problems are gone after I set them with chstk. I believe they were using trampolines (I had intentionally disabled trampoline usage, and want to strip off the c

Re: question about prep.ai.mit.edu -> ftp.gnu.org (fwd)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Forwarded message from RMS. This means we can (and maybe should) start writing Sources were obtained from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/whatever.tar.gz in our /usr/doc//copyright files for GNU packages, instead of the old name, prep.ai.mit.edu. Thanks. *-

Re: bo-updates packages

Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not > > something that will be discarded in a few months. > > > Sure, but why invest my time in hamm which will be obsoleted in half a > year anyway? Wrong. What is your basis for saying t

Re: bo -> hamm

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian > to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient). > > If so, I would like to install this script and try the hamm distribution. If

Re: Postilion Package

On 5 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5 Dic, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Dear Debian Developer World, >> >> I have made a debian package for the mail program Postilion. I then >> read that one should post ones intentions here so as to avoid a >> duplicate effort. >> >> So is anyone else work

Re: bo -> hamm

On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian > to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient). It's not really a very scriptable thing, I think. Following the HOW-TO at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/libc5-libc

bo -> hamm

I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient). If so, I would like to install this script and try the hamm distribution. If not, wouldn't it be worth to do it? Thanks. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitekt

Re: .deb

"Eloy A. Paris" wrote: >Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >: Gigabyte> i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the >: Gigabyte> Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like >: Gigabyte> OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . >: >:

Re: bo-updates packages

On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 11:23:33AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) writes: > > Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not > > something that will be discarded in a few months. > > > Sure, but why invest my time in hamm which will be obsolete

Does it conform our demands?

Dear sirs and ladies, Brno, 12/5/1997. We are planning to use one of our PCs (Pentium based) as a file server and simultaneously for the Internet connection. For that purpose we are searching for a good free UNIX-type operating system. There are several possibilities, but

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Sorry, this came out sounding harsher than it was supposed to. I just > think that there are some problems that could really do with solving, > and Reply-To: would do it at a relatively small cost. Is it really so hard to use ``Reply All'' and then cut out all the Cc: ex

Re: perl pre-depends on perl-base (>=5.004.04-2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > To solve a grave priority bug, I've made the perl package (from > 5.004.04-3+) pre-depend on perl-base (>=5.004.04-2). > [ ... ] > So, I didn't follow the policy manual and get consensus for a > pre-depends in perl. [ ... ] Don'

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Raul Miller wrote: > >From www.debian.org, hit "developers corner". Then, start with Creating > a Package using Debmake, after that, hit New-Maintainer's Debian > Packaging Howto. Ah I'd missed the bit there about simply renaming the existing tarball after extracting the code

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > I hope you don't mind, but I released libc6 versions of libgd and mrtg > yesterday. I was just going on what someone said that you seemed to have > stopped maintain packages. Obviously not straight from the horse's mouth :-) > The new packages have my name

Re: version numbers on virtual packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the > virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who > is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds > of Perl, I

interesting problem in perl vs perl5-lib\d+

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've got a slight problem that I "fixed" in a not completely elegant manner. There is a new libperl5.so.\d+ in the latest set of Perl packages. This means that if you just need to embed Perl into an application and you don't need all the libraries or the execut

perl pre-depends on perl-base (>=5.004.04-2)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To solve a grave priority bug, I've made the perl package (from 5.004.04-3+) pre-depend on perl-base (>=5.004.04-2). This is needed due to the following: Assume you have an earlier version of Perl installed (say from the bo base disks) and you're installing perl

Re: .deb

Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Gigabyte> i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the : Gigabyte> Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like : Gigabyte> OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . : : Sure. Just install the 'alien' program, ava

Re: version numbers on virtual packages

On Dec 5, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote > I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the > virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who > is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds I think you'd better make that perl5.0

version numbers on virtual packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds of Perl, I realized that I can't do that right now

Re: Broken *deb's in hamm

Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could somebody modify the upload scripts to check packages and source > files before moving them from incomming or is that to mauch cpu? The install scripts do compare md5sums with the .changes and .dsc files, and they run dpkg-deb -f on all the .debs. Bit

Re: What, why, where, utmp?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know that one of the latest "fixes" to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the > >lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned. > > They weren't - the

Re: Contents.gz

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: > There's ~maor/masterfiles/mkcontents on master, but I don't know if > that is the script that was actually used to create them. That's it. > Unfortunately, per-user crontab files are read-protected, so there's > no way to trace a path from the weekl

Consultants/Tech support

Hi, some time ago Bruce nounced the discussion about consultants was moving to another debian mailing list. I tried to subscribe but nothing happened... can someone tell me how to do it? BTW, is not the first time I can't subscribe to a list... I tried multiple times to send subsc

Re: Postilion Package

On 5 Dic, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Debian Developer World, > > I have made a debian package for the mail program Postilion. I then > read that one should post ones intentions here so as to avoid a > duplicate effort. > > So is anyone else working on a debian package for the mail reader >

dpkg-source problem

Hello, when I use dpkg-source on an unchanged source tree it complains about "unrepresentable changes". dpkg-buildpackage exits with an error code. Is this a bug or a feature? How can I circumvent it? Thanks, Ulf -- #include -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Postilion Package

Dear Debian Developer World, I have made a debian package for the mail program Postilion. I then read that one should post ones intentions here so as to avoid a duplicate effort. So is anyone else working on a debian package for the mail reader Postilion. If not I intend to. I have also mailed

Re: bo-updates packages

Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guess > why i proposed to name a directory with libc5 compiled hamm packages > "bo-unstable"? Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not something that will be discarded in a few months. Martin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

majordomo and exim

I am trying to setup majordomo. I am quite ignorant about everything involved (even so, I am on the developer keyring !). After several hours of effort, I have majordomo working with exim. I never even knew what the different MTA's were , much less how to use them. However, I th

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

Hi, Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution; we are just pandering to broken software (decent software, like gnus, allows on to set mailing list parameters [look for to-address] such that group replies go only to the list). Or else one can just delete additional addre

Re: bo-updates packages

Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nobody, but I don't *expect* it to, either. I guess my theory on this > is that if the change is "small enough" to expect no problems (i.e. > perl-5.003 -> perl-5.004 (or whatever the actual number are)), then > is it *really* necessary to provide the

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

On 05-Dec-1997, Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like it to be fixed, but it seems that there are a few people who > have strong opinions on the matter, but are not prepared to discuss or > fix the problems it causes. Sorry, this came out sounding harsher than it was supposed to. I j

Re: WWW bug monitoring

> Why don't we create a new psuedo-package for the mirroring problems, > or one for problems with the content ? Please discuss this with Mike > and I or Guy can arrange this easily enough, and I'll make my script > report the bugs in whatever is the appropriate psuedo-package. > www.debian.org is

Re: Technical Support Database suggestion..., CL-HTTP-P

Hi, Personally, I find procmail underpowered for a proposal like this. Try mailagents generic command server mode, which comes pre-built and read to customize. For scalability (short of going with Oracle v7.2), I'd try postgreasql and mailagent. Sharper learning curves but inf

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

On 02-Dec-1997, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > No, please don't muck with reply-to. That's evil. And if I > hadn't lost my disk, I'd have a handy-dandy url for you. Hmmm. Try > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Which, as we have discussed before on thi

Re: .deb

> "Gigabyte" == Gigabyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gigabyte> i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the Gigabyte> Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like Gigabyte> OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . Sure. Just install the 'alien' progr

Re: [Q] Standard way to force libc5-compat?

Benjamin Redelings I wrote: > Hi, I successfully upgraded to hamm from a very recent CD. I've got > netscape, Realplayer Both of these are available as debian installer packages, you know. > What I need to know right know is whether or not there is a "standard" > way to run binaries (such

.deb

i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

Dermot John Bradley wrote: > > I think Dermot Bradley isn't actively maintaining packages. > > As for the current state of my packages (and proposed packages): > > - libgd & libgd-dev: trying to figure how to build got libc5 and libc6 > versions using debmake - any help welcomed. > > - mrtg: dep

Re: bo-updates packages

On 05-Dec-1997 02:11:22, Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Greenland) writes: > > And who is going to check and make sure that all the other packages in > > bo that use perl, bash and the "few other important goodies" still > > work the new versions? That's what a "s

Re: Config file management utility

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Some things to look out for, though: > > - if the file alter-file is a conffile, there will be problems later when > you upgrade the package containg the conffile. I'm not sure I follow what you're getting at. The way I'm thinking, if a package (say, cron

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using libelfg0-dev seems like the likeliest sucessful approach. I'll > play with it on the way home tonight (I hope) if I can find my ELF > reference docs. Oh, don't go that far. If ld (or some other standard tool can't handle this) I'll just figure o

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

Rob Browning wrote: > Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you only have access to the sub-libraries as *.so files? > > Yes. Using libelfg0-dev seems like the likeliest sucessful approach. I'll play with it on the way home tonight (I hope) if I can find my ELF reference docs. Steph

Re: `COAS'

On 4 Dec 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Regardle of my transpozo, did anyone follow the bouncing URL and > find out anything of more than passing interest? I looked at it some time ago. If anything it is a compainion to Deity. We might see future integration when the topic of remote admin

Re: lockfiles and mutual exclusion

> "Adrian" == Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adrian> update-menus forks to the background and waits for dpkg to Adrian> finish before continuing to work. This is a useful Adrian> function that could be useful for other programs (for Adrian> instance scripts that bu

Re: `COAS'

Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Regardle of my transpozo, did anyone follow the bouncing URL and > find out anything of more than passing interest? Yes. We are already aware of this project and URL. Bruce made us aware of this project while it was still in it's infancy, in fact before this we

Re: Config file management utility

Joe Emenaker wrote: > Well, that's pretty much what I was suggesting in the beginning. The only > difference is that you wouldn't have one, monolithic section. Rather, > you'd have sections placed there by the individual packages. For example: > > echo "42 6 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily"

Re: `COAS'

> "Behan" == Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Behan> Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> >> Perhaps Diety should become a part of that? Behan> *sigh*... not diety, Deity. Behan>^^ Behan> I wish people would learn to spell. This is one of the

Re: Need someone to take some of my packages.

> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> Take a look at the code I made for lockvc 3.0. It handles Wichert> both shadow and normal password (and mixed Wichert> shadow/non-shadow) passwords well. And it's in a seperate Wichert> sourcefile so it's easy

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you only have access to the sub-libraries as *.so files? Yes. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAI

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

Rob Browning wrote: > > I'm trying to improve some stuff in the rscheme package, and I have > several shared libraries (for rscheme internal use only), that I need > to glom together into one big shared library -- i.e. I want the > collected library to contain all the code from the sub-libraries -

Re: DEBIAN ANNOUNCES $1000 GRANT TO GNOME PROJECT

> "bruce" == bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bruce> Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that bruce> message. Did you see it? I thought you were jesting with us. We'll never quit. :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

> "Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brandon> One idea that the testers seemed to like is to create a Brandon> checklist for checking each package. It seems to me that a fairly comprehensive set of general guidelines would be more useful. The checklist format

Re: Technical Support Database suggestion..., CL-HTTP-P

> "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> what about implementing this : make the database Andreas> writeable for everyone (e.g. via a cgi script, or a small Andreas> programm, that sends an email like bug, perfect : both), Andreas> and "only" mode

Re: Debian Commercial Support

> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> I am looking for developers around the world who are Bruce> interested in handling email support and/or telephone Bruce> support for pay. I'm interested, and willing to help and learn. If nothing else, for the next ye

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

I'd be interested in reading the solution, just for the knowledge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .